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Google Drive

Composite Score
9.0 /10
CX Score
9.3 /10
Category
Google Drive
9.0 /10

What is Google Drive?

Drive Enterprise empowers organizations to create, store, share, and collaborate in the cloud — without any of the risk or disruption associated with implementing new tools or technologies.

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Awards & Recognition

Google Drive won the following awards in the Content Collaboration category

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Google Drive Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

92 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Google Drive?

1% Negative
3% Neutral
96% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Respectful
  • Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Team Collaboration

87

Real-Time Synchronization

86

Drag and Drop User Interface

85

Mobility Support

85

Access Control and Rights Management

84

Office Online Integration

84

Data Loss Prevention

84

Enterprise Grade Security Controls

83

Large File Optimization

83

Audit Trail

82

3rd-Party Integrations

81

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Ease of Implementation

86

Business Value Created

86

Usability and Intuitiveness

85

Ease of Data Integration

85

Quality of Features

84

Ease of IT Administration

84

Breadth of Features

83

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Ease of Customization

82

Availability and Quality of Training

81

Vendor Support

80

Google Drive Reviews

Faith O.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Great for storage and collaboration

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Google Drive from other similar products?

Google Drive is very easy to use and stands out due to its seamless integration with Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Gmail), making real-time collaboration effortless. It also offers 15GB of free cloud storage.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I'm able to access files from any device and work on documents in real time without worrying about saving changes

What do you dislike most about this product?

The free storage is shared across Gmail and Photos, which fills up quickly.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's a great product to use for storage and collaboration, but to get more value consider upgrading to a Google One plan for more storage.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Efficient Service

Modupe A.

  • Role: C-Level
  • Industry: Retail
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Always found Drive to be reliable.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Google Drive from other similar products?

No other file storage platform can compete with Google Drive, in the area of multi-user collaboration , especially on documents. Personally, I have found this very helpful when working as a group on spreadsheets.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Google Drive works smoothly across different device types and operating systems, primarily because it is fully web browser based. Secondly I appreciate how fast and reliable file synchronization is with Google Drive on every device , I have connected to it.

What do you dislike most about this product?

End to end based encryption is absent with Google Drive. Secondly, Google Drive is maybe one of the very few file storage platforms without support for electronic document signings.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Drive obviously does have its security shortcomings. Despite this, I still believe it is a file storage platform that is worth trying, especially for its file collaboration strength.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Security Protects

Michael M.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Finance
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

I trust Google Drive.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Google Drive from other similar products?

Although most other file storage software allow for multi-party collaboration, there is a big difference between the quality of integration possible on Google Drive and that which is obtainable on other file storage softwares.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Google Drive is fantastic for working with third party softwares without any hindrance . Integrating Google Drive with third party software programs help to expand its use-cases, making me more effective at work and better improving the interconnectivity between the key software tools, I am using in the workplace.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Google has reliable synchronization that is very low, compared with what is obtainable with other leading file storage software. In a fast paced workspace, this could easily be a major setback for productivity.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Because Google Drive is one of the most popular file storage software out there, it is a safer option when needing to collaborate with other professionals, as they are likely to have previous experience using it, since it now comes pre-installed in all Android mobile phones these days.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features

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