Why Office 365 Is Better Than Google Apps

For small businesses I think, users need G Suite more, as it provides free local calls with its two apps, Google Voice and Google Hangouts. While Office 365 has Skype and that too is unavailable for small businesses. Skype is provided for Business premium and plans above that. For local calls, users need to buy Skype credits, so here I would say G Suite beats Office 365 (only for small business purposes).

4. Collaboration Tools
   Another factor “Collaboration” favors Google Apps, as it has a better and simpler interface for users, providing easy communication and sharing of files or data between users. G Suites has Google hangouts integrated with Google Voice providing users the benefit of free local calls and text SMS.
   
   For Office 365 it's a little complicated to work with the collaboration tools. It has Skype for the purpose of video calls and text messaging which is not free. Also, that is available for just the Business Premium and Enterprise level plans.

5. Security Services

• Office 365
  As we all know, MS Office has always been emphasizing strictly on its security services. They have their own tools with Artificial Intelligence to analyze the activities that are suspicious and refer to any kind of virus, threats or hacking.
  
  Also, MS Office provides security against data theft with its data loss prevention utilities. The scanning facilities of Microsoft to scan all the data including docs, emails and attached files, makes it more secure.

• Google Apps
  G Suite, being a part of Google, provides a high-security level with auto-detection of suspicious activities. It provides you with the power to set the access control of users to both admin and user accounts. The data leak protection feature provided by G Suite gives you the authority to block the outgoing communication by setting keywords. Also, Google Apps has the inbuilt capability to detect viruses, bugs, and spams by scanning all the G Suite user data.

6. Accessibility
   Office 365 has better accessibility with its desktop Apps like MS Outlook, MS Word, Excel Powerpoint etc. which are offline accessible, while Google Apps provides users with purely online access to its applications.

Google Apps vs Office 365 - Time to Choose the Better One

Now, I know, it is still difficult to say which one is better and which one is not, however, let us analyze it in more depth.

Is G Suite as Compatible as Office 365?

I’m sure as hell, each and every user has at one point or another, worked with Word and Excel sheets to maintain their data or share it with their colleagues. G Suite, making the file sharing with Excel formats difficult, is clearly not compatible with Excel or Word tools.

Therefore G Suite lacks in terms of compatibility with documents.

Other Advantages of Office 365 over G Suite

1. Office 365 provides better security and scalability with its transparent services.
2. Office 365 has a more familiar experience for users. It maintains its consistency across both online and offline platforms.
3. Office 365 is faster, providing instant access to users and making them more productive, regardless of the time and place.
4. Although small businesses and companies prefer to choose G Suite for the sake of cost saving, Office 365 is undoubtedly the more comprehensive and vast platform than G Suite.

Bottom Line

The debate on “Google Apps vs Office 365” or Why Office 365 is better than Google Apps, can go on and on endlessly. We just displayed and overview pointing out the major facts of both the productivity suites. Now, there might occur contradictions among users, as they have different requirements and needs and they will definitely choose the one that best fits their needs.

Finally, if comparing all the factors and giving an overall analysis, I would go with Office 365 for sure! In my opinion, G Suite, doing really well and growing, still has a long way to go to be as comprehensive and vast as Microsoft. And if a user needs to migrate to Office 365 from G Suite, they can use SysTools G Suite to Office 365 Migrator for migrating data securely.