Google Drive is a cloud-based storage service that enables users to store, access, and share files and folders online. The features are largely centered around utilizing the right sidebar of Drive and other Workspace apps to including utilizing its chatbot to perform tasks with access to files stored across users’ Google Accounts. Google Workspace comprises Gmail, Chat, Meet, Calendar, Drive for storage; Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Keep for notes, Sites for collaboration, Apps Script for building low-code/no-code business applications; and an Admin panel and Vault for managing users and the services. The Quick Access feature for the Android, iOS and web apps uses machine learning to predict files that users will need based on their Drive activity and workday patterns. Google Drive’s mobile apps for iOS and Android allow users to store, share and view files.
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Google Drive’s search feature can sort results by item name, file type, date modified, location, owner and more. Google Drive supports integrations with both first-party and third-party applications available through the Chrome Web Store. However, those who need offline access can use Google Docs Offline, an official Chrome extension that enables viewing and editing without an internet connection. They can control access levels by specifying who can view, comment on or edit the content.
- In September 2014, Amit Singh, then-President of then-named Google for Work, stated that “60 percent of the Fortune 500” companies were paying for the service, with “more than 1,800 customers” signing up each week.
- In 2023, a bug in Google Drive for Desktop resulted in a small number of files over a period of 6-months to disappear from user’s accounts.
- And features like Drive search chips help your team find files fast by quickly surfacing more relevant results.
- In addition to a web interface, Google Drive offers apps with offline capabilities for Windows and macOS computers, and Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.
- Sharing files with users not having a Google account requires making them accessible to “anybody with the link”.
- The tool lets employers track job candidates’ contact information, as well as résumés, calendar invitations, and allows for business partners to share feedback on candidates.
As of March 2016update, Microsoft has 60 million commercial customers signed up for its Office 365 product offering, with “50,000 small business customers added to Office 365 each month”. However, Hardy did note that the integration between Google+ and other, more popular Google services, including Hangouts, meant “it’s still early on, but it’s easy to see how this could be an efficient way to bring workers to a virtual meeting, collaborate during it and embed in a calendar the future work commitments and follow-up that result”. However, writing for The New York Times, Quentin Hardy said that “the sour grapes version is that Google Plus isn’t getting anything like the buzz or traffic of Facebook, so Google is figuring out other ways to make the service relevant”. After Google+ was launched, many articles were published that emphasized that having a presence on Google+ helped with the business’s Google search result rankings. Marshall praised collaboration for being “effortless”, and praised importing of external file formats and making those editable and collaborative for being a “big selling point”. Regarding the price, he wrote that “Google’s package is the best value. The annual pricing of $50 per user per year makes it about a third less per user per year than Office 365, yet it boasts equivalent functionality sufficient for most small and medium organizations”.
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- Google opened the Workspace Marketplace, on March 9, 2010, which is an online store for third-party business applications that integrate with Google Apps, to make it easier for users and software to do business in the cloud.
- Forms features all of the collaboration and sharing features found in Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
- On September 21, 2015, it was announced that Google Drive had over one million organizational paying users.
- Introduced in July 2017, Hire by Google was a job applications and management tool developed by Google to be used in combination with G Suite.
- Since July 2022, the Google Workspace for Education – valid for educational institutions and Universities in particular – provides 100 TB of storage.
- Google Workspace also has garnered a strong following in education, with over 70 million users by 2017.
- Google Drive offers various tiers of storage starting with a free tier of 15 GB for individual users with options to purchase additional storage tiers for users and organizations available.
The program combined existing, individual programs from Apps, Chrome, Cloud Platform, Maps, and Search into one overall program, and “allows partners to better sell, service and innovate across the Google for Work and Education suite of products and platforms”. The program lets users receive money, coupons and other incentives by referring customers to G Suite. In October 2020, Google announced the new Business Plus pricing tier for Workspace that includes enhanced security features and controls like Vault and Advanced Endpoint Management, but not the full security options available in Enterprise editions of Workspace.
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Then, on October 25, 2016, Google launched the first hardware product for G Suite, the Jamboard; a 55-inch digital whiteboard connected to the cloud. Eric Schmidt, then Google’s executive chairman said, “we never set out to create a traditional ‘enterprise’ business—we wanted to create a new way of doing work (…) so the time has come for our name to catch up with our ambition”. Google Enterprise, the company’s business product division, was officially renamed Google for Work on September 2, 2014.
On June 25, 2014, at the Google I/O developer conference, Sundar Pichai announced that Google Drive now had 190 million monthly active users, and that it was being used by 58% of betico the Fortune 500 companies as well as by 72 of the top universities. On November 12, 2013, Google announced that Google Drive had 120 million active users, a figure that the company was releasing for the first time. Summarized, he wrote that “According to its terms, Google does not own user-uploaded files to Google Drive, but the company can do whatever it likes with them”.
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Introduced in the Android app in September 2016, Quick Access uses machine learning to “intelligently predict the files you need before you’ve even typed anything”. On April 3, 2023, it was reported that Google had also quietly introduced a user “creation limit” of 5 million files around February 2023. The Google Drive software development kit (SDK) works together with the Google Drive user interface and the Chrome Web Store to create an ecosystem of apps that can be installed into Google Drive.
In September 2014, Google released a blog post saying that employees would be able to install third-party apps from the Marketplace without involving administrators. The Marketplace lets administrators browse for, purchase, and deploy integrated cloud applications. The Jamboard is connected to the cloud, and enables people in different locations to work together in real-time through multiple Jamboards or connected remotely through a smartphone companion app. Google Vault, an archiving and electronic discovery service exclusively available to Google Workspace customers, was announced on March 28, 2012.
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Google announced that G Suite would be rebranded as Google Workspace on October 6, 2020, and that Workspace would emphasize increased integration between the apps, such as the ability to create Docs from within Chats, or start a Meet call from within a presentation. Google unified the storage between Drive and Gmail, on May 13, 2013, giving Google Apps customers 30GB total that are shared across the apps. Nearly five years after the launch of Google Apps, on April 26, 2011, Google announced that organizations with more than 10 users were no longer eligible for the free edition of Google Apps.