Both G Suite and Microsoft Exchange are on paper, mailing solutions, but G Suite has more to it than meets the eye.
By Debasish Roy
Email communication is the fastest, easiest, and simplest way to transfer data among individuals around the globe. This has, in turn, helped organizations whose offices are located in different countries/states to thrive, maintain, and control their workflow.
Microsoft Office has always been the top choice for productivity tools like MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, etc. The Tech Leader dominated the market for nearly 30 years for the user-friendliness and diverse features/formulae of its products. Using these tools dramatically increased the efficiency of the employees in the organization and reduced time consumption.
Google on the other hand has been the go-to platform to find answers for nearly 30 years for its advanced “keyword” searching algorithm along with distinct site rankings to find the most appropriate results to your queries. However, since 2006, Google has also jumped into the business of providing advanced office tools to capture a substantial part of the market share.
Since the early 21st century, many companies have invested heavily in cloud computing and virtual machines which helped employees to work independently and access their data outside of their office thus increasing the firm's productivity many folds. Since Google’s Productivity tool G Suite was conceived in the cloud, It was way ahead of the competition and provided collaboration features that were not used before and this increased the all-round performance and efficiency of the firm.
However, Microsoft also incorporated their own mailing solution Microsoft Exchange server to store data of different businesses and introduced a bunch of other products.
The parallels between G Suite and Microsoft Exchange Online are as follows:
Point of Difference
G Suite (Basic)
Microsoft Exchange Online Plan 1
Exchange Online Plan 2
Space Provided
30 GB (Free) + Additional storage of up to 30 TB (Chargeable) for G Suite Business or G Suite Enterprise: Unlimited Storage for 5 users and Higher.
50 GB Mailbox
100 GB Mail Box
Attachable File Space
25 MB
25 MB
25 MB
User Capping
NA
NA
NA
Real-Time Communication
2000 Internal Mail Recipient500 External Mail Recipient.Hangout Chat. (For Business Chatting)Hangout Meet. (For Business Meetings)Google Groups
10,000 MailsOutlook Groups
10,000 MailsOutlook Groups
MDM Service
Extensive
Limited
Limited
Mobility and Sync
Yes
Yes
Yes
Uptime
99.98%
99.90%
99.90%
Admin Console + Security Features
Complete Control over the Domain and Users
Control over the domain and server, not the users
Control over the domain and server, not the users
MS Exchange Interoperability
Yes
seamless
Seamless
Disaster Recovery System
Yes
NA
Yes
Data Loss Prevention
G Suite (Basic): NAG Suite (Business): Yes.G Suite (Enterprise): Yes
NA
Yes
Cloud Platform
GCP
Azure
Azure
Socializing
Administrators can enable the Google+ feature to enhance social connection between business professionals.
NA
NA
Real-Time Collaboration
G Docs, G Sheet, G Sites, G Slides, and G forms. (Pre Installed Apps)
NA
NA
Availability Third-Party Tools Availability
Many Tools
Yes
Yes
Support Availability
24*7*365
24*7*365
24*7*365
SLA
Yes.
Yes
Yes
Flexibility
Yes.
Yes
Yes
Customizability
Yes.
NA
NA
Archival / Backup
Google Vault, (Unlimited Storage + Indefinite RetentionTime )
50 GB of "In-Place" archival storage
unlimited storage "In-Place" archival storage
Spam Filter
Domain Black Listing, Email Blacklisting, DMARC, SPF, DKIM Record
Exchange Online Protection
Exchange Online Protection
Price
G Suite Basic: INR 210/- (per user per month.)G Suite Business: INR 714/- (per user per month.)G Suite Enterprise: INR 1,650/- (Per user per month)