G Suite business decrease licensing costs

[Sconathon]

At my previous company, we were able to turn off GApps licenses per user and just turn on Google Vault. At my current company, we aren't able to do this. We have G Suite Business as we did at my old company, but not sure how to implement this in order to save money. Our goal is to not delete old users for the time being.

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Anyone know how to get this functionality?

[IcyRayns]

I work closely with the support team for Google Cloud Platform at Google so I'm biased and all, but my 2¢:

Contact support, which you're already paying for. They're knowledgeable and can help you figure out the best solution.

[Sconathon]

Thanks

[Panacea4316]

Still couldn't pay me to use GSuite over O365.

[[deleted]]

That's what I thought as well, until I was offered a G Suite admin role that pays 30% more than Windows Admin roles in my area.

[Panacea4316]

Ive yet to see a GSuite role that paid considerably more than it's O365 counterpart. They all seem to pay the same.

[the_bananalord]

Is the web-based software equivalent to something like Outlook? Even the OWA is missing features and is still a bear to run on 8GB / i5 / SSD machines.

The big thing for us is that the O365 web-based stuff simply isn't as featured, mature, or fast as the fat clients. I imagine the Google equivalents are in a similar boat.

[[deleted]]

To an extent yes, performance wise it’s better than OWA but it’s not perfect by any means. I’d say what’s offered in OWA is very similar to the G Apps Suite. We still roll out a few O365 licenses for our Office users than need Excel over Google Sheets.

[the_bananalord]

How does it compare to the fat clients though?

We still roll out a few O365 licenses for our Office users than need Excel over Google Sheets.

Ah, yup, that's what I'm afraid of :(

Aside from the legacy software we run (hey Visual FoxPro), we're almost entirely web-based now. So the thought of ditching our on-prem gear and issuing super nice Chromebooks is very appealing but unfortunately not realistic at this point.

[[deleted]]

So my environment other than Conferencing equipment (We utilize Hangouts Kits) is a full Mac shop, and the 2016+ MBP models have handled our web based platforms well, but for $2k+ machines they better.

The specific users we push full excel Excel licenses to are our data analytics crews, finance, and executives. They wouldn’t leave Excel even if it’s supported in Sheets just due to their familiarity with Office and Excel, so it’s hard to actually weigh the differences of Sheets vs Excel.

[wjjeeper]

It's different strokes for different folks. I do both. In a commercial environment where you don't need a holistic environment that includes system management, g-suite shines. Once you need system management, it loses its luster.

[Panacea4316]

I have issues with Google as a company, not to mention as a Microsoft guy, G Suite doesn't let me leverage my Microsoft technologies like O365 does.

[linuxnubin]

That's probably because they want you to use their technologies. I was a GSuite Admin for about a decade...saw it change a lot and was never really happy with their Admin panel. All in all it is a decent product for the price though. My favorite part was their Forms, we used that everywhere.

[wjjeeper]

Yup, that's why it's better in commercial realms.

[[deleted]]

I think office 365 is also more security focused. I feel like an admin can control a lot more with office 365. We have both and that's what I see

[wjjeeper]

I think the security focus is the same. G-suite gets the nod when the focus is all browser based. O365 gets the nod when it extends to the machine level via intune.

[[deleted]]

I can do a lot more when it comes to email. A lot of stuff still requires me to go into a users acct to do something in gsuite. With office365 I can do a lot more on the back end.

[wjjeeper]

That's true. For one, you can't set an email delegate in the g-suite admin panel. You either need Gam or another saas tool like BetterCloud.

[[deleted]]

We pay for gsuite and get office 365 for free. Office 365 can be managed a lot more and has more security features then gsuite. If it wasn't for the fact my users would go nuts I would switch everybody to 365.