Who is using or investigating Google Workspace? What is your experience regarding collaboration with Microsoft 365 users in the own organization or with other companies ? Which Microsoft services are still in use? Do you also consider Google Chrome Enterprise Premium? Do you have a plan to fully migrate to Google (and what's the timeline)?

Having used Google Workspace (GWS) at Transcom for nearly six years and now returning to M365, I’ve had the chance to compare GWS with Microsoft 365. For team collaboration, Google clearly stands out. It has become significantly more user-centric in recent years.

However, some advanced features—especially in tools like Excel—are still stronger in M365. For that reason, we’ve kept limited M365 subscriptions for users who rely on complex Excel functionalities or work closely with M365-based partners at Transcom.

We used Google Enterprise for normal users and Frontline workers for Agents. Some users were limited for SSO capability only by providing a Google ID w/o any GWS functions. A clever licencing approach can help to keep the costs limited.

We also use Google Workspace since 5 years. While I strongly believe that Microsoft Office could be fully substituted by Google Workplace (last releases + full integration with Gemini), we still have many Microsoft Office licenses mostly due to the intense usage of SAP add-in to analyse data (BW and IBP). Since SAP refuse to release similar add-ins supporting Sheet, there is an unpleasant double cost for workplace suffered by all the SAP+Google customers. I believe that all those customers must push SAP to give similar capabilities to the main Workplace suppliers. What do you think?

We use Google Workspace for over 5 years now (cca 30k licenses). Still have some Office licenses due to the external sharing and for finance team as John mentioned in his comment. 

We also do use Chrome Ent. 

We still have AD that we are considering now to kick off the project of analyzing and starting a process of removal of AD from our infrastructure. 

Process of migration was year and a half long, adoption to GWS is much easier with younger employees (they have more personal experience in using google tools), compared to the experienced ones who already know their productivity tricks with Office. 

We've been a long time user of Google Workspace. We've also had to maintain a parallel set of Microsoft licenses (Office suite only - Word, Excel Powerpoint etc) for a portion of the organization. We will never be able to get to Google only - we have requirements for external content sharing/collaboration requirements (e.g. legal, procurement), application specific support for MS Office only, or at times simply user preference. We periodically have to harvest Microsoft licensing to avoid too much overlap. It imposes an approval process - who also gets Office. The use of both tools creates some inconvenience when moving between file formats both within the organization as well as externally sharing - they're pretty compatible but there are always formatting and other minor issues. We will not consider chrome enterprise premium. If we were migrating anywhere, it would be to standardize on Microsoft, though it's not high on the priority list at the moment.