Google Apps has grown and established itself as a reference service, and according to company data, in 2014 more than five million companies used the service. On September 29, 2016, Google announced that Google Apps has changed its name to G Suite, maintaining the same tools such as Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive and Calendar, among others.

In this article, we compile the great advantages of G Suite for businesses.

Communication

To communicate, G Suite offers several possibilities with various applications: Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar and Google +. Each of these features allows you to communicate simply and effectively, whether internally within the company or with customers, suppliers or partners.

We especially highlight Google Hangouts, which allows you to have conversations individually or in a group, sending a simple message or through an audio or video call, also allowing you to meet in videoconference and share the screen or just an application. Created in 2013, it is the latest G Suite communication service.

For any G Suite user, multiple email aliases can be created. Aliases are forwarding e-mail addresses. Using aliases, an email will go to your inbox even if you use another form of your address. For example, if your email address is mariarodrigues@company.com, you can create a more basic form of that address, for example mrodrigues@company.com, and all emails sent to this email are forwarded to your inbox.

More important it is the way teams can be articulated, especially with the versatility that now exists in many companies. Someone can belong today to the comunicacao@empresa.com team and tomorrow belong to the team of a large client, for example, client1@company.com

Storage

For storage, G Suite provides Google Drive, a storage and file sync service, launched in 2012. With Google Drive, you can send any type of file to the "cloud", share with others and access from any device . Depending on the chosen plan, you can enjoy 30 GB or unlimited storage, allowing you to store all your company files in the same place, making it easy to access.

Collaboration

For collaboration, we highlight Google Docs, Google Sheets and Presentations. They all allow users to view and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations in real time and share them with others, including a history of revisions and changes. Changes are automatically saved so you do not lose any part of your work. You can organize all your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in the way that works best for you in Drive by creating folders and subfolders.

Safety

Google has a huge network of data centers, built with custom servers, that run the operating system in order to maintain maximum security and performance. Google controls its entire hardware stack to be able to respond quickly to any threats that may arise.

The G Suite has an important security step that can be applied to all users called 2-Step Verification. With this feature, you can receive an access confirmation code on your phone when you sign in to G Suite. This ensures that the person accessing your files is an authorized user.

Another important security feature is that employees' email accounts belong to the company, so if someone leaves the company, they can immediately change the password and prevent them from accessing the drive or any other G Suite application.

All these features make G Suite the best service for companies. With this suite of smart applications, your company's employees will always be on the go, wherever they are in the world.