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by user5994461 3468 days ago
With a sharepoint, there is a single place where everything is stored, the sharepoint.

Everything there is accessible, visible and searchable (modulo access permissions). It's de-facto shared.

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With a Google Drive, all contents is private, only visible by you, only accessible by yourself.

Other people can't access your stuff, people can't search your stuff, people can't even know what may or may not exist.

If you want to share something, you have to email a link a single specific document of yours to selected people (who will each individually have to accept the invite).

How do you keep track of what is shared? by who? to who? how do you share stuff to groups/teams/businessunit? Basically, google docs intuitively goes against everything you want to do in an entreprisey context.

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You can share folders; also, check out Team Drive. https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/21/google-opens-up-its-new-pr...
It's an early access feature, only available since a few days, if you request it personally to a google sales rep.

Yes. That's one of the thing they miss really bad for sharing. It should have been there for 10 years already.

It's easy to share a folder in Google Drive.
Everything you say also goes for Drive... Not sure what you mean?