Enterprise software is in great demand because it helps, companies using it, to achieve greater productivity in their everyday business activities. Zoho, Google, SAP are some of the well-know companies who builds these products. But there is another class of enterprise software products they are called as Enterprise Collaboration Software or Enterprise Social Collaboration software. Though both may somewhat sound similar and can have some similar features but they are quite different from each other. Though some the feature of Social collaboration and enterprise Software does overlap but user experience and usage wise both are different.
Below is some of the difference basic between Enterprise Collaboration Software and Google Apps.
| Sr No | Enterprise collaboration Software | Google Apps |
| 1 | Enterprise collaboration is a platform that offers enterprise productivity tools with social features integrated into it | Google Apps are set of Enterprise collaborative productive tools |
| 2 | It offers social features like activity-stream, micro-blogging, profile creation, poll creation, upload of images and videos and sharing it with others in the company | No social networking features |
| 3 | The Enterprise Collaboration Software helps capture and retain knowledge. This knowledge can be readily made available to the co-workers right away | There is no such feature in Google apps to capture, retain and share knowledge instantly |
| 4 | The Enterprise Collaboration Sofwtare features CRM,Project Management, HRMIS, Support Desk etc | All These features are not available with Google Apps |
| 5 | Features like Suggest an Idea, Whistle Blower, Report an Issue | Google Apps don’t have these features |
| 6 | Enterprise Collaboration comes in subscription based and on-premise/one-time pricing | Google Apps comes only in Subscription based model |
| 7 | Enterprise Collaboration Software helps to find subject matter expertise. | Google Apps does not help to find subject matter expertise |
| 8 | Enterprise Social Collaboration creates professional social environment, which creates energized work place for employees. | Google Apps are meant for providing solution to the enterprises. |
