Intranet Comparison: Interact vs Google Sites
What is Interact?
Interact is an enterprise-grade intranet solution that specializes in improving collaboration and internal communication to improve the employee experience.
Best for enterprise and medium-sized companies.
Just like any other intranets, it allows users to create personal pages, forms, workflows, teams, and forums.
Other features include social capabilities, notifications, broadcasts, profile badges, recognition, rewards, and many more.
Interact supports an intuitive internet design and mobile apps for Android and iOs that give users the flexibility to connect anywhere, anytime, using any smartphone or tablet.
What is Google Sites?
Google Sites is the website building app from Google Workspace. It is used by many organisations to create internal websites for departments as well as corporate Intranets.
This site, Steegle.com, is built wholly on Google Sites.
Google Sites allows users to easily create websites without any background knowledge in programming or web development. It part of Google Workspace's Google Docs Editor family i.e. Sheets, Slides, Drawings, and Docs.
If you’re familiar with Wix, Squarespace or WordPress you may notice that they are somewhat similar to Google Sites, but the emphasis of those tools are public websites, rather than private intranets. Google Sites, however, gives the secure and private authentication offered by Google Workspace so it provides a seamless experience for Google Workspace users.
If you use Google Workspace already then you will find Google Sites easy to use, due to its familiarity with the other Google Workspace apps. Google Sites offers the same sharing model you are used to in Google Drive, so you can avoid any security concerns due to Google Workspace's industry-leading security.
Google Sites offers the basic and fundamental features for most websites but lacks essential functionality for that many organisations need on an intranet. Steegle offers a very particular set of tools to provide a fully fledged Intranet via our Steegle.One Intranet solution.
Key Features of Interact
Interact incorporates a rich feature set to provide employees with information about their organisation. Some of its features include:
Chat/Messaging
Discussion boards
Search capabilities
Third-party integration
Google Workspace
Microsoft 365
Slack, Salesforce, Zendesk, Workday, SAP Concur, and servicenow
Workflow management
Reporting and statistics
Single-Sign On (SSO)
File sharing
Employee directory
Employee On
Task management
Knowledgebase
Document management
Interact offers an AI-powered content analysis that encourage authors to build a progressive and positive language into their contents.
Employees or users are allowed to customize their intranet experience to boost engagement
Supports over 60 languages.
Interact Pricing vs Google Sites Pricing
Interact Pricing
Interact has not provided pricing information for their product and services.
Price is available with a quote.
Google Sites Pricing
Google Sites is Free if you have Google Workspace!
If you use add-on tools, that a company like Steegle provides in Steegle.One, incurs license fees.
Steegle.One license fees are a tiny fraction of Interact - to get a tailored quote for your situation get a quote.
Google Sites for Intranets - Features
Content Management
Managing content on Google Site is easy and often self-explanatory.
You can add and duplicate pages, hide pages, and archive pages.
Embedding document is easy and fun.
Edit who can access and edit contents
Media Management
Users can easily add:
images,
videos,
complex text.
Users can also:
Move, edit, resize and drag images.
Create a responsive design with a grid layout.
Security
You can view and edit users who can access certain pages. Unauthorized users will not be able to access or make edits on your intranet.
Integrations
Seamlessly integrate with Google apps such as Docs, Sheets, Drawing, and Presentation.
Google Sites for Intranets - Limitations
Like any tool or application, Google Sites has some limitations. The following list shows some of the most popular concerns from users:
No Employee Engagement
People Directory - No simple way to create an employee directory nor an organisational chart.
Employee Recognition - Google Sites does not offer any tools to help you recognise and reward those who have gone the extra mile or if you want to spotlight someone for their achievements.
No News or Announcements
Summaries - Google Sites doesn;t summarise recent updates
Centralised Tool - there's no tool to allow you to post once and update in various locations
Poor File, Document and Folder Handling
Folder Hierarchy - opening a folder takes you to Google Drive
Search and Sort - Sites doesn't search your embedded Drive content nor can you sort the list of items
Poor Calendar DIsplay
Google Calendar - antiquated displays are not intranet friendly
The Solution?
All of these shortfalls are addressed by Steegle in our comprehensive Steegle.One Intranet platform.
Feature Comparison Table
Limitations of Interact
Complex - commentators say some features are not user-friendly and complicated for us
Price- it's expensive and the price is only available with a quote
Data - The data does not reside in your existing Google tenant and will be subject to Interact security
What is Steegle.One Intranet for Google Sites?
Steegle.One is an added value intranet solution for Google Workspace that is made using Google Apps Script embedded in Google Sites by Steegle.com.
Steegle.One allows you to easily build engaging and compelling intranets based on Google Sites.
Addition, Steegle-developed, low-maintenance productivity tools to make your intranet more efficient and effective. Some of the Steegle extensions you can use on your intranet are:
Steegle News - comprehensive news management tool;
Steegle People - employee directory and org charts based on your Google Workspace directory;
Steegle Heroes - employee recognition tool;
Steegle Schedule - consistent calendar display.
Steegle Share - a powerful way of searching and sharing files and templates from a library
Steegle Affinity - creation of automatically subscribed employee affinity groups within Steegle.One
So… How do you create a Google Sites intranet?
Great question! Steegle is a Google Cloud Partner and has been using Google Sites since 2008. We have developed intranets for large and small organisations with a friendly team using built-in powerful robust and scalable Google Technology as well as our own specially adapted software widgets to make the intranet fly - become a hub of activity where people will want to come back to for years to come.
We can get basic sites customised exactly to your brand and house style within 5-days. You can use our templates for page structures that make sense (being based on the Nielsen Norman ideals of an effective Intranet) as a starting for your organisation without the need for complex wireframes or project planning. We’ll also be by your side as you start the big task of populating the system and setting it up to fit your company’s culture, and you can get user feedback on your draft site to quickly adapted and change it to meet their needs.
Step one is to get in touch with us so that we can give you a walkthrough of our system. Book a demo to kickstart the process!
Looking for an intranet solution for Google Workspace?
Since 2008, we here at Steegle.com have been delivering intranet development solutions for Google Sites. We have developed Steegle.One intranet system which builds directly to Google Sites for Google Workspace.
As a certified Google Cloud Partner, we specialize in Google Workspace based solutions. Give us a call at US +1 (302) 672 3007 or UK +44 (207) 871 502 or contact us today to view a demo of our intranet solutions, and see how it can help increase employee productivity and save time and money. Click below to learn more about the Steegle.One Intranet solution.
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