Google Workspace vs Shoviv Email Migration Tools

Google Workspace brings email, meetings, chat, calendars, file storage, and productivity apps into a paid suite. Its apps include Gmail, Meet, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Vids, Forms, Sites, Gemini, Keep, Apps Script, and Tasks. Multiple people can edit documents simultaneously, follow changes as they appear, and communicate through comments and built-in chat. Drive stores updates automatically and supports sharing for viewing, downloading, and collaboration. Gemini availability varies by plan: Business Starter includes it in Gmail, while Standard includes it in Gmail, Docs, Meet, and more. Security options include 2-Step Verification, Single Sign-On, endpoint management, and archiving controls. Google also lists pre-integrated single sign-on for over 200 cloud apps and automated provisioning for those apps. Business Starter, Standard, and Plus have a 300-user maximum; Enterprise has no minimum or maximum. Workspace runs on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. There is no free plan, and a 14-day trial is available. Business plans start at $7/user/mo annually.

Shoviv Email Migration Tools is Windows software for moving Exchange mailboxes between on-premises Exchange and Microsoft 365. It supports all versions of on-premises Exchange and Microsoft 365 as sources and targets, including Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration. Multiple mailboxes can be processed, with no stated restriction on mailbox size or mailbox count. The tool migrates shared, public-folder, and archive mailboxes. Incremental export can resume an interrupted job and carry new or changed items on a later run. Filters can target dates, folders, or item types, and jobs can run daily, weekly, or monthly. Shoviv describes standalone installation in the customer environment, with no third-party tools or cloud services used for migration and no source-data modification. Windows and Windows Server are supported, with Windows 10 or 11 recommended and 32-bit and 64-bit architectures listed. A free trial processes or saves the first 50 items per folder. Paid pricing starts at $39; listed lifetime mailbox plans include $494.90, paid once for 10–150 mailboxes, $8,984.49, paid once for 200, $13,963.49, paid once for 400, and $14,952.99, paid once for 500.