Google Forms VS AWS Storage Gateway

Google Forms Reviews

1. ✓ Adrian | Mobile Forms - Digital Inspections - Enterprise Checklists - Data collection    

   Marketing at Mobile Forms | almost 4 years ago
   A good beginners tool to start your digital transformation.

   One of our customers said: Our small mining operation needed to go from paper based process to digital forms. At first, Google forms allowed us to use this Web-based platform that lets individuals and businesses of all sizes build customizable forms to conduct surveys and generate real-time response charts.

   We saw that a small sample of our field workers quickly adopted the new way of working.

   Step 1: accomplished.

   Now unto step 2.

   How do we deploy this unto our whole team? We needed email notifications, offline response collection when without wifi on the field. Our CIO and his director of operations needed deep data and trends analysis as well. Our inspectors, when doing their audits, needed to capture approx. 25 high definition pictures, some audio notes and a video which wasn't really possible with google forms.

   So, we can 100% credit the use of google forms to our transition towards a paperless process, but as we navigated saashub.com a little more, we were able to discover a world of alternatives. We strongly suggest to start using google forms before undergoing a big implementation plan towards such enterprise level inspection tools like nspek or even cheaper solutions like prontoforms.

   I am not sure if we would start with google's solution first if we would to do this digital transformation all over, but it did allow us to discover it's limits pretty quickly.

   At some point, we needed custom fields and functions, and none of us was able to code, so the nSpek training that comes with the application definitely sets it's self apart, giving us full autonomy.

   🏁 Competitors: nSpek, ProntoForms

   👍 Pros:    No sign up cost

   👎 Cons:    Customization|Customer support|Data protection and security|No video|No pictures

AWS Storage Gateway Reviews

Google Forms mentions (0)

AWS Storage Gateway mentions (7)

• Best way to use ftp(s) to s3 for document upload?

  Could Storage Gateway help here? EC2 fronts the FTP endpoint to a file server that is Storage Gateway? Source: over 1 year ago

• Allow S3 files to be accessed from an on-prem app

  One option is https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/ (plus VPN). Source: over 1 year ago

• self hosted s3 server?

  That helps, thank you. You might have a look at AWS' Storage Gateway, more specifically the S3 File Gateway. Source: over 1 year ago

• Are there tools or service that provide near realtime file sync to s3

  I *think* storage gateway can do this (https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/). Also, several of the Amazon FSx services can, I think. They all basically mean you have a remote file system to which you write, and that file system gets backed up to FSx. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Best way to approach scheduling a call to move data (csv) from my ERP system to S3?

  You can deploy Storage gateway in your local environment, and copy the files to storage gateway, it will automatically sync the files to s3. Source: over 2 years ago