What Is gPanel & Why Does It Excel Over Alternative Solutions?

Are you looking for a comprehensive platform to manage your organization's Google Workspace? Wondering what gPanel® is and how it compares to other alternative solutions for user management and reporting?

Let's take a look at gPanel and its features, advantages, and why it excels over other options for Workspace administration platforms.

What is gPanel®?

Core Features & Functionalities

gPanel is a cloud-based SaaS platform designed specifically for Google Workspace. It provides organizations with enhanced control, visibility, and automation across their Google Workspace environment.

At its core, gPanel delivers a robust set of capabilities that enable comprehensive Google Workspace administration:

• User Provisioning: Bulk user creation, configuration and management
• Access Controls: Granular role-based permissions and restrictions
• Usage Monitoring: Insights into adoption across apps and activity
• Automation: Workflows for provisioning, offboarding, etc.
• Compliance Support: Monitoring tools to help manage security requirements
• Custom Reports: Configurable usage reporting and analytics
• API Access: Enables custom integration into other systems
• Mobile App: Admin access and management from anywhere

gPanel provides one of the most expansive Google Workspace management feature sets on the market. These tools streamline reporting and user management, empowering administrators to automate repetitive tasks and monitor sensitive company data — all from one centralized dashboard.

The platform is continuously enhanced with new capabilities based on customer feedback and product roadmap. This ensures gPanel remains a robust, leading solution for comprehensive Google Workspace management.

User Management & Access Control

With gPanel, admins can easily create, modify, and delete Google Workspace user accounts in bulk through an intuitive web-based interface. Batch uploading via CSV allows effortless addition of multiple new users. Account details like name, email address, and basic permissions for Google's various SaaS applications can also be configured during automated account creation workflows.

gPanel gives administrators extensive user provisioning capabilities to streamline onboarding and account setup within Google Workspace. User groups and roles can be configured to apply access settings and policies across departments. These tools simplify user and access management at scale.

Security & Compliance Support

gPanel's robust reporting allows administrators to easily monitor documents that users have shared with external audiences, thereby giving them more control over their company’s data. Administrators can also create policies that restrict sharing or downloading of sensitive files, enforce strong password policies, and more.

Together, insights help organizations practice better enterprise security and facilitate compliance with industry regulations, data protection policies, and internal governance requirements.

Automation & Efficiency Enhancements

The gPanel platform enables administrators to automate a wide variety of repetitive, manual tasks into streamlined workflows. Account creation, bulk policy updates, user reassignments, and other frequent activities can be configured as automated sequences. This saves admins substantial time and effort.

In addition, gPanel provides insights on Google Workspace domain activities. Admins can use system logs to track user actions, such as the average number of meetings an employee or team has per week, and view the applications their employees use daily.

They can also view the use of Android, iPhone, and Windows mobile for exception tracking, real user monitoring, and mobile app analytics. These insights help optimize user configurations, resource allocation, and more.

Advantages of gPanel

gPanel provides numerous advantages that make it an ideal Google Workspace management platform.

User-Friendly Interface

gPanel delivers robust Google Workspace management through an intuitive and visually appealing web-based interface accessible from any device. The centralized dashboard features well-organized menus, configs, and visual analytics. Admins can easily navigate to all areas of Workspace management via sidebar navigation.

The intuitive user interface enables service providers to quickly administer and configure Google Workspace environments for customers according to their specific needs. Custom branding can also be applied.

Integration with Google Workspace Apps

Deep integration at the API level enables gPanel to deliver unified management across core Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and more. Users, permissions, content and configurations can be managed from one dashboard rather than toggling between interfaces.

By providing integrated management of core Google services, gPanel gives admins simplified oversight of their organization's Google Workspace environment from a single pane of glass.

Usage Analytics & Reporting

gPanel provides dynamic and customizable analytics on Google Workspace usage across users, groups, and apps. These insights optimize Workspace management and administration.

Reports can be scheduled and shared with stakeholders. Unified audit logs aid in troubleshooting, forensic analysis, and compliance.

Why gPanel Excels Over Other Alternative Solutions

When compared to other Workspace management platforms, gPanel stands out as a premier management solution due to its robust capabilities.

Enhanced User Management

gPanel simplifies the most frequent user account processes like adding new hires or removing former employees. Admins can easily batch upload multiple users via CSV files.

Accounts can be automatically configured with the right apps, permissions and organization structure. Offboarding tasks like wiping Google Drive contents, suspending accounts or migrating data are easily executed in bulk.

The robust user management features enable efficient onboarding, offboarding, and decommissioning, thereby enhancing productivity.

More Robust Reporting

gPanel includes 70+ unique reports that administrators can manually generate or automatically schedule. These reports deliver invaluable insights into your Google Workspace usage, providing detailed analytics on user activities, email traffic, storage usage, and more. 

Plus, gPanel Enterprise users also gain access to four unique reports: Activities Shared (My Drive) Report, Activities Shared (Shared Drive) Report, Activities Shared from My Drive (Public) Report, and Activities Shared from Shared Drive (Public) Report.

These tools show all external activities on your domain and span your users’ entire lifecycle — well beyond the six month's of data available in tool's like Google Admin Console.

These reports are also available as decommissioning actions. 

Integration & Extensibility

The gPanel API gives administrators access to system logs and allows them to automate employee onboarding and offboarding as well as decommissioning and standard policies.

The API also enables businesses to connect the gPanel platform with other third-party applications or internal systems, expanding the scope of automation and customizing Google Workspace management processes to align with specific organizational needs.

Please note that the gPanel API is exclusive to the Enterprise tier.

gPanel: Comprehensive Google Workspace Management

For any organization extensively utilizing Google Workspace, gPanel represents the most robust Workspace management platform available today. It truly unlocks the full potential of Google Workspace through enhanced oversight, automation, and end-user productivity.

With gPanel, admins gain a centralized command center to control Google environments at both the macro and micro levels. The tool perfectly balances simplicity with advanced functions accessible when needed.

For these reasons, gPanel stands as the premier option for organizing, securing and optimizing Google Workspace environments of any size. Organizations ready to step up their Google investment should absolutely explore and evaluate gPanel as the ideal platform.

Why Promevo

As a 100% Google-focused partner, Promevo is your trusted guide to Google solutions. We work with you to understand your unique needs and develop a custom solution designed to scale with your business as it grows. In fact, there are plenty of advantages to partnering with Promevo.

• Advanced Automation and Precision Control: gPanel® gives you the tools you need to automate everyday admin tasks and control all user data and settings.
• End-to-End Solutions Specific to Your Needs: We provide our partners with everything they need for their Google Workspace, including software licenses, hardware, professional services, and continuous support and customization. 
• Advisory Workshops: We leverage our Google expertise to guide our clients and maximize success. From strategy assessment to internal advocacy and thought leadership, Promevo’s advisory workshops are designed to produce the best outcomes.
• Certifications and Google Expertise: Our Google-Certified Engineer team supports our clients with unparalleled technical support and Google expertise.

If you want to accelerate the growth of your company, Promevo has the Google Workspace solutions you need. With our expert consultation, comprehensive support, and exceptional service from end-to-end, you can drive maximum collaboration and productivity in your organization.

FAQs: gPanel

What Is gPanel and its alternatives?

gPanel is Promevo's proprietary Google Workspace management and reporting tool. It is similar to Google Admin Console but provides several capabilities that are unique and significantly benefit Workspace administrators.

What are the main features of gPanel?

gPanel provides a wide range of features for managing Google Workspace environments.

Key capabilities include bulk user management, granular access controls, system logs, automated workflows and more. It enables comprehensive administration from one centralized platform.

How does gPanel integrate with Google Workspace? 

gPanel delivers deep integration across Google Workspace apps like Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs and more. This enables unified visibility and control of these services through gPanel's dashboard.

Admins can oversee and configure Google Workspace without toggling between different interfaces.

Is gPanel secure?

Yes, gPanel takes security very seriously. It requires multi-factor authentication for access and supports single sign-on.