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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloudinary

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACloudinary is an image and video management tool enabling users to manage, optimize, and deliver images, videos and other media across every device and channel.

    $49

    per month

    Progress ShareFile

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AShareFile is a cloud-based file sharing and storage service built for business. The product was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2011, and is now offered by Progress Software.

    $54.45

    per month 3 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    CloudinaryProgress ShareFile
    Editions & Modules
    Media Optimizer - Scale
    $49
    per month
    Programmable Media - Plus
    $99
    per month
    Programmable Media - Advanced
    $249
    per month
    Programmable Media - Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Digital Asset Management
    Custom Pricing
    Advanced
    $18.15
    per month per user (minimum 3 users)
    Premium
    $28.59
    per month per user (minimum 3 users)
    Industry Advantage
    $45.83
    per month per user (minimum 3 users)
    Virtual Data Room
    $77.00
    per month per user (minimum 5 users)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudinaryProgress ShareFile
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual pricing.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    CloudinaryProgress ShareFile
    Considered Both Products
    Cloudinary
    No answer on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Would buy again
    59 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    41 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    59 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    43 Answers
    Features
    CloudinaryProgress ShareFile
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Cloudinary and Progress ShareFile
    Feature
    Cloudinary
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Progress ShareFile
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data exportability9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content analytics9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM Features
    Comparison of DAM Features features of Cloudinary and Progress ShareFile
    Feature
    Cloudinary
    9.6
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Progress ShareFile
    -
    Ratings
    Uploading assets10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Downloading assets10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Categories9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset storage10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset sharing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset search10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tagging system9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content editing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    User access9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM Integrations10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM API10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Cloudinary and Progress ShareFile
    Feature
    Cloudinary
    -
    Ratings
    Progress ShareFile
    9.0
    94 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Versioning00 Ratings9.077 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings8.857 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings9.153 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings9.082 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings9.589 Ratings
    File search00 Ratings8.090 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings9.575 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Security & Administration
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Cloudinary and Progress ShareFile
    Feature
    Cloudinary
    -
    Ratings
    Progress ShareFile
    9.4
    89 Ratings
    8% above category average
    User and role management00 Ratings9.484 Ratings
    File organization00 Ratings9.490 Ratings
    Device management00 Ratings9.571 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Platform
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Cloudinary and Progress ShareFile
    Feature
    Cloudinary
    -
    Ratings
    Progress ShareFile
    8.8
    90 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Performance00 Ratings9.287 Ratings
    Reliability00 Ratings8.990 Ratings
    Storage Reports00 Ratings8.373 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    CloudinaryProgress ShareFile
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.8
    (119 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.6
    (33 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (14 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CloudinaryProgress ShareFile
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudinary
    Cloudinary handles pretty much anything you have related to images. From serving them up efficiently to adding transformations on the fly, there's really little this service doesn't do. Their pricing plans allow you to grow into the right levels and their website dashboards are very helpful. I would easily recommend this for all but the simplest of use cases.
    Incentivized
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    Progress ShareFile
    When we have a particularly large ad or job printing file that would "clog up" the email process, using ShareFile is very helpful. It's also useful for particular photographers we work with to upload a batch of photos all at once. Where it doesn't work as well for us is when trying to get clients to make use of a login to access folders. We find them reluctant to take on the learning curve. It works best for us when we just send them a clickable download link, and at most just require a tracking name and email address.
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    Pros
    Cloudinary
    • Cloudinary is the best in the market for photo and video transformations.
    • Cloudinary takes customer's requests for special features and implements them very quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Progress ShareFile
    • Secure File Storage and Sharing.
    • Workflows to get customer/affiliate responses to comments on documents.
    • I used to have the signature feature initially, but it was removed from the original plan, so I could only use it if I chose to select the higher plan price.
    • I love the upload notifications and reports on user activity.
    • The document storage versions are fantastic. I am the only user with Delete privileges, and I love that I can make those selections.
    • Integrations with Microsoft 365 - FANTASTIC - thank you.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cloudinary
    • Their API does require URLs that can get quite lengthy and not always easy to parse on sight.
    • Documentation on how transformations work and what they actually do to your image could be clearer (what does force_strip actually mean?).
    • Although a free tier exists and is quite generous, should you need to acquire a premium plan for your needs the pricing at scale can climb quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Progress ShareFile
    • The web console is not the most user friendly site to use to get to, and send my files.
    • We have had users that have not liked the change in workflow to get files from Progress ShareFile when they were used to just clicking on files on an email.
    • That management of the tools are not the most user friendly. There have been some improvements but keeping up with certs and setting up new users can be more work than expected.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloudinary
    No answers on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    It's a highly effective and secure storage system, has robust workarounds for serving the various equipment limits of our users, meets high security requirements of HIPAA standards, significantly reduces our needs for producing paper trails.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Cloudinary
    Cloudinary is very easy to use and offers fast way to upload your images, files and videos to their servers. Then they give you quick ways t implement those files or images onto your website using their API or just a normal URL. They also give you very fast ways to make edits to those files and include them in the url.
    Incentivized
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    Progress ShareFile
    ShareFile is so easy to use I was able to download all of my projects files and have them set up to sync before my supervisor could even come over to explain the process to me. It is a neatly organized and intuitive software that allows even the less tech-savvy to become power users.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cloudinary
    No answers on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    The software has never been down when I needed to use it.
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    Performance
    Cloudinary
    No answers on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    Easy to use, easy to integrate with Outlook. I only gave it a 9 because I have found that sometimes it does not play nicely with Outlook and can slow it down. But, when that happens (not frequent), I restart Outlook and all is well again
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    Support Rating
    Cloudinary
    We rarely use their support. But when we need it they are always there. They provide great consultation and suggestions to help us manage our costs and resources better. In the last 8 years perhaps we have contacted them 3 or 4 times - which is really really great
    Incentivized
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    Progress ShareFile
    Citrix was generally responsive and helpful in solving technical issues. Like any cloud based SaaS product there is a danger that it may go down. This was a rare occurrence over my three years of using the product. The more common issue we encountered was clients forgetting their login which was easily managed through a forgot password functionality.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Cloudinary
    No answers on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    Good documentation for the API. With a little help from RS tech staff, any competent programmer should be able to integrate RightSignature with an existing system in a week or three. That help is easy to get as well
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloudinary
    Cloudinary seemed to be the most sophisticated with the most documentation and platform support. Other solutions seemed to be a lot harder to implement, however, due to the good documentation and API samples on their GitHub we were able to implement it nicely. Additionally, they have a lot of really well-known brands using them like Wired, Sky News, and eBay which gave us a lot of confidence that this was a good robust solution to use and to help others with
    Incentivized
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    Progress ShareFile
    ShareFile is easier and does what you need. I have moved a few organizations from SharePoint to ShareFile. Just easier. You can setup different areas for different departments, setup their permissions and it is easy enough for them to do what they want in their zones. The mobile app works great as well. So you can all the features you really use from SP, but just easier to setup and use.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Cloudinary
    No answers on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    I am a one person office. I have no idea how this software would scale to a larger office.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Cloudinary
    • Images are essential to our product and using Cloudinary has allowed us to serve them up in a cost-effective and efficient way. Not having to worry about your images frees you up to tackle the real challenges for your product.
    Incentivized
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    Progress ShareFile
    • All of our clients and consulting engineers find ShareFile easy to use, thus complementing our business.
    • Our staff also find ShareFile intuitive, accessible, and easy to use, making it an ideal, everyday indispensable desktop tool for everyone in our company.
    • ShareFile can be linked to our firm's primary website as a placed for private use. We haven't found need for this yet, but might in the future.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Progress ShareFile Screenshots

    Screenshot of the ShareFile dashboardScreenshot of ShareFile's Outlook PluginScreenshot of the Projects interfaceScreenshot of ShareFile's link sharing optionsScreenshot of ShareFile's e-signature