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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    FileCloud

    Score6.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    FileCloud is a secure content collaboration platform (CCP) that provides compliance, data governance, data leak protection, data retention and digital rights management capabilities. Workflow automation and granular control of content sharing across most enterprise platforms is fully integrated into the complete CCP stack. The platform offers file sharing, sync, and mobile access capabilities on public, private, and hybrid clouds. FileCloud is headquartered in Austin, Texas and…

    $40

    per user

    Fortra’s Automate

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFortra's Automate (formerly HelpSystems Automate) is a robotic process automation platform for desktop applications. According to the vendor, it offers the ability to automate almost any business process, and no technical expertise is required—IT and business users alike can understand the drag-and-drop interface.N/A
    Pricing
    FileCloudFortra’s Automate
    Editions & Modules
    FileCloud
    $40
    per user
    FileCloud Online
    $96
    per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FileCloudFortra’s Automate
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsSelf-hosted FileCloud requires a starter pack ($999 per year) and it comes with 20 users. Additional users are charged at 40$ per user. FileCloud Online requires a minimum of 5 users ($480 per year). It comes with 1 TB storage and you can have upto 5 users.—
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    Features
    FileCloudFortra’s Automate
    Enterprise Content Management
    Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of FileCloud and Fortra’s Automate
    Feature
    FileCloud
    7.2
    2 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    File sync, storage & archiving8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content search & retrieval6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise content collaboration7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security, risk management & information governance7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    FileCloudFortra’s Automate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FileCloudFortra’s Automate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    FileCloud
    FileCloud is well suited for companies who want to utilize a cloud storage system but not use products such as Box or OneDrive. FileCloud allows the company to host everything on their own servers and have full administrative access to everything they need. If you don't have someone to manage a server, or don't need to have the granular admin access, this wouldn't be appropriate.
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    Fortra
    It's great for repetitive or regularly scheduled activities like reports or file transfers. However, it's not so good for on-demand activities. It doesn't support task shortcuts to run specific tasks. If it did it would be perfect.
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    Pros
    FileCloud
    • Access internal file server data from anywhere on the planet with an internet connection.
    • Send out emails with expiration dates, password links, and access control.
    • Ability to send out attachments that are over the email limits for downloading.
    • It integrates with NTFS and Active Directory.
    • Integration plugin for Outlook and Office applications.
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    Fortra
    • Very detailed task builder. Easy to read step by step a task's operation even if you don't have much programming knowledge.
    • Scheduling for automation jobs is very flexible. Allows us to create all kinds of job schedules as needed.
    • Organization of jobs, tasks, conditions is done well. Allows us to easily manage our items.
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    Cons
    FileCloud
    • Updates need to be more apparent to FileCloud Drive
    • Uninstall/Reinstall was needed to fix most issues
    • Cost
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    Fortra
    • A reporting capability on tasks: enabled, disabled, by folder, by trigger, etc. Currently there is none.
    • An "OR" in their conditional statements - currently there is only "AND".
    • Some kind of temporary backup when changing a task - separate from the current back up/restore functionality (which works well).
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    Usability
    FileCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Fortra
    It's just very easy to use, extremely versatile, and very reliable. It's hard to find use cases where it won't work.
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    Support Rating
    FileCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Fortra
    Support is very helpful and responsive, although using the tool is very user-friendly, so I hardly use the service.
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    Alternatives Considered
    FileCloud
    Their product is actively being updated and has better integration with the Mac platform which Varonis Datanywhere was lacking. In addition, the pricing is substantially cheaper than that compared for Varonis and FileCloud has more capabilities to sync, access, and download the data. Overall the comparison wins by far against one of their competitors.
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    Fortra
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    Return on Investment
    FileCloud
    • Allowed us to share our files easily
    • Allowed us to manage our cloud shares as we saw fit
    • The need to uninstall/reinstall after every other update was a little time consuming
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    Fortra
    • It's been a net positive as AutoMate requires less eyes on specific tasks so that people can focus attention elsewhere and do more analysis.
    • Less manual work also decreases the chances of mistakes and/or missed jobs. Since Automate can schedule everything, send email notifications, etc., there is less time wasted.
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