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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Scality ARTESCA

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AScality in San Francisco offers scalable file and object storage for media, healthcare, cloud service providers, and others.N/A

    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
    Scality ARTESCAProgress ShareFile
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Scality ARTESCAProgress ShareFile
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsContact vendor for booking demo and pricing information.Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Scality ARTESCAProgress ShareFile
    Considered Both Products
    Scality
    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
    Scality ARTESCAProgress ShareFile
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Scality ARTESCA and Progress ShareFile
    Feature
    Scality ARTESCA
    -
    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 Scality ARTESCA and Progress ShareFile
    Feature
    Scality ARTESCA
    -
    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 Scality ARTESCA and Progress ShareFile
    Feature
    Scality ARTESCA
    -
    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
    Scality ARTESCAProgress ShareFile
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.8
    (119 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (33 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (2 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
    Scality ARTESCAProgress ShareFile
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Scality
    The team in charge of implementing Scality has to be full stack in order to guarantee the correct functioning of the entire system. However, you have to think very carefully about the balance between servers and disks, perhaps adopting smaller fully populated servers instead of large semi-populated servers, which would mean that over time our disk updates will not have a fully useful life.
    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
    Scality
    • I love the redundancy of the software.
    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
    Scality
    • The overall packaging is not very good. I think it could be more efficient for installation.
    • There are many components in storage servers. This can generally be complex to understand, you have to be patient.
    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
    Scality
    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
    Scality
    As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.
    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
    Scality
    No answers on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    The software has never been down when I needed to use it.
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    Performance
    Scality
    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
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Scality
    I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.
    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
    Scality
    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
    Scality
    Due to the nature of our business we require extensive encryption and availability for sensitive customer data. The erasure encoding that Scality provides gives us the assurance that documents are rest are never in a state of being downloaded or available to a casual data thief. This is something that can be found with other vendors but at a fraction of the same cost. Having this kind of performance, availability and redundancy at the cost that Scality provides has made a large difference to our organization.
    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
    Scality
    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
    Scality
    • Keeping sensitive customer data secure is a must for our organization and Scality has great features to make this happen.
    • We replaced a single SAN with a Scality ring and found performance to improve as we store more and more customer data.
    • Being able to lose various portions of our Scality ring and allow it to continue to service customers while maintaining high performance has been key to our business.
    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