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February 05, 2020
We use Dropbox both for occasional internal file storage, external file delivery to clients, as well as integration with ebook reading applications as a convenient way to load EPUB and PDF books into an app. For internal file storage, we do not use it very much. We use it more for delivering assets to clients. And, finally, we have Dropbox integration into our applications which allows users to easily import ebooks.
- Block-level sync and sync customization options.
- Easily manage shared folders.
- Cost is higher than some competitors for similar service.
- Not as many third-party integrations as some competitors.
January 31, 2020
I use it internally to back up my files. I like to work from anywhere and DropBox allows me to keep all my big files in the cloud and not have to carry around a laptop with a lot of memory to work on projects. I sync only the files I'm working on during a project. It's great when working for or with clients and other virtual assistants. The most obvious case is when we are creating a video. We keep all the media files in a folder for the project and we all work out of that folder. The videographer can upload the footage to the folder, then the editor will use the footage from that folder. Then if there is another editor to finalize things, they will have access to all the original files and project files so that they can easily make changes. DropBox for business also allows me to add team members so that they can share the massive storage we pay for. When they are done with a project I can remove them from the team and remove all the files from their device they used to connect to the shared folder. I also use DropBox to back up documents and media from different computers. That way there is a central library that I can find everything I need.
- Sync files that you're currently working on onto a device
- Removing files from devices remotely
- File previews. Dropbox is not the best at allowing you to preview the file. A lot of times people will have to download the file to view it. We've done video work and the client will review it with the Dropbox preview and the quality is very low. This causes the client to thing the video file is low quality.
- Pricing is a bit on the high side compared to other cloud storage solutions.
March 09, 2020
Dropbox Business is used by our Product and Design teams to showcase the work they're doing. It's a useful tool for sharing and previewing large files as well as collaborating once feedback is received.
We used to use Dropbox across the whole organisation but that changed due to overhead costs.
We used to use Dropbox across the whole organisation but that changed due to overhead costs.
- Great tool for previewing large files and sharing them quickly with people in and out of the organisation.
- Good collaboration tools - it's simple to give feedback during revisions.
- Nice UI and search function so it's easy to find files you're looking for.
- Some PDF previews can be a bit wonky in terms of colour, but downloading the file and viewing it fixes that issue.
- Overhead costs for larger organisations.
March 02, 2020
We use Dropbox Business for all of our important files that required shared access. Internal employees, customers, and other 3rd parties all have varying levels of access to files in our Dropbox Business account. It makes it easy to share photos with creative teams, spreadsheets with wholesale customers, files for download to retail customers, and so on.
- User and group permissions are straightforward and easy to use
- Creating a link to share files takes no time at all and is easily revoked
- Web and desktop apps work seamlessly
- Smart Sync and Selective Sync allow you to save hard drive space by selecting what you need to sync
- They need to fix the ._Filename.doc (or any other file type) issue on the web version when syncing from Macs.
Our marketing department currently uses Dropbox Business to facilitate large file data transfers, proofing, and overall content storage. It facilitates both internal use as a repository and external use for sharing content. Our organization is a content powerhouse, so having an easy system to use is critical for efficiency in our work.
- Easy sharing
- Simple categorization of assets
- Starting to be blocked by certain agencies and companies
- No real categorization feature like a mainstream DAM
February 19, 2020
Dropbox Business is used across all verticals in my organization. It
is a one-stop solution for file storing and sharing. It is very flexible and
stable when it comes to transferring large size files and documents. From the point of view security, it provides a great platform to store proprietary information using encryption key security. Such features are critical in helping organizations to trust and migrate exhaustively to cloud storage like Dropbox Business. Smart sync feature in the Dropbox Business allows you to sync and autosave files from your desktop to the cloud. This way, an auto backup is created the moment you start working on a file. Dropbox Business allows you to add members and share your folder with others. Dropbox Business integrates well with enterprise software, where information collaboration can take place across different software.
- Collaboration is very fast and secured.
- Document storage is seamless with auto arrange. Folder views are very graphical, and navigation is easy.
- Dropbox Business mobile phone app needs continuous updates, and the app only works after update.
- No traceability or tracking logs, this is a major issue.
February 15, 2020
We use Dropbox Business across our business. We are a small business, running social media - that means a LOT of content to store and share. Dropbox business has made this so much easier for us - especially the sharing part. We are so much more organized than before, and that is one of the greatest features. Another reason we love it is that we are able to share files (singe files) with clients with ease.
- Ease of sharing files.
- Ease of editing one document between several users.
- Better training for new users when setting up Dropbox Business (it is slightly different from the personal version).
We use Dropbox Business for our whole organization. We are a farm so it can be hard to get everyone together during our busy seasons. One of the main uses we have for Dropbox is for our PO system. It is much cheaper than purchasing a PO system and much more user friendly.
- User friendly
- Affordable
- More editing options
- More traceability options--as in who did what, when
February 11, 2020
Dropbox Business has been an attractive work solution due to its vast availability to allow me stability when transferring all types of files or documents. I am delighted with what I have achieved with the help of this platform. Since day after day, I can store important information related to my work area, in a cloud that adds an encryption key security, and which protects 100% of all my information, I will continue using Dropbox Business to continue obtaining these fantastic benefits.
- File transactions to some other employee using the Dropbox network is extremely fast, achieving effectiveness at all times.
- Dropbox Business design provides comfort for anyone who uses it.
- You cannot download files that are already stored in the cloud, from the Desktop App, only new files can be uploaded.
- The mobile phone app cannot be used if it is not updated.
February 11, 2020
Dropbox Business is used by certain departments, as a cloud-based platform solution to centralized data center, allowing access to users from their PCs or smartphones. Users can sync and share their files with other users. Dropbox allows sharing and collaboration of larger files. It is an efficient tool and most individuals are already familiar with it.
- Allows for sync and sharing of large files.
- Good as a collaboration tool.
- Sometimes we cannot find specific tabs which make it difficult to locate previous versions of our files or files that have been deleted.
- One needs to purchase more storage if they want to go beyond the free GB of storage allocated.
February 05, 2020
Dropbox Business is used in my organization both to house company documents and for project collaboration. Although it is used by the company as a whole, it is used to a greater extent by departments where team members are spread throughout the country and need to collaborate on documents or share documents easily. Dropbox Business allows this to happen easily.
- Collaboration.
- Document storage.
- Price - other programs do similar functions for cheaper.
- Functionality is not as intuitive.
January 31, 2020
It is used across the company. It is part of our standard software tools that are installed on everyone's laptop.
I am part of our sales team. I use it to store proposals, presentations, and signed contracts. Our consultants use it for client deliverables. We use it to share documents internally and externally.
I am part of our sales team. I use it to store proposals, presentations, and signed contracts. Our consultants use it for client deliverables. We use it to share documents internally and externally.
- I can quickly share documents by copying the link.
- It allows me to recover old/deleted versions of files.
- I wish searching through deleted files to recover them was easier.
- It isn't clear to me when Dropbox creates a new link when you overwrite a file, so sometimes I send clients the old link and it's no longer valid.
January 29, 2020
Dropbox Business is being used by our company to collaborate across agents and teams. We have common shared resource folders, and I manage personal folders that they only have access to. It helps us easily exchange data across the many geographic areas we service. It is being used by the entire team, and is imperative to our operations.
- The desktop application is really great, it integrates well with normal OS file finders.
- The speed is great. Changes are made live, and there is no lag between computers.
- It is expensive. We are paying per user and each user gets a portion of shared data. I would love to see a feature where there is a lower per user fee and a per data fee. We are paying for 8 terabytes that we don't need right now.
- There is a learning curve to understand how it works. Not sure it could be more intuitive, but some of our team members have struggled.
January 28, 2020
Dropbox Business is used to by our entire organization. It allows us to remotely save files and have those files available for other users immediately. Instead of attaching files to emails, which makes the emails large, we attach links to the Dropbox files for easy access. The ample storage space also allows for less usage of our internal server storage.
- File collaboration
- Remote Access
- Make the process of sending file path simpler and intuitive.
- Price is expensive. Lower price would be good and attract more users.
January 28, 2020
Our department utilizes Dropbox Business to have easy access to our files across all of our traveling team members. The smart sync feature allows us to see all the files without locally storing them, which allows our team to have smaller, lightweight laptops that don't weigh down their bags while walking through the airport. The search functionality is also fantastic. As long as we've named the files well, our team can typically locate the file even if someone else created it. The ease of use, accessibility, and storage capabilities make Dropbox Business a no brainer with our large brand and marketing related files.
- Smart Sync
- Search Functionality
- Sometimes the syncing doesn't work correctly, especially during initial setup, and it, in turn, makes our team's computers go haywire until we're able to jump in and fix it.
- I wish I could prevent people from deleting things. We've run into trouble when someone's computer starts to be "too full," and they'd remove locally, not realizing it deleted for all. Smart Sync has helped with that, but still a risk.
We LOVE Dropbox Business! Cloud storage and file sharing couldn’t be easier! Having files available & synced on my multiple devices is a huge time saver!
- Cloud storage of files
- Simple interface for sharing files
- Incredibly easy file sync across multiple devices
- Large storage and larger upgrades available!
- Great integration options with tools we use
- Price for business plans
March 18, 2020
Dropbox Business allows us to share files with each other, customers, and vendors. This helps us because we work with many people that we can't just go see. So the ability to share drawings, files, pictures, and videos is essential to moving a project forward. Dropbox helps us do that and makes sure we can access the information anywhere we can get online.
- The ability to share information.
- You can invite others to your files.
- You can keep the information separate and limit who gets access to what.
- The interface has been a little clunky at times and any time it updates you may have to relearn how to use it.
March 02, 2020
Dropbox is used as a cloud-based file management tool for most of our organization. We use it both as a backup and as a way to share information easily without email attachments. We also occasionally use it for sharing large files or folders with outside vendors or other organizations. This is particularly handy with albums of photos.
- Backup information.
- Makes collaboration and sharing documents easy.
- Compatible with lots of tech including phones, laptops, etc.
- It can be a bit slow to navigate when you have a large amount of folders backed up.
- Automatic imports can be a bit worrisome when sharing content.
- Tough for some older users.
February 26, 2020
Dropbox Business was (and still is) being used for safe file storage and easy and comfortable file exchange. It allowed us to use shared files between locations and devices quickly. We have been using it on several web-browsers as well as on mobile devices. Windows plugin that enabled shared folders inside native Windows File Explorer was especially useful as it allowed us to very quickly and comfortably accessed the files. Live-sharing and live-control over our shared files collection were superb, and real-time synchronization between devices using the same account was excellent.
- Real-life access to shared files folder between devices
- Great native apps for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS
- Easy file sharing and management
- Remote control, allowing the user to erase stolen quickly, lost or damaged devices
- Sometimes synchronization has to be manually triggered by launching the Dropbox app on mobile devices.
- Mobile devices - some of them don't let the app run in the background due to the batter saving modes - but that is those devices settings, not the Dropbox issue.
February 25, 2020
We use Dropbox for storage and secure sharing of large files.
- Good price for cloud storage space.
- Easy to share secure files.
- Doesn't translate to mobile as well as some other similar services.
February 24, 2020
Dropbox Business is used to sync files across multiple users' computers, and the entire organization uses it. We also use it to send large files to people outside of the organization rather than trying through email. Dropbox Business serves as a cloud-based backup for our files and a central location for anyone in the organization to locate images, documents, or software they need to install.
- Quick and easy synchronization to the cloud
- Ability to access information across platforms
- Price compared to other options
- Being able to handle communication over a VPN
We use Dropbox Business in order to store all of the pictures that we take at events, or have been taken for us. The students constantly want to see the pictures that may have been taken of them and Dropbox makes it easy to organize and sort through when the pictures were taken and what event was attended. It solves the business problems of organization and attention to detail.
- Organization
- Ample storage
- The price is a bit high
- If someones sends you a Dropbox link to a certain email, others cannot open it
We use Dropbox Business to share all of our company files, and the files of our clients. It's seamless across our devices, and easy to create and share links for external users. Dropbox Business has come a long way and added a ton of new features that makes it indispensable for us.
- Store and share files
- Allow collaboration for remote workers
- The mobile version could be a bit faster
- Lower cost per user would be nice
February 04, 2020
- We use Dropbox Business when clients want to share files with us. It is used on a lawyer by lawyer basis depending on what file-sharing software a client has chosen to implement.
- The business problem it addresses is that sometimes clients need to share files with us that are too large to fit into an e-mail (usually e-mails get rejected if the file is over 20 gigabytes, although this varies slightly by an organization).
- File sharing between a client and their external professionals.
- Implicitly results in the user creating a cleaned-up set of data files, since you don't want to share non-material and personal files with other business users.
- More appropriate for small organizations than large organizations.
- It is intended for file-sharing - not a formal document management system that a law firm or an accounting firm would typically use.
January 28, 2020
Our team needed a document storage platform that was familiar, easy to use with a clean UI and robust security to meet our vendor requirements. The types of documents we needed to store were mainly PDFs, images and some Excel worksheets. Our team is remote and needed a solution that allowed for near-real-time synchronization and accessibility on numerous devices to cater to the needs of both Mac and PC users along with some mobile device access where required. We found Dropbox Business to check off all those boxes despite our email being GSuite and us having free access to Google Drive, the preferred solution was Dropbox Business after testing some use cases with our team.
- Real time synchronization.
- Robust security with 2FA.
- No built-in document editor like Google Drive/Google Docs.
Dropbox Business Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
What is Dropbox Business?
Dropbox Business expands on the company's cloud storage service by providing additional features, such as lost file recovery for an extended period, integration with popular office suites (e.g. Office 365), the Dropbox Paper collaboration extension, two-factor authentication (2FA) and single sign-on (SSO), tiered administrator controls and granular permission sharing, remote device wipe, API, and other features of use to larger groups and businesses.
Categories: Collaboration, Cloud Storage
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Dropbox Business Pricing
Starting Price: $15
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
- Does not have featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?No
- Entry-level set up fee?No
| Edition | Pricing Details | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | $15 | per user/per month |
| Advanced | $25 | per user/per month |
| Enterprise | Contact sales team |
Dropbox Business Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems: | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application: | No |