Overview
What is Egnyte?
Egnyte provides a unified content security and governance solution for collaboration, data security, compliance, and threat detection for multicloud businesses. More than 16,000 organizations trust Egnyte to reduce risks and IT complexity, prevent ransomware and IP theft, and boost employee…
Review of egnyte (The best)
Egnyte - Secure, Robust, and Intuitive
Decent, but not made for the typical admin.
Complete solution to secure and save the information on cloud without compromising location
Perfect solution to manage, secure and gain insights of business.
Solid and Reliable Solution
Excellent, secure, does what you need it to do
Great for secure sharing.
Cost-effective data management and storage with Egnyte
Egnyte is AMAZING!!!
Egnyte Agency Review
Egnyte Sync for Construction Companies
Easy to use and great stress-saver
Egnyte does the job and a bit more
Awesome, secure share app
Popular Features
- Performance (33)8.787%
- File organization (34)8.787%
- Access control (34)7.979%
- File search (33)7.878%
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Pricing
Team (1-10 employees)
$10
Business (10-100 employees)
$20
Enterprise (50+ employees)
Contact sales team
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $25 per month
Product Demos
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Features
File Sharing & Management
Features that allow collaborators to view, work on, and organize files.
- 9.3Versioning(32) Ratings
Users can access the most up-to-date version of a document, track changes, and revert to older versions if needed.
- 8.4Video files(28) Ratings
Supports video file types
- 8.1Audio files(26) Ratings
Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav
- 9.1Document collaboration(32) Ratings
Users can edit files and attach comments to files.
- 7.9Access control(34) Ratings
Users can control access to (shared) files, including different levels of access such as view-only or permission to edit.
- 7.8File search(33) Ratings
A search function that allows users to easily find files, and in some cases even search within multiple files.
- 9.3Device sync(31) Ratings
Device syncing that updates files connected to the cloud, keeping all files up to date regardless of where they are edited or viewed.
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Features related to security and administration for cloud storage platforms
- 9.8User and role management(32) Ratings
Administrators can manage users and user groups by role, in terms of setting permissions for things like file access, sharing, and editing permissions.
- 8.7File organization(34) Ratings
The ability to choose where files will be stored, and manage individual users' storage; includes control over file organization structure.
- 8.9Device management(29) Ratings
Administrators can manage devices connected to the cloud storage platform, including restricting access for certain devices or wiping files from devices remotely.
Cloud Storage Platform
Features around the functionality of the cloud storage platform.
- 8.7Performance(33) Ratings
Platform runs at a good speed on all browsers; files load and sync quickly.
- 9Reliability(33) Ratings
Cloud storage platform is secure, all features are consistently available, and the platform maintains file integrity.
- 9.2Storage Reports(29) Ratings
Includes reporting capabilities to monitor user activity and storage levels.
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Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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(1-25 of 38)Review of egnyte (The best)
- The interface of Egnyte is very easy and user-friendly anyone can use Egnyte without any problem.
- Security of Egnyte is very high it creates a security code or password to open the particular file
- File exchanging platform is too good.
- Always gives a good updates and user friendly updates.
- Connectivity with internet is slow as per my experience
- Shows some undefined error sometime but it's very rare
- It's takes little bit more time to upload files.
Egnyte - Secure, Robust, and Intuitive
- Security
- Intuitiveness
- Easy of Use
- Price
- We have nothing negative to say about Egnyte.
Decent, but not made for the typical admin.
- Sharing files externally with passwords, link expiration and granular control of permissions
- File syncing across end-user devices using a client installed onto the computer for seamless integration for end-users as if they had mapped a drive directly to their machine
- Implements 2FA for secure access
- Applying mass permissions to multiple folders is non-existent. If you have 15 folders to manage, you have to individually assign the 15 folders permissions to have specific rights (to not be able to delete the folder and to be able to create subfolders)
- File and folder restoration is only done in increments of 80 items-- per page. That can be 78 files and 2 folders, but those folders don't contain the original items that originally existed within it. Restoring a folder with more than 1000 items is absolutely drudging.
- There isn't an ability to keep files stored on end-user devices as of yet. OS level applications often times have issues when needing to address [the] entire contents of folders. [A] prime example is for file compression.
- There isn't an easy way to back up the information from an end user's machine or transfer contents to a local hard drive. Cloud base solutions are available though.
If you're needing more control over the ability to restrict users from deleting folders, sharing folders, and allowing only certain groups to be able to view a folder, this can work but will ultimately give you arthritis as you'll end up having to perform a multitude of clicks for a task that should be able to be done in a fraction of the action. Have a folder template that allows for the first two levels of folders to be view only and the third level allowing file/folder creation and deletion? Have fun setting each of the third level folder's permissions-- they should give out free wrist braces.
When discussed with their engineers about this function, a suggested $28,000 custom script was suggested. I don't believe them when they say that they haven't heard of other customers wishing to assign rights to multiple folders-- Something any sort of real admin would require. It simply isn't important to them, which is fine. The current ability
Complete solution to secure and save the information on cloud without compromising location
- It has an amazing feature of collaborating data security, compliance, and threat detection for businesses.
- It has all the amazing features which makes out great platform across the niche.
- It offers great security while sharing information and sharing links, it gives link expiration while sharing the information.
- That link expires after some time and needs a password to access it again which makes me share my files anywhere without the fear of attacking or losing information.
- The main drawback that I am facing while using the Egnyte that [in my experience] it becomes slow while dealing with large files.
- Secondly, it does not have the feature of changing the parent of the folder which sometimes becomes a trouble to assess without the person.
- The system gets slow a lot and it takes hours to upload large files onto the cloud [in my experience] which is the biggest drawback.
- It is very much proficient in sharing files within and outside of the organization.
- The integration is seamless with other available platforms. The desktop app is fast and reliable also the interface is very user-friendly to use.
- Users can download heavy files easily from the system without any lag or system bogging down.
- The main drawback of the system that it is lacking in managing the uploading of large or huge files, even though the large files can be easily downloadable but the upload takes a lot of time.
- While uploading the system sometimes starts lagging and the file after sometimes needs to upload again.
- Egnyte is lacking in syncing multiple platforms at the same time. It gives access to one platform at a time which somehow hinders the work while migrating a large amount of data.
Solid and Reliable Solution
- Drive map tool on Windows and flexibility on client configuration, can change drive letters fairly easily if needed.
- New user setup is straightforward and permissions not too difficult to set up and assign.
- Support has been fairly responsive and helpful with issues as they have come up.
- The on-premise server that syncs with cloud data was a bit challenging to set up.
- Mac installation was challenging and less configurable than Windows.
- A new or redesigned user setup wizard might be more useful than the present setup method.
Excellent, secure, does what you need it to do
- Easy to use
- Adaptable
- Convenient
- Secure
- Safe
- Fast
- Finding the direct link for photo files sometimes isn't the easiest.
Great for secure sharing.
- Secure sharing with options to require password and time limits
- Logging of access to shared links
- Ability to allow custom url for links
- Because it is an additional service, it creates added steps for users (compared to sharing in google or Microsoft)
- Without custom URL, some end users are not familiar with Egnyte brand, and can cause confusion
Cost-effective data management and storage with Egnyte
- Very easy to install.
- Very simple to use.
- Large storage capacity.
- Uploading large files (over 1GB) remotely can be difficult and causes crashes.
- Likewise moving large files within the folders can cause interruptions in service.
- Not sure what is happening with the creation of back-ups. I have never seen this functionality although it may be happening in the background.
Egnyte is AMAZING!!!
- File Storage
- File Sharing
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- Ease of use
- Interface
- Quick loading time
- Editable links
- Not getting logged out so often
- Loading speed when not on VPN
Egnyte Sync for Construction Companies
- Fast file access and retrieval
- Quick uploads and downloads
- Individual file sharing with users outside of our organization
- We had one problem with file syncing that lost several files. Tech support could not retrieve them. This happened early in our usage and only one time.
- We had an issue with Sync at one point, but that was resolved.
Easy to use and great stress-saver
- Easy to use: we had minimal problems implementing this across the company.
- Great for collaborative work: stops issues with version control and has easy sharing.
- Easy sharing outside our organization: avoids issues with large file transfers.
- We often have issues with WebEdit, changes not saving/overwriting
- No functionality to drag and drop files/folders within the UI, can only move things by going through Move > Select location
- When previewing Word files in the browser, tracked changes are not shown so there can be misunderstandings when quickly reviewing documents
Egnyte does the job and a bit more
- Sharing options within the organization and outside.
- Structure of permissions.
- User management.
- Options for using Egnyte (drive, browser, etc.).
- Collaborating in docs.
- Collaboration in documents within the Office applications would be nice. Now it's only in browser mode.
- Default link names option when sharing files.
- Desktop sync should be able to tell when there's not enough disk space.
- Support could be more attentive.
Awesome, secure share app
- Sharing a link for upload.
- Downloading using a password.
- Customizing the link with security options.
- Automatic deletion policy would be nice.
Egnyte is a no-frills top-notch storage solution
- Ease of use- once things are clearly labeled Egnyte is simple to learn and use.
- Pricing- In our case, Egnyte was very fairly priced.
- Functionality- Egnyte is a no-frills, as advertised, option for all digital storage needs.
- Egnyte may be overdue for a face-lift. The User Interface is a little dated. Not a deal breaker by any means, though.
- Customer support- Fortunately, we haven't needed much help. I have heard from people at other businesses complain about their lack of support before.
Wonderful software to use for your small bussiness.
- Egnyte can be used in many different ways depending on what are you using it for. I use Egnyte for one purpose only: if the files are too big to deposit into Arena PLM System, I will have them linked instead.
- I do know some of my colleagues are using Egnyte to upload files and share them with other Egnyte users; it seems like everyone here who uses Egnyte is happy with the software.
- Not a problem with Egnyte, but when using it with Arena, Arena will only allow a certain capacity on files, and also when you have a big file upload in Arena, it will take a long time to download.
- Another problem that is not Egnyte's, but when using with Arena, I wish Arena could be made to handle bigger files and faster downloads.
Egnyte for asset and file management
- Asset sharing across organization departments.
- Asset sharing externally (through secure links and expirations dates and access tracking).
- Asset and content version management.
- Managing sharing links and corresponding details is not intuitive.
- No ability to collaborate and save documents.
- No historical view of document viewing and download history.
Egnyte for Document Storage
- Web Edit function works really well to edit documents in real time and have them live.
- System access, the ability to share folders with only certain members or groups for safety.
- The ability to keep many different types of documents (Word, Excel, etc) in one location.
- When you are doing web edits to a document it locks other users out of the document for an undisclosed amount of time. If it is a frequently accessed document this can cause problems.
Cloud Base system that works well.
Egnyte is being used by the different departments across our organization, including operations, finance, and recruitment.
Egnyte helps us store all confidential and day-to-day information so we don't lose the files. Egnyte enables our organization to offer employees file access and file sharing between employees and business partners, usually from any device and at any time, so colleagues can share files locally and internationally.
- Egnyte Cloud system offers a good means to transfer and share large files of any size. This eliminates the process of sending such files via email as attachments and the long time it takes to find them in emails. It is really brilliant as you can readily download files of any size and upload them directly from your own account.
- Egnyte has folders for both shared use and private use. The shared folders have a Parent folder and other sub folders for easy compilation.
- The Egnyte cloud enables users to use Egnyte desktop versions accessed directly on one's computer, enabling us work directly.
- Sometimes files take forever to upload and could hang up the system.
- For the Egnyte we use now in our organization, you can't use it offline which can be sometimes annoying if you don't have data. I understand that there has been some improvement to this.
- If file is also too large, it can stop working and you need to refresh.
1.File Uploads/Downloads
2.File Storage
3.Personalized File storage system
4. File Sharing
5. Sub Folder Synchronization
Egnyte is a superior file-sharing cloud-based server option.
- One of Egnyte's features that we use quite frequently is file sharing to individuals outside of our company - whether we're sharing documents with prospects, potential buyers, or clients, it's as easy as sending a link to share a file, or creating a guest profile for them to sign in if they need to upload documents to us.
- Desktop sync is a feature in Egnyte that we could not live without! The continuous sync means that our systems always have the latest version of every document that's worked on almost instantaneously.
- Password protected file sharing is a must - we are a business brokerage firm and so client confidentiality is one of our highest priorities. Having the ability to put our files behind a password-protected link for viewing and downloading has helped us immensely.
- Egnyte's web edit functionality could be built out a bit more. We never use this service in our office, and while I believe that it's because we simply use the desktop sync tool and have everything available locally with immediate follow-up syncing, the functionality does seem slightly less than intuitive, but still wholly usable.
- Honestly... I have a difficult time thinking of any other shortcomings that the platform has.
Easy to use!
- Allows different types of documents to be stored and accessed without issues
- Saves drafts in stages
- Allows access to both current and former employee files
- Easy to use - administrator access controls who has access to what
- Customer service is clunky and difficult to actually get help for existing users - sales team is great though
- Occasional crashes and compatibility issues
- Does not support Linux
Egnyte - easy to use!
- Syncs fast so others can open updated files
- Holds a ton of storage
- Easy to access from all types of devices
- Two people cannot be in the same file - if I open a file that a colleague is in and begin work it will save (2) copies
- Sometimes the syncing freezing makes me have to restart my computer
- It can be hard to access on an iPhone, bigger screens work best
Cloud Storage the Easy Way
- Salesforce integration is seamless and extremely beginner friendly.
- Egnyte goes through all of the proper measures to be fully compliant in an extremely tight regulatory industry.
- Affordability is a major factor when you are buying licenses for a ton of employees, Egnyte checks this box.
- Egnyte occasionally desyncs with Salesforce without warning, when it does it requires a convoluted series of steps to troubleshoot. It's easy after the first time, but it can be a major issue when your pipeline is built around the integration.
- Egnyte support is all offshore in my experience, they rarely match up with you time wise and typically skip straight to screen sharing to troubleshoot. Many users aren't comfortable screen sharing as a first resort.
- The browser-based Egnyte solution is sluggish and has some UI quirks that turn most of the users off in the office.
Egnyte is Perfect for our Style of Business
- Sharing files safely and securely with people at different facilities. It allows for ease of communication without having to limit security potential to do so.
- Fast updating - within seconds I can drop a file in to a shared Egnyte folder and it be readily available on someone else's computer in the office. This is great for conference calls, it allows all parties to quickly access and review the same material.
- Salesforce integration - it has been phenomenal seeing how seamlessly Egnyte and Salesforce integrate. To allow these tow systems to ebb and flow so well together saves countless hours of work in our everyday.
- Workshops - a lot of people in our field have experienced a learning curve when implementing Egnyte. I think good workshops online would be excellent tools to allow them to reach Egnyte's full potential
- Breaking links - If I share a confidential file, it would be excellent to easily re-access that link that was sent to that file and break that link (force it to no longer work). As it stands that often has to be done universally, and so one wrong move on our side has the potential to be catastrophic. There may be a way that I don't know about, but I think that points back to the idea of workshops
- Varying user access - it would be nice to allow users to edit and delete only in certain parts of Egnyte, rather than giving them administrative access across the board.