Item: Dropbox
Rating: 5
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dropbox is used to share some documents between particular users. It can be helpful for sharing documents but I have found it of limited usefulness and have much preferred using Google Drive. I know that Dropbox is rated as one of the better document sharing options; however, Google Drive offered our organization a better solution.

Pros and Cons

Share documents
Sync with multiple platforms
Cloud storage

Syncronization
Support
Price

Return on Investment

File sharing
Cloud storage
Collaboration

Alternatives Considered

Google Drive

I actually selected Google Drive for our primary cloud storage solution as it provides better collaboration tools. A couple of usage scenarios where one person was working on writing a book and wanted to ensure that those helping with the review were working from the latest version found that Dropbox was a good solution for them.

Key Insights

Do you think Dropbox delivers good value for the price?

Are you happy with Dropbox's feature set?

Yes

Did Dropbox live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Dropbox go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Dropbox again?

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), Nextcloud

Likelihood to Recommend

Dropbox seems well suited for sharing documents with a variety of users but seemed to be less useful for actual collaboration. I found the ability to use Google Docs and have multiple people simultaneously editing a document to be a function that seems lacking in Dropbox. But if you want your users to be able to access files from multiple locations or from multiple devices this is something that it does well.

Dropbox offers reasonably priced cloud storage

Overall Satisfaction with Dropbox