Item: Dropbox
Rating: 5
Author: Chuck Graudins

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We upload photos, audio files, and videos from mobile devices to share among the team. It creates an easy way for everyone to access shared files from anywhere in the world. Also a great backup, second to our local portable hard disk drives. Seamless and easy installation on portable devices and desktop environments.

Pros and Cons

Stores files
Allows global sharing
Uploads from mobile devices

Mobile video upload fails repeatedly.
Desktop CPU usage is extremely inefficient. It's transferring files - not a CPU intense process.
Desktop app occasionally shows incorrect file date and time.

Return on Investment

Faster, offsite file sharing increased efficiency
Recent instability with mobile. Cloud video sharing has decreased efficiency.

Alternatives Considered

Google Drive, OneDrive, Box and Amazon Drive

Dropbox WAS faster, offered more storage, seemed more reliable six years ago. Today, Amazon, Google, OneDrive are outperforming DropBox. We will probably not renew our subscription and switch to one of the other providers.

Key Insights

Do you think Dropbox delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Dropbox's feature set?

Did Dropbox live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Dropbox go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Dropbox again?

Other Software Used

OneDrive, Google Drive, Amazon Drive

Likelihood to Recommend

If you're working in the creative profession and need to share mobile files with other colleagues, Dropbox was the first and easiest method to do this. It was once very fast and reliable. Subsequent updates have slowed the app considerably, and some video files are not accessible. We have resorted to USB cable uploads.

Dropbox was once unbeatable, but today it's slow and sadly unreliable with video files.

Overall Satisfaction with Dropbox