Dropbox does its Share
January 23, 2018
Dropbox does its Share
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Dropbox Business
We use Dropbox Business for our construction jobs. From bidding to throughout the project. This enables us to share drawings, and documents without the need to buy NAS devices for all our job sites. We use the file request feature to get files from our subs and owners without the need of them also having a Dropbox account.
- Dropbox Business makes file sharing with those outside of the company much easier, especially larger files or even folders.
- User management is quite easy with dropbox.
- It is easy to get files from people outside the company.
- Sub folder sharing is still wanky. It should be easier to share a folder within a folder and to have a share hierarchy.
- Updating should be easier for companies that use a software restriction policy. Even with exceptions we need to use a third party software deployment solution to keep our dropbox clients updated.
- Single Sign On should be easier to find when logging in on the mobile and desktop applications.
- Dropbox in the long run has saved us money. We don't have to purchase NAS boxes for all of our jobsites anymore.
- We don't have to install NAS boxes at our jobsites anymore saving man hours.
- We don't have to repair and support NAS boxes at our job sites.
- Share File, Serv-U and OneDrive
Share file is too complicated for our needs. However, if we shared more sensitive data it most likely would have been our choice. Serv-U was a good inexpensive alternative, however, you own the storage infrastructure to support it, so we decided not to adopt it as we didn't want to manage the hardware. One Drive's syncing at the time when we were evaluating it 3 years ago was terrible. If you had 10,000+ documents in a share the sync would not work properly. Those issues may be fixed now.