Dropbox for business is a great, but not perfect tool
May 28, 2021

Dropbox for business is a great, but not perfect tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Dropbox Business

Whole organization - cloud based file sharing, no central servers in use

Pros

  • File syncing
  • File sharing outside of organization
  • LAN Based Synchronization for new copies
  • File history for admins for accidental deletes
  • Policy enforcement on internal team
  • provides a lot of space

Cons

  • Cost
  • Conflicted Copies
  • Ease of Use
  • File sharing internally
  • File sharing externally
  • undo/oops button for admins
  • its a critical business need to have shared project space
  • Box
They are very alike-- in the end we need to work locally more often than others, so for that reason we went with Dropbox business as our main internal group collab for files. Box's security is better, but Dropbox's sync and sync control is better.

Do you think Dropbox Business delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Dropbox Business's feature set?

Yes

Did Dropbox Business live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Dropbox Business go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Dropbox Business again?

Yes

Easiest to use of the file collaboration bunch. However, has a reputation for not being as secure as box -- and as such many companies block access to Dropbox.

As an internal tool, its ease of use is King -- compare this to a sharefile or OneDrive/sharepoint experience & you'll immediately see the benefit.

The biggest selling point for Dropbox is -- do I want my users to work in the cloud in cloud apps, or do I want them to work locally. If in the cloud, there's better choices (despite Dropbox making good improvements here, they're still not the best -- box is, or google is for google apps customers) but if there's a need to have a localized sync (think autocad, other big files where you don't want them to be cloud based) Dropbox is the best hands down.

Dropbox Business Feature Ratings

File Sharing & Management
8.9
Versioning
8
Video files
8
Audio files
8
Document collaboration
8
Access control
10
File search
10
Device sync
10
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
10.0
User and role management
10
File organization
10
Device management
10
Cloud Storage Platform
9.7
Performance
9
Reliability
10
Storage Reports
10

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