Item: Dropbox Business
Rating: 7
Author: Jesse Bickel, MS - PMP

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Dropbox has not been fully adopted at our company but with so many personal preferences to file storage we find ourselves supporting elements of it all over our network or others. Currently it is being used within certain aspects of our company but more so when our end customer uses it. It solves a quick and easy to use file system/file sharing system that is not complicated and straight forward.

Pros and Cons

Dropbox Business is quick to deploy
The learning curve to use Dropbox when coming from other file services is easy
Dropbox is used in a lot of personal file spaces so working with the business element is not much change

Their ability to enhanced security
Child parent relationship permission settings
Proactive notification based of criteria when trying to control centralized filing errors

Most Important Features

Ease of use for our customers
Marketplace and industry name recognition
Ability to collaborate within the system
Synchronization

Return on Investment

If not deployed properly, the management even in the cloud can be a little messy as if it is just another shared local drive
It has decreased of physical footprint within our local server rooms
It has made conversations, collaborations and exchanges with customers easy

Alternatives Considered

Google Drive, MS SharePoint, OneDrive and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

We mainly selected Dropbox business for the limited deployments are due to the customers we have already using them. They are not our centralized system of choice.

Key Insights

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

Yes

Are you happy with Dropbox Business's feature set?

Did Dropbox Business live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Dropbox Business go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Dropbox Business again?

Other Software Used

TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, PrivX Lean PAM

Likelihood to Recommend

I see Dropbox Business being well suited as a platform to share documents with end customers. This is a quick and easy to deploy system that allows for collaboration under a well known secure cloud framework. The ability to access it through all sorts of devices via web server, app, desktop app make this easy to use on the go. I do not see Dropbox Business being the ideal solution for a full centralized filing system that wants to really manage permission level settings. If you come from Sharepoint to Dropbox you are going to feel like your security legs were cut out from under you.

Dropbox Business - Great market recognition and use case but no A's in granular security

Overall Satisfaction with Dropbox Business