100% adoption, 50% of the effort!
December 07, 2017
100% adoption, 50% of the effort!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Dropbox for Business
We use Dropbox across our organization as the single storage solution for all files, folders, and media. As a company running over 100 events worldwide per year, being able to access, share and collaborate on documents on the go is crucial. Dropbox handles versioning brilliantly while notifying users when others are viewing/changing the same file.
- Versioning - specifically preventing versioning from happening. five copies of the same excel spreadsheet are ultimately useless!
- File Requests - ability to have external parties load files directly into folders of your choosing. Cuts out the middle man and saves a significant chunk of time and bandwidth
- Dropbox Paper - A great collaboration and note taking tool. Getting better every month
- Support is very poor! Really hard to get hold of someone, support only knows the very basics and can't really help troubleshoot there and then. Everything just gets escalated. Thankfully we don't need it too often
- Permission levels aren't as granular as box.com
- The savings compared to an on premise solution - Servers, ever expanding storage, maintenance, power, backups etc. almost pay for our entire dropbox
One Drive for Business is fine for personal storage, but as a file server it's not fit for purpose! We trialed it for 6months as it was part of our Office 365 and it was disastrous! Box.com is very good, but is very much aimed at the enterprise with high security and compliance requirements. it required people to work the way box.com want you to work rather than the way users want to work. What has made Dropbox such a success is the ease of adoption.