OneDrive Solutions
December 10, 2018
OneDrive Solutions
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with OneDrive
Working in an educational facility, OneDrive is used for instructors' personal drives for storage of documents related to instruction and other school-based materials. As part of our organization's rollout of Office 365 and other Office apps, our organization has utilized OneDrive instead of local server based personal storage options. It is also used as a platform for collaboration between instructors using the cloud-based sharing tools available.
- Accessibility on PC - OneDrive is integrated and easy to access on Windows-based PCs.
- Service is Reliable - The OneDrive service rarely goes offline.
- Integration with Office Apps - OneDrive integrated with other Office applications, such as Microsoft Word, to allow for a seamless creation and document saving process.
- User Interface - Compared to their main competitor, Google Drive, the interface feels 'clunky'. Some actions do not feel intuitive or have an odd layout.
- Integration on Mac - On Apple Mac computers, the OneDrive app (especially OneDrive for Business) is unreliable and does not work as well as its PC counterpart.
- Storage Limits - While not unique to OneDrive, storage limits on free personal accounts are slim, requiring a paid subscription for larger storage tiers.
- Uniform rollout for all users has brought organization consistency.
- Less reliance on in-house network specialists to resolve storage based issues.
Google Drive provides similar functionality. Either choice would have been beneficial for our organization, however we chose OneDrive due to the organization's initiative to utilize Office Apps and OneDrive's integration made sense, fitting in with that initiative.