Item: OneDrive
Rating: 9
Author: Nikhil Deshpande

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

OneDrive is used as an enterprise storage solution across the entire organization. A few departments do use other solutions such as Dropbox; however, OneDrive is available to all employees. It provides secure cloud storage for employees' documents that can be accessed any time from a wide variety of devices such as desktop, mobile, tablets, and so on. It also facilitates the sharing of documents within the company as well as with select people outside.

Pros and Cons

Microsoft Office 365 is the main office productivity suite used widely. OneDrive offers documents to be saved from desktop Office applications such as Word, Excel, and others. Documents can also be created from the mobile app.
It allows a browser interface to work on documents. Documents are saved automatically when working through a browser.

Saving documents directly to OneDrive from Office 365 desktop applications can be challenging sometimes. I have faced issues wherein the local copy did not sync with OneDrive.
I have faced performance issues while working on documents from the mobile app. However, I rarely work on Office documents from my phone, so it is not a major issue.

Return on Investment

As a user, it has improved my personal productivity in working with Office documents.

Alternatives Considered

Google Drive and Smartsheet

Tight integration with Office 365 is the main reason. Besides, Microsoft has a good reputation for supporting enterprise customers. Smartsheet does not have that reputation. We also have a long, stable relationship with Microsoft. Microsoft provides 1 TB of storage for each user. Since many employees create and share a lot of audio and video content, we require storage of this magnitude for most employees.

Support Rating

Since I am a user, not an administrator, I do not reach out to Microsoft Support.

Key Insights

Do you think OneDrive delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with OneDrive's feature set?

Yes

Did OneDrive live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of OneDrive go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy OneDrive again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Dropbox Business, Google Drive

Likelihood to Recommend

Some scenarios OneDrive is well suited for are:

Storing and sharing casual Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents
Storing product demo videos and sharing them with colleagues for streaming
Storing images for product branding and sharing them company-wide
Storing recordings of conference calls and sharing them with colleagues
Storing documents that are worked upon by many people at a time

I have not yet found scenarios where OneDrive may be less appropriate in a business setting.

Secure cloud storage for your documents.

Overall Satisfaction with OneDrive