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October 08, 2021

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Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SugarSync

Since I started my new workplace, here in my present academic institution in 2015 I have been along with my many colleagues experiencing cloud applications for syncing between different departments. At first, we were
only with Dropbox, but we were not satisfying due to its changeability. My institution generally manages many promotions for student admission every year and due to this reason, my institution's department needs to use different combinations of software and hardware. Here, syncing is a very much crucial factor among other departmental devices while hosting a meeting with teachers and guardians as well. As we need to work with the same docs from different parts of the institution, when it comes to SugarSync, I usually overlook memorizing to transfer the file and necessary docs because they exist in any department. It is very terrible being forgotten to download the previous up-to-date necessary info while it is needed. It is also very much tough to collaborate with office colleagues with existing files when anyone is out of the office engaged in personal works.
Here, to remove the barrier of communication and to be synchronized with colleagues, SugarSync can contribute an important role, allowing us to stay in our comfort zone keeping all the works in the cloud up-to-date.
  • They’ll give you free storage and you can purchase it for about $5 a month for probably more than enough storage than you’ll ever need.
  • SugarSync is free to try, they give you 5 gigabytes right out of the box and of course, you can add storage by getting your friends to sign up.
  • What happens with SugarSync, you don’t create a new SugarSync folder that’s shared. Instead, you manage and share your existing folders, determine which ones on your devices you want to share, and then enable sharing from that.
  • It’s a subtle but important difference in how it works because we have to manage the process a little bit more but it also means also SugarSync can possibly fit better into
  • your productivity work style, especially if you’ve got a really good system of file
  • management, stuff that you already use whereas in Dropbox, if you have a file system, management system you already use and you want to share those files, you have to move them into Dropbox which might break your system
  • SugarSync requires just a little bit more forethought.
  • If I want to work on the document, on the course outline that I’m working on right
  • now, I can simply go to that file.
  • I can open the actual document and I can work on it, save it and now it’s the same on my notebook as it is in the sync in the Cloud and here on my desktop. So it works very simply and effectively from that perspective. Before I finish though, I do want to show you mobile access because mobile access is increasingly important for all of these different services that we’re talking about.
SugarSync has solid security. It uses AES 256-cycle to scramble your records extremely still and the TLS show to get them coming. I can open the actual document and I can work on it, save it, and now it’s the same on my notebook as it is in the sync in the Cloud and here on my desktop. So it works very simply and effectively from that perspective. Before I finish though, I do want to show you mobile access because mobile access is increasingly important for all of these different services that we’re talking about. For SugarSync, having access to our iPhone, iPad, or our Android device is also crucial. So here we see my iPhone is up and I’m going to go into my Productivity tab here

Do you think SugarSync delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SugarSync's feature set?

Yes

Did SugarSync live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SugarSync go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SugarSync again?

Yes

When doing daily jobs, if you’re sharing large files, I think Dropbox works a lot better but if you have a system where you’re working within that system and you want to be able to work with that system and have certain folders that you have access to all the time then SugarSync might be just the ticket.

SugarSync Feature Ratings

Versioning
8
Video files
9
Audio files
10
Document collaboration
10
Access control
10
File search
9
Device sync
10
User and role management
10
File organization
9
Device management
10
Performance
10
Reliability
10
Storage Reports
10