![]() This appears to be their UK trademark record. Here's hoping for a change.Īlso, notice the phrasing: "With separate Dropboxes for personal and work, administrators can have the control necessary to secure company data, and you can still have your most important stuff at your fingertips." That sounds suspiciously like a sentence that says nothing at all, considering it's already easy to run two dropboxes, and all the problems I listed concern fully administered business accounts. Furthermore, in the past Dropbox's audit logs have been paginated lists you click through online. Changing someone's password to log into their dropbox, delegate ownership of the folder to a shared account helpdesk controls, and then have helpdesk go through every shared folder to remove a terminated employee, then sending the original user a password reset, then requiring a helpdesk touch for every sharing change in the future isn't a valid business workflow. The only thing that actually looks new is "sharing audit log" and an audit log is a long way off from being able to effectively control sharing. It's bafflingly inefficient, and in an organization of any size clueless or new hires are going to create these problems on a weekly basis.ĥ) Management and reporting APIs don't exist. Terribly ugly, difficult, and time consuming process. (Impossible)ģ) Offering any sort of encryption (need to use 3rd party, unreliable)Ĥ) Managing/reverting changes. Difficult & time consuming if they do)Ģ) Deleting a corporate account from all devices, removing folders. (Impossible unless your IT department controls every shared folder in your organization. If anyone from Dropbox is reading this, the things that make my life the hardest are:ġ) removing shared folders from a user's account. ![]() If you want any level of control over data and sharing, you're sent over to "sookasa", a shambles of a business, or you can look at non-recommended solutions like boxcryptor (an incredible product that unfortunately carries it's own administrative overhead). The way they've defined their concepts seems hostile to the very things businesses need in a product.Įven being a company that spends 50k a year gets you next to nothing wrt feature requests or support outside of what would be given to a free user, aside from speed of reply. David Benoit contributed to this article.Īs a customer of Dropbox for Business, I can confidently say they have a long, difficult road ahead of them here. The year before, it nearly quadrupled sales from $12 million. The company made $116 million in sales in 2012, according to people familiar with the company's financials, more than doubling its $46 million in revenue in 2011. The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Dropbox had expected sales of more than $200 million in 2013. The company also got a higher price than expected when it approached investors as recently as November.ĭropbox raised $250 million in its 2011 financing from Goldman Sachs and venture-capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Accel Partners. ![]() The company's valuation has more than doubled since late 2011, when investors valued the San Francisco-based company at $4 billion. BLK -0.33% investment fund is leading the deal, which also includes previous backers, said one of these people, who declined to provide more detail.ĭropbox wasn't immediately available to comment.Īt $10 billion, Dropbox is one of the most highly valued companies backed by venture capitalists. ![]() has closed on about $250 million in a funding round that values the online-storage provider at close to $10 billion, according to two people familiar with the deal.Ī BlackRock Inc.
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