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Can you share the requirements that you employer needs? Box has been trying to get into enterprise for a long time, and has many 'enterprise' features, but we a

Can you share the requirements that you employer needs? Box has been trying to get into enterprise for a long time, and has many 'enterprise' features, but we all know how well Box is doing financially. I think the problem with Box is "it's just a feature, not a product", especially in the presence of other alternatives like One Drive, Google Drive, Amazon Drive and what not. It might be a feature done better than the others, but it's not a product by itself to be bought in a stand alone package. There is no differentiation, actually it's even worse as I can't edit my documents unlike with Google/MS. Pricing is definitely not better than any of the competitors.

Spooky23 11y ago
We have a lot of compliance requirements that I'd rather not get into. In general, the FedRAMP Moderate baseline is where we start, and depending on what/who the data/users are we may add more requirements. OneDrive claims to do this at the service level, but the implementation is poor and the controls aren't very robust when you implement. (Unless you buy Azure AD and double the cost or wait for their rewritten sync engine) Google & Box (although Box wants a high premium $$) are a lot better, but Dropbox is still best in class for sync. In some cases, we are forced to throw features away. For example, we have some users where a solution that encrypts data, limiting editing & search capability is a requirement for some information. Beyond that, a broader concern that would be of interest to me would be narrowing the scope of some of Dropbox's features like dedupe and "forever" files. (It's been awhile since I looked, so this may have changed) I would prefer a solution where there was a key isolating our data from other data in the Dropbox cloud. (bonus points if we controlled that key) That way, nobody outside of our enterprise would have a way to know if a specific piece of information was already uploaded to Dropbox. To me, it's great tool for a single person or a team of 8-25 people. It's missing stuff and is expensive for a real big org, and doesn't scale low enough for a family. (at least at a price that I'm willing to pay)
yourapostasy 11y ago
I suspect Box (and many small cloud vendors) is simply ahead of its time, as a large factor. No one bats an eye at Google Docs today, but when Corel tried to do it earlier, they suffered for it. It takes time for markets, people, and processes to adapt to new ways of doing business.

Spooky23 11y ago

We have a lot of compliance requirements that I'd rather not get into. In general, the FedRAMP Moderate baseline is where we start, and depending on what/who the data/users are we may add more requirements. OneDrive claims to do this at the service level, but the implementation is poor and the controls aren't very robust when you implement. (Unless you buy Azure AD and double the cost or wait for their rewritten sync engine) Google & Box (although Box wants a high premium $$) are a lot better, but Dropbox is still best in class for sync. In some cases, we are forced to throw features away. For example, we have some users where a solution that encrypts data, limiting editing & search capability is a requirement for some information. Beyond that, a broader concern that would be of interest to me would be narrowing the scope of some of Dropbox's features like dedupe and "forever" files. (It's been awhile since I looked, so this may have changed) I would prefer a solution where there was a key isolating our data from other data in the Dropbox cloud. (bonus points if we controlled that key) That way, nobody outside of our enterprise would have a way to know if a specific piece of information was already uploaded to Dropbox. To me, it's great tool for a single person or a team of 8-25 people. It's missing stuff and is expensive for a real big org, and doesn't scale low enough for a family. (at least at a price that I'm willing to pay)

yourapostasy 11y ago

I suspect Box (and many small cloud vendors) is simply ahead of its time, as a large factor. No one bats an eye at Google Docs today, but when Corel tried to do it earlier, they suffered for it. It takes time for markets, people, and processes to adapt to new ways of doing business.