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At a company of any size, with compliance and complex sharing requirements, and advanced search and workflow needs, Drive is a non-starter.
by davidu 10y ago
At a company of any size, with compliance and complex sharing requirements, and advanced search and workflow needs, Drive is a non-starter.
- MrFlynn 10y agoThe company I work at has gotten around these restrictions with AODocs. It adds a lot of enterprise features Drive is missing (workflow setup, version control, etc.). It works well for us, but it's still by no means a perfect solution.
- parent5446 10y agoPosting evidence of this would be useful, because Drive is pretty comprehensive in terms of compliance. Also not sure what you mean by "workflow needs". Why would you use a file storage service to manage workflows in the first place?
- enraged_camel 10y agoBecause most workflows involve some kind of document. Automatically routing that document to different people and standardizing the way they interact with it can be very beneficial.
- parent5446 10y agoWouldn't that what the Drive API can be used for? I may be answering my own question here, but I imagine that would be the most useful part of this Box/Drive partnership. :D
- flukus 10y ago> Why would you use a file storage service to manage workflows in the first place? Person A can only read document X because they are performing duty b on project y. Not everything works with binary can/can't read scenarios.
- parent5446 10y ago> Person A can only read document X because they are performing duty b on project y. How is this _not_ a binary can/can't read scenario? The person can either read it because they're performing the duty, or can't ready it because they're not.
- flukus 10y agoIt's not binary because they should only be able to read it while performing duty b. There needs to be something that enables/disables access when they start/stop working on it, or checks access before the read it.
- em500 10y agoI'm working at a 10000+ employee, 1B+ revenue corp and G-Drive is the standard filesystem on the corp computers.
- hemancuso 10y agoHow do you manage the syncing of presumably a huge amount of data amongst many groups?
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- snnn 10y agoI was. if you have a plenty of files, how could you search something in a specific folder? e.g. I want to search 'hadoop' in my personal work notes, not in public ebooks and slides.
- davidu 10y agoThat's frightening. I would suggest your security team do an audit with CloudLock (note, we acquired them at Cisco) and my guess is that it'll be illuminating / shocking.