Re:Dropbox for Business
by diziet on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @01:43PM
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As a business expense it seems like a no-brainer, especially with features oriented around security like remote wiping, account transferring and more detailed logs.
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Agree. The features you mentioned above, along with an awesome revision history tracking feature, make it an easy decision.
As a business expense for a 50+ person company, that's over $9000 a year. That doesn't seem like a no-brainer, especially when Google will give me Apps (including Drive) for $50/year/person.
We pay for Google Apps for everyone in our company, and unfortunately no one used Google Apps. I know some people pay and expense Dropbox on their personal accounts, and if more of our team needed to use Dropbox I can easily see getting on their Business plan. Plus the Business plan ends up costing less than the consumer version.
The couple of thousand dollars is fairly trivial amount of money - you need to look at price per headcount. Salesforce and other SAAS services that we use cost a lot more per person and yet we still happily pay for them. I can also see a simple feature like 'Track logins, devices, and locations ' being a must have depending on the security requirements internally.
A 50+ person company is burning >$5,000,000 on salary + benefits + office space.
Yes, but for $9000/year, I could very easily stand up a server, backups, and a VPN to access more than 1TB of data.
Except the remote wipe doesn't work if the employee disconnects their computer from the internet.