We performed a comparison between Dropbox and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The various methods for accessing files, such as through mobile apps, online synchronization, and on a PC, are highly valuable."
"What I like most about Dropbox is that it's very, very easy to use. It's also easy to share files through it."
"The scalability is great for us."
"Dropbox allows me to organize files well. I can name files in such a way as to lead students to the right destination."
"It is the best solution in terms of space, file sharing, and live editing. I can share and edit files with multiple users."
"The solution is very fast and simple. If I want to share a file I can put it on the cloud or on-premise. It's user-friendly."
"The product's most valuable feature is storage."
"It is definitely stable. The main advantage of Dropbox is that you can see the files, and you can easily share them with all the team members. They can be accessed by whoever you give access to, and it is all secure. Dropbox is a seamless product. It provides you the privacy that you're looking for. Privacy is a major factor for my company, and Dropbox provides you that."
"There are no more server and hardware operational costs and downtime, updates, etc. for all the workloads available. Newer features and updates are available immediately. Can be managed from a single web interface. Cloud-based, so same experience for all users, regardless of location."
"The phone VoIP product provides genuine a unified communication solution."
"Quarantine email alerts to users to allow the email to their inbox (tricky but handy) - tricky if one doesn't have third-party email security, handy if one has got good third party email security)."
"We use it for documentation management, to collaborate with Microsoft Teams, web calls, web conference calls, chats, and as a documentation repository mainly. We have an Office pack suite to be able to write documentation, make spreadsheets, and create PowerPoints."
"There are all sorts of really good tools for use on the information security side that allow us to make sure that our people are doing business and doing business right."
"The technical support is outstanding."
"Great impact on project management and team collaboration."
"The product helps us be more efficient. It helps us to have a standardized way of doing things."
"The price is expensive for individual users."
"A room for improvement in Dropbox is document editing. It would be nice to have the functionality of editing the document with other people at the same time. This is something that can be done on Office 365, and it's a feature I'd like to see in the next release of Dropbox."
"The complex initial setup phase of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"They can do the scanning of viruses, and they can also do malware detection when they do the synchronization."
"DropBox is a little more complicated to scale up than OneDrive. It isn't as seamless to scale up storage or change the number of users. We have two or three users in Mumbai, and we don't plan to add more."
"I see that if you use a mobile device that does not allow you to properly configure the email part with Dropbox, then you cannot access it."
"The arrangement of documents can be simplified. Personally, I am used to it, but for a new user, it might be a little confusing. It can maybe have a feature to allow people to collaborate or work on the same document at the same time. I'm just using it to load and access information, and I haven't faced many challenges. However, I have seen that the whole system or laptop slows down a bit when I am synchronizing files to Dropbox. I don't know if it is because of my system. It might be good if they can enhance the synchronization process so that we can specify that synchronization should be done after 30 minutes. In addition, synchronization should only be done for the documents that have been uploaded."
"They should archive the data."
"The security should be improved."
"The one big problem with the solution is if you are presenting in Teams and someone puts their hand up, you don't get a notification. If you are running a meeting and just presenting you don't know that people have their hands up and want to ask a question."
"I would like to see the macro functionality in Excel made simpler."
"The feature to convert PDF file to a Word document needs improvement as well as the feature to save the file automatically when typing, without using the save command."
"Integration with other platforms can be improved."
"Microsoft Word is a little bit left behind regarding the tools it has."
"Normally, they have a way to work with specific developments, and I think they shouldn't allow the partners to make some changes they have made. When I have a client with a lot of changes, we have a problem with that because there aren't rules to develop inside the ERP, so you can do anything."
"As a private user, I do not appreciate the cloud features, but I doubt that this is something Microsoft would consider a feature request."
Dropbox is ranked 1st in Content Collaboration Platforms with 85 reviews while Office 365 is ranked 8th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. Dropbox is rated 8.2, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dropbox writes "Seamless file synchronization across devices with user-friendly deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". Dropbox is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Google Workspace and Box, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Microsoft OneDrive. See our Dropbox vs. Office 365 report.
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