Citrix ShareFile vs Egnyte comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Citrix ShareFile
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Egnyte
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
12th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the market share of Citrix ShareFile is 7.4% and it decreased by 23.2% compared to the previous year. The market share of Egnyte is 6.7% and it increased by 183.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Q&A Highlights

JW
Oct 30, 2021
 

Featured Reviews

Salim Malik - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 5, 2024
Reliable, user-friendly, and secure
The initial setup is straightforward. It's not complicated. I’ve done the deployment when I was in Citrix and the deployment for the current customer and therefore have experience doing this a few times. How long the deployment takes is up to the customer in terms of what type of storage zone controller you're going to operate. If you're going to operate on-premise, then you need to have the network team and the server, physical server, the load balances, and storage zone controller storage deployed. It shouldn't take, if the infrastructure is ready, more than a week. IN that time, you can set up the entire full-fledged configuration and have enrollment running if you have all the hardware and the communications ready. That's on the on-premise side. If it's on a specific cloud, even when you purchase the procurement, it won't take even a day. In 24 hours, you will be up and running easily on the ShareFile cloud if you are working with the Citrix cloud. If you're doing a private cloud, then the communication to open the ports between the ShareFile can complain to the private cloud. That might be at least a week, depending on the internal teams. If they work very fast and smoothly, it's a matter of a day. You only need one person to maintain the solution. It’s pretty low-maintenance.
DW
Sep 13, 2022
User-friendly with good performance and lots of bells and whistles
It's our main file share solution It's way better than the DFS file sharing we were using previously, which was on-premises and taking up storage space. It's probably around the same price as competitors, however, overall, I would say from what we've seen, it works a hell of a lot better. The…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"This provides us with a secure way of sending tax returns without having to use passwords."
"The Enterprise Dropbox solution is highly integrated with Microsoft's Office 365 and Azure products."
"The solution is scalable."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"The solution would query the Active Directory, and if new accounts were identified, Citrix ShareFile would add them automatically."
"ShareFile gives you all of the features of cloud providers, but in an on-premises solution."
"It's user-friendly for end users."
"Easy to manage and fully secure."
"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."
"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"It is scalable and stable."
"You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization."
"It is a good storage solution."
"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic."
"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed."
 

Cons

"There are sometimes scalability issues after updates."
"Everything they have should be integrated into one item."
"They should integrate the solution with more email services."
"Some of our customers are facing issues if they've deployed in hybrid mode."
"The configuration on the mobile devices is a little clunky, in terms of setting up the application."
"My only issue with this solution is the cost, which should be improved."
"The user interface is not very intuitive."
"DLP features are lacking and required because, especially with everyone working from home, security is now paramount when the data is on BYOD devices."
"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."
"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."
"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work."
"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."
"The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want."
"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you are already a Citrix customer, I recommend having the Platinum licensing level, as it provides licensing for a number of various features that all integrate together."
"I give the cost of the solution a five out of five."
"You have to work hard in order to get the suitable licenses."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."
"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Legal Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
8%
Educational Organization
65%
Computer Software Company
6%
Legal Firm
3%
Retailer
3%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Citrix ShareFile?
They should integrate the solution with more email services. That would be very helpful.
What is your primary use case for Citrix ShareFile?
We use the solution primarily for sending and receiving encrypted files. It helps us share large files as well.
What do you like most about Egnyte Connect?
It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that ar...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Egnyte Connect?
As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect.
What needs improvement with Egnyte Connect?
It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end.
 

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Sample Customers

Exelon, Aer Lingus, Aloysius Stichting, Amnet Technology Solutions, Arup Group Ltd., Brasfield and Gorrie, Cancer Research UK, Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLC, ChanceLightŽ Behavioral Health & Education
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