FileCloud vs Dropbox
FileCloud offers the same stability, ease of use, and security, but with a much greater set of features such as Digital Rights Management, Smart DLP and much more which makes FileCloud one of the best alternatives to Dropbox.
FileCloud vs Dropbox – Comparison of important features
Admin Controls
Dropbox admin dashboard has limited capability.
- View a team member’s folder structure
- Share files and folders with others
- View, open, and download files
- Delete files, or restore deleted files
FileCloud’s centralized administrator control dashboard provides a single-page view of the complete system, including:
- User counts broken down by user types
- Storage quota
- Disk usage
- License information and system version.
The dashboard also monitors pending updates, latest files and users added to FileCloud.
FileCloud offers an array of advanced user management features to manage user devices, files, file shares and endpoint security policies. With FileCloud, admins can copy or move files from one user to another user. This feature is especially useful when admins must move a set of files from one employee to another (change of job, promotion, sabbatical, vacation).
Dropbox doesn’t offer a lot of granular user management options and easy user files management in case an employee leaves the organization.
Workflows
Dropbox relies heavily on external 3rd party integrations for workflow automation. For your team members to efficiently work and automate complex tasks, you need to integrate your Dropbox account with many paid extensions.
FileCloud, on the other hand, integrates with many external apps, but also creates efficiency across the organization by automating time-consuming tasks using workflow automation. FileCloud’s workflow automation helps design and manage processes with simple logical statements. Users can use conditional combinations to automate many file related tasks from developing business processes to enforcing policies.
Audit
Dropbox allows following audit details
- Active members: Team members who have taken an action in the last 28 days, such as access, adding files, editing files, viewing files, and sharing
- Storage: Total amount of storage space used by your team
- Links created: The number of shared links created
- Active shared folders: Number of shared folders with at least 2 members that have had activity in the last 28 days
- Active devices: The number of devices where your team members are signed in to Dropbox that have had activity in the last 28 days
FileCloud offers a much more detailed audit log
- Were any new accounts created recently
- How many clients are logged in
- What are users commonly searching for on the site
- How many files are being uploaded and downloaded
Since every operation is logged, the audit database entries can grow very large very quickly.
To manage log file growth, you can:
- Remove log entries using the Admin dashboard
- Limit what operations are logged
- Export log files to CSV as an archive
Governance and Retention
Dropbox Business users have only 120 days to recover any files, unless that file has already been marked for permanent deletion. Dropbox doesn’t offer flexible approach to retention policies. Dropbox simply retains files for a set amount of time.
FileCloud allows administrators to automate some of the processing related to protecting sensitive files. For example, administrators can create a Retention Policy that disables a user’s ability to delete or edit any of the files and folders named in the policy. To resolve the issue of conflicting policies. FileCloud gives admin certain privileges to control how the files are retained and deleted. Policies like legal hold, archival and retention for an unlimited amount of time makes FileCloud a much secure dropbox alternative.
White-label/ Custom Branding
Dropbox offers very limited options for custom branding like uploading your business logo and a few small options.
FileCloud offers a much more comprehensive set of options. FileCloud allows you to create your Own Branded Business File Sharing, Sync, Backup and Mobile Access platform for your customers. We believe your file sharing system should promote your brand, not ours. You can customize FileCloud with your company logo, login page image, email templates, TOS and user interface elements. Moreover you can run FileCloud under your own business domain. All of these factors make FileCloud the best Dropbox business alternative.
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