The Cost of Enterprise Content Management. Enterprise level applications are not cheap.
In particular, enterprise content management systems can send an organization's budget plans through the roof. Unless, of course, you are implementing an open source enterprise cms. So the story goes. According to open source enterprise content management (ECM) provider Alfresco, they are the alternative with a scalable, easy to use platform at a fraction of the price. We read their Total Cost of Ownership for Enterprise Content Management whitepaper. Top Cloud Services for File Sharing and Syncing. The cloud delivers convenience, and nothing is more convenient than synchronizing files stored on multiple computers and accessing those files from any PC, smartphone, or tablet with Internet access.
We tested the top five syncing services. Editor's note (August 8, 2012): In the section about MediaFire, we made an inaccurate statement regarding the service's deletion of user files; we have corrected that sentence, and we have amended an item in the comparison chart regarding the sharing of folders with permissions and passwords. In addition, shortly after we finished this article, MediaFire retooled its service. Although the new version of MediaFire is significantly better than what we reviewed, SugarSync remains our choice as the best offering in this category.
Box Personal accounts of up to 5GB are free; if you need more space, Box offers 25GB for $10 per month and 50GB for $20 per month—that’s the least bang for the buck among the five services in this category. 170a1b526642dfc96bbb-94a7894f67c46bed09a27e3ff7e92317.r87.cf2.rackcdn.com//Forrester_Wave_Sync_and_Share_2013.pdf. Review: Box beats Dropbox. In the beginning, there was Dropbox, and enterprises far and wide were appalled.
How dare corporate and business users make use of a file sync and sharing service that's meant for consumers? But the convenience and flexibility of Dropbox were hard to ignore, and soon file repository services for businesses of all sizes began to spring up. As the number of file storage services for businesses and enterprises has mushroomed, so have the options they provide and the third-party services they can leverage. (It's an app world, after all.) Today, the problem is more of too many choices than too few. [ Stay on top of the state of the cloud with InfoWorld's "Cloud Computing Deep Dive" special report. In this article we'll look at five enterprise-level file sync and sharing services (Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, Citrix's ShareFile, and EMC's Syncplicity), as well as one system you deploy on your own hardware (OwnCloud).
It may come as no surprise that Box is the leading contender in this space. Box: Before and after Moore’s Chasm - Technorati Cloud Computing. Crossing Moore’s chasm is no easy feat for any technology, particularly those disrupting giants like Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus while racing against countless nemeses including Dropbox and Hightail.
Box.com had started crossing that chasm seven years ago when it began targeting not only consumers and small middle-market businesses (SMB), but enterprise clients with bigger wallets. Today, it has a foothold in critical divisions of 92% of the Fortune 500 and several of the Global 100 league, including Proctor & Gamble. The vision, according to Box founder and CEO, Aaron Levie, is to make the firm the “Oracle of the next generation of enterprise applications.” How did it cross the chasm while its rivals have struggled? How will it build the “Oracle empire”? Base-level problems Box first solves the corporate file share and sync problem with its low latency and simplified upload procedures.
The “share-drive.” Second-level problems “Holy grail” of problems Challenges ahead. Box vs Dropbox. Edit Plans and Pricing.
SharePoint 2013 SkyDrive Pro vs Dropbox - And Why is it Better? Recently, trying to clear the confusion between SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro, I wrote an article that explains in detail exactly what is SkyDrive Pro.
Through all the great feedback, I received another wave of questions. Box vs Dropbox - Pricing & Feature Comparison. Dropbox Vs. Google Drive. Dropbox vs. Google Drive vs. Box vs. SkyDrive vs. SkyDrive Pro. Dropbox vs.
Google Drive vs. Box vs. SkyDrive vs. SkyDrive Pro **UPDATED on 8/28/13** - Microsoft announced an increase in storage for SkyDrive Pro on 8/26/13. Over the last decade, internet connections have gotten significantly faster, an order of magnitude faster in many cases. But just a few are capturing the majority of the marketplace, among them Dropbox, Google Drive, box, and SkyDrive. Offering: Cloud-based file storage with the ability to shareSoon will allow integrated authentication with Active Directory. News flash: Dropbox still wants to be the Dropbox of the Enterprise … The notion of cloud-based file sync and storage (now known as FSS) has taken consumers by storm and sloshed over into businesses big time.
And Dropbox, which is the market leader by far among consumers, wants to take advantage of that popularity within corporate firewalls and is launching a partner program to make it happen. Last month, Dropbox execs talked to GigaOM broadly about this plan to push Dropbox for Business (once known as Dropbox for Teams), but did not share many details. Now it’s time to come clean. The program officially launches Wednesday with 150 partners culled from “thousands of inbound requests,” said Adam Nelson, the Dropbox exec in charge of channels. For the chosen partners, there is a reseller portal to handle lead registration, purchasing and team management. And, getting to the crux of the issue, partners that register a lead will get margin on Dropbox for Business sales ranging from 15 percent to 25 percent of the sale each month on a recurring basis.
Why Is Dropbox Worth More Than $4 Billion? The 7 Ways Dropbox Hacked Growth to Become a $4 Billion Company. Did you know Dropbox has spent very little on advertising, yet it is worth $4 billion?
What have they done that’s made their business so successful? They’ve implemented many growth hacks that we’ll discuss in this article. What’s a growth hack? Instead of using traditional advertising to “buy” each new customer, it’s possible to use growth hacks to acquire customers in ways that scale. In other words, the cost of acquiring each additional customer is much closer to $0. For example, one growth hack is to incentivize some of your current users to refer others. The 7 Ways Dropbox Hacked Growth to Become a $4 Billion Company.