![]() ![]() SharePoint had upped its game, innovating to allow a project team to consistently work on the same Office documents at the same time. We decided to take another look at SharePoint, using it for saving our shared desktop Office documents, and lo and behold, we discovered that it worked very well. Killer FeatureĬollaborating real-time, with desktop versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, became our must-have requirement. We were now back to our initial problem with SharePoint, too many unnecessary, unshared files. ![]() We would need to save our files with names such Project1-Jack, Project 1-Jon, etc., then track the respective slides that changed, and then merge them into a master Project-1 document. As we grew as a firm, we started collaborating more and more on projects, and that meant wanting to work on the same desktop version of Office documents at the same time. ‘Ease of use’ was fantastic, core capabilities just worked, and Dropbox became our standard for file hosting. It did not just work.ĭropbox came along, innovated in the file hosting space, and figured out how to make file hosting and sharing, just work. But our experience over the years with SharePoint was that it was very inconsistent with file syncing, the process of ensuring that the latest versions of files are both on your computer and in the cloud, ‘synced.’ With SharePoint, sometimes files would sync, and sometimes they wouldn’t, and you would end up with slightly different copies of the same file, with slightly different filenames. Dropbox fit the bill.Īs a firm that was standardized on the desktop version of Microsoft Office, SharePoint was an obvious choice. When we first adopted Dropbox, it was because our requirements for file management were simply i) it needed to be cloud-based, and ii) it needed to just work. If a product is rock-solid, why did we switch? (And, no, price had nothing to do with it.) What Software Companies Can Learn: Why We Switched from Dropbox to SharePoint BackgroundĪ short while ago our company made the switch from Dropbox, a rock-solid file hosting service, to Microsoft’s SharePoint for our corporate file hosting and sharing service.
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