The Slack integration lets users share files to Slack or begin a Slack conversation about a file or folder with a couple of clicks in the Dropbox app. Users can also open Microsoft Office files in Office 365 and G Suite with edits automatically saved to Dropbox. Users can now request early access to the new Dropbox desktop, which introduces commenting, to-do lists and activity feeds.īusiness extends integrations with Slack, Zoomĭropbox now lets users create and store G Suite files - Google Docs, Sheets and Slides - within Dropbox. "It's very quickly going to become confusing for businesses to know where you should go," she said "There's a definite trend across the market for being a hub for collaborative work and bringing together not just content, but processes and communication," said Angela Ashenden, principal analyst at CCS Insight, based in London.īut with so many vendors seeking to place their apps at the center of work, users may soon face confusion about which platform to work in, Ashenden said. Dropbox and Box compete with Microsoft, which makes the file storage platforms OneDrive and SharePoint available at no extra cost to the 180 million users of Office 365. With a strong foothold in the consumer market, Dropbox is increasingly entering the space inhabited by Box, which thrives on enterprise deployments. Dropbox will make the desktop app and updates available to all users, including consumers.ĭropbox's pivot fits a trend in the cloud collaboration industry: Vendors are maneuvering to make their platform the hub where work gets done, while at the same time integrating with competitors.ĭropbox has now articulated a clearer long-term vision for its enterprise subscription plan, Dropbox Business, addressing a lack of clarity that research firm Gartner had previously highlighted as a weakness for the company.
Subscribers to Dropbox Business can register for early access to the new desktop app today, while updates to the web and mobile apps will roll out over the next few weeks. Other new features include the ability to see who has viewed a file and to pin documents to the top of a folder. Zoom, as well as a redesigned desktop app that introduces commenting, to-do lists and activity feeds. The initiative includes new integrations with G Suite, Slack
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