Dropbox is launching a team feature that aims to make its file hosting service a better tool for workplace collaboration, the company announced Monday.
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Dropbox’s team feature is partly piggy-backing off the success of companies like Slack, the San Francisco-based startup that makes an explosively popular chat application for businesses to communicate with and collaborate on. Now, anyone using Dropbox will have the ability to create a group of team members-not just Dropbox for Business users. The content here is automatically accessible to every member, making it easier to exchange files.
More than just a place, or rather, a cloud, where you can store all your important digital files, Dropbox has apparently been used by some companies for work purposes, whether it’s file sharing or an organized way to store work documents.
“Small teams can now bring colleagues together, organize projects, and share information faster”, the company wrote in a blog post.
Anyone using Dropbox will now have the opportunity to create a team.
The new feature means that, “even if you were a Dropbox Basic or Dropbox Pro user, you get the team feature that in other services is typically available for enterprise or business customers”, Gopal said.
If users already have a separate personal account, they can sync it with their work account to switch between the two, while those without one can create one within their existing Dropbox account before switching between them.
Dropbox is progressively rolling out the team feature to Basic and Pro users over the next week.
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It’s sure to be a useful addition for small companies looking for an easier way to manage multiple files and access them from everywhere. That inherently means communication and other forms of online collaboration Dropbox’s founders did not include in the service when it launched in 2007, but are now interested in tapping into.
