A “few hundred” users have trialled alpha versions of the new features, and Piyush told Cloud Pro Dropbox was not afraid of hurting take-up of its Business version.
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Dropbox for Business is an increasingly important part of the company’s revenue stream – there are more than 130,000 businesses using the service – but there are many more people out there using the company’s more consumer-focused free service and its $9.99 monthly subscription plan.
The team folders update provides a central place for collaborating on one file, where every member of a team will get automatic access to files put in their particular folder. Now Dropbox is making a clear distinction between a work and personal account and will let users toggle between the two, as opposed to signing in and out of separate accounts tied to different email addresses. In short, keeping everyone in a team and sub-team on the same page with access to only the files that apply to them.
Going by the details shared by Dropbox, the Teams feature will give business users the ability to create a group of users inside Dropbox for business, and then conveniently share resources with them. Both the features will rollout to users in the coming weeks. Other users can’t share the content of team folders with people outside the team. The feature will be available to Basic and Pro users over the next week.
Dropbox’s new feature will simplify how Dropbox Basic and Dropbox Pro users work with their colleagues through the creation of teams.
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.
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Collaborating for free is always a plus, and now Dropbox is making that easier. If files are confidential, you can keep them only within your team, but other files will be able to be freely shared with anyone using Dropbox.
