In the company's effort to gear toward large organizations, popular cloud storage company Dropbox is unveiling the new tier of its business offering called Dropbox Enterprise.
While this new offering comes packed with the same admin capabilities, security functionalities and modern collaboration tools like Dropbox Business (which it claims is a secure file sharing and storage solution that IT administrators trust and employees love), this likewise brings with it a slew of new components, including advanced controls, deployment tools and services and support aimed at big businesses.
Head of product for Dropbox Business Rob Baesman revealed this new product during the Dropbox Open customer conference on Nov. 4 held in San Francisco, saying that starting on the same day, the company's "qualified" business customers can already buy Dropbox Enterprise.
Scalable Deployment Tools
Dropbox says that a bunch of employees have already signed up for their personal accounts. Dropbox Enterprise touts domain verification and account capture so administrators can speed up user migration to enterprise accounts without any hassle.
Increased Visibility and Control
This feature gives admins the power to easily keep an eye on how employees are using Dropbox with external collaborators.
Services and Support
It is worth noting that customers are provided with unlimited access to the company's API to smoothly integrate Dropbox with existing IT systems. Dropbox says in its blog that customers will likewise be given the access to its platform for support related to custom integrations.
Interestingly, Dropbox promises to assign clients a success manager to provide assistance in data migration, deployment and user training to its customers.
In the meantime, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston shared some of the company's current numbers on its business. To date, the company has already logged over 400 million users and 8 million businesses.
Houston disclosed Dropbox is already seeing over 150,000 paying business customers, so far. In the last 10 months, 50,000 businesses just came in, which Houston boasted more than what its biggest competitors have signed up.
"In the last year alone, we've added more business customers than they have in their lifetime. That speaks to the power of our model," said Houston, somehow referring to its archrival Box.
Box is a similar cloud file storage but aimed at business customers. Dropbox, however, has been offering the same service in the past but mostly for its regular customers.
