The company also allows people to have a Dropbox for Business account and a personal Dropbox account, and to be logged into both at the same time on the devices they use. IT administrators also can control whether employees can share files with external users and delegate to end users the decision of whether a particular file or folder can be shared externally or not. Other Dropbox for Business IT administration controls include the ability to remotely wipe Dropbox files from employee devices, to track how and with whom users share files via audit logs, and to transfer control of employee accounts. The Basic edition is free and includes 2GB of storage, while the Pro edition ranges from $9.99 per month for 100GB to 500GB for $49.99 per user/month. The company declines to say how many people use Dropbox for Business.ĭropbox in its different editions is used to varying degrees in about 4 million businesses, according to the company. It came out of its beta testing period in April. "We're taking the simplicity and ease of use of our core product and marrying it with IT admin controls in Dropbox for Business," said Ilya Fushman, head of product for Dropbox for Business.Ībout 80,000 businesses pay for Dropbox for Business, which costs US$15 per user/month, for a minimum of 5 users, and features unlimited storage capacity.
This feature can also be turned on today by Dropbox admins.ĭropbox, which has about 300 million end users, is immensely popular among consumers, but it's trying to elbow its way into the fiercely competitive enterprise market for cloud storage and file sync and sharing services. Meanwhile, the Document Preview API lets developers embed this feature into their applications.ĭropbox recently announced that users of its business edition will be able to share folders with colleagues in read-only mode, whereas before all collaborators got edit rights to the content. The Shared Folder API makes the core functions of shared folders available to third-party apps and tools. Dropbox is also extending its improved Microsoft Office document preview capabilities to its Android application, so that users can check out a file without necessarily downloading it, the company plans to announce on Wednesday.įor developers, Dropbox is releasing two new APIs (application programming interfaces).
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