Dropbox vs Office 365 comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Dropbox
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
85
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Storage (4th)
Office 365
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Dropbox is 8.3%, down from 14.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Office 365 is 3.4%, down from 8.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Content Collaboration Platforms
Unique Categories:
Cloud Storage
5.6%
No other categories found
 

Featured Reviews

Radek Skrivanek - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 18, 2024
A product that offers good performance and can be integrated easily into any environment
I use the solution in my company since it helps us in the area of our internal testing. The area of document storage is connected directly with the solution The product can be integrated into a particular environment, especially the ones with products from Cisco. The most valuable feature of the…
LB
Jul 8, 2021
Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools
It seems like every other week when we log into the administrative portals, it doesn't matter which one, it could be the active directory portal, it could be the exchange admin center or SharePoint admin center, it seems like Microsoft is consistently updating with new versions of the admin centers, which can be frustrating. This is due to the fact that, if you haven't been on in a while, sometimes it takes a good hour or two to reorient yourself -especially when you're trying to find a setting. We went through an assessment about four months ago and I had the hardest time finding certain settings in my baselines. Just being able to demonstrate something as simple as an audit log, when they move things around, can be challenging. It seems like at least once or twice a month. It gets a little confusing. On the endpoint protection side, they've done a merge with both our security center and their compliance center. You can do multiple things from doing the same thing, however, for multiple admin sites. You get used to like one and then it takes you to another. It gets a little cumbersome or confusing as the outlays are different, the menus are a little bit different. That's one of my biggest gripes about it. Sometimes, if we have a user that is doing some work from home, for example, and they're not on their corporate laptop and they're on their regular laptop, or vice versa, and they have like a personal Office 365 license, they sometimes conflict with each other, which then puts the person into an authentication loop, which basically means they can't access their stuff properly. We're running into that problem, actually, with one of our users right now. For some reason, there were three different Office products that were loaded on there. A regular Office 365, Office 365 Business, and then Office 365 Enterprise. How all three of them got on there, we're not quite sure. He can open up some of his documents normally that are stored on his machine from the OneDrive, yet, when they try to open up documents that are in SharePoint, every now and then, depending on the updates that are pushed out by Microsoft, they can't open up the documents. At that point, you kind of like have to uninstall or do an online repair of the Microsoft Office itself, and then re-install it. Due to this issue, you're losing productivity time. This guy just happens to be our corporate recruiter. We're losing time with him being able to look at resumes and stuff like that, or look at qualifications or statements of work and stuff like that. We've been working for about two hours and yeah, I mean, he can download the document and open it up, but he can't actually open it up while it's in SharePoint. When you don't have that, when you lose that capability, especially like when they're working on proposals and when time is of the essence, it can become a big issue. Sometimes when the software pushes security patches it breaks, Windows wide.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It's very easy to use and quite accessible for everybody."
"We don't really use the collaboration features because we have only a small organization. Dropbox is valuable having the hard drive space available, and the access to be able to upload and access the content."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"Offers great flexibility."
"I can edit my files online, and I like the comments option."
"It offers security, accessibility, and user-friendly features."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The features that I find most valuable are the ability to sync across devices, easily access/share files and organize them among myself and my team."
"I like Office 365's usability."
"I like all of the features."
"Most of the work that seems not to work offline works perfectly with Microsoft Office 2013, like converting a Word document to a PDF file."
"The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved."
"It's inexpensive to license."
"Using Office 365 has allowed us to go digital and onboard people seamlessly for working at home during the COVID pandemic."
"It has more features than somebody would expect, and it is worth taking a deeper look into the features available."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with OneDrive, which has allowed us, a small business, easy access to a cloud environment, with no need to back up the data from five different computers."
 

Cons

"I cannot edit a document at the same time as another user."
"Dropbox could introduce some sort of a notification with respect to how much storage you have left out of what is purchased."
"Considering the solution's shortcomings, I want the product to be more user-friendly and offer more storage capacity."
"There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft Office 365 for more collaboration. At the present time, it is more focused on its own internal systems."
"I think the product's interface is an area of concern since it has been changed for a long time and can be considered for improvement."
"The solution could improve by being more secure and having more storage."
"If someone manages a large amount of data, they will need more storage, which they must purchase."
"The arrangement of documents can be simplified. Personally, I am used to it, but for a new user, it might be a little confusing. It can maybe have a feature to allow people to collaborate or work on the same document at the same time. I'm just using it to load and access information, and I haven't faced many challenges. However, I have seen that the whole system or laptop slows down a bit when I am synchronizing files to Dropbox. I don't know if it is because of my system. It might be good if they can enhance the synchronization process so that we can specify that synchronization should be done after 30 minutes. In addition, synchronization should only be done for the documents that have been uploaded."
"Sometimes the configurations of the error troubleshooting are pretty problematic and there are a lot of issues that happen even if you follow the step-by-step guides. They can work on fixing this issue. If there are a lot of issues in your Windows or your Office or anything, you restart your PC and it works. They need to get rid of this need."
"Sometimes the synchronization between the desktop and online is a little bit slow."
"A need that a company like ours has is that we want to be able to have data flow into one tool, for example, for all the management of tasks through the company and workflow of who is doing what and so on. There are no real solutions for this at the moment in Office 365. It would be nice if they could implement this in the next release, so we can have one solution from one company giving us the whole data and flow of data into the company."
"It seems like every other week when we log into the administrative portals, it doesn't matter which one, it could be the active directory portal, it could be the exchange admin center or SharePoint admin center, it seems like Microsoft is consistently updating with new versions of the admin centers, which can be frustrating."
"As a private user, I do not appreciate the cloud features, but I doubt that this is something Microsoft would consider a feature request."
"I would like to see better integration with Teams, and better usability with SharePoint."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could use some customization, but this area for improvement is trivial."
"Using Office 365 is not that flexible on some mobile devices, like Android."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay for the license yearly."
"My company makes monthly payments towards the licensing charges associated with the product. I think it's a reasonably priced product."
"We are using the unlicensed free version of Dropbox."
"You pay as you go, which is a good thing. There is a monthly fee, and you can also pay annually. This flexibility makes the subscription easier and affordable for some of us. I prefer yearly pricing, which is also slightly cheaper than monthly pricing."
"I believe I pay around $5 per month for the license."
"The pricing varies depending on the version, and the one we currently utilize is the business version."
"The pricing for non-corporations is expensive. They have raised their prices and have low storage capacity."
"A bigger discount for existing users would be appreciated."
"I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly."
"Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface."
"​The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."
"Most of the time, we purchase Microsoft Exchange licenses, which are less expensive and provide only an email platform and 50 gigabytes of email storage for free."
"Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls."
"The pricing is high and has actually caused us to limit the number of licenses we purchase due to budgeting."
"We have a license to use this solution. We have an E3 license which covers many different solutions."
"I would rate the solution 3 out of 5 for the price. I think Microsoft presents a good solution concerning the price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
51%
Computer Software Company
6%
University
4%
Government
4%
Educational Organization
77%
Computer Software Company
3%
Financial Services Firm
3%
Government
2%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Dropbox?
For me, the biggest thing is version history. I can easily go back and view older versions.
What needs improvement with Dropbox?
Sometimes, the startup can be a bit slow, which is slightly irritating, but otherwise, I don't really struggle with it at all. So, the performance could be faster.
What do you like most about Office 365?
The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Office 365?
I’m not sure of the exact cost. In the past, it might have been free. However, now, people do need to pay in order to use it. I would put the pricing around two out of five. It's not the cheapest p...
What needs improvement with Office 365?
Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution.
 

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Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1
 

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