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Featured Reviews

Jonathan Songoni - PeerSpot reviewer
A great solution for uploading files with good protection and security features
We use this solution to upload our files according to our activities for the project. All the files we create are uploaded or saved on Egnyte Connect to protect and securitize them Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files. All files are secure and available. If we are connected, we can…
Sunil-Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Email collaboration and accessibility have improved team productivity
The valuable features include the email service, email updates, and Google Drive. People are given email access to Google Drive. The team can share manual files and work accordingly. They can access different teams from anywhere, collectively putting files, sharing them, and managing them. Additionally, the manufacturing product does not require any downgrades. It works fine and continuously for the last three or four years. Users can access their emails from anywhere in their browser without a laptop or can directly access from Gmail. This is helpful for salespeople.
David Donaldson - PeerSpot reviewer
Flexible plans, stable, and scalable
I used another solution at the same time, which was far worse. The American company I worked for used a similar file-sharing solution called LeapFile, a secure file transfer service. Personally, I found Citrix ShareFile to be much better than LeapFile, which was quite clunky. I later used a solution called Egnyte, which my company used as its main file transfer solution, though I'm not sure if it's still in use. The company moved to Egnyte because it is more of an enterprise-level solution. Egnyte was expensive, but it worked. I believe Citrix ShareFile is aimed at smaller to medium-sized organizations, making it a more appropriate solution than Egnyte due to its pricing.

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

Pros

"It is a good storage solution."
"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."
"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization."
"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic."
"It is scalable and stable."
"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed."
"We value the collaboration levels that are offered. Having everything integrated in a single platform is a dream come true for us."
"Google Workspace enhances my productivity within my organization."
"The valuable features include the email service, email updates, and Google Drive."
"Good performance, even on relatively slow connections; no local apps required."
"We haven't had any issues with scalability - we have over a thousand employees, and G Suite just scales."
"The most valuable features are the speed at which G Suite Enterprise works."
"G Suite and all of Google were the first to have a built-in multifactor authentication without needing to purchase another product."
"The most valuable feature is that it is simple to use."
"This provides us with a secure way of sending tax returns without having to use passwords."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"The solution is scalable."
"It's user-friendly for end users."
"Easy to manage and fully secure."
"The Enterprise Dropbox solution is highly integrated with Microsoft's Office 365 and Azure products."
"ShareFile gives you all of the features of cloud providers, but in an on-premises solution."
"The solution would query the Active Directory, and if new accounts were identified, Citrix ShareFile would add them automatically."
 

Cons

"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."
"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."
"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work."
"The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want."
"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."
"Integration with Microsoft Outlook could be improved."
"The cost could be improved. It can sometimes be a bit confusing figuring out how we are actually being charged."
"G Suite is not as powerful as Microsoft Office Suite, so sometimes we have to change to Excel and PowerPoint."
"The product could improve the number of participants allowed in a meeting and the strength of the meetings."
"Some people complain that Google Mail is inflexible. It was advanced 10 years ago, but other solutions are cleaner and clearer."
"We noticed that sometimes when we forward emails to somebody, it is being relocated as part of the communication somewhere else. The traceability and other features should be improved."
"Improvements to G Suite would be the ability to collaborate more easily and better quality video compression in Google Meet."
"Google Workspace lacks the ability to copy and move files from one folder to another easily."
"My only issue with this solution is the cost, which should be improved."
"The configuration on the mobile devices is a little clunky, in terms of setting up the application."
"There are sometimes scalability issues after updates."
"They should integrate the solution with more email services."
"Everything they have should be integrated into one item."
"DLP features are lacking and required because, especially with everyone working from home, security is now paramount when the data is on BYOD devices."
"The user interface is not very intuitive."
"Some of our customers are facing issues if they've deployed in hybrid mode."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."
"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."
"Careful consideration should be given to the different licensing options and provisions should be made for additional applications that may be required for your particular business."
"The main challenge regarding startups with identity services is you could be on a platform that works well but the services are expensive. For example, Microsoft Azure costs approximately $30 per user which is expensive. You end up choosing a different platform, such as G Suite Enterprise because it is priced reasonably and is less expensive than other solutions."
"We pay on yearly basis."
"You pay for Google Workspace based on your usage and the apps you use, but in my case, it's free, but if I used it a lot more, I'd probably need to pay. 15GB is enough for me, but I see myself upgrading and paying the additional charges for more storage regularly."
"Licensing costs are on a yearly basis."
"The price of the solution can vary."
"I give the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being the most affordable."
"G Suite and Microsoft Office 365 offer products with similar functionality at several different price points. Zoho offer a more extensive range of products and attempts to provide all the applications required to run most small and medium-sized businesses."
"If you are already a Citrix customer, I recommend having the Platinum licensing level, as it provides licensing for a number of various features that all integrate together."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"I give the cost of the solution a five out of five."
"You have to work hard in order to get the suitable licenses."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
12%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
13%
Legal Firm
11%
Construction Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business63
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise27
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
 

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G-Suite Enterprise, G-Suite, Google Apps for Business, G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G-Suite Basic, G-Suite Business, Google Vault
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