Dropbox Adds Several New Features To Lure Corporate Users

Dropbox rolled out several new Dropbox for Business features to lure enterprise users on June 4, according to reports.

The new tiered admin roles designed by Dropbox helps delegate day-to-day responsibilities that would make large Dropbox deployment easier to manage and with this an organization can now allocate admins to one of three distinct roles, each with the different set of permissions, reports PC World.

According to CIO Today, tiered admin roles enable teams to establish different levels of admin roles. Users will be given an option to choose from one of the three admin levels that include ‘team admins’ that set up security and sharing permissions across the team and besides that, they also create admins and manage members, ‘user management admins’, who will be in charge of addressing team management tasks like adding or removing team members, managing groups and keeping tab on team’s activities and ‘Support admins’ who can take charge of managing passwords and ensure basic account security and create members’ activity logs, reports CIO Today.

Another administration feature include an ‘Enterprise Installer’ that allows admins automate deployment of Dropbox for Business remotely to any Windows Desktop machine, reports PC World. The installer could make large scale deployments more convenient as it can run silently from another elevated process, as per the CIO Today report.

Dropbox’s initiative to boost ‘Dropbox for Business’

Dropbox has taken several steps to ensure the growth of Dropbox for Business, which includes ISO 27018 certification that is a new standard for data security and privacy that demands strict requirements for data handling and employee access control, reports CIO Today. In March, the company also included a commenting function that enables users to add feedback and comments to shared files, new collaboration tools and workflows for teams working on shared Microsoft files, as per the CIO Today report.

The company has also released a new connector in limited beta which offers Active Directory integration and Dropbox is extending the Dropbox for Business API for further integrations, reports PC World which mentioned that Adallom, CloudLock, Elastica, Mover, Netskope and SkySync are the partners who have started building integrations with Dropbox for Business.

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