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SmartFile excels in serving midsize businesses focused on growth and large enterprises that are in regulated and compliance focused industries.
Teams in various business settings.
Works great for those with little server experience to those who are avid users of FTP software. Personalization is great.
It has been a terrible experience of having to upload files over and over to get one to complete without an error or disconnect.
This solution was perfect for our needs. We used this almost like an extranet and way for sharing sensitive documents with customers.
The automation of our file upload to the site is hit or miss.
Overall its a good cost effective package to solve secure file transfer needs.
Customer service is poor, tickets were often closed without the questions within being answered.
We like the flexibility of Smart File, where we can set up branded portals for our clients, and provide them with links and passwords for secure access.
It's a bit hard to understand the Automation rules and manage the notifications each user receives.
The ability to collaborate and share specific documents or full folders is fantastic. The amount of storage for free is fantastic and if you need more space the price is affordable.
I was using thumb drives and external hard drives to store my files to have access to them on the go, but they always fail at some point and if I didn't have a back up copy the files were lost.
The software is very good as it has the signature Google interface which means everything is very understandable and intuitive. It integrates wonderfully with the rest of Google's ecosystem.
The only trouble I've had with Google Drive has to do with the windows software which has caused me some problems.
Google drive is extremely easy to use, their collaborations features are amazing, the fact that everything is immediately saved on the cloud is the best.
I hate the lack of file organization. It looks like a mess and difficult to find documents.
As part of Google products, Drive is a must for everyone's work and personally. Outstanding and even giving you free storage which you can enlarge if you want and when you need to.
As with all Google products: bad support, lack of continuous improvements, lack of basic features, and horrible UI for the advanced features.
Diego: My name is Diego, and I work with Youth With A Mission. We're 16 people on staff, and my rating on Google Drive is a four. We use Google Drive to share documents, share information with each other, follow up on projects or specific tasks that we have. So Google Drive is very useful for that purpose. Yeah, I love Google Drive because it allows us to connect with each other. Very easy. It's super easy to navigate, so I think Google Drive is very... There's different apps within or different interfaces within Google Drive that you're able to share documents, and it makes it easy just to work together as a team. One thing I wish that Google Drive would have is... just so it's more compatible with Office documents, like Word and Excel. I know there's their versions in Google, but I wish there's an easy way to make those compatible, easier to navigate. And I also wish there would be maybe plans of storage that are a little bit cheaper. Sometimes they can be a little expensive, but other than that, Google Drive is very useful.
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