Dropbox introduced the next version of its Dropbox Spaces collaboration software with the goal of empowering home teams to organize, collaborate, and work securely from anywhere. Remote workers reported increased work hours, as did workload, risk of miscommunication and difficulty working with multiple collaborators, according to a recent study by the Economist Intelligence Unit. By adding several new workflow features Working alongside new security features and corporate certifications, Dropbox aims to address these challenges and more with Dropbox Spaces 2.0. When Dropbox Spaces was first introduced last year, it was initially billed as an evolution of the shared folder. However, it is now a standalone product that allows teams to collaborate with internal and external collaborators on projects from inception to completion. Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston explained in a press release how taking a virtual-first approach has enabled the company to better meet the needs of remote workers and teams, saying, “Since our inception, our Customers have turned to Dropbox to stay organized and work from anywhere. We've come down a one-way street: The drastic shift we've all experienced toward distributed work will continue long after the end of the pandemic. While the move to distributed working creates a lot of flexibility and opportunity, it also presents new challenges and issues that Dropbox is uniquely positioned to address. By taking a Virtual First approach, we will be able to design better products for this new environment. Our latest release is an example. "
Dropbox 2.0 spaces
With Dropbox Spaces, organizations can create a project space to bring their internal team, clients, content, schedule, and project tasks together in one organized place. Tasks help prioritize what needs to be done, while content can be quickly added from a variety of cloud storage providers directly to Spaces. At the same time, users can join, host, and track meetings directly from the service. To help make the product even better for business users, Dropbox announced several new security features to help organizations maintain employee privacy and security while managing complex distributed teams, including alerts and notifications. data classification, external sharing reporting and data retention. Alerts and notifications provide administrators with real-time detections of suspicious behavior, risky activity, and potential data leakage. With Dropbox Spaces' new data classification capability, admins can label personal and sensitive data, helping protect employee and customer personal information. Knowing where corporate data is shared outside of an organization can also be helpful, so Spaces now provides administrators with information about who is sharing data, when they are sharing it, and what types of files are being shared. Finally, data retention has been added to Dropbox's data governance features to allow users to prevent accidental deletion of content that is required to be retained by regulators for a period of time. Admins who want to test Dropbox Spaces 2.0 in their organizations can sign up here to participate in the current beta.