Dropbox is finally entering the business market with a new piece of software which was announced in October 2015 and not only has Dropbox worked on it for about two years but they are now ready to officially release it. Paper is a minimal document editor and writing software which is somewhat similar to Google Docs. It works in perfect synchrony with other Dropbox services to give users an enhanced experience.
Paper will aim to overthrow Microsoft and Google and will encourage businesses to opt for it and not only will it prove to be a great competitor for Google but it will also shift its field of operation from consumer storage apps to a more innovative and convenient editing tool.
A lot of organizations are subscribed to Office 365 or the likes of Google’s G Suite. The fact that Dropbox Paper isn’t only focused on creating documents but also on importing, editing and collaborating with Google and Microsoft on file types can only mean that they are not aiming to go head on with these tech giants in a competition.
Dropbox is aiming for their new Paper to work hand in hand with Microsoft and Google software as they do not know as of now if their new software will be substantive enough to even battle with Google and Microsoft’s services.
Content will be organized better in order to convey a more modern workflow as Dropbox wishes for Paper to be the software which collects work into separate projects which have special viewing and options to be grouped, the end result being that they will be more organized and will have the ability to be tracked. Employees can be assigned to certain projects and documents can have due dates implemented within them.
Dropbox’s Paper will have a feature called Smart Sync which will turn a company’s Dropbox account into smartly grouped folders which can be viewed from within any system where employees can work on them directly from their browser window, thus increasing productivity and convenience. With this feature, they are looking to compete with task managing software such as Asana and Trello and we could not see why they will not overthrow them in terms of efficiency and productivity.
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