Coming soon to a Dropbox for Business near you: Single sign-on

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“Dropbox is used in 95% of the Fortune 500”.

I wonder what percentage of those officially allow their employees to use it though. A lot lower I bet.

No point in submitting twice, so here's the announcement on the main blog: https://blog.dropbox.com/2013/04/say-hello-to-dropbox-for-bu...

Will it work with Google Apps SSO? Wasn't mentioned in the blog post.

If you're using a SAML Identity Provider to login to your Google Apps environment, then, yes, it should work with your current IdP.

Do many folks here use Dropbox for large(r) scale collaboration (i.e. 100 or 10,000 users)?

I find folders work okay for myself and maybe up to 5 people but as the number of documents and collaborators goes higher than that it seems like it'd be really frustrating.

Unless the "search" is significantly better for business users.

I use it for an org with anywhere between 25 and 50 using it at any one time, assuming that you spend a bit of time organizing the folder structure at the beginning it's not a major issue but it does require staff discipline to keep it organized. It doesn't beat a dedicated Document Management system but it strikes a nice balance for working on frequently updated files.

Thanks. Glad to know it's possible :)

As long as they don't want to leak my e-mail address.

Why is the blog https?

Why not?

Everything should be https.

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