Big news in cloud file storage this week: Dropbox is no longer a cloud file storage service. It's now a "single workspace to organize your content, connect your tools, and bring everyone together" consisting of a desktop app, integrations with Slack, Zoom & Atlassian, and cross-silo search. It looks cool:
![New Dropbox](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63e548dc25bf23a8f2b4982d/63e54d5fec3b1b62e92bdfcf_newdropbox.jpeg)
This shift was not a surprise to industry observers. The new position is clearly the end of a years-long effort to become even more enterprise friendly. Some pundits indicated consumers might move on to other services, given the pricing. But adding best-of-breed collaboration is all about making it easy to get work done - efficiently and compliantly.
One thing you may discover, even with all the new capability - your IT department is still turning off external sharing features and guest access. Sharing a file on a Zoom meeting with outsiders may still be hilariously hard. This is because as enterprise capable as they are, most cloud services lack fine grained sharing options beyond "download" or "edit".
![e-Share - Box share options](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63e548dc25bf23a8f2b4982d/63e54d5dd28d18fba56bf2cf_box-share-options-lol.jpeg)
It's a very common discovery. Users actually lose capability as legacy point-to-point file sharing solutions are de-commissioned during the journey to cloud.
On the plus side you can add eShare to the new Dropbox to enable secure external collaboration in just a few hours. Users can create a view-only virtual data room on-the-fly by sending an email:
![e-Share - Email confidential design](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63e548dc25bf23a8f2b4982d/63e54d5dd28d18905e6bf2d0_e-share-email-confidential-design-1024x598.jpeg)
eShare has been a Dropbox partner for many years. We're 100% integrated with their storage system and your cloud email (O365 or GSuite), and fully support SSO and auto-provisioning for your enterprise. Our Trusted Sharing links are hosted under your corporate subdomain (never eShare's), with your SSL certificate, so links and notifications will never be blocked.
![e-Share - Smart URL](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63e548dc25bf23a8f2b4982d/63e54d5fec3b1bc2602bdfcc_e-share-smarturl.jpeg)
Schedule a demo on our website to see how easy it is to deploy and use along with all the new Dropbox capabilities!