Dropbox Paper
Summary
A flexible workspace that brings people and ideas together. With Paper, teams can create, review, revise, manage, and organize—all in shared documents.
Parent organisation: Dropbox
Type of organisation: Publicly-listed company (or group
Market share: One of the leading products (#3-7)
Pricing: $9.99/month-$20/user/month
Factors driving pricing: Additional features
Skills needed to set-up: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Skills needed to use: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Parent organisation: Dropbox
Type of organisation: Publicly-listed company (or group
Market share: One of the leading products (#3-7)
Pricing: $9.99/month-$20/user/month
Factors driving pricing: Additional features
Skills needed to set-up: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Skills needed to use: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Pros
Open Source alternatives available
Releases new features regularly
Transparent pricing model
Plain English TOS
Clear data policies
Allows data export
Allows data deletion
Shares diversity data
Cons
Lacks accessibility statement
Full Product Data Collection
Data collected January-February 2020
| Product name | Dropbox Paper |
| Product URL | https://www.dropbox.com/en_GB/paper |
| Parent organisation | Dropbox |
| Workflow category | Collaboration & editing |
| Date product founded | 2015 |
| Product description | A flexible workspace that brings people and ideas together. With Paper, teams can create, review, revise, manage, and organize—all in shared documents. |
| What type of company or organisation is the product owned by? | Publicly-listed company (or group) |
| Is the company profit-making? | No, loss-making |
| How is this product funded? | Subscriptions |
| What market share does the tool have? | ‘One of the leading products’ (#3-7) |
| Is there an Open Source alternative in this product space? | Yes. Netcloud Text. |
| When did the company last release new features? | Nov-2019, Trello integration |
| Have they shared details of the product roadmap? | No |
| Is there talk of the product raising further investment? | No |
| Is there talk of the product being acquired? | No |
| Have there been any newsworthy business issues or challenges in the last 12 months? | No |
| Is there a pricing model listed on the website? | Yes |
| How clear & transparent is this pricing model? | Very: full pricing listed |
| What is the range of prices offered? | Plus: $9.99/month Professional: $16.58/month Business Standard: $12.50/user/month Business Advanced: $20/user/month |
| What factors drive higher pricing? | Additional features |
| What skills are needed to get this tool set up & usable? | Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it) |
| What skills are needed to USE this tool day-to-day? | Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it) |
| Does this tool use proprietary file formats for saving documents & outputs? | Cannot tell |
| Is the product reliant on 3rd-party APIs or interoperability to function? | No |
| Have there been any newsworthy technical issues in the last 3 years? | No |
| How clear is the Terms of Service for users (i.e. publishing customers)? | Simplified, plain English TOS |
| Does the product have a data collection & usage policy on its website? (Can be a GDPR statement)? | Yes, comprehensive. |
| Is their data policy “GDPR everywhere”? | GDPR unclear on these details |
| Does the product require your audience to sign-in to use it? | N/A not an audience-facing tool |
| IF SIGN IN REQUIRED: Does audience sign-in use 3rd party platforms? | N/A not an audience-facing tool |
| Does the public product website mention how to export or transfer your data to another service? | Yes: Export/transfer publisher content |
| Does the public product website mention how to delete your data? | Yes: for publisher data only |
| Have there been any newsworthy security breaches with this product in the last 3 years? | No |
| Does the company have an accessibility statement on its website? | No / cannot find |
| Does the company release information on the diversity of the workforce? | Yes |