Syncplicity vs. OneDrive
for Business (ODB)
Finding A Solution That Users Love & IT Trusts
When it comes to enterprise file sync and share capabilities, not all solutions make the cut. Users and IT expect
a seamless user experience that drives engagement and delivers the controls necessary to protect content.
Syncplicity is an award-winning solution with a gold-standard user experience that allows internal and external
users to seamlessly access, sync, and share content across devices, and has the most comprehensive and granular
IT controls to manage file sharing across the enterprise.
Key Differences Between Syncplicity and OneDrive for Business
Robust Enterprise File Sync & Share Solution - Syncplicity allows users to sync,
access, and share content with internal and external collaborators across devices.
Users can sync and share files of any size and turn any folder on their desktop into
a sync folder for real-time backup. Microsoft ODB lacks fundamental file sync and
share capabilities and isn’t optimized for mobile. Users cannot share files/folders with
the OneDrive app. External users have no access to shared content on mobile. The
solution is positioned as a personal library, with users encouraged to use SharePoint
for collaboration. It also has a 2GB file size limit, only allows 20K files/folders to sync
at once, and does not provide data back-up.
Seamless Collaboration – Syncplicity users can send secure shared links to internal
and external users. The solution allows external users to be added to sync folders
and for content to sync to their desktop. With Microsoft ODB, folders shared with
external users do not sync to their devices, thus breaking external collaboration.
Centralized Management, Controls & Security – Syncplicity’s robust and centralized
admin console allows IT to easily deploy and manage the solution across the enterprise.
Syncplicity has over 30+ policies that can be assigned to groups. Syncplicity allows
policies at the user, group, and account level for maximum flexibility and security. For
example, external file sharing can be disabled for the M&A group and enabled for the
Marketing team. Microsoft ODB has virtually no management capabilities. There is no
dedicated admin console. Policies applied via SharePoint are inadequate.
Policy-Driven Hybrid Cloud Offering - Syncplicity delivers a policy-driven hybrid cloud
that enables enterprises to decide where to store data and provides the flexibility to
move content across on-premise, cloud, EMC storage, and non-EMC storage. With
MSFT ODB, content has to be in the public cloud.
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According to ESG,
96% of enterprises
want hybrid cloud
storage deployment
to deploy sync and
share at scale.
Syncplicity vs. ODB: Breaking it down
Syncplicity vs. MSFT OneDrive for Business:
Syncplicity
ODB
Unlimited
2GB
Deployment Options
Policy-Driven Hybrid Cloud
Enterprise File Sync & Share Features
Any Folder Sync
Robust Sync
File Size Limit
Mobile Access to Shared Content for External Users
Experience
is broken
Mobile Access to Shared Content for Internal Users
Centralized Management & Controls
Limited admin functionality through
SharePoint admin console
Unified and Comprehensive Admin Console
Group-based Policies
30+ policy sets
Remote Wipe
Audit Trail on User & File Activity
Real-Time Document Back Up & Continuous Availability
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Continuous
any-folder sync