See the success of Slack, which has become the fastest growing enterprise application of all time, but which has stayed incredibly focused on extending the chat metaphor in new ways, rather than trying to tackle much of what traditional intranets offer. In a lot of scenarios, I think that Sharepoint can bring a lot more baggage than is needed. Neither has all the functionality and extensibility that Sharepoint offers, but for many teams, that might be a bonus: They're both heavily focused on mobile first, cloud first, which is exactly the strategy that Satya Nadella has emphasized with Microsoft. On the surface, it's a bit less ambitious then Quip, but Dropbox already has a lot of document collaboration and annotation tools built into its primary document storage offering, so it makes sense that Paper is a little more focused (although it is perhaps the millionth app to be called Paper, none of which have seemed to pan out as the creators have hoped). With a reported purchase price of $750 million, it's a significant investment from Salesforce, maybe spurred on by the company failing to buy LinkedIn.Īnd then today, Dropbox made an announcement of its own: It launched the public beat of Paper, its own take on collaboration, with a focus on meeting notes and tasks lists. While the user interface was liked for being minimal, reviewers cited the lack of a fixed formatting bar and missing features present in competitors' products as making Dropbox Paper seem like a "light" tool.What's the best way to get your company's teams to work together? Decades after the digital revolution, it seems businesses have a long way to go to find out, and now Salesforce and Dropbox are both entering the field with their own answers.įirst up was Salesforce, which on Monday announced it had acquired Quip, which began life as a document writing and editing tool and now is focused on changing "the way teams work together." Pitched as a way to move beyond email, it lets collaborators trade notes on spreadsheets, documents, task lists, and more, all with features like version control, chat, and integration with a variety of other services. However, it was criticized for a lack of formatting options and editing features. It received particular praise for its support for rich media from a variety of sources, with one reviewer noting that Paper's support for rich media exceeds the capabilities of most of its competitors. Critics praised collaboration functionality, including content available immediately, the ability to mention specific collaborators, assign tasks, write comments, as well as editing attribution, and revision history. Reception of Dropbox Paper has been mixed.
With Paper, teams can create, review, revise, manage, and organize - all in shared documents". Dropbox Paper was described in the official announcement post as "a flexible workspace that brings people and ideas together.
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