Five Ways Business-class File Sync Changes How We Work

When you implement business-class cloud file sync at your clients, people will change how they work. When people can truly leverage technology to be more productive, they are happier and more satisfied. eFolder’s Anchor sync and share solution has been adopted by thousands of users. Here are five ways they are changing how they work.

1. Mobility, without compromise

Many people hate lugging their laptops with them on short business trips or to meetings. However, historically leaving your laptop back at the office always posed a risk to the mobile professional: what if you needed a key file from your machine on the road? What if a client calls for a key file and it will take you hours to get back to them? With Anchor, users are always in sync with their files on their mobile devices. With Anchor installed on key computers, file servers, and mobile devices, important business files are always accessible from a user’s iOS or Android mobile device. Files can be opened, shared with others, sent via email, or even edited on the mobile device. Everything is at the user’s fingertips. Now busy professionals can travel light, without compromise or worry.

2. Bye, Email Attachments

Sharing large files has for too long been a pain for most users. Moreover, certain verticals such as graphic arts, architects, designers, and engineers have more intense file sharing requirements. Virtually all business users also need to securely share files with third parties. Anchor solves all of these pain points, allowing users to share access to files with web links, instead of using unreliable email attachments. For large files, users simply point recipients to a link where large files can be easily downloaded. For secure files, again all the Anchor user needs to do is to send a secure link to the guest user for them to access confidential files. The guest user is forced to logon and the Anchor licensed user can control the file interactions by limiting the read/write access, number of downloads, and file expiration. All of these sharing tasks can be done right inside of Outlook as well. The result for the user: file attachments become a thing of the past.

3. Collaborate with Anyone

Collaboration tools are vital in helping clients share files with third parties. Anchor empowers users to set up shared folders in the cloud where licensed users and guest users can securely upload to and download from privately shared folders. These online folders become private collaboration spaces where large files or secure files can be accessed by teams that span company boundaries. In short, Anchor enables collaboration with anyone.

4. Bye, VPNs

eFolder’s Anchor solution offers an advanced feature called File-server Enablement. This feature allows a legacy file-server to be connected to the cloud and folders on the server to be logically mapped to users and team shares. By doing so, an organization leverages the full power of their file-server, while keeping remote users on their mobile devices and computers completely in sync with HQ. Users no longer need to VPN into the HQ to sync up to the file-server. VPNs have historically been hard to manage and support, while being the bane of remote users. Again with Anchor, VPN remote access becomes a thing of the past for most users.

5. Hello, Productivity

An MSP needs to do more than just provide outsourced IT management. Savvy and growth-oriented firms need to be productivity partners for clients. With Anchor, mobile users are happy and effective on the road or from their home offices. Business owners and company leaders are confident that their vital corporate data is safe and protected. And IT admins and their MSP partners are better able to serve the mobility, BYOD, and distributed infrastructure of today’s business organizations.

Anchor truly transforms how users, clients, and MSPs leverage mobility, interact with their files, and collaborate for organizational success.

Ted Hulsy is VP of Marketing at eFolder, a cloud-based file sharing company.