Dropbox Business and Enterprise in the UAE

PRO TECHnology in Dubai deploys and supports Dropbox for enterprises in the UAE: choosing the plan, moving the files, setting up teams and admin controls, training staff and supporting the platform after go-live. Its Dropbox work includes the Khaleej Times newsroom deployment, documented in a case study on this site.

No. Dropbox stores files in data centres across the United States, with storage in Australia, the European Union, Japan and the United Kingdom for eligible teams. Moving a team's files there needs at least 10 licences, annual billing and a billing address in a different region, and Dropbox chooses the location. Dropbox lists no UAE or Saudi region, so if a regulator, a contract or your own policy requires data to stay in the country, settle that before moving files to any cloud service hosted abroad.

Dropbox publishes per-user prices for its Standard and Advanced team plans on its own website, and prices Enterprise on request. Our quotation adds the deployment work, such as migration, setup and training, sized to your number of users and the volume of data.

Standard gives a team an admin console, two-step verification, password-protected and expiring links, file requests and 180 days of version history. Advanced adds single sign-on, remote wipe, audit logs and tiered admin roles, with one year of history. Enterprise adds data classification, network control, enterprise mobility management and user and storage limits set for the organisation.

Yes. We first map which teams create and need which files, build the folder structure and permissions from that map, then move the data in stages while the old location stays read-only, so each team can check its files before the switch. For a move from another cloud service, the method depends on where the files are and how much there is, and we confirm it when we scope the project.

Not on its own. Version history and deleted-file recovery undo mistakes for 180 days or a year, depending on the plan, but they sit in the same account as the files. Keep an independent copy for ransomware and account compromise; our backup and disaster recovery guide explains how.

The UAE recognises electronic signatures under Federal Decree-Law No. 46 of 2021, which defines more than one level of signature. The level a document needs depends on the document, so confirm it with your legal adviser; our Adobe licensing guide explains the levels under UAE law.

Yes. Book a live demo at the PRO TECHnology showroom in Business Bay, Dubai, and we will show sharing, version history, the admin console, Dropbox Replay and Dropbox Sign on sample files.