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Web browser (OS agnostic)About ownCloud
ownCloud is an open-source file synchronization and collaboration solution that helps businesses organize and share data across the organization. It lets team members share data with external collaborators by sending password-protected URLs with expiration dates.
ownCloud enables team leaders to create custom groups, add comments and track employee activities by sharing files, facilitating remote productivity monitoring. It lets employees create, edit and sync all files and folders across multiple devices, including laptop, PC and mobile. Additionally, administrators can provide cryptographic data security and maintain compliance with business regulations and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) guidelines.
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Supported Operating System(s):
Web browser (OS agnostic)Average User Ratings
Overall
Ease-of-use
4.5
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
3.5
Functionality
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
Not likely
Very likely
August 2018
Octavi from CTTC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Research
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
1.0
Customer support
1.0
Functionality
5.0
August 2018
Free cloud DIY
Having the capacity to get to every one of my documents from anyplace is incredible. I have a few terabytes of documents on my server, more than I would ever store with any of the cloud suppliers out there, in any event not at a sensible cost. When it is set up and designed it is entirely strong and does the activity I require it to do.
Pros
It has phenomenal capacities which encourages me keep my work all together, with my associates, I can synchronize every one of the records on various PCs, it's super sheltered since I can encode the documents, has online music peruser, online content tool, watcher of online archives (PDF, OpenDocument), among numerous different capacities.
Cons
The confounded method to coordinate different advances like FTP. The documentation for the execution of different techniques like FTP is somewhat confounded in comparisson with different instructional exercises.
October 2019
Roberto from Self Employed
Company Size: 1 employee
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
5.0
October 2019
Great platform with a divided community
The software is great. It does its job and it does it perfect.
Pros
It's great to have autonomy on your cloud. You can get file storage that adapts to your very own infrastructure, plus it has a lot of plugins to interact with your data.
Cons
At some point the community divided and the product was forked, which left the people that uses it with two choices.
Reasons for Choosing ownCloud
It runs on my own infrastructure.
Reasons for Switching to ownCloud
I switched to another product. (Nextcloud). I didn't know which version of the software would get more track from the community and I had to bet on the other. My preference was due my perception of where the community would go, which is important in a community driven software.
February 2021
Anonymous
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
1.0
Functionality
3.0
February 2021
Free midsize solution for filestorage
for a free solution it is one of the best choices in the opensource world.
Pros
It is your own server so it is the best to secure by your own way. Cook it as you prefer.
Cons
The Admin Panel lacks lots to enterprise features. The base idea of sharing files is not intuitive. It tooks a bit to get used of its limit.
February 2020
Brian from American Incorporated
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Construction
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
1.0
Customer support
1.0
Functionality
3.0
February 2020
Past its prime and headed the wrong direction
Good while still community oriented, now a dead-end product.
Pros
When I implemented ownCloud, it was a neat opensource platform with an active community, with the option of solid support at a fair price. Filesharing with "cloud" providers like Dropbox leaves you at their mercy for security (or lack thereof!) and the annoying clients require re-training on a regular basis. The support costs of the simple ownCloud web interface with drag-drop file uploading were one-time only. Performance was good enough, support was cheap enough, and it was fine for what we used it for.
Cons
Over the course of a few years, the founders left due to "professional managers" messing things up. Support costs went up with no real indication why. I dropped ownCloud paid and switched to a solid commercial product called FileCloud. For "free" OSS I strongly recommend NextCloud, I've helped several friends set it up and they are ecstatic with the results.
Reasons for Switching to ownCloud
Limitations on file size and training costs, lack of control of shared files, distrust of Dropbox management.
December 2020
Eric from EM Squared, Inc
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
3.0
Functionality
5.0
December 2020
OwnCloud instead of DropBox
Besides being a "better DropBox", OwnCloud has the ability to use plugins. It has a MarketPlace where you can search for various types of plugins. Most of the plugins are free too.
Pros
OwnCloud is wonderful. It runs on your own server so the only limitations to the amount of storage space you have is the amount of disk space on your server. You can create public links with or without password protection, and you can schedule the link to automatically deactivate. You can have as many synchronized folders as you want (not just one like DropBox). You can share each of these folders with different people or groups, and you have full control over the type of access: read only, write only (drop box), or read/write. Best of all, OwnCloud is an open-source product and it's all absolutely free.
Cons
OwnCloud has an automatic update feature but I've had it fail more times than I've had it succeed. It's not all that hard to upgrade manually, but an automatic update would be much much nicer.
Reasons for Choosing ownCloud
Nextcloud is a spin-off from OwnCloud. While I like the fact that Nextcloud is less commercialized than OwnCloud, it wasn't as stable as OwnCloud, at least a few years back when we were making our decision.
Reasons for Switching to ownCloud
We have a LOT of disk space on our server. And hard drives, even multi-terabyte drives, are relatively cheap... much cheaper than paying for DropBox space. We also wanted to have the file-sharing site branded with our own domain name, emsquared-inc.com. Some of the files we share are sensitive in nature and we didn't want to give custody to any intermediary services.