FileCloud vs. MediaValet

FileCloud is perfect for an environment where they have to adhere to certain audit requirements and where it forces companies to keep their data on-premise. Doing this, companies can still do all of their DLP scans, File Integrity Management, and other things and still make their data easily accessible via HTTPS or other means like FileCloud Drive. If a company is able to utilize cloud-based storage such as Dropbox, One Drive, etc. Then perhaps FileCloud would not be as suited for that particular company.

Incentivized

MediaValet is an exceptional tool for our end users. We upload the images and they find them. Most often with great ease. Had we known how many images we would be adding, and our different audiences from the start, we might have set up our file structure a little differently.

Incentivized

• Access internal file server data from anywhere on the planet with an internet connection.
• Send out emails with expiration dates, password links, and access control.
• Ability to send out attachments that are over the email limits for downloading.
• It integrates with NTFS and Active Directory.
• Integration plugin for Outlook and Office applications.

Incentivized

• We love Portals, as a means of creating, editing and sending collections of pictures
• The tagging system allows for end users to find our photos, without knowing where we put them
• The system is quick
• Apart from our initial edit for size, customers gets full sized uncompressed files

Incentivized

• Updates need to be more apparent to FileCloud Drive
• Uninstall/Reinstall was needed to fix most issues
• Cost

Incentivized

• More flexibility/features when using Lightboxes
• Replace an old version of an asset with a newer one without having to check-out, then check-in
• Sharing an asset or a set of assets via a share link -- would be great to generate shorter, dynamic URLs for sharing as opposed to the longer string URLs it currently generates

Incentivized

The product is the best we've seen. Others on staff who use our partner's DAMs have commented that our Media Valet DAM is far and away the best they've seen. I can't say enough about Media Valet's customer service. It has been consistently helpful, quick to respond and very reliable.

New staff is able to use our DAM with an hour of training.

The team is very responsive to requests and makes a point to provide feedback or status updates before confirming solutions.

Incentivized

I mainly use MediValet to send special medical images to our partners. Collaboration with other companies is very simplified through MediaValet. The qualitatively uploaded images can be excactly assigned and organised through various filters. It is much clearer and easier for our partners to understand when the images have been accurately labelled and assigned beforehand.

Incentivized

The one thing FileCloud has over all other cloud products I have used such as OneDrive, Dropbox, and Box is that you are hosting everything on your own server. You don't have to rely on Microsoft or any other company to maintain the servers and hope that they don't have a large issue to where you can't access your files. As long as you can access your server, you can get to your files.

Incentivized

They really are very different platforms. MediaValet offers much more control over who has access to files and how they are downloaded, as well as offering conversions of some files such as JPEG to PNG or TIFF. Also, through user profiles, you can grant access to a specific path to some users and not others, so it has a lot of customization. The other platforms are just for storage and sharing but there is no user control.

Incentivized

• Allowed us to share our files easily
• Allowed us to manage our cloud shares as we saw fit
• The need to uninstall/reinstall after every other update was a little time consuming

Incentivized

• Easier to send specific files to other people
• Can combine different assets in an aesthetically pleasing website like platform with Portals to present
• Gives peace of mind knowing that our files could be deleted from our system, but MediaValet has the backup

Incentivized