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"he Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing (EFSS) marketplace is ripe for disruption, but probably not via a huge technological breakthrough of some sort. EFSS options are maturing quickly and it's becoming quite commoditized. Consider that, according to Gartner, there are more than 140 vendors in the space - and that's too many. Sixteen of them meet the criteria for Gartner's Magic Quadrant (MQ) for EFSS. That's probably more than the market needs, but it's likely to be a problem that solves itself. Industry Consolidation Monica Basso, Charles Smulders and Jeffrey Mann, who researched and wrote the Gartner report, expect less than 10 percent of today's stand-alone EFSS offerings will exist by 2018. To be frank, not every vendor in the MQ wants to be classified as an EFSS player. Alastair Mitchell of Huddle has told me that he thinks of EFSS as an "albatross" and doesn't want his company to be known for "shuffling files back and forth." More on that in our next article. Gartner defines EFSS as a "range of on-premises or cloud-based capabilities that enables individuals to synchronize and share documents, photos, videos and files across mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PCs." The analysts noted that "sharing" can take place between coworkers, suppliers, customers and others, mobile devices and as content exchange between apps. "Security and collaboration support are critical aspects for enterprises to adopt EFSS," they wrote. The Gartner analysts also wrote that beyond standard EFSS functionalities, the vendors they selected might offer additional features around mobility, security, administration and management, back-end server integration via connectors to corporate servers (for example, SharePoint) and cloud services, content manipulation, collaboration and more. Software EFSS products may or may not have one main repository. Some products integrate with existing third-party repositories that are deploy

"ECM vendor Hyland tossed its hat into the EFSS ring this week with the release of ShareBase, a cloud-based file sync and share app for enterprise. Though it can be used independently of Hyland's flagship ECM product, OnBase, the app is primarily designed to allow OnBase customers to securely share and access documents in and outside the organization. ShareBase only works with corporate email addresses, so shared documents remain firmly under administrator control. User rights are easy to change, transfer and revoke so content remains unaffected by employee turnover. The app automates notifications and sharing when used with OnBase, triggering events as soon as documents upload into ShareBase."

"As reviewed by Tom's IT Pro, Egnyte's enterprise file sync solution has three aspects: Cloud File Server,  Storage Sync and Storage Connect. The alliance/partnership announcements further demonstrate Egnyte's serious intent to compete for the higher-value enterprise market, with unique capabilities fostering expansion beyond commodity-based storage into a hybrid data access platform as communicated by Egnyte's CEO, Vineet Jain."