Soonr, a leading provider of secure file sharing and collaboration services for business, today announced important new capabilities in Soonr Workplace that enhance the ability to control access of shared files through an improved model for granting and enforcing rights to content. Now there is greater granularity of permissions controlling the who, what, where and when of file sharing, including sharing at lower levels of a Project and reassigning Projects.
What’s New?
- Increased control over shared content: Granular Share Permissions
- Access can now be controlled with more granular levels of permission within a Project, including Read-Only, Modify, Create & Modify and Full Access
- Share only what is needed: Sub-Project Level Sharing
- Folders within a Project can be shared without sharing the entire Project
- Efficiently deal with moves, adds and changes: Project Owner Reassignment
- Projects can be reassigned to new owners, assuming all rights of the Project
- Greater IT Visibility through custom reports: New Enterprise Reports (Enterprise Plan Only)
- New predesigned reports about Users, Devices and Computers
- Protection Where you Need It: User Backup Controls
- Administrators can now set who can have backups of their devices
- Updated mobile apps for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets
- Built-in document annotation tools now support marking up, highlighting and free-hand writing on existing and newly created image files.
- Two Factor Authentication (2FA) has now been extended to support logins from Soonr Workplace mobile apps.
- New sync agent for computers and servers running Linux
- The Soonr Desktop agent is now available for computers and servers running Linux, enabling syncing and sharing of content across all major desktop and mobile platforms.
- Linux file servers that are always online and that typically contain all shared business files can now be fully integrated into a Soonr powered cloud service, resulting in improved availability and reliability for business content access.
“With the rapid adoption of Soonr Workplace, our customers continue to ask for new features to address their needs to support an increasingly more dynamic and mobile workforce. Now customers gain the ability to set up fine-grained permissions at the folder level to different groups and people depending on their roles,” said Martin Frid-Nielsen, CEO, Soonr. “For example, an HR Project containing a folder of content on Company Policies might set permissions differently such as Read-Only for the entire company, Modify for Managers, Create & Modify for HR Managers and Full Access for the Executive Staff. This provides the required flexibility for controlled and secured sharing of files within and between organizations. Our new content owner reassignment feature is indispensable as employees come and go, the administrator can easily reassign Project ownership between authorized Team Members.”
“The new sub-folder sharing has been particularly helpful to us,” said Michael Shinner, Business Manager, Oceanside Hawaii Assisted Living. “They are very efficient for sharing files between departments and easier for us to have secure content that is also accessible to the correct people. It’s saving our staff a lot of time.”
“With the trend towards more external collaboration Soonr’s ability to be more granular about file and folder sharing not only creates a greater level of security, but also a greater level of transparency. Soonr has focused on a more complete set of Admin tools in this release, which leaves the users to write, create and share without worrying about security and access,” said David Coleman, Senior Analyst, GigaOM Research.
The new features are available immediately. Log in to your account or start your free trial today see these new updates in action.
About Soonr
Embraced by users and endorsed by IT, more than 150,000 businesses trust Soonr for their secure file sharing and collaboration needs. Soonr Workplace empowers mobile individuals, teams, and organizations to do business faster from any device anywhere. We deliver our services through a worldwide network of cloud service providers, VARs, solution providers, and system integrators. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, we are privately-held and backed by major investors.