Kiteworks vs ownCloud comparison

Kiteworks and ownCloud are both solutions in the Content Collaboration Platforms category. Kiteworks is ranked #12 with an average rating of 9.0, while ownCloud is ranked #20. Kiteworks holds a 2.3% mindshare in CCP, compared to ownCloud’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Kiteworks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of ownCloud users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Kiteworks

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

12th

Average Rating

8.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (9th), Email Security (16th), Managed File Transfer (MFT) (7th), Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (6th)

ownCloud

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

20th

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Kiteworks is 2.3%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ownCloud is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Damon Tyson

Enterprise Application Analyst at Global Atlantic Financial Group Limited

Jan 6, 2023

Helps with compliance, sends notifications, and allows end-users to manage their own data

The most valuable feature is the ability to allow end-users to manage their own information and data with minimal administration. That's the best feature from my perspective. Something that I know my business partners appreciate is the notifications. It provides the ability to receive notifications. When certain activity happens within folders that they manage themselves, they can go out and take a look at the reporting associated with those notifications to confirm that. For example, I create a folder, and I invite you to the folder. As soon as you upload something to the folder, I'll receive a notification about that. That information is reportable, and I know that this feature is something that our business partners appreciate about Kiteworks.

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Stephen Colebrook

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jun 28, 2017

Self-hosted file sync tool used to deploy custom web UIs.

I think it’s probably the best self-hosted file sync tool on the market. It’s a full web application platform, an indispensable tool for a business of any size that needs to deploy any kind of custom web UI. If you build an ownCloud app, you’ve got authentication, storage, security, caching, and database layers already fully baked for you. You just need to build your UI and custom logic. Your app doesn’t even need to interact with files, sync, or interact with other ownCloud features. Any web UI can be included without ownCloud. It can even be a portal to web interfaces of other applications within a business using the external app to display external sites within ownCloud. This is the case as long as that site allows itself to be displayed within a frame.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We can see when people are sending things. We can definitely see who is sending to whom. From the administrative logs, we can see who is sending to an outside entity, and those logs are retained for quite a while."

"The solution removes the limitations with file attachment size that is found with regular email."

"The solution can be used remotely; it's easy to upload and share files."

"The benefits that Kiteworks has provided to its customers in terms of data sovereignty."

"The top two features are the two-factor authentication, which is pretty good. It's easily understood by the users. And their API is rather robust. We have numerous integrations that work off the API."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to send a large file of 30 GB in size and more. In Outlook and other email applications, you cannot send files that are larger than 20 MB. But with Kiteworks, 30 GB is transferable by default and, with the proper approval, a file of up to 100 GB can be sent. It makes file transfer very easy and smooth."

"The most valuable aspect of Kiteworks is undoubtedly the private content network. This feature is particularly beneficial for us. Furthermore, it serves as a centralized platform that enables us to track and manage our information exchange."

"The best part of this solution is that we can generate multiple reports about how the data is transferred and about user information or IP."

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"I think it’s probably the best self-hosted file sync tool on the market."

Cons

"File location could be improved."

"It could be more stable. In the next release, it would be better if it was more stable with improved performance."

"I would like to see immediate releases of fixes because now it takes at least a week. If that time span can be reduced to one day or two days, that would be very helpful for users so that things are sorted and transactions work smoothly."

"We have experienced a few hiccups and bugs when using the admin console and from a user perspective."

"In my experience, their technical support can be a little slow."

"It would be nice if Kiteworks could provide a free version of the platform so that it could be used for a certain number of file transfers. We could be charged a fee if we exceeded the number of allotted file transfers."

"There is no offboarding process for end-users in Kiteworks. It's a manual process. There is no automated syncing with LDAP and checking to see if the account is still active. It's a manual process to get people out of here, which isn't the best way."

"The one feature, which I have also requested directly to Kiteworks, is to have a scheduled upgrade function. Currently, one of my engineers logs in after hours for the upgrade. We're a hospital, and we're 24/7, but the primary users are seven to five. So, we log in the early evening just to push a button to tell it to do the update. It would be nice if that could be very easily scheduled."

More Kiteworks cons

"Even with fast disks, it still takes a fair bit of time to write most schema changes to multi-GB tables."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They changed it midstream. We were being charged a certain flat rate for SFTP traffic. For whatever reason, at the beginning of the year, our pricing changed, and we are now being charged more for using a feature of the product than we were when we first bought it. That has been our experience with billing. It turned out to be more expensive than when we started with it."

"The price of Kiteworks is reasonable."

"The license management is changing and confusing. If I could make one change to it, it would be better license management through the API."

"I believe it's a little costly, but given the faith that we put into it from a security perspective to maintain the integrity of our patient information that is being transferred through this system, that's a small price to pay. So, on the surface, it might look like a lot of money, but depending on the need for security, which is where we feel it shines, it's okay price-wise."

"It is not really expensive. I mean, to me it's obviously expensive, but it's worth it."

"The solution is very expensive because we are buying with Malaysian Ringgit and it's sold in US dollars."

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Questions from the Community

What is Kiteworks?

Kiteworks is a secured file sharing platform that enables users to collaborate with different parties across a robust offering of secured protected channels. Users have the option of virtual privat...

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What do you like most about Kiteworks?

The benefits that Kiteworks has provided to its customers in terms of data sovereignty.

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What needs improvement with Kiteworks?

There is room for improvement in terms of support. My team always faces challenges in accessing fast resolution for the issues.

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Overview

Kiteworks empowers organizations to effectively manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content over numerous communications channels: email, file sharing, managed file transfer, APIs, and web forms. The Kiteworks platform unifies, tracks, controls, and secures sensitive content moving within, into, and out of an organization, significantly improving risk management and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Software suite that provides a location-independent storage area for data (cloud storage). ownCloud can be installed on a private server at no additional cost.

Sample Customers

United States Securities and Exchange Commission, National Health Service, Husch Blackwell LLP, NYC Health + Hospitals, Viatris, MITRE Corporation, Chubb, Kraft Heinz, KPMG, Kohler, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Purdue Pharma, AVL

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