Dropbox announces Project Harmony to make all software colloborative
The cloud storage company wants to power the editing and collaboration behind all software, starting with integration within Microsoft Office applications.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Cloud storage company Dropbox unveiled a tool called Project Harmony Wednesday that will bring Dropbox-powered editing and collaboration tools to any software app, starting with Microsoft Office.
With Harmony, Dropbox's trademark green checkmark shows up within apps like PowerPoint and Word to signify whether a version has synced properly with the cloud, as it does with Dropbox files normally. That checkmark will also indicate whether or not someone else has opened the same file, and can be clicked on to update a version to its latest iteration and converse with collaborators.
Dropbox's news comes on the heels of competitor Box, a cloud storage company focused more towards businesses, announcing its long-rumored IPO, which will take place later this month.. Both companies found themselves in numerous lists going into 2014 tracking the next blockbuster tech public offering.
Project Harmony is Dropbox's answer to the increasing collaboration focus of companies like Box that have built strong competing platforms on being less consumer- and more enterprise-focused.
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