# Differences between Dataprius and Google Drive

Differences between Dataprius and Google Drive

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# Differences between Dataprius and Google Drive

## A cloud file environment VS Virtual Disk

![Comparación de proveedores de servicios en la nube](../images/diferencias-dataprius-comparar.jpg)

## What are their differences?

Although Google Drive and Dataprius have certain aspects in common, Virtual Drives are very similar to each other and are oriented only to storage.

Dataprius is oriented towards working with files in the Cloud.

Google Drive belongs to the category of Virtual Drives like Dropbox, Box, PCloud or OneDrive. Dataprius is a shared environment and cannot be classified as such.

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## Differences in the user interface environment and ease of use

### The simplicity of Dataprius is appreciated from the very first moment.

The application starts on our computer showing its own desktop.
**Dataprius is an application that is installed on the computers where we want to use it.**

![](../images/mokup-pc-screen.png)

### Google Drive is a web application

Although simple and clean in style, it lacks the typical dynamism of browser-based applications.

Compared to Dataprius, many options for managing frequently used files and folders are cumbersome and non intuitive.

It is nothing like Windows files and folders.

![Google drive](../images/captura-google-drive.jpg)

### Dataprius. Folders and files in Windows OS style.

Anyone who knows how to handle folders and files just by using the right mouse button already knows how to handle Dataprius.

Copy, paste, drag and drop. What you normally do on a computer.

For example, uploading a folder is copying and pasting from the computer. Opening a file is double clicking as in Windows.

![](../images/mokup-dataprius-folders.jpg)

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![Sencillez de uso de la nube](../images/sencillez-de-uso.jpg)

## Dataprius is much easier to use than Drive.

**Anyone would expect a file and folder system to be similar to the familiar, that's what Dataprius provides.

‍**Thousands of users endorse it.

No tutorials or courses are needed to operate the system. Company employees get to grips with Dataprius in minutes, not hours or days.

It doesn't look like a cloud system, it looks like the usual folders and files, which is why learning is almost immediate.

### Direct editing of any type of file.

In Dataprius, files stored in the cloud are edited directly in the app.

‍**In Dataprius it is not necessary to download documents or synchronise them, in Drive it is.** Drive provides editing of Office documents with Google Docs, Dataprius also with its Only Office editors created in Europe. In Dataprius files do not need format conversions.**‍**

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![Online Office editing Dataprius. Edición office online Dataprius](../images/edicion-office-dataprius.jpg)

![Sincronización](../images/trabajo-cloud-dataprius.jpg)

## Google Drive is based on synchronisation, Dataprius is not.

Synchronisation is about keeping replicated Cloud files in a folder on each user's computer.

**Dataprius' design does not require synchronisation.**

Not synchronising is the way of working for companies that allow access to multiple users, who work with an infinite number of folders from different locations.

Avoiding synchronisation means:

- You can work on an **unlimited** number of folders and **files.**
- **Preservation** of the working **structure of folders**.
- File **protection** against **viruses**, **Ransomware** and **Cryptolocker.**
- **Files** remain in one place and **not on all users' computers**.
- **Total control** over **security** and **privacy**.
- There are **no conflicting files**.

## Controlling and managing shared content and recipients

Drive allows you to share files and folders with other users in a rudimentary way.

Dataprius has panels for managing users and folder access permissions.

Being a platform oriented to professionals and companies, Dataprius provides the means to manage the folders and files shared with clients.**‍**

![Control de lo que se comparte y con quién](../images/dataprius-compartir-archivos-carpetas.jpg)

![Drive vs Dataprius](../images/dataprius-almacenamiento.jpg)

## Drive offers a large amount of space, Dataprius great features.

Although **Drive offers** a large amount of **storage space**, it **lacks** many of the **features that Dataprius offers**.

Some of **these features** are directly **related to security, legality** and the proper functioning of a company's **file management system.**

**Dataprius** **stores files redundantly.** The **quality of Dataprius** storage is **guaranteed** by systems that **comply with all security and data protection standards.** This comes at a cost.

The stored files at Dataprius does not finance a free service.

**Drive is geared towards storing files, Dataprius for daily use in the company.**

 [Redundant Storage](../en/backups-of-stored-data-in-cloud.html)

## Add-ins and integration with other applications

For Drive there are **add-ins** that allow you to save Microsoft Office files. Dataprius comes with its own plug-ins for **Microsoft Office and Outlook.‍**

Many apps include the possibility to upload files from Drive or save them.

‍**In Dataprius you have the possibility to integrate any app within the system. It is called Integrated Apps.‍**

 [Office add-in](../dataprius-office.html) [Integrated Apps](../dataprius-integracion-de-otras-aplicaciones.html)

![Dataprius configuration plugin-ins office and outoolok](../images/dataprius-configuration-office-addin.png)

![Seguridad y privacidad en la nube con Dataprius](../images/seguridad-privacidad.jpg)

## Legal compliance, security, data protection and origins.

**Drive belongs to Google**. Data is its purpose and **no** further **explanation** is **needed**, there is a lot of public information about its **methods of processing information and personal data.**

**Dataprius is a system developed in Spain by a start-up born the city of Malaga.**

All its services and **storage are carried out exclusively in EU territories.** It complies with European data protection regulations. Legal point by point to the rules arising from c**ompliance with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).**

**Dataprius is fully compliant with the data protection laws of many LATAM countries.** Dataprius does not show this with a simple declaration of intent, it **signs GDPR contracts with all its clients.**

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