“Knowledge workers waste more than a month a year just looking for information and switching between apps,” said Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox.
To address this problem, Dropbox has announced a major update to Dropbox Dash, its universal search and knowledge management product. The rollout starts today, but do check which plan(s) you are buying, and take note of which features will be released in the near-future.
Some of the key updates include:
- Advanced video and image search across connected platforms
- Purpose-built AI tools for writing, analysing, and summarising documents
- Integrations with essential apps like Slack and Microsoft Teams
The improved Dropbox Dash now features advanced video and image search across connected platforms, going beyond search to speed up content creation. Dash now has purpose-built AI tools for writing, analysing, and summarising documents from across customers’ favourite platforms. And deeper integrations with essential apps like Slack and Microsoft Teams help users spend less time searching for content and more time creating.
Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox commented, “With the new Dash, we’re not just helping you find your content faster—we’re helping you put it to work.”
Find anything—videos, images, even people on Teams
Dropbox users upload billions of documents, videos and images to its platform every year. Dash’s new search works across all content types, including images, videos and audio files. It helps customers find information hidden inside media that traditional searches previously could not reach, so users don’t need to remember exact file names to find what they need in future.
Sometimes it’s not what customers are looking for—it’s who. Dash’s new people search, when it is released, will be able to quickly identify subject matter experts within an organisation—making it easy to learn more about teammates or discover who wrote the latest brand messaging, for example.
Get to a final draft, fast
Dropbox’s new suite of AI writing tools offloads the most tedious tasks that stand in the way of a polished draft by gathering relevant information from existing content. Ask “What were the key takeaways from our customer research last month?”, and Dash analyses reports, meeting notes, and Slack conversations to provide a comprehensive summary in seconds.
Need to create a project brief? Users can simply type “Create a project plan for our Q3 marketing campaign”, for example, and Dash pulls together a first draft using goals from company strategy documents, timelines from past campaigns, and budget considerations from finance spreadsheets, saving hours of digging and compiling. Dash can allegedly assemble the project plan in a preferred template and write it in a team’s own voice. That is personalisation for you.
Customers can work with the tools they love
Dash now integrates with platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams, along with creative and project management apps like Canva and Jira. Users will be able to search Canva files directly from Dash or, for example, ask “What did the team decide about the social media visuals?” to get answers from across Slack and Zoom transcripts without toggling between apps.
Protect everything, everywhere
For IT administrators, controlling who has access to information is important. Dash includes advanced security controls that let admins exclude sensitive content and manage access permissions across connected apps. With the new custom exclusions feature, IT teams can keep certain HR documents, financial data, or confidential projects out of search results.
Dash is fully GDPR compliant, so teams around the world can use it to securely find what they need, stay organised, and get work done faster.
Dropbox knows privacy, transparency, and security are top priorities for its customers. Customers can have the option of choosing a self-hosted AI, ensuring their data stays within Dropbox’s boundary of trust. With more than a trillion pieces of content stored on Dropbox, the company is committed to maintaining trust as it continues improving Dash and applying AI to its products, based on its founding principles.
