OpenText Filr Reviews & Product Details

Allows for the user of an on-premise storage solution similar to DropBox / Google Drive, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Controls for how files are synchronized via desktop clients. For example, if you have someone try and clean up their local hard drive they may delete files from Filr ( which would sync back to the server ). There should be something to alert an admin of such an event to approve before it's completed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Filr is a goood application for sharing large amounts of data. It allows for the user to send an invite to the one receiving the document, drawing, report, etc. The one (or many team members) that are given access to the shared data then can either simply view the info, or they can comment and also contribute to the shared file site. This occurs when the inviting party chooses what level of access the invitee will have. The inviter can also choose a date at which this access ends or it can go on indefinitely for the life of the project as required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When getting ready to send out the invite to the necessary participants, it is not very streamline. You have to go through a few extra steps to have the persons’ emails added into the proper form to send them out as an invite. The problem is that without these extra steps, it appears like you did everything correctly and sent out an invitation to Filr without the recipient ever receiving anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use. Access to folders for work while being at home. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing that I can think of. Updates have been great simplified, so that's a plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clean and stable system. Easy to use interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The desktop app could do with some work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you are worried about someone else hosting your cloud storage then you are in luck. Novell Filr is a great tool to use for cloud storage. This software is well encrypted and great to use. Very similar to Dropbox and Microsoft Onedrive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that you have to have Novell products to use this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Novell is flexible and can be powerful if taken the time to learn its robust capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Learning this program was a task and could easily turn away most people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the fact that ALL files are in one place! So convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use is a restriction. Kind of difficult to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The easiness or using the product during transactions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The time it takes to load during transactions sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It enabled me and our IT staff to determine which users are allowed to share files, which files they can share, and with whom they can share them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I disliked the plugins for outlook and gmail. It was very cumbersome to enable.

The plugins aren't the greatest in terms of implementation. Determine what add-ons are best for your business and that should help determine a fit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are using Filr version 2 today. I heard version 3 was just released a week or so ago.

Quick and Secure access to our company on-premise file servers on all my mobile devices. I can also use a browser anywhere in the world and gain access that way. I like that I can share a file to a customer outside of our company and its shared in a very secure manner. I can see ALL the files and folders on the company servers, but its smart enough to only download the files I touch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish we could have our company logo on the GUI interface of the mobile clients and on the web browser sessions instead of seeing the Micro Focus logo everywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.