Case Study: Appen achieves accelerated global large-file transfers and major cost savings with Dropbox Business

Appen - Customer Case Study

Appen, a language-technology company that collects speech samples around the world, struggled to get terabytes of audio from field teams back to centralized offices quickly and securely. Hand-coded FTP, shipped hard drives, and manual transfers caused delays, lost data, high shipping costs, and significant IT troubleshooting across multiple time zones.

After rolling out Dropbox Business, Appen could reliably sync huge files (with accelerated transfers and auto-resume) across global teams without manual intervention. The switch eliminated shipping and much FTP troubleshooting, sped up time-to-delivery, reduced costs and re-records, and freed staff to focus on production rather than data logistics.

Appen

Stephen Norris

VP of Operations for Language Resources