Case Study: CEL Electric achieves remote field supervision and robust data protection with Dropbox Business

CEL Electric - Customer Case Study

CEL Electric is a Canadian electrical contractor with six offices that works in remote, resource-driven regions. As the company grew, employees struggled to share large project files—resorting to splitting PDFs, shipping CDs or paper drawings—and suffered a major data loss when lightning destroyed a server and erased six months of work. That event pushed CEL to find a cloud solution that would simplify sharing and protect critical assets.

CEL adopted Dropbox Business for easy external sharing and fast employee adoption. Teams now organize projects with subfolders, collaborate on large AutoCAD files, and share site photos and updates from low-bandwidth locations, while badges prevent editing conflicts. Admin features like account transfer, link expiration, and extended/unlimited recovery restored deleted work and tightened security around payment data. The result: faster turnaround, better collaboration between field supervisors and headquarters, fewer costly site trips, and reliable backup of valuable assets.

CEL Electric

Mark Karr

Project Manager