Case Study: Plex Systems achieves seamless cross-platform, real-time Office collaboration with Dropbox Business

Plex Systems uses Dropbox and Office 365 better together

Plex Systems, which serves more than 400 manufacturers, doubled in size over two years and shifted from a PC-only environment to a mix of Macs, PCs, and mobile devices. That growth created collaboration challenges: distributed teams relied on email, ending up with multiple versions of Office documents, and the company needed a solution that would complement its existing Office 365 deployment and work across geographies and devices.

Plex chose Dropbox Business for its platform neutrality and tight Office 365 integrations, enabling employees to open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from shared Dropbox folders in Office Online and co-author in real time. The Dropbox desktop badge notifies users when others are in a file and updates to the latest version, so teams stay in sync across Macs, PCs, and smartphones without changing how they work.

Plex Systems

Chris Pesola

Director of IT