Case Study: Fulton Homes Achieves Secure Anywhere Access and Contractor File Sharing with Egnyte

Fulton Homes shares 5.5 GB blueprint files anywhere with Egnyte

Fulton Homes, a major Arizona-based homebuilder, faced significant challenges with file sharing and access due to their work with large blueprint files across remote construction sites with poor connectivity. Their previous solutions, including FTP and Box, created version control issues, email server bloat, and made IT a bottleneck for permissions. They needed a secure, enterprise-grade solution that provided anywhere access and granular control. They turned to vendor Egnyte for its hybrid cloud file sharing solution.

Egnyte implemented a hybrid infrastructure combining local storage with cloud access, which allowed employees to work directly off a server in the office and access files via the cloud or a mapped drive on remote sites. The key feature was sub-folder permissions, which empowered content owners to securely share specific files with external contractors without IT involvement. This streamlined workflows, eliminated version confusion, and significantly improved employee productivity. Employees adopted the solution quickly due to its familiar mapped drive interface.

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