Moving away from On Prem Network Drives / Alteryx

[alishadhillon__]

Hi all, 

Like many organizations, we are moving away from the network drive that we use. Currently, our workflows and macros all rely on this.

We are exploring other options:

- SharePoint

- Azure Storage Account

Has anybody been able to successfully move away from a network drive at all? Happy to hear other suggestions away from those listed above too.

Many thanks!

[caltang]

My experience with SharePoint has been pretty bad using the SharePoint Input and Output tools. I noticed that it was much slower and due to my orgs’ config, my connection with SharePoint needed to go through a layer of sign ons with keys. Annoying when you go on Server since you have to ride on the end user’s keys. 

[jNunez]

It can be challenging depending on the size of your organization and the support you get from IT group. Will your Server also be a cloud deployment? If not, you might have to worry about data ingress/egress charges. Those can add up. 

Data Connection manager does seem like it was built to help address a lot of the problems @caltang alluded to as far as authentication goes.