We performed a comparison between Box and ownCloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dropbox, Box, Microsoft and others in Content Collaboration Platforms."Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"I like the ease of use."
"The interface is very good."
"I think it’s probably the best self-hosted file sync tool on the market."
"Like all cloud platforms, there are always areas of improvement around sync to local devices."
"The search features and role permissions are not very user friendly. It only searches the first few pages of a document, which is quite a problem."
"It could be cheaper."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"The solution's data security should be improved."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"Even with fast disks, it still takes a fair bit of time to write most schema changes to multi-GB tables."
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Box is ranked 2nd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 39 reviews while ownCloud is ranked 18th in Content Collaboration Platforms. Box is rated 8.4, while ownCloud is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Box writes "Allows you to upload and download files quickly but lacks integration with Office 365". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ownCloud writes "Self-hosted file sync tool used to deploy custom web UIs. ". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and Egnyte, whereas ownCloud is most compared with Kiteworks.
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