We performed a comparison between Box and Citrix ShareFile based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"Box is extremely stable, they have not been hacked or lost any data in the past seventeen years. I am very impressed with it."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"We've never had a penetration. We've never had a security issue that their support didn't solve. We love their audit trail. We can know exactly when a collaborator opens. We love how you can define a collaborator."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"The solution is scalable."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"Easy to manage and fully secure."
"The solution would query the Active Directory, and if new accounts were identified, Citrix ShareFile would add them automatically."
"The Enterprise Dropbox solution is highly integrated with Microsoft's Office 365 and Azure products."
"This provides us with a secure way of sending tax returns without having to use passwords."
"It's user-friendly for end users."
"The solution is scalable."
"ShareFile gives you all of the features of cloud providers, but in an on-premises solution."
"In future releases, there could be encryption, to have better security."
"Data privacy, regarding where to store your data: Offering several transparent(!) options (where to store my data and whether to sync back or not and where to sync) regarding the local law situations (USA, EU, Switzerland!) would increase the credibility of a US based company (after NSA ‘snooping’)."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"If you want to delete something in Box, you have to do it manually, one by one. That was my recent experience. They might have a bulk delete, but I could not find that option. If you want to delete something, you have to go to each and every file and delete it."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
"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."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"DLP features are lacking and required because, especially with everyone working from home, security is now paramount when the data is on BYOD devices."
"The configuration on the mobile devices is a little clunky, in terms of setting up the application."
"There are sometimes scalability issues after updates."
"Some of our customers are facing issues if they've deployed in hybrid mode."
"The user interface is not very intuitive."
"My only issue with this solution is the cost, which should be improved."
"They should integrate the solution with more email services."
"Everything they have should be integrated into one item."
Box is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 39 reviews while Citrix ShareFile is ranked 9th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 11 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Citrix ShareFile is rated 8.4. 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 Citrix ShareFile writes "Flexible plans, stable, and scalable". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365, Egnyte and IBM FileNet, whereas Citrix ShareFile is most compared with SharePoint, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365 and Egnyte. See our Box vs. Citrix ShareFile report.
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