We performed a comparison between Box and Egnyte 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."Governance and ease of use are why I think a lot of people like Box, including ourselves. Basically, we're concerned about what information is being sent to Box, so we use a lot of the Box governance features to make sure that what is being sent to Box is appropriate. If it is not appropriate, it is not allowed to be sent. It is also pretty easy to use. It is the easiest to use for customers and for technologists."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint."
"The sharing feature, with its various permission settings, such as viewing or uploading, is convenient and helpful."
"File sharing, authorization on the back, its ease of use and reliable uptime performance are valuable features of this solution."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"Box is very simple and effective, so I prefer Box."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"It is scalable and stable."
"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."
"You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization."
"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic."
"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed."
"It is a good storage solution."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"I haven't really come across a case where we're not able to use it for what it is, so I don't really have anything holding us up or any customers holding us up at this point that I know of. There are always some limitations, but as a technologist, I just live with them, and there is always room for improvement, but I don't have anything quantifiable."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"Like all cloud platforms, there are always areas of improvement around sync to local devices."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"The solution's data security should be improved."
"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."
"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."
"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."
"The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want."
"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work."
Box is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 39 reviews while Egnyte is ranked 12th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 6 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Egnyte 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 Egnyte writes "Fantastic for small businesses; the customer feedback has been great". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and IBM FileNet, whereas Egnyte is most compared with Nasuni, Citrix ShareFile, SharePoint, Dropbox and LucidLink. See our Box vs. Egnyte report.
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