We performed a comparison between Box and Google Workspace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"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 ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"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."
"The initial setup of Google Workspace is straightforward."
"I think it is a great subscription for me. I think it is important, especially when making an internal email subscription. For example, I can easily create my colleague's email address, and we can use it. I benefited from G Suite. I am using the G Suite Drive, which provides 30GB of storage, and it is helping for me. I think it's better for me."
"A complete integrated environment for our business. I get Google docs, Gmail, online space, and calendar where I can easily perform all documentation, storage, and communications online."
"Google seems to be a more stable environment than our current on-premise Microsoft solution that we're replacing."
"Google Apps for Business and Skype for Business are the perfect solutions for every business thriving online. It is very easy and inexpensive to get work done with these applications online."
"The most valuable feature of Google Workspace is the sheets and documents."
"The solution is easy to use, and you don't need a lot of knowledge for it."
"It's certainly easier to meet. We have offices around the world and the ability to have a company meeting on Google Meet platform makes it a whole lot easier to actually have everybody virtually in one room at the same time."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"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."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"Working on documents in real-time is sometimes faulty and could be improved."
"I recommend doing the trial first, because it's not cheap ware. It's not overly expensive, but it's not cheap ware, and enterprise has a minimum number of users."
"The problem with the presentation is that if you upload a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and you convert it to Google presentation, the slides or pictures, their images are not editable. You can't edit the slides that you brought in. They're just images."
"When I compare with Office 365, G Suite has fewer features."
"We need more functionality with Google Sheets"
"The initial setup is not intuitive at all."
"The cost could be improved. It can sometimes be a bit confusing figuring out how we are actually being charged."
"Better integration without visual misrepresentation with the Microsoft suite is required."
"Google needs to improve its support."
"I believe that Sheets could have a more functional and user-friendly interface. Google Sheets currently lacks macros and cross file links which can be found in Excel."
Box is ranked 10th in Cloud Storage with 39 reviews while Google Workspace is ranked 6th in Cloud Storage with 92 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Google Workspace is rated 8.2. 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 Google Workspace writes "If you misplace things, it's much easier to find them because of the search capability. ". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and Nasuni, whereas Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp, ProtonMail and Citrix ShareFile. See our Box vs. Google Workspace report.
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