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."The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"Box is very simple and effective, so I prefer Box."
"The solution is scalable."
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"I think it’s probably the best self-hosted file sync tool on the market."
"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."
"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."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"It could be cheaper."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
"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 3rd 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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