We performed a comparison between Box vs. SharePoint based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Box has the winning edge in this comparison because of users’ reports of better ease of deployment, scalability, and collaboration capabilities.
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"The interface is very good."
"File sharing with collaborators not on the same domain with offline access from multiple devices: I work on many projects that are multi-organizational, such as with customers, suppliers, or acquisitions."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"Box is very simple and effective, so I prefer Box."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"It has good integration with other MS products."
"It improved transparency around work products."
"SharePoint is easy to collaborate with."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"Information is now available instantly to managers on all devices."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"The solution's data security should be improved."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"It could be cheaper."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to the cloud can also use improvement."
"The solution should be made more user-friendly for technical and business people."
"It will fully use your system resources."
"The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem."
"It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"The product must provide more automation."
"I understand that some functions are lost when you store the information in a file system, so maybe that's a way SharePoint can improve."
Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 39 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 150 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. 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 SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Box is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365, Egnyte and Dropbox, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, WordPress and OpenText Documentum. See our Box vs. SharePoint report.
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