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."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"Box is very simple and effective, so I prefer Box."
"It is a good storage solution."
"It is scalable and stable."
"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."
"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."
"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."
"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's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"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."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"In future releases, there could be encryption, to have better security."
"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 room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."
"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
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 Dropbox, whereas Egnyte is most compared with Nasuni, Citrix ShareFile, SharePoint, LucidLink and Dropbox. See our Box vs. Egnyte report.
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