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 system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"File sharing, authorization on the back, its ease of use and reliable uptime performance are valuable features of this solution."
"I like the ease of use."
"We've never had a penetration. We've never had a security issue that their support didn't solve. We love their audit trail. We can know exactly when a collaborator opens. We love how you can define a collaborator."
"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."
"Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"I think it’s probably the best self-hosted file sync tool on the market."
"Working on documents in real-time is sometimes faulty and could be improved."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"In future releases, there could be encryption, to have better security."
"The search features and role permissions are not very user friendly. It only searches the first few pages of a document, which is quite a problem."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"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."
"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 2nd 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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