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 solution is scalable."
"Box is extremely stable, they have not been hacked or lost any data in the past seventeen years. I am very impressed with it."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"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."
"I like the ease of use."
"The interface is very good."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"SharePoint is easy to collaborate with."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"The most valuable feature of SharePoint is its ease of use."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"It could be cheaper."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"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."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"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."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"The navigation is confusing."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"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 lacks collaboration features."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."
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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