We performed a comparison between Box and Microsoft OneDrive based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: After comparing the two solutions, Box comes out on top. Compared to Microsoft OneDrive, it is easier to deploy, is user friendly, has great support, and has a good ROI.
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"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."
"It's quite easy to use and then of course it is quite well integrated to the rest of Office 365."
"It gives you access to important files from virtually anywhere."
"It's pretty easy to learn. Once someone taught me, I was able to navigate it quite easily."
"Being able to use OneDrive as a mapped drive in Windows Explorer is the most valuable feature. Rather than using OneDrive on a browser, you can also open up the Windows Explorer and I can see the file structure in the normal format."
"It was extremely easy to setup."
"It is simple to use and it allows me to give me the opportunity to access anything I want from any device."
"The backup capability is one feature I love about OneDrive. I also like how it syncs when you're working offline. Everything is updated once you connect again."
"Scalability is good just because it is a cloud-based product."
"I would love to see the ability to invite collaborators extended to a file level, not just the folder level."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"I haven't really come across a case where we're not able to use it for what it is, so I don't really have anything holding us up or any customers holding us up at this point that I know of. There are always some limitations, but as a technologist, I just live with them, and there is always room for improvement, but I don't have anything quantifiable."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"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."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"An increase in the capacity of storage in the free version would be nice."
"The solution has sub-folders, which are visible to various team members. If you want to ensure the information is private, you would need to have a certain level of seniority in the office."
"No one gets an alert when files are deleted."
"It is not very stable because there are a lot of bugs."
"If I want to pick out certain criteria of pictures, Google enables me to do that whereas OneDrive is a bit sort of flaky."
"The security is not as flexible as it is with Dropbox, which means that we can't share our OneDrive files."
"I would advice not storage sensitive information since it could be prone to hacking."
"Technical support is not very impressive and is typical of large company software support."
Box is ranked 2nd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 37 reviews while Microsoft OneDrive is ranked 4th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 19 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Microsoft OneDrive is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Box writes "Used for data storage and data collaboration, but its data security could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft OneDrive writes "A transparent and self-explanatory storage system for data and files". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365, Egnyte and IBM FileNet, whereas Microsoft OneDrive is most compared with SharePoint, Dropbox, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile and Amazon WorkDocs. See our Box vs. Microsoft OneDrive report.
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