We performed a comparison between Box and Office 365 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."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."
"I like the ease of use."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"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 interface is very good."
"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."
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"It's very stable."
"There's a lot there in terms of apps and features."
"It is very easy to deploy."
"Adaptable solution with a good interface. It's easy to set up and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved."
"The functionality that is most valuable is the solution's ability to detect patient data in email attachments. Whenever a user sends out an email with patient data embedded in an attachment, it triggers an alert. The tool can detect a social security number and various other forms of patient identity. Emails are then automatically generated and sent."
"I love all of the applications being interlinked. I do not have to separately work on an independent system when it comes to file storage, email, and other tools."
"OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features."
"Like all cloud platforms, there are always areas of improvement around sync to local devices."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"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’)."
"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 would love to see the ability to invite collaborators extended to a file level, not just the folder level."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well."
"The security should be improved."
"They should do more testing before product releases."
"As a private user, I do not appreciate the cloud features, but I doubt that this is something Microsoft would consider a feature request."
"I would like to see the macro functionality in Excel made simpler."
"The integration with mobile services is not so good. It's coming, but they could improve a lot."
"There are several additional features we would like to see, such as advanced features of SAN protection in Office 365. The main thing is the SAN protection; we would like to see a lot of advanced features added because we had a lot of spam attacks."
"It seems like every other week when we log into the administrative portals, it doesn't matter which one, it could be the active directory portal, it could be the exchange admin center or SharePoint admin center, it seems like Microsoft is consistently updating with new versions of the admin centers, which can be frustrating."
Box is ranked 2nd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 37 reviews while Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. 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 Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Egnyte and IBM FileNet, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive. See our Box vs. Office 365 report.
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