We performed a comparison between Box and ownCloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dropbox, Microsoft, Google and others in Content Collaboration Platforms."Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"I think it’s probably the best self-hosted file sync tool on the market."
"Like all cloud platforms, there are always areas of improvement around sync to local devices."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"I would love to see the ability to invite collaborators extended to a file level, not just the folder level."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"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."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"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."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"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 4th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 37 reviews while ownCloud is ranked 17th in Content Collaboration Platforms. Box is rated 8.4, while ownCloud is rated 10.0. 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 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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