We performed a comparison between Box and Citrix ShareFile 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."The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"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."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers."
"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 Enterprise Dropbox solution is highly integrated with Microsoft's Office 365 and Azure products."
"The solution would query the Active Directory, and if new accounts were identified, Citrix ShareFile would add them automatically."
"This provides us with a secure way of sending tax returns without having to use passwords."
"ShareFile gives you all of the features of cloud providers, but in an on-premises solution."
"It's user-friendly for end users."
"Easy to manage and fully secure."
"The solution is scalable."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"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."
"Working on documents in real-time is sometimes faulty and could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"The user interface is not very intuitive."
"There are sometimes scalability issues after updates."
"Everything they have should be integrated into one item."
"They should integrate the solution with more email services."
"My only issue with this solution is the cost, which should be improved."
"The configuration on the mobile devices is a little clunky, in terms of setting up the application."
"Some of our customers are facing issues if they've deployed in hybrid mode."
"DLP features are lacking and required because, especially with everyone working from home, security is now paramount when the data is on BYOD devices."
Box is ranked 2nd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 37 reviews while Citrix ShareFile is ranked 9th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 11 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Citrix ShareFile 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 Citrix ShareFile writes "Flexible plans, stable, and scalable". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365, Egnyte and IBM FileNet, whereas Citrix ShareFile is most compared with SharePoint, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Office 365 and Egnyte. See our Box vs. Citrix ShareFile report.
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