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.
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"File sharing, authorization on the back, its ease of use and reliable uptime performance are valuable features of this solution."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"Governance and ease of use are why I think a lot of people like Box, including ourselves. Basically, we're concerned about what information is being sent to Box, so we use a lot of the Box governance features to make sure that what is being sent to Box is appropriate. If it is not appropriate, it is not allowed to be sent. It is also pretty easy to use. It is the easiest to use for customers and for technologists."
"SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."
"The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically."
"It improved transparency around work products."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"The security feature is valuable."
"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."
"It offers ease of use, which is crucial."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"The integration with other products should 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."
"The solution's data security should be improved."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"I would love to see the ability to invite collaborators extended to a file level, not just the folder level."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"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 product must provide more automation."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type. That would be cool for accessibility."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 37 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. 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 SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Box is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365, Egnyte and IBM FileNet, 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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