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.
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"The collaboration of the solution is 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 sharing feature, with its various permission settings, such as viewing or uploading, is convenient and helpful."
"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."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"The security feature is valuable."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"It is very stable."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"Like all cloud platforms, there are always areas of improvement around sync to local devices."
"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."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"The upload speed needs improvement."
"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’)."
"It could be cheaper."
"The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."
"The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
"We do sell Hyland OnBase, which is probably a competitor to SharePoint and does a lot more. In our own organization, we haven't had a need for it, but certainly, for our customers, we are finding that to be a better fit. In terms of the technical reasons for that, I'm not involved much on that side, so I can't give specifics, but there is certainly room for them to improve or add on certain features that clearly are not available in SharePoint, but they are available in Hyland OnBase."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 38 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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