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.
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers."
"Box is very simple and effective, so I prefer Box."
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"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."
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"The interface is very good."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"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."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"The most valuable feature of SharePoint is its ease of use."
"The online editing capabilities, file sharing, auditing, information security, ease of solution management, and the easy user adaptation to the platform are the most valuable features."
"What I like about SharePoint is that they keep up with a lot of updates, and they bring out new features. I also like that the system is integrated with the Microsoft 365 suite of apps."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
"I recommend doing the trial first, because it's not cheap ware. It's not overly expensive, but it's not cheap ware, and enterprise has a minimum number of users."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"The solution's data security should be improved."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"When you are trying to migrate from a different platform to SharePoint for file storage, the upload utility should be more flexible, taking more files and then updating you on the upload status of the files you are trying to transfer into SharePoint."
"The solution lacks collaboration features."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"Make it more intuitive."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 39 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 149 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Box writes "Allows you to upload and download files quickly but lacks integration with Office 365". 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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