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.
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"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."
"I like the ease of use."
"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 application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"Box is very simple and effective, so I prefer Box."
"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."
"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"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."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"Information is now available instantly to managers on all devices."
"Working on documents in real-time is sometimes faulty and could be improved."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
"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."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"The solution's data security should be improved."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"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 areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"The solution's support services and GenAI could be improved and made faster and more knowledgeable."
"I would like it to be more compliant with global regulations. There are certain features which could be included that currently are not there, such as compliance and record management capabilities."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"There are some limitations on storage."
Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 39 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 150 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 Dropbox, 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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