We performed a comparison between Alfresco, Box, and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."Document repository."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"The solution is scalable."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"File sharing, authorization on the back, its ease of use and reliable uptime performance are valuable features of this solution."
"I like the ease of use."
"Box is extremely stable, they have not been hacked or lost any data in the past seventeen years. I am very impressed with it."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"It could be cheaper."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Make it more intuitive."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
