Box Valuable Features
The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization. Your data is secured with Box because the access is restricted.
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reviewer1325613
Senior Applications Analyst at a real estate/law firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is a very user-friendly product.
The solution is stable.
Technical support and their sales reps are helpful.
For me, it's very easy to navigate whether I'm in my email, whether I'm in my Smartsheet or SLAM. It's just straightforward to navigate throughout so that I can get my documents, make changes and load them back without any complexity.
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MarkGoodnight
Senior Solutions Engineer at Eyland LLC
Box has a number one feature, it is very easy to use. Millions of people have free accounts. They are already aware of the user interface, the electronic signature, the metadata and the tagging. The entire experience is not lacking in any way that you would need in a corporate environment.
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April 2024
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You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives. You can use it on your own, on an iPad, or on your mobile phones whenever you wish to.
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Yatish Tiwari
Senior Manager, IAM (Des317) at Inspira Enterprise
The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward. Accessing Box files through desktop applications enhances ease of editing and overall management. Additionally, there's effective control over file sharing, allowing users to decide whether others can edit or only view the files.
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PhilipGlencross
Medical Director at University OH Partners
The most valuable feature of Box is security.
View full review »I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines.
View full review »It is really easy to load files to and from this solution.
View full review »First, the device-agnostic cloud storage and collaboration. When we first deployed Box, we managed all of our own storage. Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure. Box has a number of nice features such as mobile apps for access to files; ability to collaborate easily with anyone, on campus or off; special collaboration and sharing features, such as emailing attachments to folders, embed widgets to upload or interact with files, and more. The introduction of Box Drive makes using Box on the desktop a joy.
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reviewer1248519
Sr. Staff Data Engineer at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of this solution is the set of security options that can be set when sharing files with a group. There is a lot of flexibility in that you can assign specific people read-only permissions. It can be done at the object level, or the folder level.
The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files.
With respect to the end-user experience, this is a very simple solution.
View full review »- 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.
- Being able to securely invite, share folders, do version control, and comment on files so quickly and easily without using unsecure large email attachments is a major productivity gain.
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DavidClarke1
IT Manager at Batchelor Construction
I haven't found any valuable features.
View full review »The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box.
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Ahmed Rashad
Product Manager at Tech-hub
Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities. The editable features and upgrading capabilities are great. You can work on a document online and save it online. The versioning is a very attractive feature. You can check the updates that were made to a document, and trace which edits each team member made. I also like that it prevents updates from occurring while someone is using it.
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Robert Nevans
CEO at CSToday
One of the coolest features in the enterprise is nominal file requests. Let's say you're getting a tune-up to your state plan, and the law has changed. There is a questionnaire with some documents and the paralegal sends them to you in just a normal email with the custom URL. You don't have to have a Google account for Google Drive or a Microsoft account for OneDrive. The fact that you are within the time window and within the credentialed determination, Box is aware of who does everything. They're the most compliant company we've ever encountered. We never run into a FIPSE or HIPAA or Sox issue with Box because they check every one of the boxes every time. So you never have to worry about that. To finish the story, you get that email, click on that link, fill in some answers on a TLS secure webpage, they give you a place to upload, and you're done.
From our user side or client side, when you hit that submit, you get deposited right in their client file, in your folder. And every one of your answers becomes metadata that will accompany all of your documents, all the way through your journey. This eliminates errors. It eliminates redundancy. It eliminates retyping. It's searchable. It's taggable. Really, really exquisite.
The other thing about Box is that it has a really, really simple installation of the desktop component. And their new one, Box Drive, the users love. It creates a thumbnail, a meta, in your Explorer, whether it's Windows or Mac so everything you have access to in the cloud version you also have in the browser version. It's so easy, especially for older users. We find if they're over 40, then they have a much easier time with Box.
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.
Let me spend a little time on that because that's really important - Box versus other cloud storage. Instead of being one dimensional, it's three dimensional. You can visualize a little matrix. Do you want them to be able to download this thing or just look at it? Do you want them to be able to upload and not download? Do you want them to be able to edit? Do you want them to be able to print? You can inhibit or enable any of those. So you can be dealing with opposing counsel and you don't want them to download, you just want them to see it, because your only responsibility to the court is that they can see it. But you don't want them stealing your work product. Box protects our client's intellectual property while allowing them to do business. So it's really exquisite.
The user interface is straightforward and simple. We also do a bunch of pro bono. One of our clients is sobrietyhouse.org, the largest, oldest, lowest recidivist rate, lowest cost rehab in Colorado. We regularly deploy Box there. We've tried to help this year with Save the Stages, with helping various musicians and other creators. This is a good example of how flexible Box is.
In our corporate account, we will have extremely confidential information. We can create a folder set, share it to a band in Boulder and let them use that to collaborate vids, MP3s, tracks. Everything that they're trying to get ready for their Facebook Watch. And we can jump on and help. Box Note is like notepad, but 100 people can be on at the same time, tuning and perfecting, which works beautifully for lyric development.
That's completely isolated, works fine, costs them nothing. It's subsumed under our umbrella Box enterprise account. Because we have an unlimited number of external users we can add it's got a good genome. Yet, it wasn't designed by marketing people. It was designed by engineers and people who actually did work for a living.
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reviewer1453413
CEO / PM / Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
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.
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reviewer1295862
Vice President APAC Cloud Operations at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The interface is very good.
View full review »File and Folder sharing in the organization and outside of it.
View full review »Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer. Also the ability to set Metadata around our content is amazing!
View full review »The features I have found to be most helpful over other cloud storage platforms are:
1) Collaboration - just not that it exists, but it is easy and user friendly. Allowing data that is necessary to be worked on to be brought to the surface.
2) Security - focus on compliance, encryption, enterprise grade management.
3) 3rd Party Integrations - allowing for Box to truly be a platform to be used with other software.
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reviewer1826862
Territory Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I like the ease of use.
View full review »Box thinks of features before I realize I want them! I love the email upload tool, Box notes real time editing, and integrations with Microsoft Office.
View full review »Box messaging has really revamped communication with in my company.The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box.
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reviewer1712571
Implementation Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
The collaboration of the solution is good.
View full review »Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers.
View full review »Mobile access, ease-of-sharing, securing data in transit and at rest.
View full review »- IFRAME Widget (To publish documents on another web page). Most of the best CMSs don’t offer any good DMS features. Not even many products as an add-on or plug-in. So why not take one of the best DMS (box) on the market and integrate (embed) the functionality for publishing public documents? Or even better, integrate box as a secure extranet for your business.
- Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect.
- Versioning (Version History). This feature allows previous versions of files to be stored all in one place, allowing you to quickly find and restore previous versions of your content. Or even better, real-time co-authoring in Box for Office Online
- Document Preview. Previewing and collaborating without ever having to open a desktop application or download the content to a computer.
I can store, edit and share content with others. I can work and operate seamlessly in a cloud environment.
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Vishal Choudhary
Associate Data Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint.
View full review »- Sharing content and folders with both internal and external users
- Editing content seamlessly w/Microsoft Office applications
- Dynamic/static content links for referencing on other software platforms, such as Yammer and Namely
Most of the time, they are running a free 50GB for life promotion, which is a pretty good deal.
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We have gotten the most use so far from content storage, but other areas (collaboration, platform) are of keen interest for us.
View full review »The ease of using Box on multi-platforms, including my phone and tablet, along with the collaboration features means I've been able to use it with my family (including my non-tech-savvy parents) for simple sharing, as well as with colleagues for team collaboration.
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Awesome solution that works on many devices.
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File sharing, authorization on the back, its ease of use and reliable uptime performance are valuable features of this solution.
Better workflow automation. Get notification whenever new files are uploaded.
Comments can be attached as to gain attention.
Design is great as our users work seamlessly to upload, share and organize their files.
Compatibility with all browsers are also key advantages.
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Box
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Box. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.