We performed a comparison between Alfresco and Box based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Box, DocuWare, Hyland and others in Document Management Software."I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"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."
"Document repository."
"Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"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."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"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."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"Like all cloud platforms, there are always areas of improvement around sync to local devices."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
Alfresco is ranked 3rd in Document Management Software with 10 reviews while Box is ranked 1st in Document Management Software with 37 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while Box is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Box writes "Used for data storage and data collaboration, but its data security could be improved". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, OpenText Documentum, OpenText Extended ECM and Atlassian Confluence, whereas Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and Kiteworks.
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