We performed a comparison between Box and M-Files based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Box, DocuWare, Hyland and others in Document Management Software."Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"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."
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"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."
"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."
"Using M-Files means anybody on the executive team to go in and immediately look at a dashboard and know the status of a contract."
"Data privacy, regarding where to store your data: Offering several transparent(!) options (where to store my data and whether to sync back or not and where to sync) regarding the local law situations (USA, EU, Switzerland!) would increase the credibility of a US based company (after NSA ‘snooping’)."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"The search features and role permissions are not very user friendly. It only searches the first few pages of a document, which is quite a problem."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"Working on documents in real-time is sometimes faulty and could be improved."
"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."
"The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"The integration with other products needs to be improved."
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Box is ranked 1st in Document Management Software with 37 reviews while M-Files is ranked 8th in Document Management Software. Box is rated 8.4, while M-Files is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Box writes "Used for data storage and data collaboration, but its data security could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of M-Files writes "Good workflows, and it is easy to use with a dashboard that improves contract visibility". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and Egnyte, whereas M-Files is most compared with SharePoint, OpenText Extended ECM, IBM FileNet and OpenText Documentum.
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