We performed a comparison between Box and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"File sharing, authorization on the back, its ease of use and reliable uptime performance are valuable features of this solution."
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"I like the ease of use."
"The most innovative feature of Office 365 is the Power Apps, which allows us to automate literally everything that we want automated. For example, sending attachments to specific folders on SharePoint, adding people's SharePoint when certain apps are performed, or emailing certain people at certain instances, such as when you've done a follow-up with the CRM and you need a marketing email to be sent out at a particular point."
"Reliable without any glitches."
"I like Office 365's usability."
"It is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"The most valuable feature of Office 365 is that it has many solutions bundled together."
"Adaptable solution with a good interface. It's easy to set up and easy to use."
"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’)."
"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 solution's data security should be improved."
"The upload speed needs improvement."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"Microsoft Word is a little bit left behind regarding the tools it has."
"I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five."
"I started working a lot on Microsoft Teams and I find it a bit vast. It should be divided out a bit so that someone can use it for basic functionality, like audio, video, and calls. Then, if someone wants more advanced functionality for file sharing and team creation, and so on, they could use a separate app."
"I'd like to see them add more features in the future in order to continue to advance the product."
"Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users."
"Improvements can be made to the products generic offering. It's not customized for health care. It doesn't understand the meaning of health care related concepts. Providing a greater degree of industry specificity would make the tool much more unique and valuable."
"The security should be improved."
"Integration with other platforms can be improved."
Box is ranked 2nd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 10 reviews while Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 15 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Box writes "User-friendly, easy to navigate, and has helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Excellent technical support, easy to install, but the price, while affordable, could be improved". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, IBM FileNet and Egnyte, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive. See our Box vs. Office 365 report.
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