We performed a comparison between Box vs. SharePoint based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Box has the winning edge in this comparison because of users’ reports of better ease of deployment, scalability, and collaboration capabilities.
"Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers."
"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."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"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."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"Helps with document collaboration and workflow."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."
"It has good integration with other MS products."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"The UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
"The solution's data security should 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."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"Integration needs to be more straightforward, particularly with Azure. SharePoint also needs a more comprehensive introductory course for users."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end."
"Make it more intuitive."
Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 10 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 17 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Box writes "User-friendly, easy to navigate, and has helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Stable and scalable collaboration system; good for document and file sharing, and offers fast issue resolution from its support team". Box is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365, IBM FileNet and Egnyte, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, WordPress and OpenText Documentum. See our Box vs. SharePoint report.
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