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.
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"The interface is very good."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."
"Information is much more readily available."
"What I like about SharePoint is that they keep up with a lot of updates, and they bring out new features. I also like that the system is integrated with the Microsoft 365 suite of apps."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"I haven't really come across a case where we're not able to use it for what it is, so I don't really have anything holding us up or any customers holding us up at this point that I know of. There are always some limitations, but as a technologist, I just live with them, and there is always room for improvement, but I don't have anything quantifiable."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"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’)."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"It could be cheaper."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"I would love to see the ability to invite collaborators extended to a file level, not just the folder level."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"It does not integrate despite being part of the Microsoft family."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"Replication needs improvement."
Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 37 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. 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 SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Box is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365, Egnyte and IBM FileNet, 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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