We performed a comparison between Box and Google Workspace based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"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."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"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."
"Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint."
"It's easy to use."
"G Suite Enterprise is scalable."
"Being able to back up our data on Google Drive is a critical and valuable feature for our customers. It is just in sync. Imagine you change a file on the desktop, and it gets updated directly to your Google Drive. Our laptop is completely in sync with Google Drive. Google Meet, Google Sheets, and Google Docs are also amazing products. They're very versatile and easy to use as compared to Office 365. I am using Google Sheets and Google Docs, which first save the work on my memory or ROM, and then on my RAM. It gives me better productivity through Google Sheets and Google Docs."
"I like everything that Google does. They have good products."
"It's stable. There isn't really any downtime."
"Ability to co-edit and collaborate on content."
"The solution is very stable."
"If I'm addressing certain emails from banks — automatic emails, like OTP, etc. — I can create rules and forward that OTP to the specific email IDs. You can create rules and deliver mail to different groups using the forwarding feature. It's handy."
"The upload speed needs improvement."
"If you want to delete something in Box, you have to do it manually, one by one. That was my recent experience. They might have a bulk delete, but I could not find that option. If you want to delete something, you have to go to each and every file and delete it."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"I would love to see the ability to invite collaborators extended to a file level, not just the folder level."
"It could be cheaper."
"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 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."
"The tool should improve its on-prem capabilities to include people who are working offline. The pricing is also a challenge for both the Indian and overseas markets. The tool has a cap of 300 licenses. The product's price has also increased by 10 percent. Businesses are struggling to justify the ROI. Users cannot block emails unless they have a strong firewall."
"I would rate the stability a five out of ten."
"There's a bit of a learning curve."
"There are times the plugins or extensions in the solution do not work properly and I need to disable and enable the solution."
"The meeting platform of Google Workspace has room for improvement."
"The product could improve the number of participants allowed in a meeting and the strength of the meetings."
"There are too many steps for sharing pictures."
"Their tool called Sheets is the counterpart to Excel but it doesn't have the same functionality that Excel would have. So usually if somebody needs to go back to Excel or Office, it's because of Excel."
Box is ranked 10th in Cloud Storage with 38 reviews while Google Workspace is ranked 6th in Cloud Storage with 92 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Google Workspace is rated 8.2. 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 Google Workspace writes "If you misplace things, it's much easier to find them because of the search capability. ". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and OpenText Documentum, whereas Google Workspace is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online, Amazon WorkMail, IceWarp, ProtonMail and Citrix ShareFile. See our Box vs. Google Workspace report.
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