We performed a comparison between Box and Microsoft OneDrive based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: After comparing the two solutions, Box comes out on top. Compared to Microsoft OneDrive, it is easier to deploy, is user friendly, has great support, and has a good ROI.
"Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers."
"I like the ease of use."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"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 solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"It helps you keep organized."
"The stability of Microsoft OneDrive is very good, it is reliable. There were multiple instances where I had lost my valuable data on hard drives in several other places. However, with Microsoft OneDrive, I've never lost a single file."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the amount of space allotted to each user that is issued a subscription."
"The most valuable feature is to be able to modify the file online and keep it stored on the cloud, since it is not necessary to download it to make modifications."
"It is good as a central hub for the storage of documents and sharing among team members."
"It's quite easy to use and then of course it is quite well integrated to the rest of Office 365."
"Image management is great since the search is simple, and accessing images with labels is easy."
"It was extremely easy to setup."
"The solution's data security should be improved."
"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."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"It could be cheaper."
"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."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"Working on documents in real-time is sometimes faulty and could be improved."
"It takes too long for OneDrive to synchronize various applications, especially when you are saving office data. It also requires too much bandwidth."
"OneDrive is a bit behind competing products like Dropbox and Box."
"The online application is quite limited, for this and other Office offerings."
"Recent functionality changes have actually made the product more confusing to use."
"Support has not been the same since the beginning of COVID lockdowns."
"There are not enough ways to assign permissions to shared folders and files."
"It is not very stable because there are a lot of bugs."
"If I want to pick out certain criteria of pictures, Google enables me to do that whereas OneDrive is a bit sort of flaky."
Box is ranked 4th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 38 reviews while Microsoft OneDrive is ranked 2nd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 19 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Microsoft OneDrive 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 Microsoft OneDrive writes "A transparent and self-explanatory storage system for data and files". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365, Egnyte and IBM FileNet, whereas Microsoft OneDrive is most compared with SharePoint, Dropbox, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile and Amazon WorkDocs. See our Box vs. Microsoft OneDrive report.
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