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.
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"The solution is scalable."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"The sharing feature, with its various permission settings, such as viewing or uploading, is convenient and helpful."
"File sharing, authorization on the back, its ease of use and reliable uptime performance are valuable features of this solution."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"We can arrange all our documents on one platform and see the document's changes and edits."
"Information is much more readily available."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"It is very stable."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"Working on documents in real-time is sometimes faulty and could be improved."
"I would love to see the ability to invite collaborators extended to a file level, not just the folder level."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"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."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents."
"Improve the user-friendliness."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type. That would be cool for accessibility."
Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 38 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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