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 interface is very good."
"Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"Box is extremely stable, they have not been hacked or lost any data in the past seventeen years. I am very impressed with it."
"Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers."
"It improved transparency around work products."
"It's stable. It's very widely used by companies. Also, the knowledge of the product has improved over the years, and by other companies that support it or are Microsoft SharePoint partners. So if there are problems, there's always a user or company that knows the information or can help you; even with very uncommon problems."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"It is well supported by Microsoft."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"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 would love to see the ability to invite collaborators extended to a file level, not just the folder level."
"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."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"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."
"Working on documents in real-time is sometimes faulty and could be improved."
"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 solution's data security should be improved."
"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."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"Make it more intuitive."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"The solution's support services and GenAI could be improved and made faster and more knowledgeable."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 39 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 150 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Box writes "Allows you to upload and download files quickly but lacks integration with Office 365". 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 Dropbox, 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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