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 solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"Box is very simple and effective, so I prefer Box."
"File sharing, authorization on the back, its ease of use and reliable uptime performance are valuable features of this solution."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"Box is very user-friendly; more so than SharePoint."
"I like the ease of use."
"The user interface is fantastic. It's also available for the individual person, so that's also a great thing about it."
"When it comes to email, Google has a very good anti-spam engine or solution. We get very less spams. We don't have to use an external anti-spam solution with this."
"Google Mail lets you link a task to a specific email and add a reminder. That's helpful for reviewing your schedule. It's based on Slack, so you don't have these folders like in Microsoft mail. Using Slack instead of folders is a bit more intuitive. It's easier to find again a specific email than using Microsoft Suite. If you misplace things, it's much easier to find them because of Google's search capability."
"I have found the solution to be pretty stable."
"Everything is synchronized across every single device you use to access G Suite. That is why we like it."
"The corporate email feature on Google's Gmail is fantastic."
"The document sharing in which multiple people can work on the same document. To go along with that is the archiving of documents. If you mess up a document, it's easy to go get a previous version."
"The valuable features of this solution are ease of use, performance is great, and collaboration. It is very easy to share and joins documents."
"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."
"In future releases, there could be encryption, to have better security."
"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’)."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"I found that there is no desktop application for this solution, and that's a major fault of this application."
"There are too many steps for sharing pictures."
"Integrating Copilot with Google Workspace is slightly difficult."
"The solution could improve by having more frequent updates."
"Scalability is not as good as we would like."
"The cost could be improved. It can sometimes be a bit confusing figuring out how we are actually being charged."
"If your storage requirements in day-to-day work are large, then it will incur an additional cost since free storage is limited."
"Less customizations than there used to be."
Box is ranked 9th in Cloud Storage with 39 reviews while Google Workspace is ranked 8th in Cloud Storage with 92 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Google Workspace is rated 8.2. 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 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 Nasuni, 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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