We performed a comparison between Alfresco and Box based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Box, DocuWare, Hyland and others in Document Management Software."The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the searching elements of the metadata."
"I like the ease of use, sections, and calendar."
"Document repository."
"The product allows engineering teams and developers to introduce new things in a seamless and easy way."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"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 application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"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."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"I think the presentation layer could be improved - currently, it's too complex, and there are too many features cluttered all over the screen."
"Alfresco has a very steep learning curve, and unfortunately, during the learning process, it's very easy to make errors, which often are unforgiving."
"I would like them to consider document capture functionality."
"Metadata, auto class, disposition log, and legal hold."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"The upload speed needs improvement."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"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."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"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 UI should be faster. Sometimes it lags when switching between documents."
"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."
Alfresco is ranked 3rd in Document Management Software with 10 reviews while Box is ranked 1st in Document Management Software with 37 reviews. Alfresco is rated 8.0, while Box is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alfresco writes "Flexible and customizable but lacking integration with Microsoft". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Box writes "Used for data storage and data collaboration, but its data security could be improved". Alfresco is most compared with SharePoint, Hyland OnBase, OpenText Extended ECM, OpenText Documentum and Microsoft OneDrive, whereas Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and Backblaze.
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