We performed a comparison between Box and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dropbox, Microsoft, Google and others in Content Collaboration Platforms."Governance and ease of use are why I think a lot of people like Box, including ourselves. Basically, we're concerned about what information is being sent to Box, so we use a lot of the Box governance features to make sure that what is being sent to Box is appropriate. If it is not appropriate, it is not allowed to be sent. It is also pretty easy to use. It is the easiest to use for customers and for technologists."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"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."
"The solution is scalable."
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive."
"The software is friendly to use for mixing data and analyzing it."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very usable. I can navigate it, I can have a media call, I can have a call with my project team, so we can chat with every team kind of like WhatsApp. Any time there are projects or other things, we can chat in a secure way. It's automation-specific secure."
"The forms aspect of the solution, for example, the creation of surveys, is its most valuable aspect."
"The solution's most valuable features is its document management. It allows sharing with external users and integrates well with Office apps and Microsoft Flow."
"Ability to collaborate with others in one location."
"It is a decent tool for collaboration, especially if you are already using other Office products."
"Document management and records management features are the most valuable."
"The upload speed needs improvement."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"The solution's data security should be improved."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"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."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"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."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"The solution needs to enable better sharing capabilities between users and external users. Several users also have problems with linking their emails to their Microsoft account."
"This solution is not very stable. It is useful to arrange data but it's not the best for big data. Sometimes we have issues with our reports as a result."
"I would like to see more Agile techniques and seamless integration with other applications."
"The GUI is outdated."
"The user interface needs improvement because there is a lot of stuff in there. I use five to eight navigation buttons. It should be more user-friendly. Frequently used menu items should be arranged in a proper way. That would be helpful."
"I think these tools do a pretty good job. There is only one area of improvement. Maybe Microsoft can invest a little bit more into the ease at which integration can be done with other third party applications."
"It is a bit restrictive to develop in the cloud version. A lot of features are in the cloud now, and you have to develop on the outside. As far as the platform and the programming side of things are concerned, it is moving more towards configuration management rather than programming. When we are doing solutions, we are basically just configuring it to make solutions happen rather than actually using the Visual Studio code and developing from scratch in the cloud. It is almost like creating an app. You have created an app for your phone, but the app doesn't really sit on your phone. It sits somewhere on a server, and the database sits on another server. The app is just pulling and pushing information. The whole development has changed. We used to install things directly on the server and then run the application from the server. Now, it is more of a modular architecture."
"The product is behind in development and lacks some features."
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Box is ranked 4th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 37 reviews while Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is ranked 11th in Content Collaboration Platforms. Box is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is rated 7.6. 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 Office SharePoint Server writes "Stable, integrates well with Teams, and has flexible and helpful support". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365 and Egnyte, whereas Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Datto Workplace, FileCloud, Kiteworks and HighQ.
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