We performed a comparison between Box and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"Box is extremely stable, they have not been hacked or lost any data in the past seventeen years. I am very impressed with it."
"The most valuable feature of Box is security."
"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."
"Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive."
"It's nice that it's an all-in-one solution and everything is all in one place."
"Many of the features in Office 365 are good, but I think Excel is a very good tool."
"We use it for documentation management, to collaborate with Microsoft Teams, web calls, web conference calls, chats, and as a documentation repository mainly. We have an Office pack suite to be able to write documentation, make spreadsheets, and create PowerPoints."
"Adaptable solution with a good interface. It's easy to set up and easy to use."
"Quarantine email alerts to users to allow the email to their inbox (tricky but handy) - tricky if one doesn't have third-party email security, handy if one has got good third party email security)."
"The way the ERP presents information for the user is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved."
"I would love to see the ability to invite collaborators extended to a file level, not just the folder level."
"The upload speed needs improvement."
"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."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five."
"We have had some connectivity issues."
"The one big problem with the solution is if you are presenting in Teams and someone puts their hand up, you don't get a notification. If you are running a meeting and just presenting you don't know that people have their hands up and want to ask a question."
"Office 365 could allow for smoother collaboration with other companies, which is the main reason we use it. The B2B connection is something we need, like global adverse lists between two tenants or multiple users. That's what we're missing at the moment."
"I would like to see the macro functionality in Excel made simpler."
"They should do more testing before product releases."
"Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users."
"Integration between Outlook calendar and Google Calendar would be a good improvement since many of our team use Android phones and personal Gmail accounts as their main calendar application."
Box is ranked 2nd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 37 reviews while Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. 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 Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". Box is most compared with SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Egnyte and IBM FileNet, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive. See our Box vs. Office 365 report.
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