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.
"Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities."
"Box is extremely stable, they have not been hacked or lost any data in the past seventeen years. I am very impressed with it."
"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."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"I like the ease of use."
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"It has more features than somebody would expect, and it is worth taking a deeper look into the features available."
"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."
"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."
"The most innovative feature of Office 365 is the Power Apps, which allows us to automate literally everything that we want automated. For example, sending attachments to specific folders on SharePoint, adding people's SharePoint when certain apps are performed, or emailing certain people at certain instances, such as when you've done a follow-up with the CRM and you need a marketing email to be sent out at a particular point."
"There's a lot there in terms of apps and features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration."
"It's inexpensive to license."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"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."
"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."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"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."
"Sometimes the configurations of the error troubleshooting are pretty problematic and there are a lot of issues that happen even if you follow the step-by-step guides. They can work on fixing this issue. If there are a lot of issues in your Windows or your Office or anything, you restart your PC and it works. They need to get rid of this need."
"It could be more user-friendly for inexperienced people."
"As a private user, I do not appreciate the cloud features, but I doubt that this is something Microsoft would consider a feature request."
"Normally, they have a way to work with specific developments, and I think they shouldn't allow the partners to make some changes they have made. When I have a client with a lot of changes, we have a problem with that because there aren't rules to develop inside the ERP, so you can do anything."
"I would like to see better integration with Teams, and better usability with SharePoint."
"Microsoft Word is a little bit left behind regarding the tools it has."
"Performance-wise, Office 365 needs a lot of bandwidth. The problem is, the solution requires very high bandwidth and internet usage. Meaning, the desktop application consumes a lot of internet data. Sometimes, when the connection is slow, it won't work and it won't load. This is an area for improvement for Office 365."
"I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five."
Box is ranked 1st in Content Collaboration Platforms with 11 reviews while Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 17 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while Office 365 is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Box writes "Easily collaborate and share information with this feature rich solution". 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, Dropbox, Citrix ShareFile and IBM FileNet, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile, Dropbox and HCL Verse. See our Box vs. Office 365 report.
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