Box vs Office 365 comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Box
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (4th), Cloud Storage (10th), Digital Asset Management (2nd), Document Management Software (1st)
Office 365
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Box is 10.0%, up from 8.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Office 365 is 2.8%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Content Collaboration Platforms
Unique Categories:
Enterprise Content Management
3.7%
Cloud Storage
12.5%
No other categories found
 

Featured Reviews

Shrikant Pillay - PeerSpot reviewer
May 20, 2022
Allows you to upload and download files quickly but lacks integration with Office 365
For enterprise users, the data is in a local repository. We use it for files for the end user process. This is a cloud solution. In my current organization, we have over 10,000 people using this solution. I use it very extensively. Users these days are working remotely You can upload your bin,…
Minos Pitsillides - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 31, 2022
Excellent technical support, easy to install, but the price, while affordable, could be improved
Office 365 is scalable, but it is dependent on the situation. We don't have a problem with it from an organizational standpoint. They started with 100 employees and then added another 500 after six months, for a total of 600 employees. The setup of new users, new emails, and new applications to be assigned to the new users is straightforward. They also provide the PowerShell command, which they provided more, development type, like, for example, you can create users, not manually, but through a script that can create users, for example, 100 users in two, three minutes, and you don't do it manually. They're fantastic. My portfolio contains approximately 50 companies. Office 365 is our primary platform for the 50 companies. I only have one on G Suite, and the majority of them will be migrating from G Suite to 365 in the coming month.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"The interface is very good."
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"Box is very simple and effective, so I prefer Box."
"The phone VoIP product provides genuine a unified communication solution."
"The integration with other applications is pretty good."
"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)."
"It is very easy to deploy."
"It has more features than somebody would expect, and it is worth taking a deeper look into the features available."
"My primary use case is for preparing presentations to teach, often on PowerPoint."
"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."
"The functionality that is most valuable is the solution's ability to detect patient data in email attachments. Whenever a user sends out an email with patient data embedded in an attachment, it triggers an alert. The tool can detect a social security number and various other forms of patient identity. Emails are then automatically generated and sent."
 

Cons

"The upload speed needs improvement."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"I find their API to be quite complex and it could be more straightforward."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"One thing that Box would benefit from is a records management component."
"It could be more user-friendly for inexperienced people."
"We have found that, with Teams, if you are including one more person who is not in the company ecosystem, supposedly I'm inviting them as a guest in the chat. However, when I do that, I can't share files."
"In terms of improvement, it should have tutorials when you first have the opportunity to use it, to be able to really learn it."
"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."
"A need that a company like ours has is that we want to be able to have data flow into one tool, for example, for all the management of tasks through the company and workflow of who is doing what and so on. There are no real solutions for this at the moment in Office 365. It would be nice if they could implement this in the next release, so we can have one solution from one company giving us the whole data and flow of data into the company."
"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 would be a fantastic opportunity if their solution could be used in combination with VoIP software, allowing you to combine VoIP software and Office 365 on a single platform."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There's a free version that allows you to use it with almost full-feature access. Even in the free version, it gives you all you need."
"Box's pricing is excellent."
"Our pricing and licensing is excellent. I'd tell all Higher Ed customers to talk with Internet2 for excellent pricing and support."
"A business account has a minimum of three users. If you are more than three people in-house, go for the Enterprise version. All the external users are free of charge."
"Better sign a full year's contract to get a discount."
"Box needs to improve with their pricing in terms of licensing costs."
"I have to pay for Box. It could be a little cheaper. On a scale from one to ten, I would give the pricing a five."
"We are using the free version of the solution. There is a free version and monthly and yearly subscriptions available."
"Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls."
"The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business."
"I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly."
"For the moment, we are paying on a monthly basis because we are still adapting the support and how we want to proceed. I think we will move to paying for the annual license."
"We have a license to use this solution. We have an E3 license which covers many different solutions."
"Licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis, or we prepay them."
"The price of Office 365 is very expensive."
"Most of the time, we purchase Microsoft Exchange licenses, which are less expensive and provide only an email platform and 50 gigabytes of email storage for free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
52%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Educational Organization
79%
Computer Software Company
3%
Financial Services Firm
2%
Government
2%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Box?
The solution is used for data storage and any kind of visualization.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Box?
The solution is expensive when it comes to API calls.
What needs improvement with Box?
One drawback is its permissions system, which has caused issues prompting our transition to SharePoint. The reporting functionality could be improved; currently, they utilize Excel for reporting pu...
What do you like most about Office 365?
The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Office 365?
I’m not sure of the exact cost. In the past, it might have been free. However, now, people do need to pay in order to use it. I would put the pricing around two out of five. It's not the cheapest p...
What needs improvement with Office 365?
Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution.
 

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Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1
 

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