We performed a comparison between Box vs. SharePoint based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Box has the winning edge in this comparison because of users’ reports of better ease of deployment, scalability, and collaboration capabilities.
"The system's performance is impressive, and file sharing is notably straightforward."
"I like the ease of use."
"The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box."
"The solution is scalable."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"You can upload your bin, upload your files quickly, and download your files quickly. It provides a lot of other alternatives."
"The collaboration of the solution is good."
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"It has made us faster and more efficient."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"It improved transparency around work products."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"It has good integration with other MS products."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily build intranet sites for communicating within teams, storing documentation, product information, pricing policies, updates on product infrastructure, and other related news."
"With OneDrive, you can continuously save your files over a Box folder. That is something I wish we could have."
"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."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"Maturity of the enterprise security around user management."
"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."
"Data privacy, regarding where to store your data: Offering several transparent(!) options (where to store my data and whether to sync back or not and where to sync) regarding the local law situations (USA, EU, Switzerland!) would increase the credibility of a US based company (after NSA ‘snooping’)."
"Better integration with other solutions is needed."
"Like all cloud platforms, there are always areas of improvement around sync to local devices."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"There are some limitations on storage."
"Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud."
"More hints and make it more user-customizable."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 37 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. 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 SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Box is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, Citrix ShareFile, Office 365, Egnyte and IBM FileNet, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, WordPress and OpenText Documentum. See our Box vs. SharePoint report.
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