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.
"Sharing and collaborating across files and folders has been a massive game changer."
"Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect."
"Using Box for cloud storage allows us to focus on the service and maintaining infrastructure."
"It is a very user-friendly product."
"It is really easy to load files to and from this solution."
"Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers."
"I like that Box makes it easy to deploy virtual machines."
"The application is very light in terms of uploading and downloading files."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"What I like about SharePoint is that they keep up with a lot of updates, and they bring out new features. I also like that the system is integrated with the Microsoft 365 suite of apps."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"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."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"I don't like the low level of role-based security it provides – it's very cumbersome, and the support is ordinary at times."
"Like all cloud platforms, there are always areas of improvement around sync to local devices."
"They could integrate better with other platforms."
"If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great."
"Tasks and comments could be easier to see, report, search, and manage."
"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."
"The room for improvement is in the area of integrations. They need to establish more integrations, especially with Office 365 and Outlook."
"Improvements in speed - Box's high level of security impacts performance, especially when compared with other similar services."
"I would like it to be more compliant with global regulations. There are certain features which could be included that currently are not there, such as compliance and record management capabilities."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"When you are trying to migrate from a different platform to SharePoint for file storage, the upload utility should be more flexible, taking more files and then updating you on the upload status of the files you are trying to transfer into SharePoint."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"It has worked very well for me. It seems like they've improved everything. I don't have any cons about it as such, but I don't think they have a talk-to-text, speech-to-text, or speech-to-type. That would be cool for accessibility."
Box is ranked 4th in Enterprise Content Management with 39 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 150 reviews. Box is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Box writes "Allows you to upload and download files quickly but lacks integration with Office 365". 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 Dropbox, 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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