Box Reviews

Box is very realistic when it comes to sharing capabilities. The editable features and upgrading capabilities are great. You can work on a document online and save it online. The versioning is a very attractive feature. You can check the updates that were made to a document, and trace which edits each team member made. I also like that it prevents updates from occurring while someone is using it. 

I believe there is still a desktop version; I used to use it in the past. If it's still in use, there should be a Microsoft Office plugin because most of the shareable documents are generated,  represented, or displayed in Microsoft Office. If there was a plugin that added some sort of toolbar in Office, that would be great.

Most of our digital content is now shareable. We can share a post on our Box account from Facebook. We can share a tweet from Twitter on our Box account. For this reason, it needs to be more viewable. Every website has a photo or some sort of location displayed on its website. You can find a logo for YouTube and Facebook and Insta and Twitter. You should be able to do the same with Box.

I have been using Box since 2013.

Box is very stable and secure.

Box is quite scalable, they offer several types of subscriptions. 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.

I use the free version. It provides me with all of the features that I need. 

My advice is to use this solution. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give Box a rating of nine. 

Box thinks of features before I realize I want them! I love the email upload tool, Box notes real time editing, and integrations with Microsoft Office.

Box has given us a single tool to rule them all! Since everyone has access to it, we can expect everyone to have access to whatever we put in it. Also has reduced the use of emailing attachments which is a time saver.

Box Sync is still a bit buggy and it is difficult to get used to not being able to organize your view of folders as it is determined by the owner of the folder.

Box messaging has really revamped communication with in my company.The ability to collaborate around data anywhere, anytime is the most powerful features of Box.  

Box is extremely user friendly, however our clients have been having a hard time adjusting and understanding Box. It would be nice to have a more seamless integration with clients. 

1 year

Superb service. All of our questions are always answered in a timely manner. 

Simple file sharing and sync for internal and external customers.

File sharing for projects and other unique activities have been greatly enhanced.

Maturity of the enterprise security around user management.

We have been using this solution between two and five years.

There were no deployment issues. Box consulting services provided an excellent, repeatable process to follow.

There were no stability issues.

Core functionality remains solid.

There were no scalability issues.

I would give customer service a rating of 7/10. Most support organizations have room to get better.

I would give technical support a rating of 7/10.

We had a previous solution and we still use it. We provide options for users to select the best of breed of two solutions.

The setup was mostly straightforward. The light weight/simplicity of the solution is one of the leading features.

We implemented in-house with Box consulting services.

Mobile access, ease-of-sharing, securing data in transit and at rest.

Flexible workforce. Our employees can access content from anywhere, no-vpn, no special apps, no extra authentications.

Integrations, the more integrations the better. Office + Outlook are great but we need more like it.

3 years.

User education in the first year was our toughest challenge. 

No

No, scales excellently.

Good

On premise files storage.

Straightforward

24 months

Straightforward, easy to understand.

• IFRAME Widget (To publish documents on another web page). Most of the best CMSs don’t offer any good DMS features. Not even many products as an add-on or plug-in. So why not take one of the best DMS (box) on the market and integrate (embed) the functionality for publishing public documents? Or even better, integrate box as a secure extranet for your business.

• Office Integration. The full integration into the Microsoft Office products is just perfect.
• Versioning (Version History). This feature allows previous versions of files to be stored all in one place, allowing you to quickly find and restore previous versions of your content. Or even better, real-time co-authoring in Box for Office Online
• Document Preview. Previewing and collaborating without ever having to open a desktop application or download the content to a computer.

There is no easier way to publish a (new) document to the web (via the IFRAME widget). Just put the file in the right place!

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’).
In Switzerland, many firms of different sectors face strict regulations around where their files are stored, leaving them with a limited set of options, and keeping many of these enterprises stuck on legacy infrastructure. Box Zones is a good initiative or start, but its not perfect at all.

I have used Box from 2012 until today.

We have not had stability problems.

We have not had scalability problems.

I rate support 8/10.

We used Dropbox, SugarSync, and Google Drive.

Setup was pretty much straightforward.

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.

We looked at Dropbox, ownCloud, Google Drive.

Check first all the possibilities where to store the data. (Where are the data servers located and how are they synchronized/mirrored.)

I truly believe that Box should have a box consulting division which would really enable customers who do not necessarily want to work with ISV's. I mean a division who could really help write business specific apps.

9 months

Not really

Not until now

No issues encountered so far, except for large files (we have some 50GB+ files who we now have to split up

Great!

Technical support people really know their stuff, Great service.

Yes, OneDrive for business, but we had a lot of problems with instability

Very straightforward, we got it setup for about a thousand people in less than a day

In-house

I believe it is a great product and priced very well so I can only recommend it

Yes, OneDrive for business