Who actually uses Box? Does anyone here use their service? Do they have some submarket cornered?
Most of what I hear about them is related to their IPO or recruitment.
Most of what I hear about them is related to their IPO or recruitment.
Their s-1 stated that they have 48% of all Fortune 500 companies as clients and ~44k paying clients total. No idea the seat count or per company revenue.
The actual system is inferior UI wise (personal opinion) compared to DropBox.
Sync is worse then DropBox [edit: meant, better then] Google Drive (I find Drive worse then DropBox).
As far as reliability, its top notch, but I can't state anything on DropBox/Drive except that Drive has screwed up version control at a prior company.
Second biggest failing: Its own "collab" format is horrible (think google docs, etc.). Very poorly done.
Its biggest failing: No tree view. You can't "expand" folders.
That is ludicrous and makes it extremely hard to navigate. We'll have VP's joke about how they gave up on finding stuff, and just email a group to find X / Y doc / presentation, etc.
Its permissions need work, but overall decent.
Summary: as far as Enterprise level software? It does pretty well, and far less buggy then most things that get plugged into AMS (asset management), Content management, Project Management (several) systems.
If you are viewing folders, look at the bread crumb navigation. The first bread crumb will have drop down arrow which gives you a folder tree view. This tree also has search.
On my own I've been using them for about 5 years, give or take. I use it over Dropbox a majority of the time. I personally like Box. I think it works well enough and it has a desktop syncing client for regular customers now. Used to be exclusive to business customers IIRC, so that was one of the things people didn't like.
I have the ability to edit/create documents in Microsoft Office or Google Drive formats right in my Box account. I don't use any killer apps though. But it works well enough for nearly every use case I've had in the time I've used it, with the exception that file upload size limit is small. Might be around 100 megabytes max.
There's also versioning for files, if you need that kind of feature.
Their small file size limit and lack of a Linux client have prevented me from using their service.
Personally the only thing I've really had a problem with using Box is the small file size limit as well. But everything else has been smooth since starting to use it.