Box helped kickstart cloud collaboration—but today’s enterprises need more.
For years, Box offered a simple answer to cloud file sharing. But the enterprise landscape has changed—and so have the needs of IT, Security, and Collaboration teams. Today, over a million organizations have standardized on Microsoft 365. That shift has created a major disconnect: why keep your data in one platform, but manage sharing in another?
Box Was Built for a Different Era
Box filled a gap when businesses first moved to the cloud. But its model is now misaligned with how modern enterprises operate.
To share files via Box, organizations must:
⇢ Copy data outside of their Microsoft 365 environment
⇢ Govern that data with separate policies and permissions
⇢ Train users to switch between platforms
That means duplicated infrastructure, parallel governance, and more user friction—all while undermining the very investment in Microsoft 365 most organizations have already made.
eSHARE Is Built for the M365 World
eSHARE takes a fundamentally different approach. Instead of extracting your data to another platform, eSHARE enables secure collaboration directly inside your Microsoft 365 tenant—using your existing tools, labels, and workflows.
With eSHARE:
➭ Files never leave your Microsoft environment
➭ Purview labels, DLP, and retention policies remain in effect
➭ Internal and external collaboration happens in one place
➭ Users work in the flow—no context switching, no retraining
It’s not just seamless. It’s strategic.
Why This Matters for Security, Compliance, and AI
Keeping your data within Microsoft 365 isn’t just a convenience—it’s a critical move for today’s enterprise requirements:
➭ Copilot Readiness: Microsoft Copilot works best with a single source of truth. Duplicated data weakens AI output.
➭ Security: Eliminating data transfers reduces your attack surface by up to 90%.
➭ Compliance: A single governance model makes audits and policy enforcement more straightforward and reliable.
Box, by contrast, creates unnecessary complexity—and risk—by pulling your data into a separate ecosystem.
The True Cost of Using Box Alongside Microsoft 365
Organizations often underestimate how costly it is to maintain Box alongside Microsoft 365. It’s not just about licensing. It’s about:
☒ Supporting two infrastructures
☒ Managing parallel policies
☒ Training users across platforms
☒ Losing productivity to context switching
In contrast, organizations that switch to eSHARE report:
$10M–$15M/year in hard savings
☑ 3X productivity gains
☑ 90%+ user adoption
☑ Faster time to share externally
☑ Improved data protection and governance
Real-World Results
A Fortune 500 manufacturing company shared:
“Users avoided Box because it disrupted their workflow. With eSHARE, sharing is invisible—people just work in Microsoft 365, and security happens automatically.”
And from a CISO in healthcare:
“Box forced us to manage two governance models. eSHARE gave us the external sharing we needed without adding complexity.”
Box Was the Past. eSHARE Is the Future.
In a Microsoft 365-centric world, Box is no longer the logical choice for secure collaboration. eSHARE extends the Microsoft tools your teams already rely on—while eliminating the friction, duplication, and governance sprawl Box can create.
➭ One environment
➭ One governance model
➭ One strategy—built for the future of AI-powered productivity
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