Fantastic product, competitively priced.
October 17, 2012
Fantastic product, competitively priced.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction
- It is built like a social networking interface – you can see if someone has uploaded a document and you get notifications in a Facebook like interface.
- You can see which documents have most recently been uploaded, touched, placed for commentary, and what someone is working on now. It is a very collaborative environment.
- It had really good training. My staff member with no help from IT was able to get up and running.
- We didn’t need to customize.
- They have a lot of integration widgets you can download – they are easy to use and well covered in training, easy to get started
- The interface is so intuitive.
- Nothing that I am aware of yet.
- Back-up of legal docs so can move firm if need to
- Automatic updates for activities that are occurring increases transparency between us and our law firm. It helps us keep tabs on how quickly the law firm can turn documents around, so we don’t have to pick up the phone to ask. We were having problems with the firm before on turnaround times. Box makes the firm more accountable.
Product Usage
- We wanted a back-up of everything stored at our law firm office that manages our state filings. We wanted the ability to move to another law firm easily if necessary.
- We are not so worried about security as all the filings are public – 90% of the docs are public information.
- We are not using to store sales contracts. It does however integrate with Salesforce.com and Echosign. I was concerned about security of those documents and would have had to evaluate with more scrutiny.
Evaluation and Selection
Merrill Datasite - 10x more expensive and no unlimited storage; Definitely felt a lot more stodgy, old-school, legal look to it, not as user friendly. One really cool feature it does have is optical detection - if you upload docs (scans of docs), you can get it to look for things in them. Box does not have this feature. If you are doing real due diligence, it’s a really nice feature. However, we didn’t need it.
Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Training
- Online training