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Customized Content and Collaboration in the Cloud In the age of bring-your-own-device, users want to do more than just see their content.They want to collaborate, too. Mobile devices and customized apps are making that happen for Box users.
people who are on the road and in the office.”
The days of the one employee/one computer paradigm
and their clients to create custom apps that are designed
are over. Today, employees work using a variety of devices
around specific missions and needs.
and applications – and many are designed and released by
Box’s staff is constantly working with app developers, selecting and evaluating the most popular productivity apps in the market and helping to integrate them securely with the Box platform. In addition, Box works with application developers
These apps, which are branded around the customer, make
companies that people have never heard of. This creates
workflow easier and more seamless, says Aaron Levie, Box’s
a conundrum for IT: CIOs and CISOs must decide which
CEO. “What’s exciting about these apps, especially the custom
applications and providers meet their users’ needs, while still
ones, is that a specific workflow or a specific set of documents
meeting the security and compliance levels that are required by
could be put out there and the employee in the field only gets
their organizations. “The entire mobile app ecosystem is completely fragmented,” agrees
to see those documents that apply directly to him or her.” These apps often end up in an
Chris Yeh, senior vice president
agency’s or organization’s own
of platforms at Box. “And IT often
private app store, says Yeh, providing
chooses to ignore it completely due
another layer of security. “You’ve got
to the fact that even when there are
CIOs or CISO’s saying, ‘Yeah, I’m
mobile apps out there, there’s a lack
going to build this app and it’s going
of confidence in them.”
to have special requirements that are
The result: There are still many
unique to me, and I’m going to host
agencies out there stuck using
it privately, and I’m still going to take
on-premises applications, which only
advantage of all of the power of the
work when users are in their offices
Box platform to enable it.’”
or tethered to secure networks. The
These users can create specific
Box OneCloud ecosystem is designed to solve all of these
paths within those apps that streamline use on-premises, too.
problems, giving agencies and organizations a way to improve
So, for instance, someone who was visiting an agency for a
productivity and accelerate their missions.
day can be given a mobile device that – when Box and the
The Box Mobile Connection
app is launched – takes them directly to the view and content that they are supposed to see. The process is simplified even
Box OneCloud is an ecosystem of mobile apps that integrate
further by Box customer success managers, who are available
with Box’s core features. Using OneCloud, IT can provide users
to answer questions, handle issues, and advise organizations
more than 500 apps that can be used to interact with the
on the best ways to roll out Box to the entire organization. And
various file types and content that can be stored, accessed,
this is only the beginning, says Levie.
downloaded, and shared using Box. In many cases, says Yeh, this also provides a way for users
“We have about five hundred partners on OneCloud today. We hope that we can eventually get into the thousands of
to interact with workflows in their organizations even when they
developers using this platform. This is a huge part of our
are on the road or in the field. “This is something that most Box
strategy and what we offer to agencies and the enterprise:
users need to get a handle on. Box isn’t just www.box.com and
Being open and being able to serve all of these different use
a set of mobile applications, but a platform that can start to tie
cases quickly, securely, and instantly.” •
into the mission systems and provide true collaboration between