Box announced today that it will bring its cloud content collaboration
platform to General Electric (NYSE: GE). With this agreement, GE will
empower its employees to intuitively collaborate and securely share
files from any computer, phone, or tablet.
“In today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world, providing our employees
with secure access to content at any time using any device is critical
to creating a more productive, connected workforce,” said Jamie Miller,
senior vice president and CIO of GE. “Moving to a cloud technology like
Box allows us to centralize all of our content and provides more
efficiency, speed and simplicity for our employees.”
“GE is at the forefront of bringing intelligent data to industrial
machines and processes to create new ways of working,” said Aaron Levie,
co-founder and CEO of Box. “They’re applying that same creativity and
innovation to their information technology strategy, empowering
employees with better access to information, and ultimately driving more
productivity and collaboration organization-wide. We are incredibly
excited to work with a company that’s helping to drive and define the
information economy.”
GE’s IT organization, tasked with bringing innovative, cutting-edge
technology to roughly 300,000 employees located in more than 170
countries, selected Box to:
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Make it easy for employees to collaborate across business units and
with external parties;
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Unify business information across applications, thanks to Box’s open
platform and integration with other cloud and on-premise solutions; and
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Provide IT with the control and administrative capabilities required
to govern and protect sensitive content at scale.
Box and GE both place a strong emphasis on creating environments that
foster productivity, efficiency and collaboration. By deploying Box to
power better ways of working, GE joins global brands such as Procter &
Gamble, McAfee, Schneider Electric and Pearson. Box makes it easy for
more than 25 million individuals at 225,000 businesses around the world
to share and collaborate across devices, while also providing IT
departments with unparalleled insight and control.
About Box
Box’s mission is to make businesses of all sizes more productive,
competitive, and collaborative by connecting people and their most
important information. Content on Box can be securely shared and easily
accessed on the web, through iOS, Android and Windows Phone
applications, and extended to partner applications, such as Google Apps,
NetSuite and Salesforce. Headquartered in Los Altos, CA, Box is
privately held and backed by several leading venture capital firms and
strategic investors. To learn more about Box, visit www.box.com.
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