BoxWorks 2011: A Recap
Last week Box, the enterprise software company formerly known as Box.net, held their first annual user conference by name Boxworks. With this conference, Box is signaling that they want to be part of the big enterprise software club. Since this is their first attempt, it was a one day event but they are planning a [...]
Tablets In The Enterprise: Workday and Box Announce Tablet Apps
From the days when we considered iPads in the enterprise as an exciting new trend, we have slowly moved into a world where tablets are a norm from boardroom to IT admins. In fact, it has become a defacto device for many of the top level executives, thereby, forcing cloud application providers to offer a [...]
Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue To Grow 21% This Year
Gartner, the leading research firm, said SaaS will grow by 21% this year with CRM leading the way. Based on the trends we have been observing in the recent years, this is pretty much expected. After the initial FUD and maturation of cloud based technologies, enterprises are looking beyond the security and privacy issue to [...]
Box Counters Office 365 With Deeper Google Integration
Box (previous CloudAve coverage), Palo Alto based cloud content management solution provider, yesterday announced their readiness to take on Office 365 (previous CloudAve coverage), Microsoft’s comprehensive online office solution including Sharepoint, which will be generally available next week. They announced a tighter integration with Google Docs, clearly a credible option to go against Sharepoint inside [...]
ECM Cloud Connect – Box Is Finally Getting Realistic
Yesterday, Box (see previous CloudAve coverage) announced that they are releasing ECM Cloud Connect, a connector for traditional enterprise content management software. This marks a subtle turn around in Box’s strategy, partly due to the recognition of their challenges and, possibly, due to the pressures that came with their recent whopping $48 Million funding round. [...]
Will Box’s Enterprise Strategy Pay Dividends?
Box (see previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as Box.Net, continues to push hard on gaining enterprise marketshare. Today they announced a newer version of iPad app that includes not only some of the recently announced #newbox features but also additional security measures aimed squarely at the enterprise customers. Box is trying to project themselves as [...]
Disrupting The Cloud Storage Market: Box.Net Says Yes We Can
Box.Net (see previous CloudAve coverage), the Palo Alto based cloud storage company, today surprised the industry with their Infinite Cloud philosophy. With this move, Box.Net is changing the very dynamics of the industry. We will be seeing the reverberations of this move in the coming months and years. Whether Box.Net can truly disrupt the industry [...]
Box.Net Expands Their Mobile Strategy And Why Android Will Be Big
Box.Net, the content management provider founded in 2005, today announced the availability of their Android App on the Android marketplace. This is a free app which will let users access, share and manage their content from their Android devices. Box.Net already offer apps for iOS devices and the addition of Android devices is the next [...]
Google Apps in a Box. Oh, and an iPad Killer.
What we’ve missed from our Google Apps Marketplace coverage : the Best Poster Award … drumroll.. goes to box.net: And while at it, their video isn’t too shabby, either: Wait… is that an iPad killer with a great virtual keyboard at 0:46? Bias alert: I’ve been watching Box.net from the humble early days [...]
