LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Box (NYSE:BOX) today announced that leading, high-growth technology
companies Airbnb, LinkedIn, Spotify, Twitter and Zenefits have chosen
Box to power secure collaboration and to enable mobile access to
information. These companies join Box’s growing technology customer
base, which includes Cisco, eBay, Avago Technologies, Flextronics,
Symantec and others.
“Organizations of all sizes are facing new competitive forces requiring
them to move faster, build smarter products, make better decisions based
on data and collaborate globally,” said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO
of Box. “This information-driven transformation requires organizations
to contend with new ways of working that reshape their organizations and
markets. We are incredibly excited to work with these organizations to
empower employees with better access to information, drive more
productivity company-wide, and scale with them as they grow.”
The new technology companies announced today represent a wide variety of
use cases:
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Airbnb utilizes Box company-wide as a tool to centralize content
management for documents and images and to enhance the productivity of
its employee base.
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LinkedIn has made Box available to all employees to power internal and
external collaboration and support media teams sharing large files.
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Spotify selected Box to enable employees across numerous departments
to quickly and easily create documents, manage them from a central
location and securely share and collaborate on them simultaneously.
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Twitter leverages Box for personal drive replacement and to streamline
project management for employees collaborating internally and with
external parties.
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Zenefits chose Box as the internal and external collaboration tool for
their sales and customer support teams and to provide these teams with
a central repository for all information.
“Airbnb is all about people and experiences; our goal is to create a
sense of belonging. We apply that same vision to our IT strategy,
implementing systems and solutions that will help the business scale,”
said Mike Jennings, head of Global IT at Airbnb. “Box makes it easy for
our employees to collaborate and always have access to the documents
teams need to be productive.”
Box makes it easy for more than 37 million users and 47,000
organizations around the world to share and collaborate securely on
their most important content. With today’s announcement, these leading
technology companies join global organizations that have moved to Box to
power better ways of working, including GE, Schneider Electric and
Procter & Gamble.
To learn more about today’s announcement, visit the Box
blog.
To hear how innovative companies across industries are using technology
to transform their business, join us at BoxWorks 2015, September 28 – 30
at Moscone Center in San Francisco www.box.com/boxworks/.
About Box
Founded in 2005, Box (NYSE:BOX) is transforming the way people and
organizations work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. As the
world's leading enterprise software platform for content collaboration,
Box helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and
manage their critical information in the cloud. Box is headquartered in
Los Altos, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.
To learn more about Box, visit www.box.com
