REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & ARMONK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Box (NYSE:BOX) and IBM (NYSE:IBM), today announced Box Relay, a new
workflow solution that will be available natively in Box. The offering
will make it easy for any employee in a business to build, track and
manage custom or pre-built workflows that leverage all of the security,
compliance and collaboration features of Box. The product is a part of
the all new Box, which will be shared in full tomorrow at BoxWorks
2016, Box’s annual conference in San Francisco.
“Workflow in the enterprise is broken – complex, fragmented software and
manual processes are getting in the way of productivity,” said Aaron
Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box. “The all new Box is a place where all
of your work comes together. Box Relay delivers on this vision by
providing anyone with an easy way to create, track and manage routine
processes without ever having to leave Box. Box Relay is enterprise
workflow made simple.”
“As businesses embark on the journey to become cognitive, the ability
for teams to collaborate and iterate on content, surface new insights,
and collaborate naturally are key. Our successful partnership with Box
is helping companies along this journey,” said Inhi Cho Suh, general
manager of collaboration solutions, IBM Analytics. “This first joint
solution from IBM and Box enables businesses to create a simpler digital
workflow across different functions to help reduce the time spent
managing projects and boost team productivity. This is possible by
combining the power of IBM Cloud with Box’s leading content management
platform.”
In June 2015, IBM and Box embarked on a strategic partnership to deliver
new capabilities and new solutions to market globally by bringing
together Box’s modern content management and collaboration platform with
the global footprint of the IBM Cloud. Developed on Bluemix, IBM’s Cloud
platform, Box Relay will help make it easier for people working in every
industry and job function to be more productive, whether the goal is to
automate employee onboarding and training, streamline the budget
process, or approve assets and contracts and is designed to:
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Reduce IT dependency and empower end users. With an intuitive
design that will allow anyone to build custom workflows or leverage a
catalog of existing workflows, Box Relay will allow IT teams to focus
on other work while giving their end-users a better way to streamline
and automate their processes.
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Make processes seamless across the ‘extended enterprise’. Because
it’s built on Box, Box Relay will allow workflows to extend securely
between both internal and external teams. Customers, vendors or
partners can be assigned tasks, so the process does not break down
when content flows across or between organizations.
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Reduce the time people spend managing their projects. With a
dashboard providing real-time visibility, email notifications that
alert users when items are assigned and overdue, and an audit trail
that provides transparency on every action taken, users will no longer
have to worry about missed deadlines, updating people on the status,
or reporting and tracking.
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Leverage all the benefits of Box: Box Relay eliminates the need
to switch between systems by providing a workflow tool on the platform
enterprises already trust to manage their most valuable content. Users
will be able to edit content that is automatically saved back to Box,
leveraging integrations including, Office
365, Adobe
and Salesforce.
Content is protected by Box features such as granular permissions,
password protected content and access stats, and users will benefit
benefit from world class security and control packages from Box
including Box
KeySafe, Box
Zones and Box
Governance.
"The viral adoption of content collaboration at work uncovered huge
demand for more streamlined coordination of repeatable processes between
enterprise end users, their partners and customers. This created the
need for a new type of workflow automation," according to IDC Vice
President Maureen Fleming. "Enterprises are actively looking for
workflow solutions that provide the right level of simplicity and
capability at the right price so they can improve the productivity and
efficiency inside their business and across their business networks."
Pricing and Availability
Box Relay will be available for an additional fee to Box business users.
Box Relay is scheduled to be released in beta during Q4, with general
availability the first half of next year.
To learn more about Box Relay, visit https://www.box.com/relay
and for more information about the IBM and Box partnership, visit http://www.ibm.com/ibmandbox.
About Box
Founded in 2005, Box (NYSE:BOX) is transforming the way people and
organizations work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. As a
leading enterprise content platform, Box helps more than 66,000
businesses, including General Electric, KKR & Co., P&G and The GAP
securely access and manage their critical information in the cloud. Box
is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United
States, Europe and Asia. To learn more about Box, visit www.box.com.
