Available today, Box UI Elements deliver the best of Box's user
experience to developers building with Box Platform
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX), a leader in cloud content management, today
introduced Box Elements, a new set of tools for businesses of all
sizes to bring the Box content experience into any application built
with Box Platform. The first set of tools, UI Elements, is generally
available today and includes four pre-built, customizable
components of Box's popular user interface, which today is used by more
than 50 million people and 74,000 businesses – including 64 percent of
the Fortune 500. Box also announced that it has reached a milestone of
100,000 developers building with Box Platform.
“A great content experience is essential to how people collaborate and
get work done with their colleagues, customers and partners,” said Jeetu
Patel, CSO and SVP of Box Platform. “For the first time, we’re providing
businesses of all sizes with the ability to leverage Box's best in class
user experience in their own applications. Developers will no longer
need to spend huge amounts of time and money building content
experiences, security, and infrastructure services from scratch, and can
instead focus on building unique experiences for their business needs.”
Box plans to introduce additional types of Elements over time, including
backend services and industry-specific app elements that will continue
to make it easier for businesses to create engaging applications and
content experiences for customers, partners and employees.
Available Today: Box UI Elements
Box UI Elements are modular, customizable and can be easily
integrated into any application with just a few lines of code. Businesses
can use each UI Element on its own, or strung together with other UI
Elements to create common user flows with content in their apps.
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Box Content Uploader allows users to drag and drop files
into an application, or select locally from their device, and upload
them securely to Box.
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Box Content Explorer provides a view for users to navigate
through a set of files or folders stored in Box from
within an application.
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Box Content Preview displays interactive viewers for more than
120 different types of files, including documents, images, videos, 3D
files, and more directly in an application.
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Box Content Picker enables users to select files or folders
stored in Box from within an application.
Box UI Elements are already being leveraged by applications including
Workplace by Facebook, Pressly, and Maxwell to power user experiences
with content in their applications. Each UI Element is integrated with
the Box Platform APIs to accelerate development and are fully
customizable, so businesses can modify the components to fit their
brand's look and feel. Box UI Elements are designed with
enterprise-grade security, leveraging a new access token mechanism known
as Token Exchange that builds on Box's existing permissions framework.
Box UI Elements are available as both Javascript libraries and React
components through NPM. The source code for Box Content Preview is
available today on Github, and Box will release additional source code
for all UI Elements in the future.
The Box UI Elements are available starting today to any business
building applications or integrations with Box Platform at no additional
cost. For more information, please visit https://developer.box.com/ui-elements.
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 74,000
businesses, including AstraZeneca, General Electric, 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 http://www.box.com/.

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