The document outlines the benefits of using Box as a cloud-based collaboration solution, highlighting its ease of use, improved security, and scalability. It emphasizes increased user productivity and faster adoption rates compared to traditional methods, along with significant IT administration savings. Testimonials from various industry professionals illustrate Box's effectiveness in enhancing collaboration and mobility across organizations.

1. 10benefits to
thinking
inside Box

2. Ease of use
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Deploy Box in a matter of days and gain a single, secure
cloud-based solution that’s easy to use. An intuitive
user interface allows business users to seamlessly
collaborate with colleagues and external users
effectively—even across multiple devices.
And they use the integrated daily tools
they’re used to working with, like
Microsoft Office 365.

3. Improved external
collaboration
“Box has increased the ease and speed of
collaboration with our partners. We had a [partner
portal site at] partner.net with 3,000 partners in that
environment. To get a partner authorized to
access this site was a 30-step process that
literally took days or even weeks. Now
within minutes we can set them up
with a Box account and a Box folder.”
— CTO, leading American construction firm
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4. User productivity
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The need to collaborate on projects, both internally
and with external stakeholders and vendors, is
growing. E-mail and File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
sites are far from secure and don’t offer the level
of collaborative features users need to be
productive. Box does. Box makes it easy
to upload and organize all your files.
View and collaborate on over 200
file types in just a few clicks.

5. Faster user adoption
“Box is pretty intuitive. Usability is pretty straightforward.
In our industry, we’re not dealing with tech workers,
and having a simple user experience is a critical
component to our adoption rate. We’ve seen
twice as fast an adoption rate for Box
compared to our other applications.”
— CTO,
leading American construction firm
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6. Improved security
and compliance
“For us, Box was the only option from an enterprise
perspective. One of the main benefits of Box is its
complete and total security architecture. We did
a bunch of security audits and assessments,
and we got comfortable with Box really fast.”
— Director, digital workplace services,
global pharmaceutical company
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7. Increased scalability
“The best thing about Box is I can scale up, and
no matter how many users I have, I won’t need
additional support headcount. We don’t need
a huge army.”
— Director, global IT,
international electronics company
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8. IT admin savings
Box customers reported that they were able to reduce IT
administration resources by moving to Box from their
legacy enterprise collaboration software solutions.
For some of these customers, moving from their
legacy on-premises solutions to the cloud with
Box contributed to this reduction in IT
administration costs.
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9. Improved IT agility
“What drew us to the Box solution was that it was
designed for the enterprise. It’s flexible and open.
We can build and construct applications with its
extensible backend infrastructure.”
— CTO,
leading American construction company
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10. Increased IT credibility
“Box has been the only cloud company that our
security guys have given a gold star to. They
were highly impressed, and Box got a 10 out
of 10.”
— Director,
digital workplace services, global pharmaceutical firm
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11. Enabling mobility
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“It’s a good idea to have Box as your content engine for
applications; it’s not something you can easily do on
other solutions. Employees are mobile now, and
you need a tool like Box with a really good
mobile solution.”
— Divisional information officer,
Japanese automotive manufacturer

12. Read the Forrester report to see
how content collaboration with Box
can improve your ROI
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