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Airbnb, LinkedIn, Spotify, Twitter and Zenefits Choose Box
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 9:00 am PDT
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LOS ALTOS, Calif.
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"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"
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:
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.
LinkedIn has made Box available to all employees to power internal and external collaboration and support media teams sharing large files.
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.
Twitter leverages Box for personal drive replacement and to streamline project management for employees collaborating internally and with external parties.
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
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Dyani Vanderhorst, 650-543-6926
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