Amid the enterprise cloud company's annual BoxWorks show on Wednesday, the two tech brands introduced a quartet of new products for enterprise content management and collaboration, starting with StoredIQ, a data analytics service designed for joint customers, allowing them to migrate existing on-premise content to the cloud using smart classification.
Pitched toward legal and finance customers, StoredIQ taps into unstructured data wherever it resides for providing insights.
IBM and Box are bringing their clouds closer together through the IBM Content Navigator with Box, allowing users to search content across on-premise and Box environments with a single, integrated view.
Joint customers can also share content through IBM Datacap with Box, allowing users to capture and digitize content, such as paper copies, and store that information on Box.
For current and non-customers alike, IBM Case Manager with Box is meant to open up sharing possibilities, allowing external users to share and receive content on any device through Box, while internal users can remain in a case environment.
IBM Content Navigator and StoredIQ with Box are both available starting today. Case Manager and Datacap are scheduled to roll out later this year.
Beyond IBM, Box is also reaching out to Amazon Web Services, expanding its own Enterprise Key Management service for placing encryption key management in customer hands to support the new Amazon Web Services Key Management Service.
Box is also laying the groundwork for letting users pick their network connections to the Box platform, scheduling launches for this function with AT&T Netbond and NTT later this year.
The Los Altos, Calif.-based company is also bolstering security on the Box platform through Device Trust, validating a specific device's security posture before authorizing end-user access from that device to content in Box, and Legal Holds, a new feature coming to Box Governance next year that lets users put a hold on content stored in Box, preventing changes or the deletion of content during an ongoing case.
