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Activist investors will only sit still for so long, and when they take action, it usually involves one of two approaches: Replace the leadership team or induce a sale. Continue reading As activist investors loom, what’s next for Box?
Box announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire eSignature startup SignRequest for $55 million.The acquisition gives the company a native signature component it has been lacking and opens up new workflows for the company. Box CEO Aaron Levie says the company has seen increased demand from customers to digitize more of their workflows, […] Continue reading Box acquires eSignature startup SignRequest for new content workflows
Customer experience and digital transformation are two terms we’ve been hearing about for years, but have often remained nebulous in many organizations — something to aspire to perhaps, but not take completely seriously. Yet the pandemic has been a forcing event for both concepts, thrusting the ideas front and center. Suddenly startups that help with […] Continue reading Customer experience and digital transformation concepts are merging during the pandemic
Box has always been a bit of an enigma for Wall Street and perhaps for enterprise software in general. Unlike vendors who shifted tools like HR, CRM or ERP to the cloud, Box has been building a way to manage content in the cloud. It’s been a little harder to understand than these other enterprise […] Continue reading Box benefits from digital transformation as it raises its growth forecast
Once upon a time, Box’s Aaron Levie was just a guy with an idea for a company: 15 years ago as a USC student, he conceived of a way to simply store and share files online. It may be hard to recall, but back then, the world was awash with thumb drives and moving files […] Continue reading Box CEO Aaron Levie says thrifty founders have more control
Jason Green, co-founder and partner at Emergence, has made some solid enterprise SaaS bets over the years, long before it was fashionable to do so. He invested early in companies like Box, ServiceMax, Yammer, SteelBrick and SuccessFactors. Just those companies alone would be a pretty good track record, but his firm also invested in Salesforce, […] Continue reading Emergence’s Jason Green still sees plenty of opportunities for enterprise SaaS startups
Armorblox, a cloud office security platform that protects inbound and outbound enterprise communications, announced the availability of integrations with Box and Slack to stop socially engineered attacks and data loss across email, messaging, and file-… Continue reading Armorblox, Box and Slack to stop targeted attacks and data loss across cloud office platforms
As COVID-19 has forced companies to move employees from office to home, cloud services have seen a burst in business. Box has been speeding up its product roadmap to help companies who are in the midst of this transition. Today, the company announced the Box Relay template library, which includes a series of workflow templates […] Continue reading New Box tools should help ease creation of digitally driven workflows
As the pandemic surged and companies moved from offices to working at home, they needed tools to ensure the continuity of their business operations. SaaS companies have always been focused on allowing work from anywhere there’s access to a computer and internet connection, and while the economy is reeling from COVID-19 fallout, modern software companies […] Continue reading SaaS earnings rise as pandemic pushes companies more rapidly to the cloud
Box CEO Aaron Levie has been working to change the software world for 15 years, but the pandemic has accelerated the move to cloud services much faster than anyone imagined. As he pointed out yesterday in an Extra Crunch Live interview, who would have thought three months ago that businesses like yoga and cooking classes […] Continue reading Aaron Levie: ‘We have way too many manual processes in businesses’