Box.net News & Articles

Canadian firm Tagle offers an easy way to move your content to SharePoint via drag and drop.

Box.net (news, site) sees mobile as the next big distrupter for enterprise content management. If you didn't know that before, today's news should bring it home. The cloud-based content management provider has just announced a Box.net app for the Android.

Box.net's (news, site) tagline is "Simply Share". Today the company has taken a new step to enable its users to easily keep updated on what's happening with their content through the introduction of a content-centric newsfeed.

A SharePoint rival and collaboration-DM-done-easy outfit Box.net (news, site) welcomed a new chief operating officer to drive the company onto bigger, better things.

SugarCRM is officially out of beta and now on general release. When it was originally released in April -- in beta -- SugarCRM 6 (news, site) introduced a new user interface that focused on speed, simplicity and interoperability with other web applications and mobile devices.

It doesn't matter how much we love the Internet and working in the cloud, we are still often tied to our desktops. But it doesn't have to be one or the other -- emerging Enterprise 2.0 tools like Box.net's (news, site) new Box Sync are helping us kick the old habits.

Are you tired of the clicking and pointing process involved in uploading your documents into your cloud based document collaboration site? Box.net has provided a solution thanks to HTML 5: Drag and Drop.

It's becoming kind of obvious that Box (news, site) is on some kind of integration kick. But it's really not a bad thing when you look at the solutions they are integrating with. The latest: NetSuite.

MindTouch (news, site) is adding a little extra functionality to their open source collaboration platform by integrating it with SugarCRM.

Box.net has been sniffing around the customer relationship management market quite a lot recently so the announcement that their cloud-based content management system can now be integrated with open cloud CRM provider SugarCRM (news, site) is not really a surprise.

Be one of the first to announce that you have an app for the iPad and the venture capital people come running with their pockets wide open. Ok, so maybe that's not why Box.net (news, site) just secured US$ 15M Series C Funding, but it's a nice thought isn't it?

Apple’s (news, site) shiny new iPad, which went on sale over the weekend, already has the making of a hit product. Apple said that it sold 300,000 units on Saturday. Some analysts figure Apple has sold as many as 600,000 units thus far. In contrast, Apple sold 270,000 iPhones during that device's initial launch.

One big question remains: How will the iPad play in the business market, especially as a content management and collaboration tool?

In a recent interview with CMSWire, Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box.net (news, site) told us that they would continue to be bullish on mobile. The release of an app for iPad that exploits not only the features but arguably more important, the huge interest in the recent release of this latest mobile ‘must have’ shows he wasn’t joking.

After two months in beta SAP (news, site) has made their real-time business collaboration application StreamWork -- known as 12Sprints in beta -- generally available enabling up to 30 users to get together virtually to analyze data from across the enterprise and from different applications.

What do you do when potential new customers constantly compare your solution against SharePoint? Box.net (news, site) choose to take business productivity solution head on -- and in some cases are winning big.