File Sharing News & Articles

Content sharing and storage giant Box has announced a service called $rev to help enterprise app developers make money on the apps they build, something that is apparently difficult to do in the App Store.

With information management reaching a crisis point in many enterprises as more and more channels pump data into disparate silos, an unlikely champion for breaking down content silos has arisen in the shape of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) strategies.

Salesforce has given us another tiny peak into its upcoming Communities release, this time announcing a product called Company Communities, customizable intranets that are mobile ready and can integrate with other apps.

The amount of tools available to users of file sharing platform Box has been added to with the company’s recent acquisition of Folders, an iOS cloud storage client.

What is a portal or intranet? The line is blurred as companies evolve their collaborative tools and purposes, and platform is the catchall phrase many favor today. Enter eXo, makers of the eXo Platform for social collaboration. The company has released a video chat integration from Weemo for seamless screen sharing, co working and file uploading.

Mobile security is one of IT’s biggest headaches, especially in this age of Bring-Your-Own-Device. To help out, online storage/content sharing service Box has undertaken a new partnership with mobile security provider MobileIron and launched a new mobile app, Box for MobileIron AppConnect. 

Online apps are becoming a big craze, particularly with the all-out war between Google Apps and Microsoft’s Office 365. But Zoho has been in the game for quite a while, reporting over six million users, and the company is now out with version 3.0 of its Docs online document management application. The enhancements focus on file sharing and collaboration, providing tighter integration across its office productivity apps.  

Sharing files in the cloud is now possible in the Salesforce Chatter Mobile app for iOS, and a new day has dawned for mobile teams using iPads and iPhones to get work done away from their offices.

Google looked to the enterprise this week with a couple of updates intended to make administrator's and document collaborator's lives a little easier.

Someday, a study will determine if business teams have become more -- or less -- collaborative because of all of the enterprise collaboration software now available. Another one emerged this week, with Japan-based ChatWork announcing the official entry into the U.S. market of its cloud collaboration solution. 

Cloud-based document sharing provider, Box and social business software provider Jive, have released Box for Jive, which enables users to manage and share content across both platforms.

Online storage service Dropbox has been trying, with limited success, to target its offerings at businesses. Now, the company is moving forward on that front, with a name change for its business service and the addition of single sign-on (SSO) capability.

There were a number of interesting releases in the document management space that are definitely worth a look. Among them are the new Service Pack 2 beta releases for Office and SharePoint 2010, WatchDox apps for mobile-desktop collaboration and sharing, and Docstocs new link-up to the Microsoft store. We also revisited the paperless office through EchoSign.

Online project management software provider, Wrike has announced a new feature for its Live Editor that allows users to track document changes as they happen.

Mobile file sharing technology provider Accellion is extending its kitepoint external file sharing tool to provide mobile users with secure access to content in enterprise content management (ECM) systems.