Box releases updates for its enterprise admin console

LOS ALTOS, USA: To continue its momentum in the enterprise, Box has introduced major updates to its admin console, with advanced policies, automation tools and new content management offerings that help IT administrators easily manage information across complex enterprise environments.

Box also enhanced support for businesses deploying and customizing Box at scale with a dedicated professional services team, Box Consulting, and teamed with Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, to help the world's largest organizations be more productive, innovative and effective.

"Many of the world's largest businesses from some of the most heavily regulated industries are using Box to securely store, manage and access information in the cloud," said Whitney Bouck, GM, Enterprise at Box.

"We've built a service that employees love to use while providing the level of control and visibility that IT departments demand. Today's new products, services and partnerships continue our commitment to the enterprise and we look forward to continuing our leadership in the marketplace."

Enterprise Admin Console

Leveraging a robust rules engine within the Box Platform, the new enterprise admin console centralizes security policies, automates tasks and introduces new management tools that help businesses control what content is stored in Box, monitor when information is shared externally, and build simple, repeatable processes based on folders and tasks.

Alan Lepofsky, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research said, "These tools give IT departments improved visibility and control of their content and lays the foundation for organizations to automate a variety of actions in their content-centric business applications."

Box Sync 4.0

The entire Box Sync client has been re-architected to deliver the speed, stability and scale that enterprises require for seamless business collaboration across the web, mobile and desktop. Sync 4 is more than ten times faster than Box's previous sync client; it supports sub-folder sync for more than 1,00,000 files and CPU usage has been reduced by 25 percent.

Box Consulting and Sync 4.0 is available now for Box users across all plans. Box Consulting services are available today.Content manager will be generally available in the coming weeks to customers on the Enterprise and Elite plans. Policies and automation will be generally available in the coming months to customers on the Enterprise and Elite plans.