How SaaS vendors are designing software for the 'best of breed' world
Chief product officers must bridge the divide between what users want and ensuring their offering doesn’t become a “Frankenstein of features”.
Chief product officers must bridge the divide between what users want and ensuring their offering doesn’t become a “Frankenstein of features”.
Enterprise cloud storage vendor Box is increasingly looking to help its customers automate repetitive or mundane business tasks.
Since it was founded in 2005, Box has transformed itself from a consumer-focused file storage Dropbox-alike into an enterprise-ready content management and collaboration platform.
Aaron Levie, the outspoken founder and CEO of enterprise file sharing and storage powerhouse Box, talked to Network World ahead of the company’s news about its Zones and Accelerator projects. Levie also discussed start-ups, the march of the public cloud, and even his past work as a professional magician.
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Companies are wary about what employees are doing on their smartphones. Be it data loss or time-wasting, a growing number of employers are actively stopping staff from using certain apps on company-controlled devices.
File synchronization services, used to accommodate roaming employees inside organizations, can also be a weak point that attackers could exploit to remain undetected inside compromised networks.
In another sign of the movement of more and more data into Cloud services, global first-quarter sales of Cloud-related hardware rose 25.1 per cent year-on-year, to nearly $US6.3 billion, according to an IDC survey.
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A developer edition of Box will allow enterprises to build applications on top of the company's content collaboration and sharing capabilities without using the Box user interface or requiring users to have a Box account.
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