When your company is 97 years old and grows in part through mergers and acquisitions, you’re going to have a variety of technology products running the business — or as Bob Burkhart puts it, “We have just about one of every solution and several of many.” As the mobile and collaboration infrastructure leader at Nationwide […]
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Chief product officers from Box, Zoom, Slack and PagerDuty share their ‘best of breed’ best practices
There are some people who don’t really understand the term “best of breed,” but in the case of one customer, all it took was a botched video call for Jeetu Patel to educate them. The chief product officer at Box recalled the incident during a panel discussion with his peers ahead of BoxWorks, the company’s […]
Box CIO Paul Chapman opens up about the evolution of IT, working with line of business execs and more
By all means, you can try cold-calling Box CIO Paul Chapman or sending him a hopeful e-mail. You can invite him to your event, webinar or roundtable. You could reach out on social media or other channels and see if he’ll download your white paper. None of these standard marketing tactics, however, will work as […]
Uberflip CEO Gives a Deep-Dive on His Company’s AI Ambitions
Uberflip will be spending the rest of the year adding more artificial intelligence capabilities to its content management tools that automate recommendations, audience segmentation and rules around when content is shown. The Toronto-based company, which helps organizations set up blogs, microsites and other digital hubs, announced its product roadmap for AI at its user event, […]
Effective B2B Marketing: Everything you’ve wanted to know about B2B traction
Traction: a repeatable, scalable way to get, keep and grow customers and revenue Most businesses don’t fail because they don’t build good products, they fail because they can’t generate traction. Let’s be honest, getting traction for your company isn’t easy. As a business, you need a strong team, customers, and a differentiated product or service […]
Salesforce, Box partnership shaking up the B2B storage space
Salesforce and Box announced a new partnership today, which would bring documents from Box’s cloud storage and content management solution into Salesforce. Using a new tool that will launch in February, users could share Box files inside Salesforce, both from the service’s web interface and mobile applications. For example, as CIO.com writes, “when commenting on a sales opportunity, users will […]
Box’s Aaron Levie on the future of enterprise
What is the future of enterprise? Box’s co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie offers a peek into that future in a recent lecture he gave to Draper University students in California. The latest research from Gartner suggests that the enterprise software market reached more than $320 billion last year, a 6.9 percent increase from 2013. Moreover, […]
Box’s IPO success endorses enterprise collaboration
The enterprise collaboration space is hot. Recently, cloud file-sharing company Box has started trading publicly on the New York Stock, debuting at $20.20 per share. Interestingly, the company is trading much as 77 percent above its IPO price. Box offers companies cloud-based storage services, make it easy to share documents with your team or your […]