Peterborough City Council and SKF Deploy Box

At the second annual Box World Tour London customer event, Box.com (UK) Ltd announced momentum in Europe with new customers: SKF AB and Peterborough City Council (PCC).

Swedish industrial giant, SKF, has deployed Box to 3,000 employees for secure sharing and mobile access. UK local authority, PCC, has brought Box’s cloud content sharing and collaboration capabilities to 1,400 employees to enable secure collaboration around sensitive information. At Box World Tour London, both companies will discussed how cloud adoption has transformed the way they do business.

“Box improves the way people work and gives the public and private sectors a significant competitive advantage,” said David Quantrell, Box GM, EMEA. “By providing cloud services that are collaborative and secure, Box is changing the way businesses and governments manage information across their organisations.“

Box provides simple and secure access to content from anywhere and on any device. It has more than 25 million users WW at 225,000 businesses, including 99% of the Fortune 500. SKF and PCC join a growing number of European businesses that have moved to cloud, including Anglo American, Royal HaskoningDHV, Heathrow Holdings, Gatwick Airport, and Schneider Electric.

SKF deploys box to power collaboration across 32 countries
SKF, a Swedish company that specialises in supplying bearings, seals, mechatronics, services and lubrication systems, needed a collaboration solution for its distributed workforce spanning 32 countries. The company deployed Box to simplify content accessibility on mobile devices and to make it easy to share information with colleagues and external partners. Simplicity, integration and connectivity were key factors in SKF’s decision to roll out Box.

“Box does wonders by enabling mobile accessibility across our organisation,” said Christoffer Malm, head of connectivity room, SKF. “It has introduced simplicity to mobile file sharing and management processes, and it helps employees to work more creatively and efficiently. The rich features in Box make it a powerful platform that really improves the every day life of our sales people.“

PCC moves from legacy systems to box to protect sensitive information
Located in Cambridgeshire UK, PCC manages multiple local issues from schools and health services to roads, housing and transportation. PCC needed a system for managing its information in a secure environment much of which includes multiple internal and external touch points. It also needed to replace its legacy applications and SAN, which no longer suited its changing IT requirements.

PCC chose to implement Box because it not only provided the enterprise-grade security required for data protection and audit control, but because it also met the complex IT needs of a UK local government.

“Box works very well for PCC: it gives our employees the freedom to control their own folders, to work more collaboratively and from any location; it is a key enabler for business change,” said Richard Godfrey, ICT strategy, infrastructure and programme manager. “Box is the first public cloud application that this council has purchased and there is a longer term plan to integrate Box with our other solutions.“