Rakuten From Japan Deploys Box

Box, Inc. announced that Rakuten, Inc., one of the world’s leading Internet services companies, has introduced Box’s cloud content sharing platform.

Rakuten chose Box to enable secure content collaboration under a mobile environment, between its employees in all of its group companies, working both inside and outside of Japan.

“Speed is essential in our business,” said Yasufumi Hirai, Rakuten, EVP and representative director, CIO and Rakuten mobile business unit officer. “We are looking forward to faster information sharing between our employees around the world and the increased work efficiency made possible through the introduction of Box.”

“Rakuten is one of the world’s leading Internet services companies,” said Katsunori Furuichi, K.K. Box Japan president and MD. “Box helps customers like Rakuten to share content securely through an intuitive end-user experience and robust admin controls.”

Box makes it for more than 37 million individuals at over 47,000 businesses around the world to share, access and collaborate on files securely.

With this announcement, Rakuten joins a list of firms who have moved to Box, including global companies like General Electric, Schneider Electric and AstraZeneca.