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Deutsche Telekom and Box Partner to Bring Cloud Collaboration to Businesses
BONN, GERMANY and LOS ALTOS, CA, Nov 07, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Deutsche Telekom and Box today announced a strategic partnership to
bring the power of cloud based collaboration solutions to millions of
small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Germany and other
markets. Under the agreement, Deutsche Telekom will offer Box's
secure content sharing and collaboration platform as a trusted,
validated and supported solution in Deutsche Telekom's Business
Marketplace -- the company's new eco-system that helps firms find,
purchase and manage innovative and safe cloud based software
solutions for their business needs.
"This partnership with Box is a further milestone in DT's innovation
strategy and once again we are showing the new way of partnering at
Deutsche Telekom. Our aim is it to bring much more innovation from
outside in and to bring the very best cloud solutions to our
customers," says Phil Zamani, Senior Vice President Digital Business
Unit (DBU) Cloud Services at Deutsche Telekom. "As a trusted partner
to millions of existing and new SMBs -- our customers are looking for
simple-to-use yet best-of-breed solutions. Box and Deutsche Telekom
share a common goal to help SMBs to be more productive."
"In today's global economy, the speed with which companies manage and
share information across teams, departments and organizations can be
the ultimate source of competitive advantage," said Aaron Levie,
co-founder and CEO of Box. "Legacy technologies simply can't keep up
with the nature and pace of business today -- many other consumer
focused solutions also do not have the levels of security needed to
protect business users. Box was born in the cloud and built for
today's post-PC business landscape. We're thrilled to be able to work
with Deutsche Telekom and provide its customers with the ability to
securely access and share information from anywhere, on any device."
With this partnership, Box will be one of the leading cloud
collaboration solutions promoted by Deutsche Telekom to its SMB
customers -- allowing them to safely manage and share information
from anywhere and on any device. To date, more than 14 million people
at 140,000 businesses across the globe, including 92% of the Fortune
500, use Box. The company is also aggressively expanding to meet
accelerating customer demand, having recently opened European offices
in London and more than doubling its employee base in less than one
year. Using the Business Marketplace, every existing Deutsche Telekom
SMB client or new customer can purchase, implement and manage their
Box account all through Deutsche Telekom, including simple one-stop
access to customer support, billing and single-sign-on login access
to all user accounts.
Deutsche Telekom and Box have also signed a strategic technology
partnering agreement that will see both firms working together to
further extend their joint solutions in areas such as security and
ease-of-use for SMBs and larger enterprises.
The Business Marketplace, launched in July 2012, provides small and
medium businesses with a trusted resource to help them research and
purchase IT solutions. By leveraging the DT Business Marketplace,
companies can concentrate on their core business, instead of spending
valuable time and resources on vetting and managing technology.
Availability
The Box Business solution is available across Germany from today
within DT's Business Marketplace. As a special offer Box Business is
free of charge until January 31st, 2013. The Business Marketplace
allows companies to evaluate recommended applications free of charge
and to later subscribe to the services, helping them to only purchase
the products they need to power their business. Box and Deutsche
Telekom share plans to extend the offering to businesses of all sizes
across many other markets in the near future.
For more information on the Box and Deutsche Telekom please visit
www.telekom.de/cloud/businessmarketplace.
Further information for the media at: www.telekom.com/media and
www.telekom.com/photos
About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's
leading integrated telecommunications companies with almost 130
million mobile customers, 33 million fixed-network lines and over 17
million broadband lines (as of June 30, 2012). The Group provides
products and services for the fixed network, mobile communications,
the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business
customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in
around 50 countries and has over 233,000 employees worldwide. The
Group generated revenues of EUR 58.7 billion in the 2011 financial
year -- more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31,
2011).
About Box
Founded in 2005, Box provides a secure content sharing
platform that both users and IT love and adopt. Content on Box can be
shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone,
Android and Windows Phone applications, among others, and extended to
partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce.
Headquartered in Los Altos, CA, Box is a privately held company and
is backed by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer
Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital
Partners, General Atlantic, Meritech Capital Partners, NEA, Scale
Venture Partners, and U.S. Venture Partners, and strategic investors
salesforce.com and SAP. To learn more about Box, visit www.box.com.
SOURCE: Box
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