Box Announces Significant Momentum in Life Sciences
November 09 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX) a leading enterprise content
management platform, today announced significant momentum in the
life sciences industry, making research and collaboration with
partners and vendors easier than ever before. Box announced several
new deals with top Japanese life sciences customers including
Daichi Sankyo and Shionogi, as well as new Independent Software
Vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) such as CHITA,
Prolifiq, USDM, and CTCLS.
“Our investment in the life sciences industry started over three
years ago when we launched our industries initiative. We believe
Box can make research and collaboration with
partners and vendors easier than ever before for today's life
sciences leaders," said Riju Khetarpal, Managing Director, Box
for Life Sciences. “Today we are driving digital transformation at
over 650 life sciences organizations, including 12 of the top 15
global pharmaceutical companies.”
New Customers
Since announcing Box for Life Sciences in August of 2014, Box
has seen continued momentum in the life sciences industry,
including recent global expansion in the Japanese market with new
customers including: Daichi Sankyo, and Shionogi.
These new customers join hundreds of other global pharmaceutical
brands -- such as GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Eli Lily, Boston
Scientific, Edwards Life Sciences and Jazz Pharmaceuticals -- in
using Box to manage and secure critical information in the cloud.
These respected brands chose Box to collaborate on content within
their organizations as well as with highly regulated external third
parties. Internally, these companies use Box to coordinate
marketing, training and product launch materials that are shared
with distributed sales teams in real time and on any device.
Additionally, they use Box to share information with external
trusted parties such as CROs, key opinion leaders (KOL) and
healthcare professionals (HCPs).
Expanded Life Sciences Partner Ecosystem
Box is proud to announce the expansion of its partner ecosystem
with new solution providers and SIs that will leverage Box Platform
to develop customized cloud-centric applications exclusively for
the life sciences industry. These new solutions will support more
efficient business functions such as access to sensitive and
regulated clinical information via highly secure portals and sales
enablement tools.
These new ISV solutions and SIs help solve some of the largest
issues facing the life sciences industry as they adopt the
cloud:
- The ability to leverage Box for both
regulated and unregulated content management: CHITA is
introducing a breakthrough content management and collaboration
platform that is fully integrated with Box platform that will allow
users to create, store, view, collaborate on and edit both
regulated and non-regulated content in a single application. CHITA
is 21CFR, Part 11 and Part 820-compliant and provides the ideal
environment for workflow management. It also features
pre-configured Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Read &
Acknowledge training record management. This new solution addresses
the significant hurdles inherent in compliance validation and
assurance.
- Sales enablement
for MedTech: Prolifiq provides content management and
sales enablement tools built on the secure Box platform for the
Life Sciences industry to implement and enforce Good Promotional
Practices (GPP) throughout the entire commercial content life
cycle.
- Migration from on premise systems to
cloud solutions: USDM Life Sciences, a leading SI in the life
sciences industry with over 300 leading global pharmaceutical
customers, will help Box customers and ISVs develop cutting edge
solutions for the life sciences industry on top of Box
Platform.
- Global life sciences consulting:
CTC Life Science Corporation(CTCLS), a division of the greater
ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation in Japan and a leading service
provider for life sciences in Japan, will apply their domain
expertise to providing content migration services, setting up
external collaboration sites and workflow driven applications with
Box Platform and deploying Governance for eDiscovery purposes in
the Japanese market.
Box for Life Sciences enables organizations across the globe to
safeguard their most sensitive content, while securely
collaborating between teams and partners, by providing the
following capabilities and services:
- Box Zones: Addresses in-region data
residency requirements across the globe.
- Box Governance: Enables customers to
comply with regulatory policies, satisfy e-discovery requests and
effectively manage sensitive information.
- Box Platform: Allows organizations
to leverage the underlying technology that powers Box in their own
custom applications to deliver more powerful digital experiences to
their constituents.
- Additional Compliance: Box supports
HIPAA compliance and signs HIPAA Business Associate Agreements with
its customers and partners.
For more information on today's announcement, please visit the
Box blog.
About Box
Founded in 2005, Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX) is transforming the way
people and organizations work so they can achieve their greatest
ambitions. As a leading enterprise content platform, Box helps more
than 66,000 businesses, including General Electric, KKR &
Co., P&G and The GAP securely access and manage their critical
information in the cloud. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA,
with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia. To learn
more about Box, visit www.box.com.
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