British Universities Choose Box for Staff and Student Cloud Content Management
March 28 2017 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
– Imperial College London, University of
Sussex, Aston University, Kingston University, and London
Metropolitan University latest to move to Box –
Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX), a leader in cloud content management,
today announced increased adoption in the UK Higher Education
sector adding over 100,000 new staff and students from multiple
universities across Britain to the platform. With Box, teams will
benefit from improved content management and enhanced research
projects through better collaboration, both internally and
externally.
“The education sector in Europe is in the middle of a monumental
shift away from traditional IT systems,” said David Benjamin, SVP
and GM of EMEA, at Box. “We’re seeing universities, alongside
global businesses, moving to cloud technologies to power new and
more productive ways of working. British universities choosing Box
is a great example of the Higher Education sector harnessing the
power of cloud to improve collaboration.”
Imperial College London, University of Sussex, Aston University,
Kingston University, and London Metropolitan University are the
latest to join the growing list of British universities who have
recently moved to Box. Box allows users to easily share documents,
presentations, and content they use every day. This helps
university staff, student and faculty members to work in new and
innovative ways.
Since August 2015 Box has offered tailored solutions and
partnerships to the education industry, enabling users to leverage
Box for even more creative uses across institutions. Box also has a
strong global network of partners in the education space, which
includes Jisc, NORDUnet, Internet2,
GÉANT and AARNet.
Box makes it easy for more than 71,000 organisations around the
world to share, access and collaborate on files securely. The
company has seen sustained growth in the British Higher Education
sector with thousands of staff and students having already joined
the platform from leading universities including: Lancaster
University, University of Dundee, University of Stirling, and
more.
Learn more about Box for Education
at www.box.com/education.
About Box
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the cloud content management company that
empowers enterprises to revolutionize how they work by securely
connecting their people, information and applications. Founded in
2005, Box powers more than 71,000 businesses globally, including
AstraZeneca, General Electric, P&G, and The GAP. Box is
headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United
States, Europe and Asia. To learn more about Box,
visit http://www.box.com/.
Supporting quotes
Imperial College London
Mike Russell, CIO
“Box has helped us transform the way our staff and academic
community collect, manage and collaborate on research data
internally and with external collaborators. The security and
information management features mean that researchers no longer
have to worry about how their data is stored and backed
up. The integration capabilities will allow further
exploitation of the large amounts of data now stored in Box.”
University of Sussex
Paul Davies, Director of IT Services
“We have rolled out Box to all staff at the University of Sussex
and it is now an integral part of the working environment. It
is the de facto platform for file sharing, collaboration and
accessing information remotely. Research projects and teams
are also making increasingly more use of the service. Box is
helping us to transform the way we engage with content and
information at the university.”
Aston University
Trevor Bayliss, IT Technical Director
“The use of Box is helping our staff store information that can
be accessed and collaborated on from anywhere. Our team of expert
researchers at Aston University needs the highest possible
information access and security for their often sensitive material.
We are using Box to achieve this.”
Kingston University
Simon Harrison, CIO
“We aim to provide leading learning environments and Box,
tightly integrating into our learning tools, is improving the
student experience and outcomes at Kingston University. Box
provides 25,000 of our staff and students with a secure, intuitive
and modern content platform which helps them get their work done
easily and stay ahead of the increasing demands for seamless
collaboration within and externally to the University.”
London Metropolitan University
Oliver Holmes, Deputy Director Technology and Operations
“London Metropolitan University uses Box to securely
manage staff data and business critical content. We’ve
chosen Box for its secure capabilities as well as its
limitless information sharing potential. It enables our leading
experts to share ideas and collaborate better than ever
before.”
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