U.S. Food and Drug Administration Selects Box for Cloud Content Management
October 18 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has selected Box’s cloud content management
platform to modernize its technical infrastructure and drive new
ways to work in the cloud. With Box, the FDA is furthering its IT
innovation strategy to digitize business processes and envision new
ways to engage with the pharmaceutical and life sciences
industry.
“The FDA is leading the way on how government agencies are
leveraging modern technology to better engage with stakeholders and
improve mission outcomes,” said Sonny Hashmi, Managing Director of
Global Public Sector at Box. “FDA’s investment in a cloud strategy,
including partnerships with companies such as Box, is poised to
help the agency re-imagine stakeholder engagement, build digital
experiences, and bring agility to mission delivery, while ensuring
the privacy and security of sensitive data. We are thrilled to
support the FDA mission, helping to transform the way they manage
and share information.”
FDA IT leadership, tasked with modernizing its technology
infrastructure and re-imagining how the FDA works with the life
sciences industry, selected Box to:
- Improve external collaboration with
third party organizations, including external experts, and
supporting audits, discoveries and reviews;
- Digitize and automate processes
leveraging Box as a central content portal where staff can easily
collaborate and share materials internally and with external
parties;
- Reduce complexity of infrastructure by
eliminating fragmented content and document management tools;
and
- Provide the FDA with added
cybersecurity control and administrative capabilities necessary to
govern and protect sensitive information at scale.
Agencies and departments servicing healthcare, military,
educational, judicial, legislative and regulatory components of the
U.S. Federal Government are using Box to be more efficient,
streamlined and agile. Box is FedRAMP compliant and recently
received Department of Defense SRG Impact Level 4 Authorization by
the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Box makes it easy
for more than 76,000 organizations around the world to share,
access, and collaborate securely on their most important content.
With today’s announcement, the FDA joins leading global
organizations that have moved to Box to power new ways of working,
including the DOJ, the District of Columbia Government, GE and
Procter & Gamble.
To learn more about Box for government, please visit
www.box.com/industries/government.
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 76,000 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/.
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