Comments on: Box woos the enterprise with more security features, partnerships http://gigaom.com/2013/02/25/box-woos-enterprise-accounts-with-more-security-features/ Wed, 22 May 2013 14:29:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: millenniagroup http://gigaom.com/2013/02/25/box-woos-enterprise-accounts-with-more-security-features/#comment-1316296 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:21:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=613586#comment-1316296 It would be nice to see Box solve this issue. It would make sales easier for all cloud storage suppliers because it will start to make users and IT departments more comfortable. We do advocate an approach that says employees should not store any documents or data on a local or personal device – all information to be stored in the company sponsored document management application or on company servers/cloud servers. But, we do understand that it is not possible to control 100% of the employees habits.

I am impressed that they have garnered so many users, but the Freemium percentage is Very High. We just entered the same basic space with a new application – http://www.collectdocs.com, and we went back and forth over how to charge for it. Ultimately we went with a free test period and several paying options, one of which is only $20/mos. The results so far are that it is difficult to get people to sign up period, so I applaud them on somehow getting 15 mm users even if most are free.

]]> By: Indus Khaitan http://gigaom.com/2013/02/25/box-woos-enterprise-accounts-with-more-security-features/#comment-1315847 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:18:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=613586#comment-1315847 There are different patterns of adoption and deployment between consumer and enterprise.

Even enterprise is split and what is termed enterprise is actually SMB or mid-market if not. Large enterprises are complex, ridden with systems built over-time, federated identities, etc. It’d be a matter of time before self e-mailing of attachments gets turned over with sync.

In my conversations with CIOs we face the impediment and they face the predicament every day — whether to lock horns with their workforce or bring the security a few notches down.

Fun space to play though!

]]> By: donjduncan http://gigaom.com/2013/02/25/box-woos-enterprise-accounts-with-more-security-features/#comment-1315819 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:34:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=613586#comment-1315819 Reblogged this on Enterprise Computing Speedbumps and commented:
BYOD integration and support of KNOX will definitely help with enterprise adoption. Its ability to convert freemium to paid subscribers with the addition of these new features will help due to the cost of enterprise compliance.

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