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I came across a very insightful article on TechCrunch, which is representative of shifts in enterprise IT. Box, which positions itself as a SharePoint alternative has seen massive success as a cloud based business solution over the past year. Now, cloud based solutions have been around for around half a decade, and business attitudes around the cloud have been shifting for the better for a couple of years now. But none of the companies have experienced the kind of success Box has. Why Box? Why now? The article answers that question, and I find myself in total agreement. One started to hear Box's name in the news a lot right after it was named as the "mobile collaboration" leader in Gartner's magic quadrant. Soon after Box had a couple of successful venture rounds, and that's when the torrent really started. And in Box's own admission, that was really the source of the torrent. Box's CEO sums it up with the following quote - “Mobile adoption is actually driving cloud adoption.” Computers were the end computing device for most half a decade ago - Microsoft controlled turf. But now, tablets and mobile phones are the order of the day as devices for information consumption - which is anybody's war to win. This wave has surged in the last year and Box has found itself perfectly poised. As supporting stats, Box finds that its mobile applications are experiencing tremendous growth, and one of the main reasons enterprises are adopting them is their mobility capabilities. A lesson for other vendors here.
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