Box Announces Integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot to Bring AI to Enterprise Content
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Box Inc, the leading Content Cloud, announced a new plugin for Microsoft’s next-generation AI workplace tool, Microsoft 365 Copilot. The new plugin will enable customers to use Microsoft 365 Copilot to make the Box files inside of an organization more useful and valuable than ever before. In addition, Box announced updates to its integrations with Microsoft 365 that provide joint customers with enhanced features for sharing, editing, and collaborating within Microsoft Teams as well as Office products including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
“We’re at the start of a new era in software driven by breakthroughs in AI, and nowhere is the potential impact greater than in enterprise content,” said Diego Dugatkin, Chief Product Officer at Box. "We recently announced Box AI to combine foundational AI models with content stored in Box to unlock the value of this content and make every person in a company smarter and more productive. Integrating with Microsoft 365 Copilot is a natural extension of our AI strategy, and our existing collaboration will allow joint customers to use Box and Microsoft 365 Copilot together seamlessly. We are excited to provide continued support to our joint customers to unlock new levels of productivity and transform the way work gets done."
“We are at an extraordinary moment in the technology landscape, where AI is reshaping industries and transforming how we work," said Srini Raghavan, VP of Product Management for Microsoft Teams Ecosystem. "Through expanded integrations between Microsoft 365 with Box, we are bringing new tools and capabilities to our customers to enhance productivity and collaboration.”
"At LPL, we are focused on deploying the best of today’s modern tech stack so that our employees have what they need to deliver top-tier results for our clients,” said Kathryn Dundas, VP of Technology at LPL Financial. “Box and Microsoft are both essential parts of this equation, and the enhanced integration between these two platforms allows us to securely and productively collaborate from anywhere. We look forward to the continued interoperability between these two platforms, especially as we see AI become a bigger part of the future of work."
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Box for Microsoft 365 Copilot
The Box plugin for Microsoft 365 Copilot will make it easy for customers to leverage the Box Content Cloud through interactions with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Instead of spending time digging for information in files and folders saved across Microsoft and Box, this new integration will allow users to:
- Quickly synthesize and summarize all their shared Box documents in Teams to draw insights from collaborators.
- Ask questions of shared content to derive major milestones in an existing project.
- Limit the need to scroll through Chats and Channels in order to get up to speed more quickly on conversations and new learnings.
- Share and edit Box Notes directly in Team’s Chats and Channels, which helps to unify content and reduce fragmentation within an organization.
- Grant instant permissions to automatically synchronize user access to files across Box and Teams, which maintains Box’s industry-leading security posture across their file content.
- Select Box as the default cloud content management solution in the Teams environment for the entire tenant, certain groups, or specific users using access policy settings within Teams.
- More flexibility to collaborate in real time on files in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel desktop apps — with all edits auto-saved back to Box.
- Increased productivity with access to advanced features across Microsoft Office desktop apps.
- Ability to preview, access, edit and share files from Box Drive, the Box web app, and the Office desktop apps “Add a Place” functionality.
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