Box Wants to Make Sense of Your PDFs, Contracts, and Images with AI
Content management platform Box wants to make sense of all your PDFs, contracts, and images so your business can work more seamlessly — using, of course, artificial intelligence (AI).
Box Apps
Available in beta now, Box Apps is intended to streamline "content-centric business processes" across all kinds of teams within an organization. Content can include anything file-based, from contracts to marketing campaigns. The feature is designed to extract valuable metadata from that previously unstructured content to help intelligently automate workflows.
"90 percent of the data in an enterprise is unstructured — and the vast majority of that data is content," CEO Aaron Levie said in the release. In an interview with ZDNET, Levie explained that Box’s goal with Apps is to tap into that unstructured data to help teams achieve "all the things people don’t solve today."
Box envisions nearly every department using Apps: HR can build policy-specific apps, legal departments can use it for efficient contract review, and marketing teams can create customized asset management systems for graphics and video. Levie emphasized that Apps will be more affordable than competitors in order to be accessible to smaller-scale businesses, but he did not specify a cost.
Box AI Studio
Several enterprise software companies now offer an AI agent builder, from Salesforce to Asana. But Box says that a "mix-and-match" approach to large language models (LLMs) is what sets its offering apart.
Rather than using a single language to build every agent across the board, Box AI Studio lets users build with different models for different use cases. "With AI Studio, admins can select their preferred AI model from Box’s list of trusted providers to create tailored Box AI agents with custom prompts and parameters to match their specific industry needs and workflows—no coding required," the release states.
Box AI Studio, which won’t roll out until January, will integrate several competing large language models (LLMs), including models from Microsoft Azure, AWS, Claude, and Google’s Vertex AI. The company plans to add more in the future, and you can see the full list of currently available models here.
Increased Security
Box also announced two new security measures, slated to roll out in beta in January: Box Archive, which improves archival content management for better compliance, and Content Recovery, which helps businesses recover their content after a ransomware attack in "hours instead of days."
"Our core platform itself is focused on data compliance and security," Levie explained to ZDNET, noting that these features build AI governance into a strong security foundation.
Conclusion
Box’s latest announcements aim to make content management more efficient and secure, leveraging AI to automate workflows and provide better compliance and security. With Box Apps and Box AI Studio, businesses can streamline processes and create customized AI agents without coding, while the new security features aim to help recover content quickly and securely.
FAQs
Q: What is Box Apps?
A: Box Apps is a new feature that helps businesses build no-code apps for processes like onboarding, invoicing, and more.
Q: What is Box AI Studio?
A: Box AI Studio is a new product that lets users build customized AI agents with different large language models (LLMs) for different use cases.
Q: When will Box Apps and Box AI Studio be available?
A: Box Apps is available in beta now, while Box AI Studio will roll out in January.
Q: What are the new security features announced by Box?
A: Box announced two new security features: Box Archive, which improves archival content management for better compliance, and Content Recovery, which helps businesses recover their content after a ransomware attack in "hours instead of days."
