Discover the magic — Box named a leader in new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platforms
We’re thrilled to share Gartner has named Box a leader in the new Content Collaboration Platforms Magic Quadrant (MQ) report. Gartner Magic Quadrants evaluate vendors within a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and their ability to execute on that vision. Box was evaluated among 14 vendors in the market and was recognized as having the most complete vision for managing content.
Please view the full report here. The Content Collaboration Platforms MQ has evolved out of the Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) MQ, which Box has been a leader in for the past 3 years.
Gartner scores Content Collaboration Platforms on numerous points. The report states that Box “has strong vision on content services aiming to replace traditional on-premises content management systems and repositories. Box delivers on that vision through enhanced capabilities on content transformation, streaming, real time editing and machine learning, leveraging Artificial Intelligence technologies.” In particular, Box has always been strongly rated for usability, mobile enablement, internal and external collaboration, and blending those with security, data protection and integrations.
Content markets in transition
Gartner is making major changes in how it assesses and evaluates content-related markets this year. This includes the way it views collaboration, content management and platforms for building content-based applications. Gartner’s shift in viewpoint recognizes the shift happening in customers’ own expectations for content management. Enterprises today are participating in the rise of social, mobile, cloud and analytics along with the consumerization of enterprise software.
Gartner has gone so far as to declare The Death of ECM and Birth of Content Services. When talking about the future of content Gartner says, “As organizations embark upon digital transformation, they are realizing that the old ways of doing things no longer make sense, and that the IT approaches of the past cannot meet rapidly changing business requirements. This has been particularly true for content management (CM). Content is diverse and reaches different audiences inside and outside of the enterprise.”
This year, Gartner has renamed and redefined the market definition for several well-known markets for IT buyers:
- Content Collaboration Platforms — Represent the evolution of the Enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) market, where offerings initially focused on “sanctioned IT personal cloud storage” have increasingly expanded into collaboration, workflows and platform.
- Content Services Platforms — Represent the evolution of enterprise content management (ECM) suites, focused on content management, governance and processing.
- Digital experience platforms — Represent the evolution of horizontal portals and web content management (WCM) to provide a uniform foundation for engagement and interaction with audiences.
As a pioneer in helping customers move content to the cloud, Box has been building towards this vision for a long time.
Box is the de facto leader in Cloud Content Management
Box agrees with Gartner that the realities of business and technology today are forcing a change in the way organizations think about content. With higher than ever customer expectations and increasing pressure on IT to deliver, custom customers, content, collaboration, and security need to be central to overall IT and business strategy.
Box is well positioned in all three content markets: Content Collaboration, Content Services and Digital Experience Platforms. As the only vendor that focuses exclusively on content across these three different areas, we call the combination of these markets Cloud Content Management: the combination of centralized, cloud-native content services with advanced security and governance. Put simply, CCM is a radically simplified and far more secure way for teams to work together across the extended enterprise.
Box is the center of gravity for enterprise content strategy
Today Box powers cloud content management for more than 74,000 businesses around the world, including 64% of the Fortune 500. As a result, Box is a consistent leader across the industry analyst community. In addition to being named a leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaborations Platforms (formerly Enterprise File Sync and Share) for the fourth consecutive year, Box has also been named a leader in a variety of respected analyst reports, including:
- The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Content Management — Business Content Services,Q2 2017
- Forrester Wave Enterprise File Sync & Share Cloud Solutions Q1 2016
- Aragon Research Globe for Mobile Content Management 2016
- Nucleus Research ECM Value Matrix 2016
- Ovum Decision Matrix: Enterprise File Sync and Share 2017
Download your own complimentary copy of the Gartner Content Collaboration Platforms Magic Quadrant here.
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