EMC-Box deal boosts content management

EMC has partnered up with enterprise file-sharing firm Box in a move that will allow users to access and manage content stored on the firm's Documentum platform via iPhone, iPad and Android devices, reveals V3.co.uk.

Enterprise users have to download the Box mobile application and can then access and modify files, with any changes automatically synced to EMC's on-premise Documentum repository.

Tony Lock, programme director at analyst firm Freeform Dynamics welcomed the partnership, noting that it will help enterprises deal with the difficult task of managing content.

EMC Intelligent Information Group (which is responsible for Documentum) president Rick Devenuti explained in a statement that this gives EMC Documentum customers immediate access from the cloud, says Fierce Content Management.

“EMC and Box are enabling our customers' journey to the cloud - taking the user experience for accessing, sharing and collaborating on enterprise content to a new level,” said Devenuti.

Given the recent hiring of former EMC marketing executive Whitney Tidmarsh Bouck, this agreement makes even more sense for both parties, but she says discussions were under way long before her decision to join Box.

Box has previously enlisted well-known partners that include VMware, Samsung and NetSuite, notes eWeek.

The company that just a year ago had 65 employees and two million users now has five million customers - and that's up one million from only four months ago - and its headcount has nearly doubled to 125.

It's also storing upwards of 300 million pieces of content, superseding the number of volumes in the Library of Congress.