IBM, Box partner on cloud analytics technologies

From PC World: IBM and online storage firm Box have formed a wide-ranging cloud technologies partnership that will allow Box users to apply Watson Analytics know-how to their content while IBM customers can use Box’s content collaboration platform.

The international alliance is designed to make large volumes of data easier to use, especially for enterprise users in financial services, healthcare, law and engineering that are relying more and more on cloud data, the companies said Wednesday.

Box will integrate IBM’s content management, security, analytics and social tools, while IBM will deploy Box capabilities in IBM Verse, its enterprise email system, and IBM Connections, its social collaboration platform.

The companies will develop content management tools and deploy Box technology to some IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps. MobileFirst is an IBM tool to build apps linking directly into the data of backend IT systems. IBM Bluemix, the open-source cloud platform for apps, will work with Box APIs (application programming interfaces) for the development of new apps.

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