Their story is a fascinating example of how small businesses in one of New York’s most competitive and traditionally low-tech industries are using Box to increase efficiency and scale up operations.

Thanks Dos Toros!

Fast forward to today, and we’re gearing up for our third annual BoxWorks, taking place September 15-17 at the Hilton San Francisco, right on Union Square. And even though we’ll have more than 10X (!!!) the attendees of our inaugural event, this year’s BoxWorks will still be all about learning from you, our customers. How does Box fit into your business today? How can we do better?

The theme of this year’s event is, “No End to Possible.” Throughout the three days at BoxWorks, we’ll be breaking down barriers: technology barriers, but also the barriers of our own expectations. What should collaboration and information sharing look like in our organizations five or ten years from now? And how do we get there faster?

We have some exciting news to share, and we will kick things off with a keynote from Box CEO Aaron Levie, where he’ll unveil major product, platform and partner updates. You will also hear from leading writer and thinker, Malcolm Gladwell, author of the bestseller, “The Tipping Point.” He’ll discuss his upcoming book, “David and Goliath,” and what makes it possible for small players to take on behemoths (a topic near and dear to our hearts at Box). Prolific authors Nicholas Carr (“Does IT Matter”) and Geoffrey Moore (“Crossing the Chasm”) will also join us onstage to challenge our assumptions.

We’ll also hear stories of innovation and transformation from customers, including Eli Lilly, Netflix, McAfee, Southwest Airlines, Duke Energy, Sunbelt Rentals, Notre Dame, Bechtel, Hulu, and many, many more. In six separate tracks, we’ll dive into areas like mobile transformation, balancing security with ease of use, building game-changing apps on Box, and industry-specific stories that will inspire and delight.

Last but not least, prepare yourself for the best party of the year with a killer to-be-announced band.

We hope you’ll join us for what is guaranteed to be an epic event. Grab your ticket to the event of the year and take advantage of early bird pricing.

Keep an eye on @BoxHQ for more speaker updates, fun giveaways, and the big band unveil. Have BoxWorks stories to share or questions to ask? Use the #BoxWorks hashtag.

Archipad - Archipad is the new way to manage your on-site meetings, and the easiest way to write down observations, removing many fastidious steps in the process. Archipad allows you to easily create punch lists, and allows you to send a report, the punch list and drawings with item locations, directly from the construction site. The Archipad and Box integration allows you to seamlessly import files in Box into Archipad for review.

iZip Pro - This is a handy app for anything relating to zipping files. Compress files from photos to PPTs. iZip integrates with Box so that you can take files from Box and zip them or take files from your device hard drive, zip them, and send them to Box.

Mocking Pal - Create mockups and wireframes for your site or application from your Android device. Sharing from Mocking Pal is easy – the app is a great tool for simple wireframing on the go. You can share mockups as .png files through Box.

Moxtra - Moxtra provides cloud-based project binders for managing, presenting, and sharing your projects from your iPhone and iPad. Especially useful – Moxtra allows you to have real time meetings on your mobile device using VOIP. This app is great for coordinating projects and files, taking notes and then presenting out to a greater team.

Pocketbriefcase - Pocketbriefcase is a file management app that plugs into Box and other file management applications. If you are looking for one file management apps to connect with multiple clouds as well as your phone’s hard drive this is one of your options!

SyncPad - SyncPad enables users to easily collaborate and share documents in real- time with others. Share ideas with individuals or groups seamlessly and present to someone sitting next to you or all the way across the globe!

Pocket Letter Pro - Pocket Letter Pro allows you to create professional looking Business and Personal letters and letterhead on the go. Now with Pocket Letter Pro and Box you can create, store and send letters from your iPad or iPhone. Pocket Letter Pro lets you create stunning eye-catching letters in a professional style that you can export to Box.

Pushdox - Pushdox is an enterprise content delivery system for distribution to iPads and Windows devices. Through the Pushdox admin console an admin can organize content from various sources and deliver it directly to targeted users and their mobile devices. The Box integration allows documents stored in Box to be shared into Pushdox and securely out to specific users.

Skriv - Skriv is a simple and intuitive word processing app packed with plenty of great features to help get your writing done. With its built in web browser, you can instantly search the web for information regarding your assignment or note. When you are all done you can instantly share your document via Box.

I’m pleased to report that we’ve recently reached some new platform milestones. We’ve issued more than 25,000 API keys to Box developers, with more than half coming in the past year. On the OneCloud front, we recently surpassed 500 apps in the ecosystem – amazing when you think that we launched OneCloud in March of last year with just 30 apps.

As our platform efforts intensify, we constantly think about new ways to drive value to our third party developer community. Today, we push hundreds of thousands of dollars in referral revenue to third party app providers from our iOS, Android and web app marketplaces. We also continuously introduce our partners’ products to our enterprise admins and end users, resulting in direct purchases of third party apps by our customers.

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re adding a significant new channel to our third party monetization story in the form of a new program called Box $rev. Box $rev is a program for developers to monetize their applications on the Box platform and bring new innovation to the emerging enterprise app economy.

The Challenge of Enterprise Monetization in a Consumer App World

If you think about how consumer mobile apps are monetized today, it’s primarily through app store purchases, ads and in-app upgrades. In the enterprise, this works…but only to a point. After all, anyone can buy a productivity app and bring it to work. You might even go so far as to say that the consumer model around app acquisition has democratized app adoption in the enterprise.

But there’s a problem. Enterprise apps simply do not monetize very well. Look at any stats around app downloads and monetization and you’ll see that productivity apps struggle as a category. In addition, a stream of ongoing subscription or maintenance revenue – one of the key benefits of selling enterprise software – is inaccessible to most small app developers. The reason? The adoption model has changed, but the procurement model has not. Most enterprises still buy en masse through an IT/procurement process that requires a dedicated sales force on the other end—a non-starter for most small app companies.

Box $rev: The Easiest Way for Enterprise App Developers to Make Money

Here at Box, we have a large and growing sales team and access to many businesses – more than 150,000 of them, in fact. Why can’t we help developers monetize against our business customers? The observation: users of third party apps get more value out of Box, resulting in greater user satisfaction. The idea behind Box $rev? Pay developers for creating this kind of engagement on Box. The benefits for our customers are obvious. For developers, we provide a new stream of revenue directly correlated to their success in penetrating and engaging with Box users.

Ten Partners at Launch

10 of our leading partners have signed on to join Box $rev. We’ll be building out the program with these initial partners, as well as extending to more of our OneCloud app developers in the coming months. Developers interested in joining $rev can sign up now.

Announcing Our New iOS and Android SDKs

Today also marks the launch of our new iOS and Android SDKs. These SDKs are the first Box-built SDKs; we’ve tested them carefully and have built them in a highly systematic form. If you happen to program in both Objective C and Java, you’d find the SDK structures/approaches to be very similar. In addition, with these SDKs we are able to deliver Box’s expertise with enterprise single sign-on (SSO) to third parties. Finally, these SDKs allow developers to integrate Box quickly using pre-built file pickers and buttons. For more information, please check out developers.box.com/sdks.

As you can see, we’ve been having fun building the Box platform business, and will have lots more to come later this year. In the meantime, we hope to see you on the other side of all of this $rev-enue.

Today I’m excited to announce the availability of CipherCloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Box. CipherCloud DLP for Box helps admins apply corporate DLP policies on content in Box while keeping it simple for end users. The CipherCloud Gateway scans all content uploaded to Box and provides enforcement actions including alert, quarantine, block, prevent sharing or other customizable security options. If a user uploads a document containing restricted data like a social security number, which violates company policy, the file is automatically moved to a quarantine folder. The user is notified of the policy action and is prevented from accessing the file until the admin determines it’s safe to share and returns the document back to its original Box folder.

CipherCloud for Box also arms admins with extensive visibility into user actions within Box. Through CipherCloud’s reporting dashboards, admins can view metrics like top files shared, most active users and user file sharing activity. Admins can also see policy violations by user, by location and over time to spot compliance problems, address governance risks and train users on how to avoid policy violations.

In addition to DLP, CipherCloud for Box provides behind-the-scenes protection by scanning for malware to block viruses or infected content from being uploaded to Box or spread to other users.

With CipherCloud for Box, your team can stay productive while giving you the peace of mind that your company is meeting regulatory and compliance requirements. Want to learn more? Check out details on CipherCloud’s page, the Box support site or contact your Box rep for a demo.

We’re continuing this momentum today with three powerful new features that make managing a complex, enterprise-wide deployment dead simple. Box hasn’t forgotten that admins are people (and users!), too, making the tools we give IT just as elegant and easy to use as everything else in the product.

This week, we’re rolling out three new features in the Box admin console, including an improved content manager, granular co-admin permission options and the ability to prevent users from permanently deleting content.

Content manager is an optional tab in the admin console, available exclusively for those in the beta program, and helps admins view the content each user has access to and search for specific files and folders across the entire account. Today, we’re making it even more powerful by introducing a way for admins to manage content and users, including security settings, access permissions and file/folder ownership across an entire organization. It’s a powerful command center that gives admins insight into what’s going on in their deployment, plus the management functionality they need to take action instantly. You can check out all the details here.

Quick note for admins of Box Enterprise accounts not yet in the beta program! If you’re interested, just reach out to your Box customer success manager and they’ll turn on Content Manager for your account.

Today, we’re also adding tools that help fine-tune the specific permissions available to co-admins, making sure help desk leads, IT representatives and business analysts have just the right level of access – without giving too much. Full details are available here.

Finally, we now let admins of Box Enterprise accounts prevent users from permanently deleting items they’ve moved to the trash – an important option that can help admins comply with legal holds, create data retention policies or meet data loss prevention goals. Details are on Box here.

Together, these three tools will help Box customers cut through the complexity of managing content, users and roles in highly connected organizations. Combined with the existing tools in the Box admin console, these enhancements ensure that every Box deployment – at a company with 100 or 100,000 employees – will scale securely, successfully, and easily for everyone (especially our beloved admins!).

We’re eager to hear your feedback on these new tools for enterprise admins – let us know below or on Twitter @BoxHQ!

In addition to Folders, you may remember that we announced the acquisition of Crocodoc earlier this month. What’s behind this flurry of activity? There are always many factors that go into acquiring companies and technology, but from my point of view, with Crocodoc and Folders it all came down to the amazing impact they can have on the Box user experience.

I’m a firm believer that even applications developed primarily for the enterprise, like Box, need to be pushing the leading edge for user experience and design. They have to be “consumer-grade” in terms of their usability, simplicity, speed and performance. This definitely raises the bar for enterprise software design and engineering, but there’s no doubt that the higher standards are a big win for users and a massive opportunity for Box.

More than 15 million people at 150,000 businesses use Box because they love it. It’s simple, it’s easy, and it helps them get their work done. As Aaron would say, we’ve built “enterprise software that doesn’t suck.” But you have to continually improve, refine and innovate to maintain your edge. Crocodoc and Folders are foundational new technologies that will help us continue to deliver an incredible experience for our users and fuel our next phase of growth both in the U.S. and abroad.

With Crocodoc, their ability to quickly and smoothly extract and preview documents in web and mobile-friendly HTML5 is a breakthrough. We’ll leverage the Crocodoc team and technology to make every document experience on Box and across the web fast, striking, and “consumer-grade” in all respects.

Likewise, Martin’s work on Folders will be integral to the next-generation of Box on iOS. When we saw Folders we saw a beautiful experience and set of design patterns that we had to bring to Box’s users. Adding the Folders technology and Martin’s expertise to Box will help us to continue to improve how people collaborate and engage with their content on Post-PC devices. In the near term, Box for iOS will become cleaner, faster and more beautiful throughout 2013.

The pace of innovation in web and mobile technologies — at the device, OS, and infrastructure levels — is thrilling. We’ve developed a deep understanding of the industry’s most interesting engineering and design challenges to stay ahead of that pace. And we’ll continue to seek out and develop the technology and the talent — at Box, in Silicon Valley, and globally — to keep it that way.

With today’s update to Box for DocuSign, you have the flexibility to start from whatever application you’re in: Box, DocuSign, or from your iPhone, Android or other mobile device. No matter where you start, with a few clicks you can easily select the recipients you need to sign a document, tag the document, and send it for signature. Once the document is fully executed, a copy is automatically stored in Box so you always have the most up to date version at your fingertips.

Box for DocuSign is a popular integration here at Box and is used throughout the company. When we sign up a new customer, our sales rep will send the contract to be signed in DocuSign. The customer returns the signed contract and it’s automatically saved back to Box. Our business development team uses Box for DocuSign to red-line or edit contract drafts, and then collect signatures on executed copies. Even our people ops team uses Box for DocuSign to extend offer letters to candidates, as well as prepare internal stock grants for employees to sign and return.

With Box for DocuSign, your team can be more productive regardless of where you are or what device you’re using. How will your team use Box for DocuSign?

Protect Yourself: Box for MobileIron AppConnect

Box is designed with mobility, control and content security in mind, and many of our customers choose Box to help them tackle tough industry regulations and compliance policies. This is why Box has partnered with MobileIron to offer the security, visibility, configuration and policy management that IT needs and the convenience and productivity that users expect.

Today we’re excited to launch a brand new mobile app, Box for MobileIron AppConnect, that’s designed to work with the new MobileIron AppConnect mobile application security solution. It offers a seamless way for companies to secure mobile apps on a device while keeping a user’s corporate and personal data separate. For businesses that need enhanced security controls, MobileIron AppConnect also offers DLP features and lets admins set additional authentication policies in order to access and install corporate-sanctioned apps.

With our integration, IT can control the flow of content out of Box, as well as easily restrict printing, opening files in other apps and copying and pasting sensitive data. Additionally, MobileIron and Box customers can:

• Automate app installation
• Invisibly manage policy changes across an enterprise
• Provide SSO to enterprise applications on the mobile device
• Keep sensitive information off compromised or jail-broken devices
• Separate personal and corporate information and settings without impacting employee’s devices

Want more details on the new integration? Join our webinar on May 21 to discover how to deploy secure mobile collaboration in your organization and learn about the new Box for MobileIron AppConnect.

If you’re unfamiliar with ISO 27001, it’s the international standard for information security management systems (ISMS) and demonstrates how the policies and controls we have put in place at Box protect user data.  In short, the standard prescribes requirements and best practices for systematically building, deploying, verifying and managing information, content and data.

While this is an important certification for Box, it’s just one more step along our long-term roadmap and commitment to providing the highest level of transparency and assurance to our customers about the quality and security of our platform, top to bottom.

It’s also a critical component of our ability to serve our international customers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia – where we’ve seen our customer growth more than double in the past year. And, if you’re in Paris or Munich next month, our Box World Tour stops in those cities are great opportunities to learn about how Box gives you better security, control and visibility over your content.  For more information, or to register, check the sites for Box World Tour: Paris (4 June 2013) and Box World Tour: Munich (12 June 2013)!