Introducing Box Apps: Power your business with intelligent, no-code apps

Every team and department in an organization runs multiple processes that rely deeply on content. Whether it’s a contract that needs to be generated, an insurance policy that must be issued, or an invoice up for payment, getting the right information to the right person at the right time is a daily necessity for all organizations.

But the technology available for enabling, automating, and managing business processes is often insufficient. Building fully custom applications from scratch for each business process is impractical and time consuming, while legacy enterprise content management (ECM) systems are overly complex and challenging to use. As a result, IT and department leaders often find it difficult to use existing tools to quickly enhance the productivity of their teams.

Box Apps: Manage and automate critical processes with intelligent apps

Today, we are thrilled to announce Box Apps is generally available. Box Apps is a no-code solution that makes it easy to create intelligent applications for managing content-centric business processes throughout your organization.

Your teams can now streamline processes and accelerate daily work with purpose-built apps that include custom dashboards, metadata views, and integrated content workflows. With Box Apps, you can harness the power of Box AI to extract metadata from content quickly and accurately (in beta), replacing manual data entry and traditional approaches like OCR. Plus, you’ll soon be able to simplify tasks and workflows by leveraging integrated forms, document generation, and e-signature capabilities in your Box Apps.

In essence, Box Apps brings four key elements into one business application. Within each purpose-built Box App, you can easily organize and manage files in Box and deliver relevant content to users. Users can leverage metadata to search and retrieve content via metadata-powered dashboards and custom views. You can automate and accelerate business processes related to content and metadata while also capturing reviewer approvals as needed. And you can provision purpose-built Box Apps to the right individuals to expedite daily work, in any team or department.

With Box Apps you can:

• Easily build unlimited Box Apps with our intuitive no-code, drag-and-drop builder
• Customize layouts and metadata views for tailored user experiences that suit your needs
• Leverage the power of AI to extract and organize metadata effortlessly (beta)
• Manage metadata at scale efficiently with powerful tools
• Easily upload and organize content in bulk with our auto-filing capability
• Drive end-to-end business processes with integrated workflow capabilities (coming soon)

Box Apps will transform how people manage content-centric workflows — from onboarding employees to managing contracts to processing invoices and more. For example:

• HR teams will create Box Apps to manage employee policies, internal procedures, and benefits information
• Marketing teams will create Box Apps for managing rich media assets like graphics, images, videos, presentations, and more
• Legal teams will create Box Apps for managing contracts, agreements, filings, and related documents
• Accounting teams will create Box Apps for managing invoices, purchase orders, payments, and financial reports
• Sales teams will create Box Apps for managing proposals, quotes, and contracts to speed up deal cycles

Enterprise Advanced: The best of Box in one plan

Box Apps is generally available as part of our new pricing plan, Enterprise Advanced, which provides customers with the full power of Intelligent Content Management in a single, comprehensive package. With Enterprise Advanced, you give your teams a unified, AI-powered approach to managing and securing unstructured data with Intelligent Content Management. Get ready to accelerate mission-critical processes, streamline workflows, and harness the full potential of AI. In addition to Box Apps, this comprehensive plan includes new products like Box AI Studio, Box Doc Gen, large file uploads, and much more.

To learn more about Enterprise Advanced, please join our webinar.