Partnering with Slack to power intelligent collaboration with Box AI

Collaboration is more powerful when it’s anchored by intelligent content. Today, Box is deepening our partnership with Slack and revolutionizing the way teams work by bringing Box AI directly to Slack. Now, Box Enterprise+ customers can leverage unlimited Box AI queries inside of Slack, unlocking the value of your enterprise content right in your favorite AI-powered work operating system! Whether you're working on customer presentations, legal contracts, or any other file – Box AI has got your back.

Our strategic partnership with Slack has grown significantly over the years to provide a secure and powerful interoperable offering for joint customers. Our dedication to creating a unified experience means that you can have one place to collaborate, share files, receive Box notifications, leverage Box AI, and build workflow automation. No more jumping between applications, the Box for Slack app creates a unified and secure content experience, bringing together Box, Slack, Salesforce, and 1600+ other apps available in the Box App Center. 

“Enterprises today recognize the potential of AI to unleash valuable insights that are trapped inside their content," said Aaron Levie, Co-Founder and CEO of Box. "Thousands of customers including Elf Cosmetics, Mast-Jägermeister SE, and Wasserman Media already leverage Box and Slack together, making it easy to share and collaborate on documents across both platforms while maintaining a single, secure source of truth for content. With this expanded partnership, we are bringing that same level of interoperability and cross-platform ease of use to the world of AI. Now, whether you are working on customer presentations, legal contracts, a budget spreadsheet, or any other file, you can leverage Box AI to get insights and answers without ever leaving your Slack environment. It's never been easier to bring secure enterprise-grade AI to your work."

Slack is where critical knowledge and collaboration come together for enterprises worldwide. And with newly enhanced interoperability with Box, it becomes an even more powerful solution for collaboration and content management powered by Box AI. 

"The world’s largest and most complex enterprises rely on Slack to bring their people, projects, data, knowledge and culture together in one conversational interface – and now with Box AI, companies can intelligently surface insights from their most critical business content, right in the flow of work," said Denise Dresser, CEO of Slack. “Slack’s improved interoperability with Box makes it easy for enterprises to unify files from across their organization and then take action that accelerates their most important business outcomes. Our integration with Box is a perfect example of how companies are using Slack as their AI-powered work operating system for the next generation of AI agents and applications.” 

Let's dive into what this expanded partnership means for you:

Unlimited Box AI queries right from your favorite work operating system

Box AI brings powerful large language models directly to your most important business information, without training on it, to uncover insights and simplify work around your content stored in Box. With Box AI now available in the Box for Slack integration, users can ask unlimited queries regarding any of their content stored in Box. 

Imagine a world where marketing teams can extract key insights from market analysis reports within seconds or sales teams can highlight new additions in customer presentations shared on Slack without having to open and dig through them – ensuring the right users have access to up-to-date information during client interactions. Legal teams can streamline contract reviews by asking Box AI to identify key clauses or obligations of Box files shared in Slack conversations while operations teams can extract crucial takeaways from budget documents posted on their dedicated channel – making strategy updates a breeze! And let's not forget HR teams who can leverage Box AI to summarize employee engagement survey results in Box files shared on Slack channels – quickly identifying trends that help create effective action plans for enhancing workplace culture.

"Metrigy's research continues to show that team collaboration is becoming the hub for work. Integrating Slack with Box provides customers with an even greater way of getting their work done in one central place. This integration also delivers the ability to leverage AI to gain valuable insights from content, all within one user interface, consistent with security and compliance requirements." Irwin Lazar, President and Principal Analyst, Metrigy

Box AI for Slack unlocks a world of productivity and efficiency in a secure and meaningful way - but it doesn’t end there.

Deepened integration between Box and Slack

In the last year we’ve been working hard to release new and highly requested features that make Box for Slack such a critical app for joint customers today.

• Enhanced workflows allow you to create no-code automation processes incorporating your precious Box content directly within your beloved Slack workspace.
• Full Dynamic File Preview enable customers to view live updated and high-res versions of entire documents without leaving Slack.
• Real-time loading content cards ensures that Box files shared in Slack reflect changes in their thumbnails and titles, keeping everyone updated seamlessly.
• Share from Box to Slack using the new and improved “Share with Slack” icon and workflow, enabling teams working in Box to seamlessly share files in Slack.
• Admin delegated authorization has been streamlined too, making deployment faster than ever before!
• Channel to folder mapping allows customers to use Box as a unifying content layer, meaning Slack channels can share mapped folders with Salesforce objects. Eliminating content silos and creating a seamless and efficient experience across platforms.

"The Slack and Box partnership, which seamlessly integrates collaboration and content, is fundamental to enterprise needs in the age of AI," said Shivani Majewski, Managing Director – Salesforce Industries, at Slalom. "Customers want to build solutions that use AI to accelerate their business processes. Using Box AI to extract critical information from the millions of files in an organization and building collaborative workflows in Slack with those insights, improves the value and efficiency of business processes happening every day across industries like financial services, retail, media and entertainment, and more.”

Ready to get started?

Unlimited end-user Box AI queries through our Slack integration are available today! If you're already subscribed under our Enterprise Plus plan or using a corresponding tiered plan with Slack enterprise features enabled - congratulations! You can get full access with just a few clicks!

To learn more about additional features available immediately for all existing joint customers - such as Box notifications, enhanced workflows, real-time loading cards, permission settings, and more - check out this datasheet and our Slack partner webpage. Features such as channel to folder mapping and full dynamic file preview require additional Admin activation to be enabled.

Head over to the official app directory here and begin using the incredible power of Box for Slack today! For more details about this exciting announcement join us live today for an exclusive webinar where we'll dive deeper into everything this partnership entails.