Box rolled out new tools to extract data from unstructured content, automate workflows and orchestrate work and layered more AI features in Box Apps.
At the company's BoxWorks conference, CEO Aaron Levie outlined Box Extract, Box Automate and new Box Apps features to address the day that AI agents outnumber people. Levie said:
"Imagine a future where these agents are running autonomously in the background, at scale across an organization. We will have potentially 100 times or more agents in our organization than people, and that's going to be a very different reality of what work looks like."
Levie argued that Box's Intelligent Content Management platform can address the content workflow, processes and governance.
"We believe that the companies that thrive in this AI first era of work will be those that can fully tap into and take advantage of their unstructured data at scale," said Levie. "With AI agents on unstructured data we can streamline production, accelerate critical missions and deliver new products to market even faster."
Box previewed its BoxWorks announcements during its latest earnings conference call. Here's a look at the key announcements.
Box Extract uses AI via Box AI standards and Enhanced Extract Agents to understand documents and extract information. Box Extract can handle multiple formats including PDFs, scans, images and structured data, interpret text, tables, handwriting and bar codes, capture semantic relationships and ensure data quality.
According to Box, Box Extract can improve processes that need contract, invoices, forms and other unstructured content.
Box Automate is a tool to design and manage workflows with a no-code/low-code interface, create AI agents for workflows, route tasks and automate processes via integration with Box Forms, Box Doc, Box Sign and Box Hubs.
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Box Apps will get new functionality to surface insights and trends, filter and surface content views via natural language, manage multiple dashboards and embed apps into third-party platforms.
BoxShield Pro will deliver tools to defend against ransomware attacks, classify sensitive content and analyze threats. BoxShield Pro is a new product built on top of Box Shield, which launched in 2019.
The company said the new offerings will be available later this year.
