Forrester calls Box.net the leader in mobile collaboration

Forrester Research, the technology and market research company decided to create a report on the mobile collaboration market. Why mobile? After all, there are no purely mobile collaborative solutions. Mobile access - is just a feature in such systems. But apparently, this feature has become so important that it deserves a separate report. So the results of Forrester research - on the chart. The results - are quite strange. For example, Google (which provides the cool mobile access to almost all their services) is behind the most leaders. And Microsoft - is absent (while it's new department Skype has the best mobile strategy). But the chart leader - Box.net is really showing the great progress in recent months.

With a not very feature-rich, but the effective application and good marketing, Box.net regularly receives investments and attracts new customers. For example recently it won the contract with Procter & Gamble for 18,000 users. In total Box.net has six million users. True, it's including the users of the free version, that provides 5GB of free storage.




Regarding the mobile access, not so far ago Box.net ideally supported only iPhone and iPad. But during the recent months it launched mobile apps for Android (+ Honeycomb), Blackberry (+ Playbook) and even for HP TouchPad (WebOS). And most important, Box.net has released the universal mobile HTML5-based interface for any smartphone and tablet.

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