Box today announced that Eurostar, the high-speed railway service connecting the UK with mainland Europe, is bringing Box’s cloud content sharing and collaboration platform to its 1,600 employees. In addition to providing mobile access to content, Box will also provide centralized and secure management of Eurostar’s internal and external collaboration.
“We have teams working on multiple projects across three key countries,” said Antoine de Kerviler, CIO at Eurostar. “Box provides us with a smooth, unified, way of accessing content and a strong collaboration platform for our disparate workforce. It is helping us to transform the way we access information and is fundamentally changing the way we work.”
“Eurostar is a leading example in the transportation industry of companies moving to cloud technologies,” said David Quantrell, Box senior vice president and general manager of EMEA. “Box helps enable secure content sharing, collaboration and mobility so that Eurostar can more efficiently run an essential service connecting the UK with the rest of the Continent.”
Similar to Box’s values, Eurostar places a strong emphasis on creating environments that foster productivity through secure, user-friendly tools. Having just celebrated its 20th anniversary, Eurostar continues to prioritize providing employees with the platform they need to be efficient and effective using the best technology available.
Box makes it easy for more than 32 million individuals at 275,000 businesses around the world to share and collaborate. With today’s announcement, Eurostar joins a growing list of transportation companies who have moved to Box, including Network Rail, Gatwick Airport, Hamburg Airport as well as global enterprises, including General Electric, Anglo American, and Schneider Electric.
About Eurostar
Eurostar is the high-speed train service linking St Pancras International, Ebbsfleet International, Ashford International, Paris, Brussels, Lille, Calais, Disneyland® Paris, Avignon and the French Alps.
Eurostar was established in 1994 as a partnership between three railway companies: SNCF, SNCB and LCR (London and Continental Railways). On 1 September 2010, Eurostar became a single, unified corporate entity owned by three shareholders: SNCF, SNCB and LCR.
The current Eurostar train was first introduced into service in 1994 carrying 750 passengers and operating at speeds of up to 300kph. Since then, the fleet of 28 trains has carried more than 150 million passengers between London and the Continent. Following their refurbishment these trains will continue to form a core part of the Eurostar fleet. The new Eurostar e320 will carry more than 900 passengers at speeds of up to 320kph.
Eurostar is a founder member of Railteam, a partnership between Europe’s leading high-speed train operators that is developing simpler ways to book and travel on the fast-expanding European high-speed rail network.
About Box
Box’s mission is to make businesses of all sizes more productive, competitive, and collaborative by connecting people and their most important information. More than 32 million people at 275,000 businesses, including 99 percent of the Fortune 500, use Box today to share, manage and access their content globally. Content on Box can be securely shared and easily accessed on the web, through iOS, Android and Windows Phone applications, and extended to partner applications, such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce. Headquartered in Los Altos, CA, Box is privately held and backed by several leading venture capital firms and strategic investors. To learn more about Box, visit www.box.com.
