Box offers a cloud-based solution that provides file-sharing, collaboration, and other tools for working with files that are uploaded to its servers.

Users decide how their content can be shared with other users, often by inviting others to view and/or edit an account's shared files, upload documents and photos to a shared files folder. They can then provide user rights to others which lets them share those documents outside of Box.

Box offers three account types: Enterprise, Business, and Personal. Box support Windows and OS X and a variety of mobile devices.

The BA Insight Box connector makes it possible to surface content from Box in SharePoint and other portals, enabling users to get integrated search results from the preferred search engine and Box. This eliminates the need to do multiple searches, which can often cause inconsistent results and decreased productivity.  A single consolidated search index referencing Box, along with content from other repositories, is surfaced as a single unified result set, giving users a single access point for searching across the enterprise.

Box Connectors for SharePoint

Provides both full and incremental crawls so that users have the latest information available to them all the time.

The Box Connector:

  • Respects Box’s security. This means that the users who have sharing/access privileges assigned to them by Box are the only ones who can see the results. 
  • In addition to supporting full crawls, the connector supports incremental crawls, which extract only content which has changed since the last crawl.
  • Works with all content in Box.
  • Indexes with a very high throughput.
  • Minimizes the impact on Box, therefore it does not affect performance.
  • Only surfaces the content that users are permitted to see.
  • Box retains the master information and the search index has pointers to original content.  Therefore, users clicking on a search result are always working on the most current documents.

Future-proof Your Investment

As new versions of the search platforms are released, new features and functionality are introduced, and the same is true of new releases of Box. BA Insight takes on the burden of keeping the connector up to date for both Box and the respective search engines. The upgrades are easy to do and can be done by your IT organization. It is simply a matter of accessing the BA Insight customer portal, downloading the latest release, and installing and configuring it. If desired, our professional services team can handle the upgrades.

Platforms Supported:

  • Amazon Kendra
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service
  • Azure Cognitive Search
  • Elasticsearch
  • Microsoft Search
  • SharePoint Online
  • SharePoint On-Premise
  • Solr

Drive Productivity

By utilizing the BA Insight Box Connector with your preferred search engine, you increase adoption of your intranet, improving organizational efficiency and productivity.