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Fuze Box, a provider of online meeting and mobile collaboration applications and Box.net, an online collaboration provider announced that Box.net will offer Fuze Meeting conferencing capabilities to users from within the Box.net service.

 

Box.net provides customers with online management tools that simplify online content management, accelerate team productivity and connect employees with a familiar interface.

 

Users of Box.net cloud-based content management and collaboration solution will benefit from the Fuze Meeting integration. It offers synchronous collaboration, screen sharing, real-time document and video presentation and collaboration to millions of individuals, small businesses and large corporations.

 

Box.net users can now instantly and synchronously present, review and collaborate on content in their Box.net account with their teammates, clients and partners. The two companies may integrate their services with more new features, said official sources.

 

“We are excited to announce that Fuze Meeting will launch as our first real-time conferencing solution because their entirely Web-based platform supports our core value proposition: that it should be easy for people to access, work with and share all their content, wherever they are, on any device,” said Karen Appleton, vice president of Business Development at Box.net.

 

“Fuze Meeting’s cloud-based architecture gives users the ability to launch a meeting directly from a document, supporting Box’s vision of sharing content instantaneously,” he added.

 

The combination of Box.net and Fuze Meeting provides Box users with an on-demand, cost-effective way to collaborate on projects in the office, or while they are traveling irrespective of where they are.

 

On enabling the Fuze Meeting service on an account, Box.net users can choose a file in a Fuze Meeting session with a single click. The integration between the Box.net and Fuze Meeting helps users to launch real-time collaboration sessions eliminating the need for software download or installation. The Fuze Meeting interface allows users to “fetch” or add more participants by clicking on names in their Fuze Meeting address book.

 

Patrick Moran (News - Alert), vice president of marketing at Fuze Box, explained that Fuze Box has been using Box.net internally for some time to allow sharing and collaboration on all documents within the company. The use of the two technologies together at Fuze Box, gives Box.net customers huge benefits from the real-time collaboration capabilities of Fuze Meeting within the Box.net system.

 

Fuze Box provides applications which allow people to communicate, collaborate and conference from any device. Fuze Meeting is essentially a mobile and Web-based collaboration service that includes features like integrated audio conferencing as well as high-definition, synchronized video and image sharing.