Adobe Express and Box join forces to deliver creativity and AI tools to businesses

Box and Adobe have announced a groundbreaking partnership, which is set to revolutionize digital media management, creation, and sharing within enterprises. As part of the collaboration, Adobe Express is now generally available as the default image editor in Box, enabling users to effortlessly create and edit engaging content without leaving Box's secure platform. Adobe Express integrates Adobe's leading creative tools with features powered by Firefly, Adobe's generative AI, designed to be safe for enterprise use, ensuring organizations can deploy them widely with confidence.

This integration introduces powerful new capabilities to Box's Intelligent Content Management solution. Enterprise customers can now empower millions of employees and teams to produce high-quality, job-specific content more efficiently. Marketing teams can refine campaign visuals, HR departments can design compelling training materials, and sales professionals can develop high-impact presentation content—all within the familiar and secure Box workflows. This partnership underscores Box and Adobe’s commitment to enhancing productivity and creativity while ensuring security and simplicity for businesses worldwide.

“As enterprises increase the amount of content they’re creating, Box is leveraging AI in our secure ecosystem to fuel collaboration, reduce content sprawl and manage risk,” said Aaron Levie, CEO of Box. “We’re excited to partner with Adobe Express to enhance what we can offer with the world’s best creative tools and AI that’s commercially safe. As a result, every Box customer and user will have the ability to easily create, collaborate on and securely manage digital media in a single, secure Intelligent Content Management platform.”

“Today, every enterprise is feeling the pressure to create more content to engage audiences across a growing number of internal and external channels,” said Govind Balakrishnan, SVP of Adobe Express & Creative Cloud Services. “By integrating Adobe Express directly into Box, we’re helping enterprises close that gap, meeting millions of business users where they work with intuitive, world-class creative tools and AI they can trust.”

Thousands of joint enterprise customers, including Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Axiom Space, BBC Studios, Brigham Young University, ByteDance, FANATICS, Lionsgate and Penguin Random House, are already using Adobe to transform content in Box.

Together, Box and Adobe will deliver a seamless solution that enhances user productivity and creativity without leaving the Box secure content management environment. Millions of Box users will be able to edit images with Adobe Express and save the files back to box, all from within the secure Box workflows enterprise customers expect.

The integration leverages intuitive editing and generative AI-powered features in Adobe Express, empowering Box users to: Instantly crop and resize images; Apply filters and adjust opacity; Remove distracting objects and backgrounds; Add or replace objects and people with a simple text prompt using Firefly-powered features in Adobe Express, and; Automatically and securely save content on Box, ensuring that Box remains the secure content layer for storing and managing files.

Additionally, Box and Adobe are developing workflows that will enable Box users with even more capabilities, including: Generating new images using Adobe Express and Firefly AI right within Box by describing a visual or using reference images and then adjusting the style, size, and format; Editing video files in Box with Adobe Express, including capabilities like trimming videos, converting to GIFs, and adding captions.

Box and Adobe have forged a strong partnership over the past decade, enhancing productivity and creativity for businesses by integrating Adobe’s document and creative tools within the Box platform. In addition to the integration announced today, Box and Adobe are integrated across Adobe Document Cloud, Adobe Experience Cloud, and Adobe Creative Cloud.