<p>Throughout its 170-year history, global energy management company Schneider Electric has been at the forefront of emerging technologies. With its roots in France during the first throes of the industrial revolution, it expanded from construction, machinery and ship building into the burgeoning electricity market in 1891. It has weathered depressions, strikes, revolutions and world wars, as well as launching itself full steam into nearly every major industrial technology of the past two centuries, including railway, steel, cement, nuclear power, robotics and semiconductors.</p><p>Today it is one of the world's largest manufacturers of equipment for electrical distribution, industrial control, automation and energy management, working across over a hundred countries and employing more than 150,000 people worldwide.</p><p>With such a large workforce in an extensive number of markets, the company's IT management has faced significant challenges around information sharing and collaboration.</p><p>'The main issue we had with document sharing within the company was that everyone was using different tools and subscribing to various web services as individuals, and we had no central admin capability,' says Herve Coureil, Schneider Electric CIO. 'We were using bits of Lotus Notes and bits of Sharepoint, but wanted unified tools to securely manage information.'</p><p><a href="http://www.information-age.com/technology/cloud-and-virtualisation/123457405/schneider-electric-deploys-box-for-seamless-global-collaboration-">Keep reading...</a></p>