Roambi, the tablet-based data visualization and publication tool company, today announced a partnership with Box that allows users to build visualizations using data stored in and then share them electronically. They can also use PDFs and graphics from Box in documents created in Roambi Flow. Roambi already can draw data from spreadsheets on a user’s laptop, internal corporate data on the corporate network, and company data in SalesForce. One of the nice things about these is that the data visualizations are live, so that if the source data changes, the visualization automatically updates.

“Box is fast becoming the preeminent enterprise platform for file storage and sharing and data syncing,” said Roambi co-founder and VP of Product Innovation Quinton Alsbury. “We have incredibly large footprints in very large enterprises that were built over the last five years, and we’re finding Box in almost all of those customers with really massive deployments.”

Enterprises are using Box to support application development and to capture data from increasing numbers of applications. They also use it to store marketing material and other information. Box keeps copies of data both locally on a user’s hard drive and in the cloud, where it can be accessed by all authorized users and by multiple devices.

With the new technical partnership, Roambi users can access any of the data they are authorized to see through Roambi and quickly build visualizations that can combine data from Box with other sources. They then can use Roambi Flow, its publication creator, to combine those live visualizations with PDFs, photographs, and other material stored in Box as well as on their hard drives to create electronic brochures, newsletters and similar publications. They can they share those with for instance attendees at a business meeting or conference presentation, attendees of a Webinar or audioconference, or pre-determined lists of subscribers.

Unlike Tableau and other data visualization systems that are designed for use by professional data analysts, Roambi uses pre-defined templates to make it easy for business professionals to create their own visualizations easily, directly on their tablets. The main limitation of Roambi is that at present it is only available for iOS tablets, but that may change in the not too distant future. The big advantage is that end-users can create the visualizations and documents they need rapidly and easily on an iPad, distribute them electronically to the intended audience, and have the advantage of automatic updates to the visualizations as data changes.

The Box extensions are available to all Roambi users immediately at no extra charge.