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Accellion, Inc., the pioneer in providing secure enterprise solutions that improve mobile productivity, today announced the launch of its new product, kiteworks by Accellion, a mobile-first solution with a sophisticated new user-experience and three-tier architecture designed to enable people to work securely wherever. Its new mobile design offers integrated productivity tools and universal access to enterprise content stores, making it possible for organizations to realize the productivity gains from a mobile workforce without introducing data security risks.
“Our new mobile-first design and three-tier architecture create a secure solution that is easy to use, and has the extreme scalability that enterprises and government agencies around the world need to securely enable an increasingly mobile workforce,” said Yorgen Edholm, CEO, Accellion. “Secure business solutions will only be used if they help not hinder employees getting their work done, and kiteworks is the embodiment of that principle.”
Accellion is a market leader in offering secure file sharing, syncing and productivity solutions and with the introduction of kiteworks the company upgrades its offerings in three main ways:
• Mobile-First UX: Rather than taking a PC-based design and pasting it onto a mobile app, kiteworks was designed for mobile first, so that the user’s experience is seamless across all devices from smartphone to tablet to laptop to desktop. Even the admin functionality is available on the smallest mobile devices. The new UX is icon-based with the mobile user in mind, and includes innovative, industry-first features such as the kiteworks Move Tray, which streamlines the way people share files via mobile devices. The Move Tray enables users to easily and securely share files from different content stores with internal and external users. Other productivity enhancing features include an integrated set of productivity tools for creating, editing and annotating Microsoft Office documents on mobile devices and features for file-centric collaboration, and the assignment and management of file-based tasks.
• Secure Connectivity to ECM Systems: With kiteworks mobile users have universal access to enterprise content stores including secure, native integration with two new ECMs Documentum and SharePoint Online in addition to file shares previously supported, including Microsoft SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013 as well as Windows File Shares. This means that kiteworks users can access, edit and share files from different enterprise content sources, with internal and external users, through one seamless universal interface that honors all ECM access permissions.
• Three-Tier Architecture: With kiteworks Accellion introduces the industry’s first three-tier architecture for private cloud file sharing and collaboration with separate web, application and data layers for defense in depth, extreme scalability and flexibility. The separate layers offer new deployment options for enhanced security, such as putting the web layer in the DMZ for external users, while keeping the application and data layers behind the firewall to reduce the risk of data breaches. Organizations concerned with data sovereignty, can specify where data is stored based on user geography, access rights, or type of content.
"Our organization relies on Accellion for file collaboration and the ability to sync content, so we can work from wherever, whenever we want, from the device of our choice," said Justin Daniels, Web Services/Software Engineering IT Support Manager at MiTek. "We're excited about kiteworks because it significantly improves the way we organize all of the content that our Purpose Partners are working on, its security architecture is even more robust than before, and it will support users on any device."
About Accellion
Accellion, Inc. (accellion.com) is an award-winning, well-funded, private company that provides enterprise-class mobile productivity solutions to enable secure, anytime, anywhere access to information while ensuring enterprise security and compliance. Accellion is the leading provider of private cloud mobile file sharing solutions that provide the ease-of-use business users need while giving the enterprise organization the flexibility, control and security it needs. More than 12 million users and 1,900 of the world’s leading corporations and government agencies including Procter & Gamble; Indiana University Health; Kaiser Permanente; Lovells; Bridgestone; Ogilvy & Mather; Harvard University; Guinness World Records; US Securities and Exchange Commission; and NASA use Accellion to protect intellectual property, ensure compliance, improve business productivity and reduce IT costs.
Accellion and kiteworks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Accellion, Inc. in the US and other countries. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
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