Top 10 Enterprise Reasons to Select kiteworks by Accellion
Top 10 Enterprise Reasons to Select kiteworks Accellion enables enterprise organizations to enhance business productivity, while ensuring data security and compliance by securely connecting employees to enterprise content. 1. Proven Enterprise Solution Accellion has a proven track record of successfully providing enterprises with highly scalable and flexible secure solutions that meet the strictest security requirements to comply with industry and government regulations, including HIPAA, SOX, and GLBA. Hyundai, Procter & Gamble, Kaiser Permanente, and Cimarex are a few of the organizations currently using Accellion to securely share information with both internal and external stakeholders. 2. Secure Content Platform To unleash productivity gains, enterprise organizations need to create new workflows that enable users to work from wherever. With the kiteworks platform, developers can leverage out-of-the-box security and productivity features; to quickly design and deploy enterprise applications that securely connect employees with enterprise content, from any device. The kiteworks platform offers developers with enterprise-grade mobile SDKs and APIs for rapidly developing custom applications - leveraging a secure mobile container for securely accessing, editing, and sharing enterprise content. 3. Secure Multi-Tier Architecture Enterprise organizations require solutions that deliver extreme scalability. An industry first, kiteworks offers a private cloud multi-tier architecture that offers extreme deployment flexibility by allowing web, application, and storage tiers to be separated and placed anywhere on the network. With just a few clicks, administrators can flexibly scale each tier separately; or all together, as organizations grow and requirements change. Single Virtual Appliance Deployment web service storage service application service Independently Scaled Multi-Tier Deployment web service storage service application service 4. Private Cloud, On-Premise Deployment Enterprises require secure deployment options. Accellion is the leading provider of private cloud solutions enabling deployment in virtual environments, including VMware and Hyper-V. The kiteworks private cloud deployment architecture ensures availability, integrity, and confidentiality of information; and is preferred by many enterprises and IT organizations for its enhanced information security and control capabilities. Located inside the firewall, kiteworks private cloud on-premise deployments are owned and controlled by the IT organization; allowing information to be solely managed by enterprises, rather than delegated to third party cloud providers.
Delivered as private cloud infrastructure, Accellion enables organizations to keep servers, storage, application service, meta-data, and authentication within the firewall. SLAs and security are dependent on parameters set by an organization; not those of public cloud solution providers. Private cloud hosted deployments give organizations the opportunity to leverage cloud computing infrastructure and resources, while ensuring that data is not co-mingled. Organizations can immediately take advantage of cloud infrastructure to handle spikes in usage and bandwidth needs. Accellion private cloud deployment options include: Private Cloud On-Premise Private Cloud Hosted Hybrid Combination of on-premise and hosted private clouds 5. Universal Access to Enterprise Content Secure ECM Access. No VPN The kiteworks by Accellion platform provides secure, VPN-less access and sharing of enterprise content, regardless of where it is stored. Users can link content from multiple content sources in a single kiteworks folder to share with external users. Documents of record are always maintained in the source system, along with a complete audit trail. The kiteworks solution also enables users to securely download, edit, and create Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents on ipads; and store them back to enterprise content sources with just a few swipes. And do it all while IT enforces security policies across all content stores for auditing, reporting, and compliance. Content sources supported via kiteworks include:microsoft SharePoint 2007, 2010, and 2013 Microsoft SharePoint 2007, 2010, and 2013 SharePoint Online Windows File Shares (CIFS/DFS) Home Share Documentum OpenText Content Server 10 and Livelink 9.7.1 6. Secure Mobile Container OpenText edocs DM version 5.3.1 Patch 6 Google Drive Microsoft OneDrive Box Dropbox For organizations managing BYOD and mobile productivity requirements, kiteworks has secure native mobile applications for Apple ios and Android. Users can securely create, edit, view, and collaborate on Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files as well as annotate PDFs without having to move data outside of the kiteworks secure container. The kiteworks native app also enables users to open and securely upload files directly to kiteworks folders from e-mails, images from the camera roll, and other applications. With kiteworks, IT can control which users can download, edit, create, and save files on devices. The applications used to open files from Accellion can be whitelisted, PIN access to the app can be configured, and the remote wipe feature can be used to remove content stored in the kiteworks, secure container, when a user leaves the organization or a device is lost/stolen. The kiteworks Mobile App also works with MDM solutions from MobileIron, Good Technology, and Symantec. 7. Centralized IT Control and Management Enterprise organizations need solutions to easily control enterprise content sharing. Accellion provides admins with a streamlined and centralized admin interface to quickly configure, deploy, manage, and maintain the system. Interactive and real-time dashboards help bring to the forefront, the status of all important services and activities that administrators need to manage day-to-day. Real-time system health alerts deliver critical system information at a glance. Visual admin dashboards deliver: Status of system services Licenses consumed/remaining Storage allocation System-wide activities System health alerts Key security and admin features include: Auditing and reporting Remote wipe Anti-Virus App whitelisting LDAP/AD, SSO, and Two-factor Offline PIN authentication Restricted admin access to content Encryption keys ownership User-friendly DRM with Online viewer watermarking, view only, and file DLP withdraw capabilities 8. Enterprise Authentication Strong authentication is essential to ensure that only authorized users have access to information. The kiteworks solution integrates with LDAP/AD to authenticate and manage users. The kiteworks solution supports single sign-on through the SAML (Secure Assertion Markup Language) 2.0 protocol and two-factor authentication.
9. Enterprise File Synchronization Increased Security and Business Productivity Today s 24/7 business climate demands that employees have secure access to the latest information across devices, online and offline. The kiteworks file synchronization gives employees access to up-to-date files, regardless of location or device, offline and online. It combines the ease-of-use of consumer solutions with the controls, security, and management that organizations require. The solution provides both continuous and on-demand file synchronization, so that users can select how files are synchronized to optimize business productivity, network storage, and bandwidth. Content added to sync-enabled folders are synchronized via kiteworks; and accessible across mobile, web, and desktop. With the kiteworks desktop, client users can also right-click on any file to send content securely. 10. Secure File Sharing and Collaboration Ease-of-Use with High User Adoption Enterprises require real-time project and team collaboration for easy and secure information exchange; inside and outside the office, across laptops, desktops, tablets, smartphones. The kiteworks solution enhances employee productivity by enabling users to easily collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, by assigning roles. Real-time activity and file views enable users to quickly monitor the most pertinent activities taking place across the kiteworks solution. Users can quickly manage tasks, organize content as well as comment, add new versions, lock/unlock, update, synchronize, share, and send files. With full content search, users can quickly find documents across kiteworks folders. Using the intuitive Move Tray, users can easily drag and drop files across kiteworks folders or enterprise content sources to manage and organize content. The kiteworks solution facilitates real-time collaboration via innovative features, including: Activity stream Move tray Task management File synchronization Online viewer File locking Secure file sharing File versioning Comments Watermarking File withdrawal I can t put a high enough dollar amount on the efficiency gains that have resulted from using Accellion. Kawa Farid Infrastructure Manager, Hyundai Motor Company Australia
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Accellion, Inc. is the industry leader in providing private cloud solutions for secure access and sharing of enterprise information across devices, enabling employees to work securely wherever. Founded in 1999, Accellion is an awardwinning, private company headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in North America, APAC, and Europe. The company has evolved from its roots in cloud storage into a leading enterprise security software provider. More than 12 million business users and 2,000 of the world s leading corporations and government agencies, including Procter & Gamble; Indiana University Health; Kaiser Permanente; Lovells; Bridgestone; Harvard University; the Securities and Exchange Commission; and NASA use Accellion solutions to protect confidential information, ensure compliance, increase business productivity, and reduce IT costs. 1804 Embarcadero Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA +1 650-249-9544 info@accellion.com www.accellion.com Accellion, Inc. All rights reserved