Accellion Inc, a developer of 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 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 say 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.
To learn more about kiteworks visit www.accellion.com/kiteworks
There’s also a couple of handy video clips here
End user: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EurvduMIWgA
Admin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukQVMkjVakA
COMMENT: Why is this interesting to legal? Accellion already has law firm customers including Latham & Watkins LLP, SNR Denton, Hogan Lovells, Freehills and P+P Pöllath and Arsene-Taxand. kiteworks now means content shared by law-firms stays in the country of origin on-premise based on geo-location policy rules. In addition, lawyers and their clients enjoy a simple consistent user interface across all devices enhancing productivity and client service.
