Accellion Introduces kiteworks Cloud Content Connectors for Box and Dropbox

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 16, 2014) - Accellion, Inc., an industry leader in providing secure, enterprise mobile file sharing and collaboration solutions to enable increased business productivity, today announced the launch of kiteworks™ content connectors for Box and Dropbox to extend IT management and oversight to content stored by employees in cloud accounts. With the addition of the new cloud connectors kiteworks now offers IT organizations the ability to enable, track and secure the sharing of enterprise content both inside and outside the firewall.

"Enterprise organizations want to provide their employees access to all the data they need to get their job done, while ensuring that content sharing and syncing is done in a compliant manner," said Yorgen Edholm, CEO at Accellion. "We've taken a unique approach which recognizes that content is stored in multiple locations and what is a needed is a way to be able to access and work with that content securely. We're thrilled to offer a solution that does just that. Now, kiteworks users can view, edit, share and collaborate on content with internal and external users, on mobile devices, laptops or desktops regardless of whether the content is stored in the cloud, or behind the firewall."

The complete list of kiteworks content connectors includes: SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, SharePoint Online, Windows File Shares and Distributed File Systems, Documentum, OpenText, Google Drive for Work, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, Box and Dropbox.

The kiteworks cloud content connectors provide a number of key benefits, including:

Full control and visibility of enterprise content sharing across all content stores for compliance with government and industry regulations such as HIPAA

• IT has full audit and reporting capabilities for all content stored and shared via cloud content repositories, and on-premise enterprise content managements systems. Includes granular logging of user login, sharing and file/folder activities
• Seamless integration with cloud storage solutions including Box and Dropbox, also Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive while honoring existing security settings, user roles and access control list

Ubiquitous access to content stored in enterprise content management systems and cloud storage

• Users can view all content through a single, easy to access interface, regardless of whether the content is stored in a cloud service such as Box and Dropbox, or on-premise in an enterprise content management system such as Microsoft SharePoint
• Users have secure mobile access to cloud content sources with fully containerized, secure round trip editing of Microsoft Office and PDF files
• Users have secure mobile sharing and collaboration of files stored in cloud and on-premise solutions, while maintaining the 'document of record' in the source system without content duplication

Easy sharing of files from multiple content sources

• Users can easily share files from different content sources, including cloud storage, the kiteworks container, local devices, and on-premise ECM systems, all from within the same solution

In addition to the cloud connectors, kiteworks now also provides a native connector to personal windows folders, often referred to as the P or H Drive. Every organization has native Home Shares, and enterprises users can now connect to their personal windows folder drive from any mobile device. 

The Box cloud content connector is now available, while the Dropbox cloud content connector will be available later this year. To learn more about how the new kiteworks cloud content connectors can securely improve your team's productivity on mobile devices, visit our site.

About Accellion
Accellion, Inc. is an award-winning private company that provides mobile solutions to enterprise organizations that enable increased business productivity while ensuring security and compliance. As the leading provider of private cloud solutions for secure mobile file sharing, Accellion offers enterprise organizations the scalability, flexibility, control and security to enable a mobile workforce with the tools they need to create, access and share information securely, wherever work takes them. More than 12 million 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; Guinness World Records; US Securities and Exchange Commission; and NASA use Accellion solutions to increase business productivity, protect intellectual property, ensure compliance and reduce IT costs. For more information please visit www.accellion.com or call (650) 485-4300. Follow Accellion's Blog, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

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