Accellion, Inc.

Accellion, Inc. is a leader of enterprise software that offers solutions for secure mobile file sharing. The Accellion applications are used in business and government. They have features for business users and comprehensive IT management tools to ensure data security and compliance. In comparison to services like Box.net and Dropbox, these solutions can be used both in private and in public clouds as well. For organizations to have a secure control over their data storage. The secure file sharing applications Accellion are available through the Internet and via native mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry devices.

Overview

Accellion was founded in 1999. In 2005 the company moved its headquarters to Palo Alto, California, headquarters Besides this Accellion has offices in Europe and Asia.

Original focus of the company were distributed file storage management and backup technologies. Since 2005, its activities focus on file transfer technology. Important issues are the security and compliance of file sharing. The aim is to help organizations to transfer files of any size, both between internal and external participants, while at the same time ensuring data security and compliance. The companies' demand for secure data transmission is based on the fact that there are concerns about security risks in the use of P2P file sharing.

Today, worldwide rely on Accellion Behördendie companies and applications for mobile file sharing. Among the industries that use the Accellion applications, including the pharmaceutical industry, law firms and judicial authorities, the financial industry, the advertising industry, consumer products, oil and gas companies and the construction industry with architects, engineers and construction companies.

Clients range from organizations with less than 10 users up to organizations with more than 100,000 users. The Accellion solutions can be used internally and externally, in public, private or hybrid clouds, or in a FIPS 140-2 certified environment. All application options can be combined. They can be installed in a multi-site installation or as a standalone single site. Accellion is funded by Riverwood Capital and Baring Private Equity Partners Asia.

Software

The first file transfer solution, a physical on-site solution, Accellion published in May 2005. Accellion first customer was Ogilvy & Mather. For the implementation of the Accellion file transfer, the company was awarded the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders 2005 Best in Class Award.

The market research firm 451 Group provides that a particular feature of the development of the Accellion File Transfer roots through to the collaboration market.

In 2012, the company launched the Accellion Mobile file-sharing packages for businesses and individuals to market. The new packages include a synchronization feature called " kitedrive ".

Early demands for solutions to transfer files came from organizations that need to transfer large files, for example from the marketing and advertising industries, health care and universities.

Many organizations had the problem that the large file volumes in the transmission of a negative impact on the e -mail performance and e -mail storage set ever higher demands. Accellion offered an application to reduce the attachments to e - mails in the transmission and storage and to improve email performance for file transfers via e-mail. The Accellion file sharing offered itself as a solution for organizations, problems and safety concerns had to transfer data via FTP server. The applications of Accellion were easier to use and manage and also offered the necessary security.

The company also offers its customers a mobile product named Accellion Mobile Productivity Suite that allows safe to edit files from Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint on mobile devices.

Awards

  • 2009: Accellion won the " 2009 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Award - Best Security Solution for Government and Education ".
  • 2011: Accellion won the "Info Security 2011 Global Excellence Compliance Award ".
  • 2011: eWeek selected the Accellion Mobile Apps out as one of eleven security applications to protect iPhone, Android, Blackberry or other smart phones.
  • 2011: Accellion Secure Collaboration was awarded the "Microsoft Best of TechEd 2011 - Security Award Winner".
  • 2012: Network World appoints the Accellion product kitedrive sync for Product of the Week
  • 2012: Lead411 designated Accellion as one of the most interesting companies in Silicon Valley
  • 2012: SC Magazine UK features Accellion for " Best Content Security '.
  • 2013: Accellion introduced the Mobile Productivity Suite, an application for businesses.
  • 2013: Accellion has been nominated as a finalist for the " SC Magazine Awards Europe 2013 Best Content Security Award".
  • 2013: Accellion has been nominated as a finalist in the " Network Products Guide 's 2013 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards for Governance, Risk and Compliance".
  • 2013: Accellion won the " 2013 Security Products ' Govies Government Security award competition for cloud computing / storage".
  • 2013: Accellion won gold in the category " Governance, Risk and Compliance " at the " 8th Annual 2013 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards".
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