Accellion

Accellion, Inc.
Private
Industry Software
Founded 1999
Headquarters Palo Alto, California, USA
Key people
 Yorgen H. Edholm, CEO and President
Products Secure Collaboration, Secure File Transfer, Secure Mobile File Sharing
Number of employees
 201
Website accellion.com

Accellion, Inc. is a private cloud solutions company focused on secure file sharing and collaboration. Users are able to access, edit, and share enterprise content from any device while maintaining compliance and security.[1][2] Accellion software supports deployment on-premises or off-premises; in a public, private, or hybrid cloud or FIPS 140-2 certified environment.[3]

History

Accellion was founded in 1999, and originally focused on providing distributed file storage management and backup technology. Beginning in 2005, the company moved its headquarters to Palo Alto, CA and concentrated its business on file transfer technology.[1]

From 2009 to 2012, the company grew increasingly focused on the security and compliance aspects of file sharing.[4][5] In April 2012, Accellion raised $12 million in venture funding from Riverwood Capital, bringing the company's total funding to over $45 million.[6]

In Gartner's 2014 magic quadrant report, Accellion was named a leader in enterprise file synchronization and sharing.[7][8] That same year, Accellion was named a leader in mobile content management by Aragon Research.[9] Accellion was again positioned in the Gartner's leaders quadrant in 2015.[10]

According to The Wall Street Journal, Accellion was valued at $500 million in 2014.[11]

Software

Accellion released its first file transfer appliance in May 2005,[12][13] a physical, on-premises appliance. Ogilvy & Mather was Accellion’s first enterprise customer and won Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders 2005, Best in Class award for its implementation of Accellion file transfer.[14] In March 2011, Accellion released its Secure Collaboration product.[15][16][17][18][19] Industry research firm, the 451 Group, has characterized Accellion as having grown into the collaboration market from its file-transfer roots.[20]

In 2012, the company introduced Accellion Mobile File Sharing packages for Enterprise, Business and Individuals.[21] The packages included a synchronization feature called kitedrive.[22][23] Early demand for the company's file transfer applications came from organizations that needed to transfer large files, including advertising and marketing firms,[24] healthcare,[25][26][27] and universities.[28][29] Accellion provided an email attachment application for reducing email storage and improving email performance by offloading file transfers from email.[30][31][32] The company also provided its clients with a mobile product called Accellion Mobile Productivity Suite, which let users create, edit, and collaborate on Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on mobile devices.[33]

In January 2014, Accellion launched kiteworks.[11][34][35][36] It is a secure mobile file-sharing product that enables users to work on files and projects remotely.[37][38][39] The software integrates with SharePoint, Documentum, Open Text, Home Drive, Windows File Shares, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, and Google Drive.[11][40] In November of 2014, Accellion introduced a secure mobile platform to the kiteworks suite,[41] which allows employees to securely access and share content from third-party providers from their laptops, smartphones, tablets and wearable devices.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Mackie, Simon (March 28, 2011). "Accellion Offers Secure File Sharing For the Enterprise". GigaOm. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Clancy, Heather (November 28, 2014). "Accellion Tackles Secure Mobile Content Updates". ZD Net. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ "FIPS 140-2 Calidation Certificate" (PDF). The National Institute of Standards and Technology. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ "The Security Concerns of File Transfer". Linda Musthaler. Network World. August 20, 2007.
  5. ↑ "Understanding Data Security Risks of P2P". Brian Prince. eweek. April 25, 2008.
  6. ↑ Ludwig, Sean (January 4, 2012). "Accellion Raises $12M From Riverwood to Become "Dropbox for Enterprise"". Venture Beat. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  7. ↑ Virginia Backaitis (2014-07-07). "Gartner Rates Enterprise File Sync and Share Vendors". CMS Wire. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
  8. ↑ Fred Donovan (2014-07-08). "Accellion, Box, Citrix and EMC are leading EFSS vendors, says Gartner". FierceMobile IT. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
  9. ↑ Lundy, Jim (October 15, 2014). "The Aragon Research Globe for Mobile Content Management 2014" (PDF). Aragon Research. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  10. ↑ Donovan, Fred (July 28, 2015). "Accellion, Box, Citrix and Syncplicity are Top EFSS Vendors, Says Gartner". Fierce Mobile IT. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 Deborah Gage (January 27, 2014). "Accellion Targets Box, Dropbox on Secure File Sharing". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  12. ↑ "No File is Too Big For New File Transfer Appliance". Elena Malykluna. Information Week. May 23, 2005.
  13. ↑ "Device Keeps Large Files Moving". Shelley Solhelm. Eweek. September 26, 2005.
  14. ↑ "Ogilvy Harnesses the Web for its File Transfer System".
  15. ↑ "Dickity-doo-dah". Martin Banks. BusinessCloud9. April 4, 2011.
  16. ↑ "Accellion Proffers Secure Collaboration Workspaces". George V. Hulme. CSO. March 29, 2011.
  17. ↑ "Accellion Introduces New Secure Collaboration Worktool". Sofia Mitra-Thakur. Engineering and Technology Magazine. March 29, 2011.
  18. ↑ "Accellion Brings Safe and Simple File Sharing to the Enterprise". Chelsi Nakano. CMSWire. March 30, 2011.
  19. ↑ "Accellion Sees Rapid Adoption of Secure Collaboration with Mobile Apps". Computer World. August 24, 2011.
  20. ↑ "Accellion Grows into Collaboration Market from file-transfer roots".
  21. ↑ "Accellion strives for secure mobile file sharing with ‘Dropbox for Enterprise"
  22. ↑ "Accellion launches kitedrive Sync its 'Dropbox for the enterprise"
  23. ↑ "Sibley, Lisa (January 4, 2012)."Accellion raises $12M for expansion plans".
  24. ↑ "E-mail Volume Expected to Explode". Network World 3. 2006.
  25. ↑ "Clarian Health Finds Quick Way to Transfer Files". Healthcare IT News. June 4, 2007. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  26. ↑ "Harvard CIO Herds Large File Transfers". M.L. Baker. eweek. February 8, 2007.
  27. ↑ "Applying the Secure File Transfer". Security eNewsletter.
  28. ↑ "Solving the File Transfer Problem". Chronicle of Higher Education. January 28, 2008. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  29. ↑ "Appliance Helps Researchers Share Large Files". Bio-IT World. April 19, 2006.
  30. ↑ Musthaler, Linda (1 August 2005). "Learn to Love E-mail Attachments Again". Network World.
  31. ↑ McLaughlin, Laurianne (2 July 2007). "How One CIO Escaped E-mail Attachment Hell". CIO.
  32. ↑ Himmelsbach, Vawn (January 15, 2007). "DDB Canada uses e-mail tool to get past FTP problems". itbusiness.ca. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  33. ↑ Faas, Ryan. "Accellion's new Office for iOS solution walks the line between IT and users". CiteWorld. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
  34. ↑ Ben Kepes (January 28, 2014). "Accellion Launches Kiteworks, But Are They Too Late To The Mobile File Sharing Party?". Forbes. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  35. ↑ Nathan Eddy (31 Jan 2014). "Accellion Kiteworks Helps Mobile Workers Boost Productivity". eWeek.
  36. ↑ Jane McCallion (28 Jan 2014). "Accellion lifts the lid on kiteworks". CloudPro.
  37. ↑ "Accellion launch Kiteworks platform". Legal IT Insider. January 28, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  38. ↑ "Launch of kiteworks™ by Accellion Enables Lawyers to Work Securely Wherever". Legal IT Professionals. January 28, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  39. ↑ "Sicheres und mobiles Arbeiten mit kiteworks". All About Security. January 28, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  40. ↑ "Platform Overview". Accellion. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  41. ↑ Robles, Patricio (November 12, 2014). "Accellion Launches Kiteworks Secure Mobile Content Platform". Programmable Web. Retrieved October 14, 2015.

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