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 contents 1 history 2 software 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 edit 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 edit a b mackie simon march 28 2011 . accellion offers secure file sharing for the enterprise . gigaom . retrieved october 14 2015 . a b clancy heather november 28 2014 . accellion tackles secure mobile content updates . zd net . retrieved october 14 2015 . fips 140 2 calidation certificate pdf . the national institute of standards and technology . retrieved october 14 2015 . the security concerns of file transfer . linda musthaler . network world . august 20 2007 . understanding data security risks of p2p . brian prince . eweek . april 25 2008 . ludwig sean january 4 2012 . accellion raises 12m from riverwood to become dropbox for enterprise . venture beat . retrieved october 14 2015 . virginia backaitis 2014 07 07 . gartner rates enterprise file sync and share vendors . cms wire . retrieved 2014 07 30 . fred donovan 2014 07 08 . accellion box citrix and emc are leading efss vendors says gartner . fiercemobile it . retrieved 2014 07 30 . lundy jim october 15 2014 . the aragon research globe for mobile content management 2014 pdf . aragon research . retrieved november 29 2015 . donovan fred july 28 2015 . accellion box citrix and syncplicity are top efss vendors says gartner . fierce mobile it . retrieved october 14 2015 . a b c deborah gage january 27 2014 . accellion targets box dropbox on secure file sharing . the wall street journal . retrieved january 30 2014 . no file is too big for new file transfer appliance . elena malykluna . information week . may 23 2005 . device keeps large files moving . shelley solhelm . eweek . september 26 2005 . ogilvy harnesses the web for its file transfer system . dickity doo dah . martin banks . businesscloud9 . april 4 2011 . accellion proffers secure collaboration workspaces . george v. hulme . cso . march 29 2011 . accellion introduces new secure collaboration worktool . sofia mitra thakur . engineering and technology magazine . march 29 2011 . accellion brings safe and simple file sharing to the enterprise . chelsi nakano . cmswire . march 30 2011 . accellion sees rapid adoption of secure collaboration with mobile apps . computer world . august 24 2011 . accellion grows into collaboration market from file transfer roots . accellion strives for secure mobile file sharing with dropbox for enterprise accellion launches kitedrive sync its dropbox for the enterprise sibley lisa january 4 2012 . accellion raises 12m for expansion plans . e mail volume expected to explode . network world 3 . 2006 . clarian health finds quick way to transfer files . healthcare it news . june 4 2007 . retrieved october 14 2015 . harvard cio herds large file transfers . m.l. baker . eweek . february 8 2007 . applying the secure file transfer . security enewsletter . solving the file transfer problem . chronicle of higher education . january 28 2008 . retrieved october 14 2015 . appliance helps researchers share large files . bio it world . april 19 2006 . musthaler linda 1 august 2005 . learn to love e mail attachments again . network world . mclaughlin laurianne 2 july 2007 . how one cio escaped e mail attachment hell . cio . himmelsbach vawn january 15 2007 . ddb canada uses e mail tool to get past ftp problems . itbusiness.ca . retrieved march 18 2012 . faas ryan . accellion s new office for ios solution walks the line between it and users . citeworld . retrieved 4 may 2013 . ben kepes january 28 2014 . accellion launches kiteworks but are they too late to the mobile file sharing party . forbes . retrieved january 30 2014 . nathan eddy 31 jan 2014 . accellion kiteworks helps mobile workers boost productivity . eweek . jane mccallion 28 jan 2014 . accellion lifts the lid on kiteworks . cloudpro . accellion launch kiteworks platform . legal it insider . january 28 2014 . retrieved january 30 2014 . launch of kiteworks by accellion enables lawyers to work securely wherever . legal it professionals . january 28 2014 . retrieved january 30 2014 . sicheres und mobiles arbeiten mit kiteworks . all about security . january 28 2014 . retrieved january 30 2014 . platform overview . accellion . retrieved october 14 2015 . robles patricio november 12 2014 . accellion launches kiteworks secure mobile content platform . programmable web . retrieved october 14 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title accellion & oldid 731457451 categories cloud applicationsdata synchronizationfile sharing servicesone click hostingfile hostingfile sharinghidden categories use mdy dates from september 2011 navigation menu personal tools not 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