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An Accellion Thanksgiving!

Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

An article in CIO reminds us all of the importance of information sharing and collaboration in successful organizations. The need to share and collaborate is not new at all. We can go back to 1620 when a boat filled with more than one hundred people sailed across the Atlantic to settle the New World.

The first winter for the Pilgrims was very difficult because they had arrived too late to plant crops. However, next spring Native Americans shared valuable information about native crops. In the autumn of 1621, the colonists harvested plentiful crops of corn, barley, beans and pumpkins. The colonists had much to be thankful for, and a feast was planned. The local Indians brought deer to roast with turkey and other wild game. This spirit of sharing and collaboration between the Pilgrims and Indians made it possible for the early settlers to prosper in the New World.

Today many businesses thrive on the same “need to share” mindset that the Indians and Native Americans demonstrated back in 1620.

In this season of sharing, Accellion has a few tips for sharing corporate information securely with colleagues, customers, partners, and vendors in order to create more productive enterprises.

1. Choose a secure file sharing solution that is simple enough for employees to use, but secure enough for IT. When secure file sharing is easy, employees make it as part of their daily routine and organizations encourage it.

2. Find a mobile file sharing solution that integrates with your existing enterprise IT infrastructure, including SharePoint, iManage, active directory, archiving systems, mobile device management and data loss prevention (DLP) systems. When secure file sharing works along-side existing applications, no one loses out. Investments are not wasted.

3.Implement a solution that enables secure file sharing across corporate boundaries. When both internal and external users securely collaborate on projects, information shared among partners, vendors, and suppliers is protected.

4. Select a solution that provides native applications for iOS, Android and BlackBerry devices to securely view, share and edit content on-the-go. When mobile file sharing is ubiquitous, there is no excuse for using unsecure workarounds.

5. Select a solution that provides the audit trails and reporting required to demonstrate compliance with industry and government regulations such as PCI, SOX, and HIPAA. When organizations need to not only protect sensitive data, but also demonstrate compliance, sophisticated reporting is a must have feature.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Accellion Team!

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Extend Your Use of SharePoint: Unify, Mobilize, and Secure Enterprise Content

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

While a new survey shows that SharePoint adoption is on the rise, with 28 percent of respondents planning to deploy SharePoint 2013 within the next year and 26 percent planning to migrate to SharePoint 2013, this growth comes at a price, with serious administrative, staffing and security challenges. The survey revealed that SharePoint administrator staffing levels have decreased by 33 percent – from three to two people – and difficulty finding qualified IT personnel to manage SharePoint systems jumped from 28 percent to 44 percent.

With enterprise content often spread across SharePoint, Windows File Servers, NFS, FTP or ECM systems, there’s been no single, secure way for employees to retrieve desired files across file stores, share documents and collaborate – particularly from mobile devices. Until now…

Accellion brings together users’ content, regardless of where files are stored, providing a unified view of documents from desktops, Androids, iPhones, iPads, or other devices. Users gain mobile file access via a single, secure access point – no VPN needed – with the freedom to instantly view, edit, and share documents with internal or external constitutuents via a secure email link, up to 100MB in size. It’s the same easy browsing and access experience that Accellion Secure File Sharing has delivered to hundreds of enterprises and government agencies for years.

Plus, IT can kiss those SharePoint administrative headaches goodbye, with visibility into where files reside, who has viewed, and where documents have been sent. Apply desired security policies, including LDAP and Active Directory integration and eliminate the use of unsecure file sharing alternatives across your organization.

Isn’t it time you made SharePoint work for you.

 

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