Enterprise
Mobility
Executive
Interview
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Accellion, Inc. is an award-winning private company that provides mobile solutions to enterprise organisations to enable increased business productivity while ensuring data security and compliance.
As the leading provider of private cloud solutions for secure file sharing, Accellion offers enterprise organisations 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 use Accellion solutions to increase business productivity, protect intellectual property, ensure compliance and reduce IT costs.
www.accellion.com
Welcome to ZONE SE7EN’s Executive Interview with Jes Breslaw, Director Cloud Solutions, EMEA, Accellion plc.
We tapped into Jes’s extensive knowledge of enterprise mobility, giving you an expert’s opinion on a range of topics. We asked Jes about
their mobile solution, ‘kiteworks’,
and how it enables organisations to achieve better productivity and management of mobile devices. We also discover Jes’s thoughts on why mobile security is not better among leading corporations, and what to consider in order to mobilise enterprise content within businesses. View Jes’s Executive Interview to learn how Accellion’s views and insights into enterprise mobility can help you.
Enterprise Mobility
Executive Interview
Jes Breslaw
Director Cloud Solutions, EMEA
Accellion plc
Jes is Director of Cloud Solutions, EMEA, and has held senior European roles for 15 years in technology suppliers and the channel.
Jes began his career promoting IBM hardware, and then 8 years marketing security solutions including CheckPoint Software and Cisco. More recently, Jes has worked in companies that provide secure cloud mobile/collaboration solutions, first Workshare and now Accellion.
Kiteworks is a mobile first, next generation file sharing platform and it’s been designed for the mobile first; so, we created it for the tablet and we scaled it up to the PC, and reduced it down to the phone. So, there is a standard interface across all devices. This means that users only have to learn the interface once; but more importantly, because it’s icon-driven, they don’t have to be trained at all. Within a couple of swipes and presses, they can learn pretty much what any function does.
But more importantly, Kiteworks really delivers on productivity. It lets their users collaborate with third parties and external users; it lets people be able to share constantly and securely; it keeps content stored either in the cloud or, more importantly, on an on-premise private cloud file sharing solution, adhering to data privacy and data sovereignty restrictions. And finally, it lets you access content stored in SharePoint, Documentum, and other repositories, and lets you work on that, collaborate, share and store it back to the source location.
So, Kiteworks becomes your platform
Question 1
In what way does
‘Kiteworks’ mobile
solution enable
organisations to achieve
better productivity and
management of mobile
devices?
One of the big changes in how we work has been driven from the consumer side. Dropbox created this market category; they enabled people to be able to synchronise their PCs and their devices, and share that content in a very easy, intuitive way. The problem came when people started bringing these devices into work and it created a huge data leakage issue. So, the market’s been built by the cloud; the market’s been built by the desire of individuals to work in the office in just the same way that they do at home.
What’s really important is that enterprise category solutions are equipped and enabled to offer the same ease of use, the same power of sharing and collaborating, but at the same time giving you the confidence and safety that it is protected, and that’s really what Accellion is all about. We’re there to give you the experience, to let you access your content, to work on it and share it but at the same time, it will be locked down and safe, ensuring that no data can be leaked and everything is trapped accordingly.
Question 2
In an Accellion blog, a survey you conducted with
ISMG found that only 5% of organisations rated their
mobile security as ‘excellent’; why is this?
“The problem came when people started bringing
these devices into work and it created a huge data
leakage issue.”
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“What they don’t want
to do is replicate that
content and have copies
on mobile devices...”
“...it’s not just about
accessing your data,
what the cloud really lets
you do is collaborate with
other people.”
One of the forgotten aspects in the mobile world is enterprise content. Companies have invested huge amounts of money in protecting and managing their enterprise content on site, but how do you mobilise that? What they don’t want to do is replicate that content and have copies on mobile devices and in the cloud in multiple places, creating content chaos.
Many solutions let you access that content which is a tick in the box, albeit a great one, but what companies really want to do and what’s really meaningful importantly, is to be able to access that content, work on that content, share that content and collaborate on it,
and, of course, file it back all from the tablet or mobile device; and that’s what
Kiteworks allows you to do. Not only does it let you do it, but it takes some of the hard work away from you. Why does a user have to know what SharePoint is? They can find that content in a folder, put it in a collaborative workspace, people upload new versions and at the swipe of a finger, they can click on ‘return to content source’ and we remember where it came from. This is what mobile is all about; it’s simplifying technology and what Kiteworks is about is letting you do that, wherever and whenever.
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Of course, people want to have the same functionality in their business life as they do in their personal life, and that’s what’s created a market for companies like Accellion. But there’s another part of this story that isn’t often discussed; it’s not just about accessing your data, what the cloud really lets you do is collaborate with other people. Suddenly data isn’t just held in the network and unable to be shared, it allows people to create collaborative networks, unrestricted by network perimeters; the cloud enables people to work with their customers; it enables employers to work with suppliers, and other third parties. In a live environment where people can work on content, make changes,
comment, create tasks for each other and it changes, completely, the way that businesses operate. Imagine a law firm that sends a contract for review but the lawyer has gone home. But now the lawyer can pick up their iPad, access the content on their secure workspace, and keep that workflow going; and keep that document travelling around the world, and getting that project completed when the guy in the UK comes into the office at 8.00 o’clock the next morning. So, the cloud really changes how we work, where we work, but also bringing whole new benefits because we are able to do things in a way we were never able to do before.
Question 3
How has the rise of the cloud benefitted today’s mobile
workforce?
Question 4
What should be considered to mobilise enterprise
content?
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