2010.09.15

RIKEI STARTS TO SELL THE INDUSTRY¡ÇS FIRST SEECURE FILE TRANSFER SOLUTION DEVELOPED AND PRODUCED BY ACCELLION, WHICH HAS NEW PLUG-INS FOR MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT AND OFFICE COMMUNICATIONS SERVER.

Rikei Corporation (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President & CEO: Katsuei Aoyagi) would like to announce the secure file transfer solution, developed and produced by Accellion, Inc. (Head Office, Calif, USA, President & CEO: Yorgen Edholm) which Rikei represents as the distributor in Japan, now works together with Microsoft Business Productivity (BPI) and Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) allowing Microsoft SharePoint, OCS and Outlook users to easily and securely share digital information.

The Accellion Secure File Transfer solution allows enterprises and government agenciesto securely send and receive files and folders up to 20GB. Encryption and business-levelauthentication validates recipients to prevent the leak of confidential digitalinformation to unauthorized persons. The Accellion Secure File Transfer solution alsoprovides an audit trail with the tracking and reporting necessary to demonstratecompliance. It also integrates both on-premise and off-premise deployment options forcloud and virtual environments, which work together seamlessly.

With the new plug-ins, the Accellion Secure File Transfer solution can now worktogether with Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft OfficeCommunications Server 2007 R2 (OCS). This means that in addition to theconventional file transfer function, a seamless and secure file transfer function has beenadded, enabling business users to securely and directly send files to coworkers, remoteusers, customers or partners from within the Microsoft business applications. Thisstrengthens communication and collaboration among them, providing smooth businessenvironments.

And the operation of this solution is simple and easy. Anyone who has the experience ofhandling file attachment under Outlook, or of doing file transfers by using the a pull-down menu under SharePoint or OCS can use the Accellion Secure Transfer solution without any problems, thereby enhancing enterprise data security and compliance.

¡ÈQuick and easy access to information is essential for business collaboration, but protection of intellectual property and meeting compliance requirements is crucial,¡É said Yorgen Edholm, president and CEO of Accellion. ¡ÈBy integrating the Accellion Secure File Transfer solution across Microsoft¡Çs BPI, enterprise organizations can now protect their intellectual property and achieve compliance by providing users with an easily accessible way to move confidential digital information.¡É

According to Gartner (Gartner, Inc. a research and consulting service company headquartered in Connecticut, USA) Senior Research Analyst Thomas Skybarkmoen, ¡ÈIntegration of secure file transfer capabilities with desktop applications makes file transfer more accessible to business users, enabling enterprises to increase data security and prevent costly data breaches. Expanded availability and accessibility of secure file transfer is fueling the growth of the managed file transfer market.¡É

About Accellion, Inc

Accellion, Inc. is a global company whose head office is located in Palo Alto, California, USA and is a pioneer in the field of developing and producing high-volume file transfer solutions with offices in North America, Australia and Singapore. Its customers include media/ad companies, law offices, manufacturers, health care businesses, businesses related to consumer products, universities and many others. Accellion¡Çs solutions make it unnecessary for businesses to use FTP servers, providing secure file transfer solutions which are convenient to both end users and IT administrators. Rikei is selling its high-volume file transfer system ¡ÈAccellion¡É as its distributor in Japan since 2009.

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