PALO ALTO, CA — (Marketwired) — 03/02/15 — , the leading provider of enterprise mobile solutions that enable increased and security, today announced a partnership with GENBAND to use Kandy, a communications Platform-as-a-Service, within kiteworks, to enhance secure collaboration capabilities for a mobile workforce via real-time communications. This new partnership will create an interactive experience and streamline the way mobile workers can securely create, view, share, and collaborate on enterprise content.

Kandy–s rich communication capabilities work with the kiteworks solution to offer an enhanced secure collaboration solution for mobile workers to collaborate with coworkers, partners and customers. Using the kiteworks application, enterprise users have the capability to securely chat with other users about a contract they are working on, see if a coworker is also online in the kiteworks app, or have a video call with their boss to finalize last-minute project details before submitting a contract to a customer.

“Mobile workers need to be able to access the content they need to get their work done, no matter where they are, or what time zone they are in,” said Vidhya Ranganathan, SVP of Products at Accellion. “In addition to immediate content access, they often also need real-time collaboration with coworkers, to finalize project details, get approvals, or coordinate the signing of a contract. With kiteworks and Kandy, mobile workers will have secure enhanced, real-time communications around business critical content so they can get the job done, wherever.”

“Now with Kandy, kiteworks offers enhanced collaboration via real time communications, so users can have a more personal and interactive experience creating a secure connected community,” said Paul Pluschkell, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Cloud Services and Kandy Founder. “We–re thrilled to partner with a secure offering such as kiteworks, so that mobile employees can instantly chat and communicate as they securely create, review, and collaborate on the content they need to complete their daily work.”

To learn more, come see a demo of the Kandy and kiteworks partnership at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona. Demos will take place in the GENBAND booth, located in Hall 2, Stand 2I31.

Accellion, Inc. provides the leading mobile content platform to increase enterprise productivity and ensure data security and compliance. The foremost provider of private cloud solutions for secure mobile content management, Accellion offers enterprise organizations 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 including Procter & Gamble; Indiana University Health; Kaiser Permanente; Lovells; Bridgestone; Harvard University; Guinness World Records; US Securities and Exchange Commission; and NASA use Accellion solutions to increase business productivity, protect intellectual property, ensure compliance and reduce IT costs. For more information please visit or call (650) 485-4300. Follow , , and .

GENBAND–s Kandy communications Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a real time software development platform, built from GENBAND–s core communications, presence, security and real time technologies. Kandy enables service providers, enterprises, software vendors, systems integrators, partners and developers to enrich their applications and services with real time contextual communications, providing a more engaging user experience. With Kandy, companies of all sizes and types can quickly embed real time communications capabilities into their existing applications and business processes. For more information visit .

GENBAND is a global leader in real time communications software solutions for service providers, enterprises, independent software vendors, systems integrators and developers in over 80 countries. The company–s and solutions enable its customers to quickly capitalize on growing market segments and introduce differentiating products, applications and services. GENBAND–s market-leading solutions, which are deployable in the network, on premise or through the cloud, help its customers connect people to each other and address the growing demands of today–s consumers and businesses for real time communications wherever they happen to be. To learn more visit .

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Caitlin Ridge
Accellion
(650) 485- 4357

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