Adds Data Loss Prevention to Deliver Industry’s
Most Comprehensive File Sharing Solution for Enterprises
With the file sync and sharing market growing more than 70
percent annually1, Citrix announced today, at Citrix Synergy™, new
innovations that advance the experience and security offered by a
single enterprise file sharing service. With more than 55,000
corporate customers using ShareFile, Citrix is seeing increased
demand for its enterprise file sync and sharing service from global
organizations seeking a comprehensive solution. Citrix continues to
differentiate its offering by introducing a ShareFile workspace
that moves with customers across four types of devices, and
providing a new approach to restricting document sharing based on a
file’s contents to enable secure collaboration whenever inspiration
strikes. Citrix is the only company to deliver this breadth of
consumer-style experiences that people want from their file sharing
service with the security that businesses require.
According to the Citrix 2020 Technology Landscape Report, the
number and heterogeneity of devices that people use for work is
growing exponentially. People need to get more done, and quickly.
They expect seamless continuity across any combination of devices,
locations and networks where technology is transparent and
everything just works, intuitively, naturally and easily. At the
same time, IT needs to maintain control over how corporate
documents are stored, accessed, synced and shared.
That is why organizations, including Forum Energy Technologies,
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and Miami Marlins, are relying on
Citrix to meet the mobility and collaboration needs of employees
with the security they require. In fact, according to a 2014 survey
by independent research firm TechValidate, eight out of ten
customers say that ShareFile increases productivity by more than 40
percent2. Businesses name ease of use, file size and security as
the top three reasons they chose Citrix3.
Empowering Mobile Employees and Meeting Compliance
Requirements: Forum Energy Technologies increased productivity
– users are now 85 percent more self-reliant, gained better
visibility of data for compliance audits and realized cost savings
with Citrix.
Expediting Project Funding and Fundraising: Cancer
Research UK, the world’s largest independent cancer charity, has
accelerated projects and fundraising efforts with Citrix.
Previously, committee members used a mix of secure removable media
or paper-based systems when deciding how and where to allocate
charitable grants fundamental to the charity’s research program.
Now, confidential documents pertaining to grants are distributed
via ShareFile, allowing members to collaborate far more effectively
and securely. Cancer Research UK fundraisers are also now able to
securely access benefactor information from tablets and other
devices, boosting the security and efficiency of the fundraising
program.
At Citrix Synergy, Citrix is announcing the following new
innovations to extend its flexible workspace and security
advantage:
Introducing a Workspace That Moves with You
Providing instant, intuitive experiences optimized by device,
Citrix has designed a workspace that moves with customers across
four screens. Through a single application, ShareFile, customers
can create and outline a PowerPoint presentation or other Microsoft
Office document on a phone, collaborate on content with colleagues
and vendors from a laptop, dictate speaker notes on a tablet and
present via an Apple Watch.
- Collaborate from Any Browser or
Computer: Approximately 340 million Microsoft Office files are
stored in ShareFile. Soon, working with these files will get
easier. From the convenience of any web browser or computer,
edit any Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint file without leaving
ShareFile. This integration with Office Online, available in June
2015, is made possible by the company’s membership in Microsoft’s
Cloud Storage Partner Program and longtime partnership with
Microsoft spanning more than 25 years. To see how it works, watch
the video on the Citrix Blog.
- Enable Workflows with Unlimited
Storage4: More and more enterprises are seeking a
single solution that goes beyond addressing their mobility needs.
They also want to drive workflows, such as approval chains, and
upgrade legacy “home drives” where users store their files and
data. In response, Citrix is introducing ShareFile Platinum
edition, available in June 2015, which provides a collaborative
workspace where anyone can securely exchange, track, edit and
e-sign content without storage limitations.
Addressing Data Loss Prevention for Security and
Compliance
Enterprises, especially those in highly-regulated industries
like financial services and healthcare, need to be able to control
file sharing based on the content inside the files themselves.
Through integrations with leading data loss prevention (DLP)
solutions from Symantec and others, ShareFile will offer the
ability to classify items based on their content and enforce
sharing restrictions based on data categories. DLP integration
functionality will be available in Q2 2015. For more information,
visit the Citrix Blog.
Quotes
Kirk Koenigsbauer, CVP, Office 365 Client Apps and Services,
Microsoft
“In February, Microsoft launched the Cloud Storage Partner
Program to make it easier to work with Office documents no matter
where they’re stored. Today, the next milestone in our partnership
with Citrix is here, integration between ShareFile and Office
Online. With more than one billion people using Microsoft Office –
one in seven people on the planet – integration with Office Online
offers ShareFile customers more flexibility in how they work with
individuals and teams across businesses.”
David Enriquez, Senior Director, IT, Miami Marlins
“We use the ShareFile platform. All of our scouts and baseball
operations people are always sharing information over the Internet.
Player videos. Sharing of scouting reports. It’s strategy. It’s
trades. We need to keep that information very private, very secure.
Now, with the ability to have Worx deployed to these devices and
using ShareFile, we no longer have the risk of losing data to
unsecure devices.”
Mr. Qais Al Doub, Senior Systems Analyst, Kuwait Petroleum
Corporation
“From the solutions we investigated, only Citrix ShareFile
offered the data sharing, storage and sync service we needed. The
solution has been so successful that many organizations within the
region are talking with us and following our lead.”
Christopher Kissel, Industry Analyst, Frost &
Sullivan
“Citrix understands that subscribers using ShareFile need a
service that respects established workflows and is low-friction for
the end user. Focusing on the customer experience is both a
productivity and security consideration.”
Jesse Lipson, Vice President and General Manager,
Citrix
“With new content experiences across devices and data loss
prevention capabilities, only Citrix addresses the file sharing
needs of all employees in enterprises. We understand that
enterprises require a next-generation mobile workspace with secure
IT control and oversight that integrates with what they have today.
By focusing and delivering upon this strategy, we are seeing
growing adoption of ShareFile worldwide at a rate that’s outpacing
many other vendors in the market.”
Related Links
- Announcement: Citrix Outlines Vision
for IT Transformation
- Blog: Citrix Integrates with Microsoft
Office Online to Make Editing Files Easier
- Blog: How ShareFile Works to Prevent
Data Loss and Meet Compliance Requirements
- Video: Deliver Consumer-Style
Experiences and Protect Against Data Loss with Citrix
ShareFile
- Video: Citrix Innovation Award Finalist
2015 – Miami Marlins
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- Citrix Synergy 2015 page
- Citrix Synergy newsroom
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About Citrix
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software-defining the workplace, uniting virtualization,
mobility management, networking and SaaS solutions to enable new
ways for businesses and people to work better. Citrix
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instant access to apps, desktops, data and communications on
any device, over any network and cloud. With annual revenue in
2014 of $3.14 billion, Citrix solutions are in use at more than
330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn
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1 IDC, Worldwide File Synchronization and Sharing Market Share
Report 2014, forthcoming 2015
2 TechValidate. TVID: E62-90A-560
3 TechValidate. TVID: 576-AF2-4B0
4 1TB of storage per user with ability to increase upon
request
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