YouSendIt launches business collaboration cloud
YouSendIt has announced the launch of a new product line called Workstream offering cloud-based enterprise collaboration integrated with SharePoint, as well as new administrative policies for managing the sharing of content beyond the firewall and across mobile devices, desktops and the Web.
Workstream integrates with Microsoft Active Directory and Outlook, to enable organsations to continue to work in their established workflows. A new Workstream SharePoint plug-in promises to let users “seamlessly and securely” share files externally straight from SharePoint.
Some early adopters of Workstream include Woods Bagot a global design studio founded in Australia, and Sesame Workshop, the company behind Sesame Street, as well as major law firms and pharmaceutical companies.
The YouSendIt platform for content sharing via email boasts 28 million registered users worldwide.
Workstream integrates with Outlook for email and SharePoint for content management.
"While we're based out of New York, we work with 34 partners who create their own versions of Sesame Street in their own languages with characters representative of their own cultures," said Noah Broadwater, chief technology officer, Sesame Workshop.
"Our IP is our business. YouSendIt met the requirement we had for securely sharing with our global partners and gave us greater visibility and controls over what we share and with whom. From a user perspective, it's discreet, sitting as a plug-in on our Outlook application. Users don't have to learn anything new, making them more productive on the job. In fact, when new Sesame employees start and are provisioned with email accounts, they also have YouSendIt accounts."
Workstream provides policy settings for blacklisting and “whitelisting” domains from file sharing and the ability to provision and de-provision users through integration with Microsoft Active Directory.
It also enforces encryption on mobile devices and provides policies such as mobile application passcode enforcement and remote wipe of application data.