Joining the rush of enterprise filesharing platforms looking to challenge the popularity of DropBox, Accellion has unveiled a new offering called kitedrive that promises secure sharing across any mobile platform.

It is part of Accellion’s Mobile File Sharing solutions that promise secure cloud storage, file sharing and sync for business users.  Features include secure workspaces, commenting, notifications, versioning, and secure uploads and downloads.

There are currently over 100 Australian users through  local distributor Dimension Data.

kitedrive sync is a new file sharing capability from Accellion that enables business users to synchronise files across devices, including iPad, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.

A free version is available for individuals that offers 2GB of cloud storage free, while business and enterprise versions add enterprise file sharing features such as private, hybrid cloud deployment, LDAP/AD integration, SAML/SSO, DLP integration and Archiving.

The announcement follows last week’s launch of OpenText’s Tempo platform for sharing and syncing content in the cloud.

Accellion’s Australian Managing Director, Kieran O’Shaughnessy, said, “There’s a little bit of a fight for territory going on with some of these new cloud-based services from existing ECM vendors. Certainly from Accelion’s perspective our strategy is to extend our customer’s existing investment in ECM systems like SharePoint, iManage and the like rather than look to replace them.”

“We don’t tell our customers they’ve made a mistake with everything they’ve got on-premise and they need to throw it all out and start again in the cloud. We are looking to integrate with ECM rather than take over where they are strong and provide value to organisations.”