Akonix

Instant Messaging, once considered a rogue application, now represents an integral part of an enterprise's real-time messaging strategy and its productive use can provide organizations with a clear competitive advantage. One of the first to recognize the need for a centralized IM management solution that handles both public and enterprise-based IM services, Akonix and its award-winning products, Akonix L7 Enterprise and Akonix L7 Enforcer, address the key challenges confronting CIOs and their IT departments as they extend their users access to IM while meeting strict compliance controls, all without compromising their network and end device security.

Meeting the complex and diverse needs of over 500 companies worldwide, Akonix delivers the necessary components for an end-to-end IM management solution. Giving organizations the ability to both secure and control their current IM usage and harness the anywhere access nature of IM to extend real-time access to not only users, but business-critical applications, such as sales force automation tools and customer relationship management solutions, all while focusing on the four key areas of an enterprise IM solution: management, security, compliance & integration.

Akonix Solutions in Action

Akonix L7 Enterprise and Akonix L7 Enforcer were introduced in June 2002, providing the first complete system for real-time management, security and monitoring for IM. Since then more than 500 customers across all industries have deployed the Akonix IM management solution to over 700,000 enterprise users. Akonix provides a comprehensive solution for Instant Messaging compliance, security, employee productivity management, and application integration to some of the world's largest organizations, including Cingular Wireless, Qualcomm, EMC and ING.

Additionally, Akonix L7 Enforcer provides industry leading security features that block file sharing over IM and P2P networks such as Kazaa, Gnuetella, BitTorrent and others. Three of the four largest media companies in the US have deployed Akonix to ensure that their employees do not trade files over IM or P2P networks.

Industry Recognition

Akonix is widely recognized as the technology and market innovator with awards for Akonix L7 Enterprise from Network World, Red Herring, eWeek, Windows & .Net Magazine, SC Magazine, PC Magazine and UCSD Connect. This industry recognition is the result of Akonix's leadership in developing the IM management category. Required enterprise features such as integrated Anti-Virus for file transfers over IM, message reflection (or internal routing) for public IM, real-time policy enforcement, signature based enforcement security and integrated SPIM and malware filters all were introduced by Akonix. Akonix has patents pending on many of these innovative technologies first introduced in Akonix L7 Enterprise.