Company
Akonix® Systems provides Unified Policy Management for organizational use of real-time communications. Akonix’s L7 Enterprise™ on A-Series appliances delivers policy management and enforcement, archiving, content scanning, and protection against spyware, viruses and worms for corporate use of real-time communications, including instant messaging, online conferencing, VOIP, and electronic fax.
Founded in 2000, Akonix provides a Unified Policy Management (UPM) platform to monitor the use of Unified Communications applications in the workplace, administering and enforcing corporate policy and assisting with compliance regulations. The company offers a suite of modules that integrate with the UPM platform, simplifying and securing the use of UC by managing it at a central location. The various modules perform security, archiving, content scanning entitlement and reporting functions for multiple forms of real-time, electronic communications, including instant messaging, online conferencing, VoIP and electronic faxing.
Over 1.9 million people around the world rely on Akonix’s products to protect their networks and meet compliance requirements. Akonix is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, an IBM Business Partner, an Intel Software Partner, an EMC Velocity Partner and an HP Business Partner. Furthermore, Akonix has developed business alliances and integrated its technology with leading enterprise IM platforms, including Reuters, Microsoft, IBM, Jabber, Inc. and Bloomberg, and message archiving products from EMC, HP, Symantec, Iron Mountain, ZANTAZ, Intradyn, C2C, Fortiva, Quest Software and others.
Akonix Unified Policy Management 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 1000 customers across all industries have deployed Akonix products to secure over 1.9 million employees' use of instant messaging at work, making Akonix the most deployed IM management product in the world. 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, 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, eDonkey 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, eWeek, Windows & .Net Magazine, SC Magazine, PC Magazine and Red Herring. 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.
Akonix Partnerships
Akonix has unique, key partnerships with all of the major instant messaging systems, including; America Online's AIM and ICQ, Microsoft's MSN and Office Live Communications Server (LCS), Yahoo! Messenger, Reuters Messaging, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging (formerly Sametime) and Jabber. These relationships provide our customers with a future-proof IM infrastructure investment, and position Akonix at the center of the evolving interconnected IM ecosystem.
Investment Backing
Akonix is a private company, backed by blue chip venture capital firms Menlo Ventures, Mission Ventures, Palomar Ventures, General Motors Asset Management Corporation and Windward Ventures, who collectively manage over $3.5 billion in capital.
