Case Study: Luxury Brand Watch Manufacturing Company achieves secure, efficient file sharing and collaboration with Kiteworks

An iconic watchmaker turns to kiteworks to collaborate with jewelers and enhance sales operations

A leading, globally recognized luxury watch manufacturer faced a challenge: its sales and marketing teams relied on a cumbersome third-party FTP process to share large, proprietary files (designs, ads, forecasts and images) with colleagues and external partners. The company needed an efficient, enterprise-grade file sharing and collaboration solution that kept sensitive content under IT control—public multi-tenant cloud services were not an option.

The company deployed kiteworks as an on-premise virtual appliance, keeping servers, storage, encryption keys and authentication fully under IT control while enabling seamless access from laptops and mobile devices without a VPN. The platform accelerated collaboration for advertising, sales, partners and construction projects, drove rapid user adoption across 250 users, integrated with SharePoint and email, and delivered the security and control the organization required.