Case Study: AVL achieves secure mobile large-file sharing and external collaboration with Kiteworks

Leading global powertrain company creates secure mobile file sharing environment for internal and external users, with Accellion

AVL, the world’s largest independent developer of powertrain development, simulation and testing technology, employs over 6,650 people across 45 countries. The company faced a growing risk of data leakage from consumer cloud services and limitations of existing tools—SFTP and a SharePoint extranet with a 2GB file-size limit—while collaborating with partners on very large simulation files (often >60GB) across diverse storage systems and mobile users.

AVL deployed Accellion as an on‑premise private‑cloud solution after a successful pilot, integrating with SharePoint, Outlook, Active Directory/LDAP (with optional 2‑factor auth), Windows and mobile platforms. The rollout was adopted in weeks, now serving 6,500+ internal users and thousands of external collaborators with secure mobile file sharing, large‑file support, global replication across Austria, Tokyo and Michigan, reduced administrative overhead and elimination of public‑cloud risk.

AVL

Thomas Fischer

Specialist - IT Infrastructure Analysis