Symphony also announced today the launch of its partner ecosystem and new content partner collaborations with Dow Jones, McGraw Hill Financial and Selerity.

“As data breaches have impacted virtually every aspect of our economy, cyber-security is one of the defining issues of our time. Coupled with the need for organizations to meet the requirements of an evolving regulatory landscape, today’s realities demand a new type of messaging platform,” said Rob Enderle, principal analyst, Enderle Group. “Organizations require a trusted business-to-business communications tool that meets workflow productivity, while ensuring complex data security and fulfilling regulatory compliance needs. Symphony’s offering is unique and designed from the ground-up with these capabilities in mind.”

“Teams and organizations of all sizes require a messaging solution they can rely on to exchange critical information, while ensuring they can meet security and regulatory requirements.” said David Gurle, founder and CEO, Symphony. “With our unique approach to security and compliance, Symphony makes a major leap toward a safer and more productive method of communication and delivers a powerful workflow tool.”
Redefining business-to-business communications

The exchange of information among teams, workgroups and organizations is critical to productive business operations and Symphony delivers a faster, more secure solution to customers, while maintaining organizational compliance. Symphony’s platform delivers the following benefits:

Improves one-to-one and one-to-many communications with a single workspace for collaborating effectively and securely with individuals and teams across geographies and organizational boundaries
Simplifies workflow productivity by reducing the number of messaging systems needed for internal and external communications
Protects information from cyber-threats with Symphony’s unique end-to-end security mechanism where encryption infrastructure is owned and operated by the customers
Meets regulatory and compliance obligations with built-in features to support content export, expression filtering, information barrier enforcement and legal disclaimers
Supports the creation of third-party applications and content feeds with Symphony’s open platform APIs

"Symphony was developed for our daily communications to enable secure access to our conversations when and where we need them,” said Marty DeMonte Jefferies’ Chief Information Officer. “This platform has the potential to simplify how financial services companies communicate internally and externally in a controlled and compliant manner.”
Pricing and Availability

Symphony for individuals and teams is available now for free.
Symphony for small to medium-sized businesses with a minimum of 50 users, is available now for $15 per user, per month.
Symphony for enterprise with 500 users and above is available now for $15 per user, per month.
Both Symphony for business and enterprise offers include the full range of administrative and compliance features. To learn more, go to www.symphony.com/enterprise to connect with Symphony.