We all make mistakes. Trouble is, in the digital age our errors can easily attract unwanted attention and are increasingly difficult to contain or undo. In our "Enterprise Collaboration: Avoiding the Productivity and Control Trade-Off" whitepaper we published this month we found that 80% of respondents had received an email not intended for them, while 59% were prepared to admit they’d made the same mistake themselves. Alarmingly, 49% said these kinds of blunders occur on a monthly basis. Our related infographic explores how IT and business executives are collaborating inside and outside of their organization.
I’ve had the good fortune of working with SharePoint™ since 2007 and, like most of you who’ve followed this platform’s evolution, I’ve been impressed with the ever expanding breadth of functionality it offers. Having first gained widespread use in intranet scenarios, Microsoft has made substantial improvements in its 2010 and now 2013 releases, which have helped to enable SharePoint’s broader adoption outside the firewall.
Looking at http://sps.cloudapp.net gives you an idea of just how many companies have made the investment in SharePoint for their public-facing internet presence. It’s clear from the variety of the sites listed that SharePoint allows web developers a great deal of latitude and creativity, disproving the notion that the SharePoint look and feel is hard to customize.
In part one of our interview with Joshua Rosenbaum and Joshua Pearl, we gave you the inside scoop into the authors’ key motivations for writing Investment Banking and partnering with us on the second edition of their global best-selling book.
During our interview, we had the chance to ask the authors about their educational experiences and the difficulties they encountered breaking into investment banking professionally. Not only did Rosenbaum and Pearl feel “first-hand the disconnect between theory and practice,” but they also felt “the knowledge required for the interviewing process (and eventually on the job) was not easily accessible in books or the classroom.”
With the announcement of a recent deal that utilized our services, we spoke to Anthony Hill, Director of Deal Exchanges at Intralinks about the acquisition of PE-Nexus and MergerID and what it means for our business.
Intralinks has just published results of new research investigating how companies currently collaborate, and the results are surprising.
We found that almost half of the 200 organizations we surveyed actively block employees from getting access to consumer sync and share applications like Dropbox and YouSendIt. Just as interesting, about 60% of respondents said employees are nevertheless using those consumer sync and share applications, strongly suggesting that blocking access to these products isn’t very effective.