November closed with London’s first snow of the season and IntraLinks’ inaugural Client Symposium for Alternative Investments. The former slowed people down while the latter accelerated ideas on increasing investor satisfaction and reinvestment.

Clients from the Nordic and Alpine countries of Sweden and Switzerland made the trek to London to join their peers at the Symposium. In fact, four of Europe’s six largest private equity firms participated in the event. Not to be outdone, IntraLinks chief marketing officer Greg Kenepp and IntraLinks senior vice president of product management Wade Callison crossed the Atlantic to join the discussion.

“It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” I rarely quote Tony Robbins but his comment comes to mind on this occasion.  Although his statement is perhaps a little big-picture for my blog, just maybe he was referring to the destiny of one’s M&A deal or project.

In the early stages of our company we ran into a lot of clients that were struggling with putting all of their confidential documents online for transactional due diligence. The Internet was new and there was a lack of understanding and education, no matter how appealing the idea was of making the painstaking process virtual and more seamless.

Last month we began our Lunch and Learn webcast series.  The idea behind these is to drive some education around the elements of our IntraLinks platform that people are less familiar with.  On April 7th I will be discussing how our Q&A functionality can make everyone’s life easier.  Last month we dove into IL Design

While widely used, particularly by the financial community globally, IntraLinks solutions have for over a dozen years been available only in English, and more recently for a number of years in Japanese. However IntraLinks has during that time remained committed to providing our solutions in multiple languages.