This is the next in a series of guest blog posts by IntraLinks’ collaborators, partners, and vendors. Ali Riaz is chief executive officer and president of Attivio. Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine™ (AIE) is the leading unified information access platform. It rapidly delivers comprehensive, high-value insight by integrating enterprise search, business intelligence and data warehousing capabilities. With search technology powered by Attivio, IntraLinks users access millions of documents across tens of thousands of SaaS-based workspaces while tightly managing access control lists (ACLs) and workspace-specific roles and permissions. Full text search indexing and advanced concepting techniques guarantee that our users can retrieve all types of information – content and data – with one query.

Businesses that deliver quality and innovation, increase revenue, satisfy customers, and gain market share advantage over their competitors are the ones that thrive in today’s hyper-competitive global marketplace. It only makes sense then that as managers, we focus a lot of our attention on measuring these key success factors and identifying ways to improve.

I recently spoke at the Argyle Corporate Counsel Leadership Forum in Chicago, Illinois. It was a great opportunity to meet counsel from many different businesses, and share some very interesting ideas.

Earlier this year we decided to make some big changes to our online presence. The decision came about while strategizing how we wanted to represent IntraLinks to our current and future stakeholders. Our business was expanding and our website needed to accommodate.

At the time, the company was involved with very little social media, so this is where we started. We established a presence, and started communicating socially through various sources such as Twitter. Being successful on Twitter meant more than starting an account and posting a press release. So, we used it... really used it as a communications tool. We managed it professionally and didn’t get too cutesy with it.

In today’s world, we are required to process more information from an increasing number of sources in order to make sound decisions. How can we survive this information avalanche?

Organize your information

Both professionals and consumers alike tend to organize their digital information in hierarchies because computer filing systems impose a hierarchical structure of folders. Document location serves as the main organizing principle. Additional restrictions — e.g. a document should appear in only one location — then forces users to come up with strict categorization of document types.

Although a systematic filing structure potentially makes information more accessible, studies of real-world document collections show that categorization schemas are far less stable. Problems generally fall into the following categories:

I recently sat down with the folks at VisibleGains and other members of our technology team to talk about our thoughts on structured team collaboration, as well as search and our partner Attivio. Mush Hakhinian also gives an interesting talk about security with two-factor authentication and our partner RSA, while Charlie Weiblen discusses performance enhancement and our partner Akamai.

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