I just returned from speaking at the Akamai Customer Conference as a member of a panel called “Accelerating Global Collaboration across the Enterprise.” It fell into the first of three tracks at the conference: 1) Enterprise / High Tech, 2) Media & Entertainment, and 3) Commerce. (Incidentally, I noticed the panel had a much higher number of attendees this year than in the past. Is this a direct correlation to my participation?)

Earlier this year, we worked on an exciting project to significantly expand IntraLinks’ existing document protection feature. It goes beyond securing Adobe PDF documents to securing all types of Microsoft Office files both inside and outside the firewall. This kind of project, which allowed us to apply new technology to pressing business problems, was interesting to work on and was extremely useful to our clients – more than 15,000 of our users have protected their documents since this spring.