Home Truths from Afar
At the end of last year I went on a long voyage, in fact to the other side of the world, to work at IntraLinks’ Sydney Office. I left my two children who are both under five and my partner for two weeks. Naturally I was concerned for their welfare and knew I would miss them but what surprised me was that I was also very worried that I had yet to create, let alone update my last will and testament. What financial mess would I leave behind if my plane crashed? What was certain was that the tax man would be inordinately happy about my lack of financial housekeeping and my family would be left devastated. The main question that this made me ask myself though was not why have I been so remiss, but why is it that we have to be scheduled on a flight to make us focus on what should have been done an age ago.
(Photo Credit: Brett Pulford: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Qantas/Boeing-747-438/1881950/)
Taking this analogy one step further made me recognise and appreciate what we at IntraLinks advocate to our clients. The wise way to act is to ensure that we, on behalf of our clients, are always one step ahead of the game. After all there is no “let’s put it in the diary” for these adverse actions hence the ever greater need for our systems to be underpinned with continual security and vigilance to safeguard our most precious assets — our data and information.
IntraLinks’ enterprise-class solutions facilitate the secure, compliant and auditable exchange of critical information, collaboration and workflow management both from inside and outside the enterprise. Our on-demand solutions help clients to organise, manage, share and track information, enabling them to accelerate their workflow and optimize their business processes to help them to realise new profit potential. The typical problems that accompany security are the fear of cumbersome and unwieldy processes, but our solutions offer logical and intuitive systems that cause none of the headache that I had to endure creating my will. We are here to guide our clients and we have on many occasion been described as management consultants in addition to life savers! We have extensive skills and aptitude in appreciating how best to incorporate our effective solutions to ensure maximum security for our clients and almost instantaneous financial benefits for the organisation as well.
At IntraLinks we are particularly effective at being able to tailor solutions to our clients specific and individual needs. So whether it’s to ensure the safety and time critical access of Legal Contracts, the security of banking data or the sensitive information of major clinical trials, we are fully able to boast both experience and success in these areas on behalf of our clients. The other main beauty of IntraLinks’ solutions is that it is in keeping with our current lifestyles and can be used at our desk or remotely on your mobile device of choice. Our solution is available in multiple languages and will allow firms to have their security covering them right across the globe on a permanent basis. My trip to Sydney was a resounding success, but I do question myself why I had to go so far to realise a home truth that had been staring me in the face all along.