In several of our past blog entries, we’ve been hammering the fact that not all file transfer solutions are created equal – because there is a difference between what a business needs in a file transfer solution and what a consumer‐focused service or free file hosting service provides (or more accurately, does NOT provide).

In November 2008, Microsoft made its announcement that it would begin selling a web-based version of Sharepoint in 2010. With Google apps already making serious inroads into the SMB and Enterprise market, one has to wonder whether it's too little, too late. Being late to the dance does not even take into account that the web version will be inferior to its client server version. By business model necessity, this has to be so because of Microsoft will not allow its 100,000 plus licenses fall to the wayside.

A lot of the attendees from AICPA Tech+ were kind enough to take the time and filled out a survey for us during the exhibition. We wanted to utilize the opportunity we had with our community to try to gain a better understanding on what each and every user is looking for so we can continue to develop and improve.

Here are some of the results we got:

To continue from my previous posts, here are the last two reasons why email isn't the best way to send large, confidential files.

In my previous post, I suggested five reasons why email is not the best conduit for tranferring large or confidential documents. These reasons are:

With data privacy and security high on corporate IT's mind, every security consultant, solutions provider and blogger is coming out with a top 5 or top 10 in how to deal with this critical issue. It would not surprise me if David Letterman came out with his own Top 10 List (okay, maybe I would be a tad surprised). 

In today's global business environment, email may be the most critical communication tool for a company. Countless messages are fired off worldwide everyday, and while the emails containing just text usually find their destination, things aren't so certain for emails carrying attachments. File-size caps, server hiccups, spam filters – all of these can derail an email as it tries to reach its destination.

This may sound like the beginning of a lame joke, but... did you ever hear about the story of the woman who bought her elderly mother a new mattress and after throwing out the old mattress, the mom remembers that she had stashed in her mattress $1 million cash? That's exactly the what I heard this morning on the radio as I was driving to work this morning.
 

My colleague Alex shared some of his insights from the California Accounting Show in a previous post, and I figured it is time for me to share some of my favorite highlights from the show.