It's an inside joke here at LeapFILE that we're the best kept secret in town. We provide an awesome solution to businesses who are seeking enterprise class, secure file transfer but we do little to no marketing. One way or another, however, our customers find us. It's a fact that over 90% of our customer base finds us because an existing customer recommended LeapFILE; or because they were on the recipient end of a LeapFILE transfer and were astounded by how easy the transfer process was.

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:

This was our first time attending the AICPA Tech+ Conference. I must say overall it was a pretty awesome experience despite how tiring it was being on my feet all day long. We would like to say thanks to all those who stopped by our booth during the show and learned a little bit of what LeapFILE is about. It was a very rewarding experience as we got the chance to interact with everyone, share ideas, and learn about what accountants are looking for in their solutions.

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). 

I just returned from the AICPA Tech+ Conference in Las Vegas, and confirmed that customers like substance and expertise. Cynics might argue that trade show and conference attendees go for the exotic locales or simply to "officially" take some time off away from the office. Or, to take the opportunity to bring the spouse and kids for a family vacation. 

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. 

Gartner Research Director Frank Kenney is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) space. He publishes the Magic Quadrant report on MFT, and gets asked regularly by company CIOs and IT directors for advice on the virtues of a MFT solution.

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.