Businessweek

IntraLinks Holdings, Inc. provides software-as-a-service (SaaS), solutions for secure content management and collaboration within and among organizations. The company’s cloud-based solutions enable organizations to control, track, search and exchange time-sensitive information inside and outside the firewall. The company services enterprises, financial institutions and governmental agencies in approximately 60 countries across various industries, including financial services, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, biotechnology, consumer, energy, telecommunications, industrial, legal, agriculture, insurance, real estate, and technology. The Intralinks Platform The company has built a cloud-based, multi-tenant platform upon which it develops solutions that allow its customers to collaborate, manage and exchange critical information across organizational and geographic boundaries. The company integrates content management, collaboration and social networking software into one platform that supports business collaboration and content exchange. The Intralinks Platform scales from the needs of small groups and individuals within one organization to large teams of people across multiple enterprises, financial institutions and governmental agencies. Intralinks Exchanges Intralinks Exchanges facilitate collaboration within and among organizations. They integrate the capabilities of content management, collaboration and social networking software into a cohesive work environment that is accessible from the Internet. Intralinks Exchanges can be configured for a variety of uses, including the facilitation and management of a number of transactions and matters, such as loan syndications, mergers and acquisitions, asset dispositions, clinical trials support, investor reporting and capital management. Users access and work in Intralinks Exchanges primarily through a browser interface. Content within an Intralinks Exchange can be accessed through the company’s customers' existing operating systems with an Internet connection. Users can also access the system with advanced mobile devices, such as iPads, iPhones, BlackBerry, and Android-based products. In addition, the company makes available advanced, on-premise tools, such as Intralinks Designer for administrators and other users to simplify the uploading, organization and management of content. Intralinks Designer facilitates activities, such as adding files and folders in bulk, dynamically indexing information and setting permissions for multiple users and user groups. Inherent in each Intralinks Exchange is the ability to manage content. This includes standard document management capabilities, such as the ability to monitor document use to maintain version control, and permissioning capabilities, such as document locking and protection, that could watermark content and control a user’s ability to view, print, forward, and save content stored on the IntraLinks Exchange. Document locking and protection could be configured for users and groups on a bulk or per document basis. Disaster recovery services, virus scanning and protection and automated backups are included as an ongoing component of the company’s service offering to protect and secure the Intralinks Exchange environment and its content. The company also provides an archiving service that includes an electronic copy of all documents, access history, historical permissions and electronic communications sent through an Intralinks Exchange. Intralinks Courier Intralinks Courier is an enterprise-class managed file transfer service that allows individuals and groups to support ad-hoc inter-enterprise collaboration, allowing the exchange of content through the firewall in a controlled, secure and auditable manner. It is designed to enable the secure exchange of critical information among individuals and groups on a one-off, ad hoc basis, whereas an Intralinks Exchange is designed for continuous content sharing and collaboration. Intralinks Courier integrates the capabilities of the Intralinks Platform, including tracking and reporting, access history for compliance support, document-level restrictions for pr