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ILTA SharePoint Symposium 2013 – Law Firms Lead Innovation

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Thank you to all of the SharePoint, IT and development professionals who met with us at the ILTA SharePoint Symposium in Chicago last week.  The conference was buzzing  – the keynote sessions were standing room only with overflow in the hallways.  The ILTA staff and Co-Chairs Kara Portwood and Lisa Gianakos did a great job with the program.

For our part, we expected strong interest in our secure mobile SharePoint List App, our Filebox mobile file sharing app and our secure Email App. We were busy demoing all three. However, there were some surprises, too.

– Level of innovation – many of these IT, Knowledge Management and development professionals are leading in usage of technology and SharePoint. The image of the stodgy, conservative law firm did not hold up at this conference. One example is the use of extranets. Law firms are architecting advanced extranets to give clients and partners access to critical files. With our secure browser in our secure Link Container we can help firms who need to extend security to people outside of their firms.

– HTML5 development – a surprising number of attendees were already developing HTML5 applications for their law firms. Our Link HTML5 SDK will be released next month.  It is open, standards-based and free. There were more than a few developers at SPS2013 who are eager to download our SDK as soon it is available. In one case, we were asked if our HTML5 mobile apps could be modified by using our SDK. The answer – yes. When you license one of our HTML5 apps we give you the source code. You can modify, brand, enhance to your heart’s content.

To be clear, our objective with our Link HTML5 SDK is to encourage Pure HTML5 development. The SDK is open source and there is no vendor lock-in. You can use it to develop HTML5 mobile apps without cost or obligation to us. Where our business model enters the picture is in secure HTML5 app (and native app) delivery to mobile devices. If you want to deliver your apps securely to mobile devices, then one option which you have is license our Secure Link System with our secure browser in our secure Link Container.

There is much more to come about our HTML5 SDK, including the intriguing point as to how you can secure your native apps as well as pure HTML5 apps using Link.

If you can’t wait for the July release of our SDK, write to us and let us know what you need at Contact Us.

Maureen

Mobile Helix at ILTA SharePoint Symposium, June 11th and 12th, Lombard, IL

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We are looking forward to demoing our mobile SharePoint solutions and talking to SharePoint users at ILTA’s SharePoint Symposium in a couple of weeks.  Our presence there happened as organically as possible.  In working with law firms, “ILTA” kept coming up. ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association. IT teams would tell us that the ITLA conferences are very informative.  Moreover, we would get the message, “You should be at ILTA, so many law firms there are specifically looking for secure, mobile SharePoint.”  We talked to the nice ILTA folks in Austin and, voila.  You’ll find us at the  SharePoint Symposium on June 11th and 12th.

Keynote speakers at the SharePoint Symposium are Rob Saccone and Dux Raymond Sy.  They will speak on “SharePoint Makes a Big World Smaller – The Big Picture”.

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Rob is a consultant who specializes in SharePoint for law firms.  “Dux” is a bit of a one-name wonder in the SharePoint world.  A SharePoint MVP, Dux is a popular speaker on all things SharePoint. He led what may have been the most entertaining “session” at Microsoft’s SharePoint 2012 conference in Las Vegas last November.  It was the flash mob Gangnam Style dance on the exhibit hall floor, electric blue tuxedo jacket, sunglasses and all. I doubt that ILTA will reprise the flash mob, but it’s a sure bet that these two SharePoint thought-leaders have new perspectives for all of us.

If you have not heard about our Mobile Helix Link solutions for secure, mobile SharePoint you can get the full picture here. We have a unique offering with seamless integration of secure email, SharePoint and file shares.  For instance, an attorney may receive an email which has an embedded link to a WORD file stored in SharePoint, behind the law firm’s firewall.  She can open it and save it for offline access later.  Then she can edit it and save it back to SharePoint – all from a tablet or smartphone. The document and email are encrypted throughout.  We will be demoing our secure mobile SharePoint, file sharing, and email solutions at the SharePoint Symposium.

Stop by for a demo – we’ll be the ones with the tablets in our hands.

— Maureen