François-Pierre Le Page, Founder and Managing Director of Mobilegov France S.A.: “Security is often viewed as an obstacle in the use of PC applications. At Mobilegov however, we believe it to be a facilitator by supporting the adoption of SaaS services by companies” declares  “This partnership reaffirms this belief, as it will allow our customers to combine identity-based security with the simplicity of use of the online storage spaces offered by ftopia”.

A value-added offer for the professional

ftopia provides collaborative sharing spaces and file storage online. Particularly useful to SME’s as well as to professional organizations and free lancers, ftopia makes it possible to exchange any document efficiently and easily with remote third parties or colleagues, in a safe and simple way – without the need for IT assistance.

The integration of these solutions will therefore make it possible for the professional user to create virtual spaces protected by two-factor authentication, while being freed from traditional tokens, key fobs etc., which are expensive to purchase and difficult to manage. Moreover, the joint solution will be available in SaaS mode, without requiring new IT investment or software installation on the users PC’s or laptops.

Safety is a legitimate concern of any individual or organization in adopting SaaS solutions. At ftopia, we have made it an essential element of our product development strategy. We are very pleased about this partnership with Mobilegov whose unique authentication technology will provide unrivaled protection to our customer’s data

“Disaggregation” or splitting up businesses into silos provides scale and devolution of control. One major challenge faced by organisations is information sharing in this new world of work. If business units are either duplicated between these silos or merely separated by geography, how can information flow? The organisational design may not have factored this into the equation. This could be best characterised as the “price of spread”.

The HR function in the US parent of a multinational organisation will have devolved HR functions in each or at least most of its subsidiaries. However, employees within that HR function in the US will need to collaborate and share information with HR employees regardless of their locations. These HR users are not technologists and will use email as the default information sharing tool. For the parent Company, having employees wander the globe with sensitive employee data on laptops or PDA’s is a potential legal nightmare. Equally, the HR employees in the US will need to author and redact documents with HR teams around the globe as employment law differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

This is the kind of high level issue that collaboration technologies like SharePoint and Lotus Notes were designed to address. SharePoint is a train wreck and Notes is dead. Where to go?

If you have teams of users who need to create ad-hoc, secure file sharing workspaces, check out www.ftopia.com.

ftopia. Simply Share.

Don’t expect that the volume of content will diminish any time soon. 

One of the biggest culprits of the information overload is email. Many of us are already slaves to email.  We use our inbox as a filing cabinet. This behaviour can be difficult to change. 
“If I need to share a document with Mary, I’ll email  it to her”. This is a 30 year habit which a technology such as ftopia seeks to break. By saving the documents centrally, the volume and sizes of emails is reduced and users feel less inclined to keep duplicates of data on their PC’s and laptops.

 ftopia is ideal for sharing content of the following types:

•  Documents
• PDF’s
• Presentations
• Spreadsheets
• .. and much more…

The best evangelists for this new mode of collaboration are those converts from email to central collaboration systems like ftopia. They can see that this is a significant advancement in document sharing compared to email. Grab that inbox by the horns and add a line to your email signature like:

“if you think the attachment is too big, it probably is. Let’s share it on ftopia”.