Today’s workforce expects instant access to information, and the ability to send and receive data at the press of a button. When corporate technology and tools are too difficult and cumbersome to use, employees will find a workaround.

Most often, that workaround is a consumer-grade file-sharing tool that they are used to using at home, such as personal email, consumer file-sharing sites, portable storage devices, and cloud storage services, all of which present unique and significant security and compliance risks to organizations.

Healthcare organizations store vast amounts of healthcare records. What may come as a surprise to some, healthcare records are more valuable to criminals than credit card numbers or social security numbers alone according to the “Fourth Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security” conducted by the Ponemon Institute. Because of this, healthcare organizations must take extra precautions to protect the records.

Think about the last time your information systems were down. Patient admissions, medical records, and other data collection had to be done on paper, which later had to be scanned in or manually entered into the system. Or maybe the data was never collected at all? How many thousands of dollars in overtime did that cost you—not to menƟ on your damaged reputation from backlogged admissions and delayed orders. How many future clients did you lose from that one incident? How many of your nursing or offi ce staff quit in frustration? How would you like to prevent that from ever happening again?

When it comes to executing the world’s biggest, most complex projects, organizations must rely on collaborative production methods to accomplish their goals. In industries such as AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing), team members need to work together on computeraided design (CAD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) files, often simultaneously. Only with the power and convenience of file replication services can these groups achieve objectives with the short time horizons and massive geographical gaps they face.