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My name is Katherine Velez (www.linkedin.com/in/kgbvelez) and I work for Intralinks. I would like to request an edit to the Intralinks page because it is out of date and no longer accurate. I have provided suggested text below which I believe to be both factual and neutral. Third party references have been included where possible. Thank you for your help in updating the page with the current information. I hope that this update will also remove the templated issue messages. I would be happy to provide additional supporting information, if necessary. Regards and Happy New Year, KV
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Intralinks
Intralinks is a cloud-based financial technology (FinTech) provider for the global banking, deal making and capital markets communities. The Intralinks platform is designed to facilitate strategic initiatives, such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital raising and investor reporting, by enabling and securing the flow of information. It also provides information rights management (IRM) to assist with compliance in areas like risk management and post-merger integration. The Intralinks SaaS platform combines cloud storage with real-time access, tracking, auditing, reporting and process management capabilities that give users additional tools for controlling information exchange between teams, customers, prospects, counterparties and regulators. Intralinks’ technology was first used by syndicated lending desks at Tier 1 global banks in 1997, and entered the M&A market in 2002, where it introduced the virtual data room (VDR). Since then, the Intralinks platform has been adopted by companies in other industries where document distribution is an important business capability. Examples include life sciences companies who use the platform for drug discovery and development, and alternative investments firms that use it to perform investor reporting and fundraising activities. Intralinks’ core business is in the M&A sector, where it connects buy-side and sell-side parties, and facilitates the deal sourcing, deal marketing and due diligence phases of strategic transactions. Intralinks’ platform provides granular access and control for information rights management to ensure compliance in areas such as risk management and post-merger integration. The Intralinks platform was developed for highly-regulated markets and IP-intensive enterprises, and meets regulatory standards, including ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISAE 3402, SOC 2 Type 2 and UK Government G-Cloud.
Prior to his involvement with Intralinks, founding Chairman Arthur Sculley was the head of J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank. Sculley is the brother of John Sculley, former President and CEO of Apple Inc. (1983-1993), and David Sculley, former President and CEO of H.J. Heinz U.S.A. (1985–90). The Sculley brothers acted as early advisors to Intralinks.[2] Like many of New York’s Silicon Alley firms during the dot-com boom, Intralinks sought to capitalize on the use of the Internet in the B2B sector. Initially, the founders intended to use their financial services experience to create a secure, cloud-based file sharing solution that could replace paper-based document sharing in loan syndication negotiations. At launch, Intralinks provided banks and other institutions engaged in multiparty negotiations with a cloud-based, neutral, third-party setting where they could control financial documents.[3] Their first deal was completed with JP Morgan in April 1997, and by the summer of 1999, Intralinks had reached approximately 40 employees and $6 million in sales. The company’s customer base was growing, and they began to evaluate other markets, beyond debt capital.[4] In a 1999 NYU case study, Carolyn Buck Luce, Ernst & Young partner in charge of Internet commerce, is quoted saying, “Like other Internet trailblazers, Intralinks is dramatically changing the way we do things. In the same way that Amazon.com has forever revolutionized the way consumers buy books, Intralinks is building the definitive platform for business and their professional advisors to quickly, safely and cost-effectively collaborate on multi-million dollar transactions.” [5] Early technology Entry into highly regulated markets In 2000, clinical investigators used the Intralinks platform for the first time in clinical trials and drug discovery to maintain regulatory standards during the execution of a study’s start-up, perform safety document distribution and manage remote monitoring. Intralinks signed its first alternative investment (AI) client in July of 2001. The AI client used the platform to manage investor reporting and fundraising activities in lieu of traditional methods that relied on the manual distribution of physical documents, which is a slower, more costly and a more cumbersome process than digital distribution. In addition to the operational gains experienced by their client base of general partners, Intralinks became favored by the investors themselves, or limited partners, because they were able to use the same user credentials across multiple fund reports. It was CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the US, that encouraged many general partners to adopt the Intralinks technology. In 2002, Intralinks launched its first virtual data room (VDR), which was designed to expedite the deal execution process for the M&A community. By 2004, the company had grown to 170 employees and more than $25 million in annual revenue, and had landed deals with major Wall Street banks, including J.P. Morgan, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank and several large Pharmaceutical companies.[7] Geographical expansion In late 2009, Intralinks opened an Asia Pacific (APAC) Headquarters in Hong Kong, which has since been relocated to Singapore, and a Latin American headquarters in São Paulo. Additional regional offices were opened in Chile, Mexico, Sydney and Tokyo, and offices in Mumbai and Seoul were established through partners. Early financing In April 1999, the professional services firm Ernst & Young, paid $20 million to acquire a minority share of Intralinks at $10 per share. Intralinks CEO Mark Adams said, “In addition to their global business channels, market credibility and investment capital, they will provide insight and strategic guidance for the research and development of future services, some of which will be outside the capital market arena.” [9] Amid the turmoil of the dot-com crash, Intralinks began working with Rho Ventures in 2001 to boost flagging revenue streams and improve performance. The venture capital firm helped Intralinks secure a $50 million private equity financing round, [10] and began working closely with their management team to develop a growth strategy that would ultimately strengthen the company in important areas of operations, financing, sales and marketing. The partnership focused on diversifying revenue outside of the debt capital market vertical, expanding into adjacent financial markets, doubling revenues outside the United States, and becoming a dominant player in the M&A and AI community. In 2007, global private equity firm TA Associates led a leveraged buyout of Intralinks. As part of the transaction, Rho agreed to reinvest its stake to support the company’s next phase of growth. Going public and extending core competencies At the time, Intralinks was named one of the fastest-growing private companies in the country by Inc. magazine, and one of the Top 10 IPOs in 2010. [12] With their eye on the enterprise software market, Intralinks hired former Novell, Inc. CEO and tech veteran Ron Hovsepian as CEO, president and director in 2011. In 2013, the company launched Intralinks VIA®, a secure document sharing application that could integrate with content repositories on enterprise systems. [13] In hopes of using it to expand beyond the banking and finance sector, Intralinks continued to invest in VIA over the next several years despite a lack of product sales. Over a series of updates, enterprise-grade capabilities were introduced, including information rights management, customer-managed encryption keys and data sovereignty capabilities. [14] Return to private company and current market strategy As a private subsidiary of Siris Capital, Intralinks returned to its initial mission of providing technology solutions that address the growing complexities of global financial services and financial transaction management. Intralinks mission statement As pioneers of the virtual data room, we focus on enabling and securing the flow of information and insight. We innovate to enhance the value, speed and confidentiality of deal making, reporting and communications – driving success for our clients and users. Our dedicated team empowers our clients to leverage our technology with complete control and confidence. Technology acquisitions In 2013, Intralinks purchased London-based MergerID, which was jointly owned by the Financial Times Group and PE-Nexus, a privately held company based in Miami, Florida. The acquisition created the largest global online deal sourcing marketplace and professional network for qualified M&A professionals.[17] The combined technologies were renamed Intralinks Dealnexus. Building on its enterprise growth strategy, in 2014, Intralinks acquired docTrackr, a French document security company, and integrated its technology into the platform.[18] To the enhance their security and data privacy capabilities, Intralinks used docTrackr’s technology to provide users with exclusive control over data encryption keys. At the document level, docTrackr’s information rights management (IRM) technology enabled users to protect and track PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, wherever those files are stored or shared. The docTrackr technology also enabled Intralinks to offer its users combined analytics, audit trails and policy management of all document activities in a plug-in free deployment. In 2016, Intralinks acquired Boston-based cloud infrastructure company Verilume.[19] Founded by former Dell EMC and Goldman Sachs technology executives, Verilume technology addresses the complexity and time involved in the deployment and management of distributed data centers and cloud infrastructures. This acquisition provided Intralinks with the expertise to more flexibly and dynamically manage operations within and across private, hybrid and public distributed cloud systems to deliver in-country or regional data locality and processing. Strategic partnerships Contract review: Kira Systems works with the Intralinks platform to help ensure that high-stakes transactions are brought to a fast close by accelerating the due diligence process with automated contract review and document sharing.[20]
Syndicated Lending: Intralinks and Misys jointly developed the LenderBridge connector, which automates the provisioning of lender access to Intralinks VDRs directly from Misys Loan IQ™ to better service participants in the multi-trillion-dollar syndicated loan market. Current platform
Intralinks provides APIs, integration adaptors and connectors for developing and deploying customized business applications, and offers jointly-developed solutions with partners, such as Microsoft SharePoint, Kira, FileFacets and Misys. Market share Data gathered from the Intralinks platform also provide insight into global M&A trends. The company publishes a quarterly report, the Deal Flow Predictor (DFP), which forecasts six-months of M&A market activity (https://www.intralinks.com/resources/publications/intralinks-dfp-explained). Intralinks engaged an independent statistical consulting and data science research firm, Analysis & Inference, to validate the accuracy of the DFP. The firm reported that Intralinks’ prediction model has a very high level of statistical significance, with a more than 99.9 percent probability that the DFP is a statistically significant six-month predictive indicator of announced deal volumes, as subsequently reported by Thomson Reuters. Executive leadership
Awards and industry recognition In 2016, Acquisition International named Intralinks winner in Secure Document Sharing. From 2010 to 2016, ACQ named Intralinks VDR Provider of the Year. From 2006 to 2016, Intralinks was ranked number one, ten years in a row, by Gartner for Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Suites Market Share Worldwide. In 2017, Intralinks was named Turnaround Service of the Year by The M&A Advisor.[22] References
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2602:306:C5CF:24D0:44ED:1632:9920:1F15 (talk) 22:21, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
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- You mentioned that much of what has been deemed in the article as notable is now outdated. But this is not a reason to alter the information, per: WP:NOTTEMPORARY. Specific details which may be outdated, such as names, dates, and locations, may be updated as necessary. If this is the case, please provide these specific examples under another edit request, and be assured that our reply to you will be expedited.
- Portions of your proposal are insufficiently paraphrased from the source material, as shown here. Please note that beyond the use of quotes in your proposal, other areas of close paraphrasing were evident in the request. All text submitted for edit requests must be in your own words, or else properly attributed. Close paraphrasing is not acceptable. Please see WP:CLOP for more information about this requirement.
For these two reasons I am declining your request overall. If you wish to propose specific sections of the article to be added (beyond—or if revised, including—sections covered by the two provisions above) you may do so at your earliest convenience. Regards, Spintendo ᔦᔭ 00:07, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
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FYI Company name = Intralinks NOT IntraLinks
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2600:1702:F80:8670:205D:3C95:6A02:5B7C (talk) 14:13, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
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Done The infobox was updated. A few of the items in the infobox were either altered or left unchanged. Those include:
Company as a public entity versus private. The older infobox said the former and the newer infobox said the latter. The former was retained.In redoing the subheadings from the older request above (so that they would not impact this page's table of contents) I noticed that in 2017 the company was transitioned back to a private company. I will change this in the infobox.- The employee count. The newer infobox said 600, the older said 1000. The older number was retained.
- The designation of Leif O'Leary as President and CEO. The company website lists him as CEO only, and that designation was kept in the new infobox.
Name change edit
The paperwork filed by the company with the SEC states their title with a capitalized L. The company's website on the other hand uses either full capitalization of the entire name, or capitalizes only the first letter 'I' in 'Intra' and not the 'L'. I don't see any press releases definitively stating one way or another. There may be some editors who are attached to one version over another, so I would think that a change in the name would therefore require consensus. Editors are asked to give their input on the change from IntraLinks to Intralinks. Spintendo 9:07 am, Today (UTC−7)