FirmRoom vs. SS&C Intralinks DealCentre

This is a great data room for a simple transaction. It does not offer all of the bells and whistles like some data rooms--but the price point is a fraction of what those data rooms cost. And I think this is a great solution for an M&A project. I'm not sure it would be as good for tracking what users viewed a document or how long--although in all honesty, I didn't see such features. These days, most clients want to try and use Dropbox or Google Docs and I feel that firm room is a far superior solution to those often-used choices and the price point is not very painful and does not decrease the attractiveness of the offering.

Very well suited for data room usage. Great for project based work where you have a specific group of people who are located worldwide that you want to collaborate with together. Very useful for sharing large documents with virtually anyone. Probably not appropriate or useful for small group or one on one usage involving documents that can be easily emailed (smaller in size).

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• Securely Store Documents
• Customizable Permissions
• Organize Files

• Workspace creation
• Security at granular level

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• There is some latency in loading larger documents. So sometimes it wasn't quite as quick as I would have liked.

• Drag/Drop of documents directly from emails (this seems to be common among data room type software)

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Maintenance is a bit slow.

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In expensive cost and simple design. There was basically no onboarding needed and you can sign up for yourself online. Security standards are similar to other M&A data rooms, but pricing is much less expensive. Never have to worry about permissions when adding new users to the virtual data room.

Intralinks is more robust and has a more professional user interface. I use both products but I would default to intralinks if it was an important project involving outside resources or partners. Box I feel is perfectly suitable for internal projects that involve department members or multiple company departments

Incentivized

• Much less expensive than per page data rooms
• Can view documents quicker with the in-platform viewer
• Almost no training required which saves me time when inviting new users

• Good desktop and web versions.
• Simplified basic file management.

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