Saturday 9 December 2006

Nomadisk: A solution for Data Room Woes

I went for the first time to a Data Room and hopefully that's going to be the last time. I refuse to go when we have good solutions like Nomadisk


This virtual hard drive solution could be a great collaborative solution for the Deloitte's, KPMG, Ernst & Youngs of the world. I could very well imagine a virtual drive where company sensitive data would be put for the due diligence process. Only a few registered users would be able to access the data and any copying/editing would be disallowed unless authorized. The higher security concerns could be a suggestion towards higher revenue models for Aventiv, the company which came up with Nomadisk.

On the other hand while in the Data Room I was doing some preliminary calculations ( that's the only worthwhile thing I did). There are 6 partners at my department. Each does 3 deals a year and has around 5 companies in his portfolio. That's 18 new deals per year, and on a steady state 30 companies which require regular reporting as a result of corporate governance. So we could do a little bit of viral marketing ourselves for Nomadisk.


4 comments:

jepoirrier said...

As I said before, it's sad Nomadisk is using nearly exclusively open source software and they don't give anything back to the community. I think GIMV could make a lot of money in beginning to support open source software companies, now that it seems Venture Dollars Flow to Open Source.

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Anonymous said...

Nomadisk indeed uses Unison, Plink, Crosscrypt, all open source tools. But it goes MUCH further than that! What is more, Nomadisk 2.0 will make these tools superfluous. Of course we comply with all relevant licenses in the meantime.

Unknown said...

Security is a major concept of virtual data room and there are programs that are able to deal with any potential threats.
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