Setting up an extranet to share and collaborate on files with your extended team – co-workers, clients, contractors, vendors and partners - is very simple and instantaneous with Content Circles. You just download Content Circles software to your computer, create a circle, copy files to that circle, and invite other people to that circle using their email addresses. Immediately the invitees get notified via email that they have been invited to be part of the new circle. If the invitee already has Content Circles software installed on his machine, then he just clicks on a button to accept access to the new circle. Otherwise, the invitee downloads Content Circles software and accepts the circle.
Content Circles is an ideal “virtual data room” (or "virtual deal room") solution for companies when regulations or business processes limit the use of e-mail and web-hosted solutions for file sharing. For example, many federal agencies as well as state governments restrict public and private companies from sending files with social security numbers in them as e-mail attachments to avoid potential privacy and security issues. Another example is Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) transactions where privacy, security and control are paramount. Content Circles addresses these needs fully by allowing the creator of a circle complete control over that circle as to who can access and/or share files in it. Content Circles also automatically encrypts all files in the circle before transmitting them to others in the circle.
Content Circles is the simplest way to send and receive large files – there is no theoretical limit to file size and storage is only limited by available disk space on your computer. Simply create a circle, invite the intended recipients to the circle, and copy the large files into that circle. The recipients will automatically receive the large files when they login to Content Circles and accept the circle. Since Content Circles compresses files, in addition to encrypting them, it is not only very secure but very efficient as well. You never have to use FTP servers, or burn and ship CDs or DVDs, ever again!
Ever wondered how you can easily keep all of your files on all of your computers in sync so you can access and work on them anywhere? Simply create circles on one computer and add all of your other computers to those circles. Content Circles will automatically synchronize those circles, and all files and versions of the files in those circles, across all of your computers. This automatic replication also ensures that your files are always backed up and available to you even if one of your computers crashes.