Case Study: Swiss Economic Forum achieves secure, compliant and cost‑effective document sharing with IntraLinks VIA

Swiss Economic Forum - Customer Case Study

The Swiss Economic Forum (SEF), Switzerland’s leading platform for entrepreneurship, runs a Growth Initiative that asks SMEs to submit confidential business plans, financials and reports for independent review to access growth capital. The process required a secure, partner‑compliant way to share sensitive documents; the SEF’s existing secure solution was expensive and clunky, while consumer file‑sharing options (e.g., Dropbox with separate encryption) did not meet all partners’ compliance requirements.

After consulting partner compliance teams, SEF adopted Intralinks VIA in June 2015 — a secure, intuitive platform at roughly one‑eighth the cost of the previous provider. VIA met all compliance needs, is used by SEF staff, partner organizations and external experts, and saved users about an hour a day, increasing overall efficiency by 30% and delivering substantial cost savings.

Swiss Economic Forum

Thomas Knecht

Project Manager