IntraLinks Accelerates SaaS API Strategy With Sonoa ServiceNet

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - October 28, 2008) - Sonoa Systems, Inc. today announced that IntraLinks, the leading provider of online workspaces for secure document exchange, has selected Sonoa's ServiceNet to facilitate the development of its SaaS API infrastructure.

IntraLinks will use Sonoa ServiceNet to enable customers and partners to utilize and extend the IntraLinks platform by securely accessing IntraLinks' APIs that are exposed as Web services. Sonoa's ServiceNet will reduce the coding necessary to create many operational functions such as performance and visibility, enabling IntraLinks' development team to focus on delivering advanced API functionality and features that create business value. Sonoa ServiceNet will also allow IntraLinks to manage numerous and diverse API clients -- enforcing multiple security schemes, mediating protocol preferences, and managing access control and performance.

"Sonoa's unique capabilities enhances our system architecture creating a flexible and high performance environment for the development of our SaaS API strategy," said John Landy, vice president of architecture at IntraLinks. "ServiceNet ensures a critical level of SaaS API protection by monitoring activity, providing access control and generating real-time, actionable visibility and reporting as we work with clients and customers."

"To reap the benefits that SaaS services offer for the enterprise, applications that integrate with them need to be managed flawlessly, especially for providers like IntraLinks whose stringent security requirements are paramount," said Chet Kapoor, CEO of Sonoa Systems. "Sonoa's network-centric approach provides IntraLinks with the added technology base to drive wide adoption of their SaaS API-based offerings. At the same time, ServiceNet frees IntraLinks to concentrate on the development of advanced functionality and business features in their applications without operational burdens, unlocking added value to the client."

IntraLinks joins Sonoa's growing roster of leading companies including InsightsOnDemand, Warner Music, Pfizer, Level 3, JP Morgan Chase, Landslide, Net One, Sterling Infosystems and Aizu University.

About IntraLinks

IntraLinks® On-Demand Workspaces™ connect business communities and accelerate the intelligent flow of information and documents among participants. Through IntraLinks' secure, neutral, online environments, companies are better able to compete globally by accelerating essential business processes, simplifying communication and fostering rapid workflow. IntraLinks is easily accessible anywhere, anytime, using a Web browser.

Since 1997, more than 750,000 participants representing over 90,000 organizations worldwide have used IntraLinks On-Demand Workspaces™ to communicate and collaborate on thousands of projects and transactions. IntraLinks has been adopted widely in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries, where its clients include AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, FDIC, TD Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners and WestLB, among hundreds of others. Founded in 1996, IntraLinks is headquartered in New York with offices around the world.

About Sonoa Systems

Sonoa Systems provides a secure cloud gateway that solves critical security, compliance, performance and interoperability challenges for enterprises that are providing or using cloud-based business applications. Leading customers such as Pfizer, Warner Music, and Intralinks use Sonoa to create new revenue channels, reduce costs, and innovate faster. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA, privately held, and backed by leading investors including Norwest Venture Partners, Bay Partners, and SAP Ventures. For more see www.sonoasystems.com.