CUSP Point Software Blog

We’re back! The CUSP team has just returned from Budapest after another great PRISM/NAID event.

We arrived late on Sunday to prepare the booth for the Monday evening reception. The exhibition area was mainly focused on physical storage and destruction so we had the EDM market cornered. There were lots of great people there - our booth was situated between Rick from Regal Document Protection and Michael and the rest of the team from EasyBox.

The event had a strong US presence and plenty of attendees from Ireland and the UK. There was a good attendance from Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean region, too.

The presentations covered a variety of topics. I didn’t get to them all but enjoyed Joaquin Bayo Delgado‘s talk on EU regulations and recommendations on Data Protection.

As a former judge he gave a good summary of the application of these regulations in terms we could all understand. Glen Reid from the OASIS Group had an informative look at financial KPIs to help plan and assess your company’s growth.

Obviously the highlight of the event was the presentation from our CEO Seamus Brennan on Achieving Compliance in ISO 27001 and SAS-70. A CUSP white paper on the topic - Security Certication – A Problem or an Opportunity? – was released to mark the event, and is available for download in the Library. If you would like a copy of the slides from the presentation, just email Seamus with your request.

So what’s new? Talking to some of the attendees from the region it appears there is a strong regulatory push towards electronic storage of documents, and that record accessibility is a major concern. The Czech Republic, for instance, is pushing to have data available electronically in most businesses as early as next year. All good news for us and VARs looking to expand in the region.

But it wasn’t all work – the conference was held in the Intercontinental Hotel in the centre of Budapest. The CUSP booth was located overlooking the Danube against the magnificent backdrop of the Buda Castle and Matthias Church.

It’s a stunning city with very friendly locals - well worth a visit. The Oasis Group sponsored a fabulous evening’s entertainment in the Museum of Ethnography and Iron Mountain invited all to a tour of their facility.

Special Thanks to the sponsors, Jim Booth and all the rest of the PRISM and NAID organisers for a great event.

Dave Fitzgibbon
Director of Product Management
CUSP Point Software Ltd.

On Monday we leave for the PRISM EMEA Conference in Budapest, Hungary.

PRISM is a very important partner for CUSP as it is the premier trade association globally for companies that specialize in the storage, retrieval, organization and disposition of client information assets.

With nearly 600 members, headquartered in over 40 countries and 1000 facilities worldwide, PRISM members are the bull’s-eye of CUSP’s target market.

The ability to present the unique and differentiated offering of CUSP’s PaperTrail Solution to those members as a new, immediately activatable, recurring revenue stream to offer their customers is precisely why we support all PRISM activities.

In Budapest I will be speaking about my pet subject and favorite CUSP market differentiator - Security Certifications for SaaS and Enterprise EDM software providers.

In a traditional sense a Security Certification presentation would not exactly have them lined up at the door for a seat. But in Budapest we’re taking a different approach to presentation.

Having just completed our ISO 27001 audit, and being in the midst of our SAS 70 Type I audit, we’re going to share with all of those attending exactly what it takes to achieve these certifications by way of building a corporate culture founded on security at the individual employee level.

In a commercial sense, by “sharing” the responsibility with all employees, the depth and quality of daily corporate life, as evaluated in terms of security, becomes as easy to measures as sales.

This is a fundamental shift in how CUSP has approached the security certification process, and the results have been extremely rewarding as well as successful.

As soon as I’m back I’ll give you an update on whether they were running in or out of the doors in Budapest…

Seamus Brennan
CEO
CUSP Point Software Ltd.