Wdesk Makes Life Easier at American EquityRevealing a Revolution Minutes in to the Wdesk demo Harms realized he was seeing something revolutionary. “When I heard that you press a button and the reports go right to the SEC, I was ready!” says Harms. The solution’s functionality was obvious to Harms, but the question of how secure data would be stored on the cloud-based platform was a concern for American Equity’s leaders. At his previous employer Harms worked with a cloud-based system and he had gained extensive knowledge of the data storage process. “I told them that the cloud- based approach is probably more secure than having our files sitting on our server in our office. That’s all it took,” he says. As soon as Wdesk launched in 2010, American Equity signed on. With a

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