Don't clog your corporate e-mail ...

... system with large files. "The problem of sending big files is bigger than you think," says Jurgen Edholm, CEO of Accellion Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif. Indeed, many Internet service providers refuse to handle files that are over 10MB. But Edholm says end users can transmit huge files via Accellion's Courier Secure File Transfer Appliance, which is being upgraded this week with a Version 5.0 software release. Users can store files and even entire folders on a Courier appliance and then send messages with built-in links so recipients can download the information. With the software update, Courier can handle folders that are up to 20GB in size. Pricing for the appliance starts at US$3,500.

Take a good look at your ...

... business data. With so much data for analysts to sort through, they need "a living, breathing picture on top of a database," says Kevin Brown, vice president of marketing at Tableau Software Inc. in Seattle. Tableau's eponymous visual analytics tool connects to a variety of data sources and lets users drag and drop data elements to a worksheet, where they are instantly rendered into charts, graphs and other visual representations. Version 2.0 ships next week. Pricing starts at $999.