The Art World and the World Wide Web
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ight in from your iPad or computer <strong>and</strong> everything is right<br />
<strong>the</strong>re. Or if you want to present a curated selection of inventory<br />
from galleryManager you can do that from your iPad or any<br />
o<strong>the</strong>r tablet or computer. Using <strong>the</strong> galleryManager iPad app you<br />
can view your selections of work online or offline. That feature<br />
doesn’t cost anything extra. It’s just part of any galleryManager<br />
account! All <strong>the</strong> information that’s associated with an individual<br />
piece of work, or artist, all <strong>the</strong> information about<br />
past clients you’ve worked with, <strong>the</strong> location of a work, <strong>the</strong><br />
provenance. Or if you’re a gallery owner <strong>and</strong> your assistants<br />
are away for <strong>the</strong> day or on vacation <strong>and</strong> you need <strong>the</strong>m to<br />
upload something, <strong>the</strong>y can just hop right on <strong>and</strong> change it<br />
for you. It’s really like a one-stop shop for everything related<br />
to running a gallery.<br />
In terms of flexibility <strong>and</strong> mobility, this does sound like an extension<br />
of what you’ve already been able to do with exhibit-E.<br />
Exactly. It is just one more piece of functionality of <strong>the</strong> websites<br />
that we provide for <strong>the</strong> galleries. It fits in seamlessly, <strong>and</strong> it’s one<br />
less thing that <strong>the</strong> galleries have to worry about.<br />
Do you think <strong>the</strong> galleries are worried about that information<br />
being exposed, that information being hacked?<br />
We think that <strong>the</strong>re’s probably a perception that stuff is exposed.<br />
But in reality, well, two points here. One, it’s in <strong>the</strong> cloud,<br />
which offers a much greater level of security, plus we’re doing<br />
daily granular backups, <strong>and</strong> we can roll back any account<br />
14 days. But two, by having this information on our <strong>Web</strong><br />
servers, we’re adding an extra layer of protection <strong>and</strong> reliability<br />
that some galleries just might not think of. A computer in<br />
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