FileSpirit, a German-based company, is launching its mobile file browser at GigaOM’s Structure Europe Launchpad competition next week. The service allows companies to extend mobile file access to road warriors and sales people using a secure system that encrypts outbound data from the company’s premises and decrypts it on an iPad or iPhone.  FileSpirit doesn’t require users to open up their firewall, use a VPN or call on a lot of IT expertise.

End users access files through a visual file browser that lets them see documents as images similar to Apple’s iTunes CoverFlow system. Using a configuration tool, users can call up files and also tap into company databases. That allows them to view CRM, SQL and business intelligence data as well as Excel files or other database information inside the browser. FileSpirit also works offline so users can save folders and subfolders to their mobile device.

Co-founder Dominik Wever said many companies, especially in Europe, are skittish about storing their files in the cloud. And he said some other file access solutions aren’t built with enterprise customers in mind. He said FileSpirit doesn’t view of any of the files and acts like a telecom PBX, routing data to the right people. And since it can call up information from various databases, it allows salesman and other businesspeople to get what they need right away and close a sale immediately.

Wever and his co-founder Johannes Geyer previously launched Julitec, a CRM product in Europe. Now, they’ve been focusing on opening up remote access to files and data.

FileSpirit is one of five finalists in our Structure: Europe Launchpad competition, which will take place on October 16th in Amsterdam. More information can be found here.

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Sure, many of Europe’s cloud deployments may be private, but European companies are eager to learn what their counterparts in the U.S. are doing and share their own experiences. That’s why we’re mixing our Structure stars such as Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels and Jay Parikh, VP of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, with Europeans such as Bernard Dallé, a partner with Index Ventures and Eirikur Hrafnsson, the founder of GreenQloud.

And we’re wrapping up the first day with a showcase of our five finalists. I’ve listed them below, but for more information you’ll have to come to Amsterdam on Oct. 16 and 17th and watch them present onstage. I can’t wait.

• Besol: This Spanish company has built a cloud management product that can span different clouds. The product, called Tapp, is one of those that could enable a real cloud brokerage model to develop.
• ComodIT: This company is building a software-as-a-service offering that will allow companies to create different deployment configurations for their servers and store them online for later access.
• DoxOut: This is a productivity app for the post-PC era, which in laymen’s terms means it will work on a variety of devices. The company says it does that without coding different apps for different platforms. It can work as an installed app offline or via a web browser when the user has connectivity.
• FileSpirit: Find corporate files in the cloud using the File Spirit app. The company is competing with Dropbox, SugarSync but says it offers file encryption and other services designed to appeal to corporate users.
• Wercker: In this devops focused world, companies can deploy dozens or thousands of code updates a day. Big companies write custom software to push out their updates, but Wercker has created a SaaS platform that will prep and test deployment software and integrates with GitHub.

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