Software offers Microsoft Office document protection.

Workshare Jun 29, 2007

Press Release Summary:

Providing accurate and regulatory-ready document control, Workshare Professional v5 delivers Secure PDF/A ISO-compliant PDF conversion from any application or Document Management System. Integrating with Workshare Protect v5 client, document lifecycle management software delivers document protection when sharing over email and portals. One-to-Many DeltaViews feature shows multiple document comparisons across versions inside tabbed views.

Original Press Release:

Workshare Launches Workshare Professional 5: Safe, Compliant, and Efficient Document Lifecycle Management for Microsoft Office and Windows System Infrastructures

Software suite targets 30M business professionals who share and review high value documents across perimeters in a $160m document control segment expected to surpass $1.2b in 4 years

SAN FRANCISCO, June 11 // -- Workshare, the global leader in secure content compliance, announced that Workshare Professional 5, the first and only document control product integrated with 2007 Microsoft Office and Vista as well as previous Microsoft Office and Windows systems, is shipping today. Designed for information workers who depend on sharing and reviewing Microsoft Office documents to get their job done, Workshare Professional provides safe, compliant and usable document lifecycle management across organizations.

The Workshare document control product line is used by one million people in 6,000 organizations across 65 countries. Since 1999, it's produced over 2.2 billion DeltaViews, the de facto content change "report card" for documents. Unlike perimeter-bound, proprietary document management systems whose market size peaked at $1.1b in 2004, Workshare Professional 5 securely manages how business people exchange content directly inside their standard creation and sharing tools. Its content management within the Office and Windows systems gives users standards-based access rights, better collaboration abilities, heightened security parameters, adaptable workflow, and complete version tracking. Workshare Professional's design is content-aware, works across organizations and is easy to learn. It provides accurate and regulatory-ready document control that 30m business professionals in all organizations need; at a price they can afford.

Customers and Partners Agree

"Barclays Legal will be adding Workshare Professional 5 to our Microsoft Office deployment to be able to control and audit the review of our documents. As well as helping to ensure our documents remain secure throughout the document lifecycle, Workshare Professional 5 will make our document processes more efficient and more accurate," said Richard Daniel, COO, Barclays Legal & Compliance.

Workshare Professional 5 includes beta use feedback from hundreds inside this large user base, and has been in development since Workshare was selected to join the 2007 Microsoft Office Technical Advisory Program in March of 2006. It is the only document control suite in the market to fully support the workflow capabilities of 2007 Microsoft Office system and the security enhancements in Vista Windows system.

"Workshare Professional, together with the Microsoft Office system, delivers policy based security and control for business document lifecycles across organizations," said Jeff Raikes, President, Microsoft Business Division, "We love to see partners like Workshare successfully extend the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Workshare did this by integrating simple to use, ad hoc information compliance processes optimized for our open file formats, UI and workflow, while delivering safer Office file sharing and more secure PDF creation."

Key New Features of Workshare Professional 5

o Document lifecycle management inside 2007 Microsoft Office system
and Vista -- Workshare Professional 5 is the first document control
product to be fully integrated with and take advantage of the
infrastructure and Open XML file formats delivered by the 2007
Microsoft Office system infrastructure. Workshare Professional
embeds Lifecycle Workflows inside the 2007 Office Ribbon Bar and
Task Pane, ensuring policy enforced and compliant document
lifecycles. Workshare Professional's review and comparison
capabilities are fully embedded in 2007 SharePoint Extranet and
Collaborative Workspaces as well as Live Meeting for real-time
collaboration. And finally, Workshare extends the power of Office
2007 Document Inspector and Vista Rights management by providing
content and context aware policy enforcement and usage auditing of
these capabilities.
o The World's Most Secure PDF -- Just as Workshare Professional was
the first to ensure safe sharing of Office documents, it is now the
first and only to deliver leak proof PDFs, with complete policy
based and auditable risk discovery and remediation prior to PDF
conversion. Only Workshare provides Policy-enforcement for secure
PDF creation 'in motion' over email and portals, including
enforcement of 128-bit encryption and signing and PDF restrictions.
Workshare delivers Secure PDF/A ISO compliant PDF conversion from
any application or Document Management System, including support for
"tagged" PDF files.
o Complete Information leak prevention -- Through seamless integration
of the Workshare Protect 5 client, the world's leading information
leak prevention endpoint software, Workshare Professional now
delivers complete protection from Privacy, IP and confidential
information leaks when sharing documents over email and portals.
Professional's ILP security is fully configurable and delivers
centralized security policy management, risk alerting, auditing and
reporting. In addition, Workshare Professional can take advantage
of Workshare Ready partners such as Interwoven and Documentum for
risk classification and Microsoft RMS and PGP for risk mitigation.
o Exclusive Document Control functionality -- Building on the usage of
1M customers over the last 7 years, Workshare Professional continues
to innovate making document sharing and control more powerful. New
exclusive features based on customer feedback in this release
include centralized, fully auditable track changes and DeltaViews
stored independently from the source file. Workshare has continued
to set the standard on document comparison with unmatched accuracy
for challenging and critical problems such as complex table
comparison, and intricate numbering and formatting changes. An
innovative new capability called One-to-Many DeltaViews shows
multiple document comparisons across versions inside tabbed views.
Workshare Professional also meets the output needs of a wide range
of its users by now not only providing standard Deltaview output,
but by delivering Deltaviews in Secured PDFs or as editable Track
change redline options. Lastly, Workshare Professional metadata
links allow document management systems users to track matters
across documents when sent for review from and to anywhere, all
while maintaining a full audit trail of review and sharing
activities.
o Full Collaboration and Repository Integration -- Workshare
Professional is built to work in customer's current and future
environment and infrastructures. Workshare is integrated with all
major versions of Microsoft Office in use today, including Office
XP, Office 2003 and now the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Workshare
Professional is Vista ready, and also runs on previous Microsoft
operating systems versions. Workshare is integrated with major
email and messaging systems including Microsoft Outlook, SharePoint
and Live Meeting, and IBM Lotus Notes. Optional document repository
system connectors include SharePoint, EMC Documentum, Interwoven,
Hummingbird, OpenText and IBM Score. In addition, Workshare
Professional fully supports the remote client implementation on
Citrix.

Simplifying Secure Document Compliance inside Office

"Workshare Professional 5 delivers safety, efficiency and audit visibility during document exchange and review, all without forcing users to change the way they work or the tools they use," said David Ferris, senior analyst with Ferris Research. "Workshare Professional is much easier to use, and more powerful, than its main competitor, Adobe Acrobat."

Over 30m knowledge workers today (and nearly 50m expected in 5 years) share Office documents inside and outside their organizations to get their job done. These professionals work with confidential data and are found across every organization in functions such as product design, sales operations, human resources, procurement, finance, legal and compliance. Workshare's approach is unique, keeping users in their native tools environment and file formats. Document authors simply use Workshare Professional inside Microsoft Office, a familiar set of creation and communication tools found on desktops and laptops of more than 98% of all business professionals. Document reviewers only require Microsoft Office and have the luxury of editing directly in the document. When authors receive those documents back via email or via a portal, Workshare maintains the master document integrity, and preserves all changes between versions.

"Business Professionals can no longer settle for products such as Adobe Acrobat for document control and compliance," said Andrew Pearson, general manager of the Document Control market group at Workshare. "Acrobat not only takes users out of the Office system causing fidelity loss, review inefficiency of 400% or more, and lost document masters throughout the document lifecycle, but it produces unsafe, un-auditable and non-compliant document version control. Workshare Professional customers trust our solution for its simplicity, accuracy and reliability. We continue to innovate ahead of the pack as this market explodes."

Availability and Pricing

Workshare Professional 5 is available immediately from Workshare resellers globally and online at www.workshare.com/purchase. 1 year term license pricing is US $175/user/year and perpetual license pricing is US $349/user plus annual maintenance. For optional document repository connectors, 1 year term license pricing is US $25/user/year and perpetual license pricing is US $50/user plus annual maintenance. Customers of Adobe Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Professional are eligible for competitive upgrade pricing on a 1 year term @ US $88/user or a 2 year term @ US $175/user.

About Workshare

Workshare, an information security company delivers Secure Content Compliance solutions to over 6,000 organizations worldwide. Workshare solutions uniquely combine policy enforcement, management control and user entitlement to ensure safe information exchange without business disruption. Its products include Workshare Protect, Workshare Professional, Compare Service and TRACE! Workshare's customer base spans small to large organizations in every industry segment with more than 60 percent of the Fortune 1000 and 85 percent of the ProServices 250. Over one million professionals in 65 countries use Workshare software. The company has offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Washington DC, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Paris and Sydney. Workshare is the sponsor of www.metadatarisk.org/, the definitive source for content security. For more information, visit http://www.workshare.com/.

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