Adobe Systems has introduced Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server 7.2, an enterprise rights management (ERM) solution for protecting and controlling documents throughout their entire life cycle, from creation, through distribution and collaboration, to archiving and destruction. Now, organizations can conduct critical business processes more securely by protecting a broad range of financial, government, and engineering documents or other files across multiple formats, including Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Dassault Systèmes CATIA V5 files.
"Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server 7.2 delivers the flexibility to exchange sensitive information in the source formats in which they are created and used. Now, businesses can accelerate the pace of innovation and reduce time-to-market by allowing collaboration to occur earlier in the process, with greater assurances that proprietary information is more effectively protected against intentional or accidental disclosure," said David Mendels, senior vice president, Enterprise and Developer Business Unit, Adobe.
With the Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server 7.2, organizations can update or revoke usage rights regardless of where the information is stored or distributed, while monitoring document activity captured in an audit trail helping organizations to increase their technical, legal, and regulatory confidence for conducting sensitive business electronically. As a result, organizations can gain a greater return on their business intelligence, better meet regulatory compliance, and reduce liability exposure. In addition, Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server 7.2 offers a multi-platform solution that enables organizations to aggregate group information andcheck user credentials against existing authentication directories.
Additionally, Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server 7.2 for CATIA offers engineering professionals the ability to apply document-level access and usage controls to Dassault Systèmes CATIA V5R16 engineering and design documents. CATIA users can apply policies to separate parts of an assembly that may require different levels of protection. Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server 7.2 extends back-end systems such as product lifecycle management (PLM) and enterprise content management (ECM) systems to help protect valuable engineering workflows, including supply chain collaboration and external version control.
Adobe also announced the Adobe Document Center, a hosted service that allows individual knowledge workers to protect, control and track PDF, Word and Excel documents via the web (see separate press release issued today). The service provides Policy Server 7.2 functionality directly from Adobe Acrobat 8 software, plug-ins to Word and Excel, and, moving forward, directly from a web-based service.
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