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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:01:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Vendor unveils new version of LiveCycle Policy Server and a hosting service to enable manufacturers to change policies and permissions that control document access and usage privileges for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Dassault Systemes' Catia V5 files in addition to Adobe's own PDF format. . |
| Keywords: | Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server, web services, engineering document management, digital rights management, PDF, Catia, Excel, Word, Microsoft, Dassault, Lattice Technology, vpn, virtual private networks, SSL tunneling, intellectual property, IP |
Aiming to make it easier and safer for manufacturers to collaborate with design, supply chain, and other partners, Adobe Systems Inc. yesterday unveiled a server-based product and a hosted service offering that the company said will allow users to more tightly control who sees and makes use of potentially sensitive documents. Unlike earlier versions of Adobe's LiveCycle Policy Server, the new release, version 7.2, works with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Dassault Systemes' Catia V5 files in addition to documents stored in Adobe's own PDF format. The latest release also implements a new distributed architecture based on Web services protocols that makes it easier for administrators to change policies and permissions that control who has access to specific documents and what can be done with those documents. Using LiveCycle Policy Server, organizations can assign policies and permissions to documents -- or parts of document files. Those policies control who can access documents and what can be done with them, both online and offline. The LiveCycle Policy Server, for example, encrypts files and grants access only after prospective users have provided secure authentication. [Click to continue] |
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