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Authentica
announced on Tuesday Version 2.0 of its Secure Office enterprise DRM
solution for Microsoft Office file formats. This product, which is currently in beta with several of
Authenticas customers, contains a number of significant advances over the 1.0
release of less than a year ago.
Some of the features that are new to Secure Office appear to be migrated from
Authenticas legacy product, PageRecall, an enterprise DRM solution that works
solely with PDF files (and which the company still supports). New features
include the ability to dynamically insert visible watermarks in Office documents
when they are printed; integration with Authenticas existing workflow tools for
secure file sharing and email; and better administrative tools for enterprise
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With this new product announcement, Authentica solidifies its position as one
of the standalone vendors attempting to make a serious play in the high end of
the enterprise DRM space, independently of Microsoft. (Authentica also
announced, back in May, a strategy to integrate its technology with Microsofts
platform, Rights Management Services (RMS), but has not released such a product
to date.) Adding to the companys momentum are recent additions to its
management team, including a Marketing VP,
Mark
Overington, who is a refugee from the media/entertainment side of DRM.
Secure Office uses a plug-in architecture on the client side which resembles
that of perhaps Authenticas biggest rival, and the only company in the space
that has been around longer: SealedMedia. The recent additions to Secure
Office address deficiencies in Authenticas offerings with respect to
SealedMedia on enterprise policy definition functionality. SealedMedia
supports a wider variety of content formats, while Authenticas product line --
now more fully integrated than before -- has more functionality for secure
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The competition in the enterprise DRM space is heating up, while companies
below this top tier come and go, and while Microsoft continues to advance its
RMS platform. There is general agreement that solutions like those from
Authentica, SealedMedia, and Liquid Machines provide more enterprise-level
functionality than RMS; questions remain about whether these independent vendors
will continue to go it alone, partner with Microsoft, and/or be acquired --
presumably by a large vendor in the content management space like EMC (Documentum)
or IBM.
Liquid Machines and
Authentica
have announced RMS integration
strategies. Liquid Machines has just
announced integration of the secure messaging
engine that came with its Omniva
acquisition, while SealedMedia remains
fiercely independent.
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