CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
October 24, 2004
Product News
SealedMedia Unveils New Documentum Content Server Solution; SealedMedia Sealing Service for Documentum Integrates Protection to Enable Control Over Documents Stored on PCs and Handhelds
SealedMedia Inc. unveiled SealedMedia Sealing Service for Documentum (SSD), the first integrated enterprise digital rights management (E-DRM) product to extend content management solutions, such as the industry-leading EMC Documentum 5. SealedMedia SSD adds access control, version management, and audit capability beyond the Documentum repository, to cover information that users download and store on desktop PCs, laptop computers and handheld devices -- inside and outside the firewall.
SealedMedia SSD extends Documentum's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform, making possible a higher level of control than ever before. Authorized users can now open and work with information regardless of where it resides, and SealedMedia enforces consistent control, regardless of who or how many people receive it-even while information is in use. Files are also encrypted in a way that does not interfere with or disrupt regular workflow.
According to CAP Ventures' Dynamic Content Software Strategies Consulting Service, the need for content-centric software solutions is growing at an annual rate of 39.2 percent, and numerous business functions within organizations have a critical need for it. This is driven in part by the need to increase efficiency, ensure compliance, and to drive forward business and decision processes.
Documentum ECM enables benefits such as fast, secure access to enterprise information; risk mitigation and compliance with regulatory requirements; rapid and cost-effective collaboration across geographic and departmental boundaries; automated workflows based on digital content. The SealedMedia DLM solution extends this to enable management, security, and auditable tracking and control of documents on potentially thousands of end-user computing devices.
"By enabling intellectual property (structured and unstructured) to be 'sealed' at any point in the information lifecycle-now as part of automated and manual Documentum workflows -- organizations can collaborate while comprehensively protecting their valuable information from accidental or deliberate leakage or abuse by employees, partners, suppliers or customers," said George Everhart, CEO, SealedMedia.
Additional SealedMedia Sealing Service for Documentum features include:
• Rapid revocation or modification of access to content at any time -- even after it has left the Documentum repository;
• Automated routing and updating of document versions or revisions;
• Quick, easy audit of end-users' access to or actions (read, print, send, etc.) related to sealed content, even on remote desktops;
• Revocation of access to remotely-stored records, in accordance with records retention policies; and
• Securing content against "back door" attacks on a repository file or storage system.
SealedMedia SSD is implemented within Documentum's Business Object Framework and exposes Java and SOAP web service interfaces. The sealing service is the latest in a series of SealedMedia extensions to the Documentum ECM platform, including such "Designed for Documentum" accredited solutions as Sealed eRoom and Sealed Documentum Templates.
Pricing and Availability
SealedMedia Sealing Service for Documentum is available immediately through the SealedMedia Early Access
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