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ROI As a Publisher
- Reduce the cost of distributing confidential information - this can now be done electronically since you are always in control of who can view your documents and what they can do with them.
- Now you have the convenience and cost savings of online business processes with more secure and reliable electronic document exchange.
- Achieve full control of the use of the PDF documents you sell for under $4 a day (based on a 3 year time period).
- Make just a few extra sales to recover your whole expenditure.
- Manage your customer base and prevent copying and selling on.
- Reach new markets. Sell PDF documents that are accessible for a limited time period at a lower cost, rather than being available forever, enabling you to reach new markets that are price sensitive.
- Ensure that your house style and image are preserved even in the electronic environment.
- Gain additional revenues (customers now have to buy whereas previously they may have obtained your content for free).
For more information see Lizard Safeguard for small publishers and Lizard Safeguard for large publishers.
Internal company use
- Ensure that merger and acquisition documents are really destroyed if a deal does not go through.
- Prevent your IP going with an employee when he/she leaves your company.
- Ensure that outsourced work (i.e. design work) and strategic proposals do not fall into the hands of your competitors.
- Ensure internal company sensitive information (e.g. salaries) stays within the HR department.
- Ensure that only the authorized or current versions of PDF documents are used after publication.
- Enforce your document retention policies by requiring documents to become automatically inaccessible once they are no longer required.
- Ensure inbound information (i.e. sensitive research, financial or legal information) is continuously protected (accessed and used appropriately by the correct people) for the duration of its lifecycle.
For more information see Lizard Safeguard for internal company use.
ENSURE GREATER COMPLIANCE WITH GOVERNMENT PRIVACY REGULATIONS FOR ELECTRONICALLY DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION Compliance is the achievement of minimum requirements as dictated by regulatory bodies and law. New regulations and best practises (Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Gramm Leach Bliley Act, HIPAA, ISO 17799) raise these standards by increasing the demand for availability, yet enforcing the need for adequate security against information misuse or wrongful disclosure. Sarbanes Oxley even builds on existing regulations to require the proof of effective internal controls for company assets, including the protection of information assets such as a company's trade secrets. Lizard Safeguard PDF Security ensures ongoing policy, legal and regulatory compliance. It removes the risk of you incorrectly transmitting sensitive data by continuing to protect and enforce policy controls even after distribution.
COMPLETE CONTROL OVER YOUR IPR Achieve full control over how your licensed PDF documents are used. Ensure your PDF documents are not printed, copied, shared or modified without your permission. Revoke documents when you decide they should no longer be available. Copyright is always maintained, as are trade secrets.
CONTROL YOUR REVENUE STREAMS Customers now have to pay for content where previously they may have obtained it for free or shared it with others. You can now enter markets that were previously blacklisted due to previous fears of your content being copied or unlawfully distributed. Increased revenue due to new forms of business - ability to distribute documents electronically without worrying about their security.
LICENSE EXPIRY LETS YOU GIVE CUSTOMERS EVALUATION / LIMITED TIME TRIALS OF YOUR DOCUMENTS AND/OR ENSURES SUBSCRIBERS WILL CONTINUE TO PAY FOR YOUR PRODUCTS AT RENEWAL TIME Your customers can 'try before they buy' without you having to give away unrestricted use of your PDF documents. Just specify the number of days for evaluation. In the same way, when a subscription license expires your subscriber will have to renew it before they can continue using your PDF documents. You therefore retain full control over your PDF documents at every stage and ensure customers continue to pay license fees when they are due. Or alternatively, allow restricted time access (a few days, a month, etc.) to your PDF documents for a cheaper price.
SIMPLE ADMINISTRATION WHEN SELLING DOCUMENT INFORMATION SERVICES TO CUSTOMERS Management control down to the desktop cannot be bypassed by the users of the system. Implement administration on your own servers (we provide this service for you at extra cost) or use our managed service - choose which best suits your business model.
PRESERVE CONTROL OVER SENSITIVE INFORMATION WHILE INCREASING THE FLEXIBILITY OF USING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS Protect your valuable and confidential PDF documents from unauthorized viewing. US Government strength encryption and state-of-the-art licensing controls ensure your information is never at risk.
EASE OF DEPLOYMENT No need to wait days like our competitor offerings to be up and running. Start issuing licenses in a matter of minutes from purchasing.
Our fully hosted systems ensure there are no extra costs involved in time or money (server configuration, consultant fees, etc.). And when you want to bring the system in-house you can switch over to your own server hosting and integrate it with your e-commerce system for a totally automated solution.
Our ecommerce integration module and command line utility ensure a totally automated protection and license delivery system without the need for manual input. Batch protection of your PDF documents can be simply and quickly incorporated into your existing web based applications without the need to use an API.
SIMPLE METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AND USE OF COMMERCIAL AND CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS Protect patent documents, IPR or commercially valuable documents in just a couple of mouse clicks. Without proper protection of electronically maintained information, organizations face serious risks to their financial performance, intellectual property, trade secrets, research, customer privacy and more.
Benefits of implementing PDF DRM software include ROI and document security compliance. Lizard Safeguard PDF security provides PDF document security with PDF DRM controls. PDF security software with DRM PDF controls. | |
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