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September 2003


Digital Rights Management: Take Control of Confidential Content
Penny Lunt
The electronic piracy problems plaguing the music industry are infiltrating the corporate world. Clearly, companies need to share content with authorized employees, partners and customers, yet protect sensitive information from unauthorized use. Digital rights management (DRM) software lets you assign view, print, copy and edit content rights based on corporate policies or the author's preference. Most importantly, after a document has been released outside of the company, DRM-assigned rights continue, and many products let you "time out" access and change permissions on the fly.

Putting It Together: Taxonomy, Classification and Search
Jeff Morris
The more complex the enterprise, the greater the need to search among multiple sources, but the one- or two-word searches used by most people just aren't up to the task. By combining taxonomy and classification with search, users gain a map of the resources available to them. These technologies need one another, say analysts, and vendors and users are responding by combining them in their software and applications.

Capture Incognito
Ralph Gammon
Third-party vendors have long held an edge in capture technology, yet the majority of imaging users still rely on "original equipment" scanning software. Now a few leading document management vendors are reinvesting in capture and reasserting their claim to cutting-edge solutions.


Information Life Cycle
The Real (Legal) Deal

Julie Gable
Convincing courts that electronic documents are trustworthy takes some doing. Evidence must be authenticated: that is, proven to be real by having the author, the signor or someone knowledgeable testify that the record is genuine. The irony is that plantiffs use your records, gathered during discovery, against you. Meanwhile, in order to use your own records in your defense, you must show that the records aren't manufactured, that they adequately represent the facts, and that they haven't been altered.

Ask the Experts
Where to Start With Records Management

Penny Lunt
To many readers, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and ISO records management requirements seem quite overwhelming. Where do you start? This month's experts offer advice and point out that SOX regulations and ISO guidelines for records management can be complimentary.

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Context
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Words from the Editor

Content & Collaboration
Instant Messaging: The Next Frontier

Instant messaging (IM) is now present in at least 90 percent of companies, yet most usage is outside the view of IT management. Regulations and industry guidelines have put financial services organizations on the front lines of bringing IM under control. Akonix offered an answer for one broker/dealer firm. The vendors' L7 Enterprise 2.0 software is one of several gateway products that tracks, records and secures enterprisewide messaging that takes place on the popular public IM networks.

Scan & Capture
Scan to PDF For Less Than $700

USB 2.0 connectivity, 20-page-per-minute scanning and built-in scan-to-PDF functionality are among the attractions of Visioneer's Strobe XP450 PDF. This simplex workgroup scanner easily fits on a desktop and costs just $699.

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