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BENEFITS OF IMPLEMENTING PDF DRM SOFTWARE
 ROI
As a Publisher
- Reduce the cost of distributing confidential information, ebooks, training courses, magazines, reports, etc. 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.
- 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 and 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/branding are preserved in the electronic environment.
- Gain additional revenues (customers now have to buy whereas previously they may have obtained your content for free).
- See which of your documents/ebooks are most used by how often they are viewed/printed, not just how many are sold. Modify your marketing processes accordingly to promote your most popular items.
For more information see Lizard Safeguard for small publishers and Lizard Safeguard for large publishers.
Internal company use
- Ensure that sensitive documents (merger and acquisition for instance) are really destroyed if a deal does not go through.
- Prevent your IP going with an employee when he/she leaves the 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, budgets, strategic plans) stays within the business.
- Ensure that only authorized or current versions of PDF documents are used.
- Enforce document retention policies by ensuring documents become inaccessible automatically without further action.
- 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.
- See which users are viewing and printing your documents, and how many times this occurs. For example, you can find out who in a distribution list actually read the document, or spot if excessive printing is taking place. Or you can find out which documents are most commonly viewed and/or printed.
For more information see Lizard Safeguard for internal company use.
 ENSURE GREATER COMPLIANCE WITH 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, European Data Privacy, Canadian PIPEDA, ISO 27001, and so on) 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.
Safeguard Enterprise PDF Security helps prove 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.
See how LockLizard DRM products can help with regulatory compliance and document retention.
 COMPLETE CONTROL OVER YOUR IPR
Achieve full control over how or when your licensed PDF documents are used. Ensure your PDF documents are not printed, copied, shared or modified without your knowledge or permission. Revoke documents when you decide they should no longer be available. Copyright is always maintained, as are trade secrets.
 IMPROVE 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.
Increase revenue through new lines of business - maximizing the 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 a number of days or views for evaluation.
In the same way, when a subscription license expires it does so automatically and 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.
Another way of using license expiry is to allow restricted time access (a few days, a month, etc.) to your PDF documents for a cheaper price, or as a limited alternative to selling a paper copy.
 SIMPLE ADMINISTRATION WHEN SELLING DOCUMENT INFORMATION SERVICES TO CUSTOMERS
Controls are automatically applied to the individual desktop and cannot be bypassed by the users of the system.
You can implement the administration system on your own servers (we can implement this service for you at extra cost) or you can use our managed service - choose which best suits your business model.
 TAKE CONTROL OVER SENSITIVE INFORMATION WHILE INCREASING THE FLEXIBILITY OF USING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS
Protect valuable and/or confidential PDF documents from unauthorized viewing. US Government strength encryption and state-of-the-art licensing controls ensure your information is never at risk.
Your documents are never uploaded to our servers at any time, they always remain completely under your control.
 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 pre-patent documents, IPR or commercially valuable documents in just a couple of mouse clicks. Without proper protection of electronically maintained information, organizations can face serious risks to their financial performance, intellectual property, trade secrets, research, customer privacy and more.
 INSIGHT INTO USER, SYSTEM, AND DOCUMENT ACTIVITY
Get a complete overview of user, system, and document activity - see the whole picture or examine sections and individual items. See how often your documents are viewed and printed. See at a glance how many customers, documents, and publications you have and what status they are (active, suspended, expired, etc.). See when administrators last added, edited, or deleted records, logged in, logged off, backed up or restored the administration system. Run reports on user, document, and publication activity at any stage, export and save them.
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