Liquid Machines Document Control 3.0 Delivers Performance Enhancements and Business Intelligence Support

Liquid Machines, the leading provider of Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) solutions, today announced Liquid Machines Document Control Version 3.0. Liquid Machines Document Control allows enterprises to centrally create and enforce document access and usage policies for any content within native applications -- including Microsoft® Office, Visio®, and Adobe® Acrobat. Version 3.0 delivers scalability, performance, and usability enhancements that support large-scale deployments and make it easier for organizations to share confidential information across the extended enterprise.

Liquid Machines Document Control 3.0's enterprise features include support for Microsoft's Business Intelligence Accelerators which provide users with increased access to data that is critical to maximizing business performance. Liquid Machines Document Control 3.0 automatically assigns corporate-defined usage policies to customized business intelligence reports created using Microsoft's Excel® Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services, ensuring accuracy and secure collaboration, and helping users quickly and confidently identify, analyze, and respond to trends and opportunities.

"As Enterprise Rights Management moves from department-level deployments to organizational implementations, customers need a solution that will scale and perform in their distributed IT environments," said Ed Gaudet, vice president of product management and marketing at Liquid Machines, Inc. "Liquid Machines Document Control 3.0 meets the demands of large organizations and provides them the confidence and freedom to share secure data across departments, geographic locations, and their partner ecosystems."

Liquid Machines Document Control 3.0 includes the following new features and added application and platform support:

--  Server Scalability and Performance: Customers can achieve unlimited
    scalability with Liquid Machines Document Control 3.0.  Liquid Machines
    Document Control 3.0 allows for load balancing in a centralized or
    distributed model.
--  Secure Business Intelligence: The Microsoft Excel Add-in for SQL
    Server Analysis Services is a business intelligence offering that enables
    employees to use Excel to access relevant information and quickly create
    customized reports. Liquid Machines protects the extracted information in
    .CUB files to allow the enterprise to provide broad access to confidential
    information without sacrificing protection and control.
--  Graphical Report and Diagram Protection:  Microsoft Visio is a
    flexible business and technical diagramming application that can be
    integrated with disparate business applications and databases to transform
    static diagrams into dynamic graphical reporting and monitoring tools.
    Liquid Machines Document Control 3.0 protects Microsoft Visio so that
    executives, financial analysts, and supply-chain engineers can securely
    share and distribute dynamic flow-charts, graphical reports, and product
    assembly plans.
--  Extended Infrastructure Investment: In addition to Microsoft Active
    Directory, Liquid Machines Document Control 3.0 supports Microsoft SQL
    Server and LDAP directories such as SunONE.
--  Usability & Enterprise Deployment Enhancements: Liquid Machines
    Document Control 3.0 increases usability in key areas such as allowing
    automatic client configuration and validation, enabling users to select and
    enforce rules from multiple policy servers, facilitating dynamic policy
    updates in open applications, and enhanced auditing (e.g. secures clipboard
    events).

About Liquid Machines

Liquid Machines is the leading provider of Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) solutions that persistently protect critical business content and audit usage while enabling collaboration. Liquid Machines' Document Control and Email Control solutions allow content to be shared securely, within any application, wherever it goes. With Liquid Machines, protection is open rather than restrictive, enabling users to work as they work best, with autonomy and confidence.

Liquid Machines helps leading companies in the financial services, high-tech manufacturing, and life sciences markets meet today's ever-increasing information security regulations. Liquid Machines allows companies to satisfy industry regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley, NASD 2711, export control, and HIPAA as well as internal mandates for intellectual property security, product version control, or clinical data protection.

Based in Lexington, Massachusetts, Liquid Machines is privately held and is backed by Atlas Venture, Masthead Venture Partners, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. For more information on the company and our vision The Freedom of Security(TM), visit us at www.liquidmachines.com.

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