OpenText software combines PDF with document management features to provide a secure-yet-simple document editing workflow.
OpenText last week released software aimed at helping organizations
ensure their documents meet stringent regulatory rules, such as those stipulated
in Sarbanes-Oxley.
The software, called LiveLink Review Manager for Acrobat, combines
Acrobat PDF’s review and comment features with OpenText’s document management
tools, enabling users to concurrently review, edit and add comments to
un-modifiable PDFs.
With LiveLink Review Manager, users’ changes are linked to the original
document but maintained in separate comment files within the LiveLink document
management repository. Editors, who use strict access controls and
password-based permissions to access the original, can then assess changes and
produce a new original. With this process, all changes are documented, complete
with an audit trail, the firm said.
The software includes a Review Comments tab to Livelink, giving document
authors easy access to review history, including the names of the reviewers, a
link to the associated comment files, and the dates and times when the comment
files were modified. Other features include support for a parallel, real-time
review process, document security through user-defined permissions and audit
trails.
Available Oct. 1, Livelink Review Manager works with Acrobat 5.0.5 and
above. LiveLink Review Manager is a module of OpenText’s core LiveLink
enterprise suite. The license fees for core LiveLink start at $100,000 for the
first 100 users. With volume pricing discounts, support for 1,000 named users
costs approximately $340 per user, while support for more than 10,000 named
users costs approximately $160 per user. The LiveLink Review Manager module
costs extra, and on average starts at about $33 per
user.
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