Chemical & Energy

The use of third parties for production, research and design and the increasing number of joint development efforts are leading, if not forcing more chemical processing and energy companies to share key information with partners, customers, and vendors.

In an environment where patents and the ownership of physical assets are no longer sufficient to protect a competitive position, it has become imperative to control the access to and usage of proprietary data. Only Liquid Machines enterprise rights management software can directly associate these controls with your information to ensure a truly persistent policy management solution.

Major challenges for chemical and energy firms are regulatory compliance and information control.

Regulatory Compliance Challenges

• Corporate Governance
• Sarbanes-Oxley (esp. section 404)
• ITAR

Information Control Challenges

• Data Retention and Expiration
• Protect Intellectual Property 
• Secure RFP / Outsourcing
• Access Control / Data Theft Prevention

Liquid Machines Enterprise Rights Management helps solve these challenges. Using Liquid Machines, chemical and energy firms can control critical information--whether it is IP contained in an RFP, IP relating to national defense, or corporate strategy documentation. Enterprise-defined policies can be defined and enforced based on employee location, departments, project teams or the nature of the data to avoid information leaks to the public or to competitors.  Policies can be changed easily, enabling the immediate expiration of any content, any time, anywhere to anyone.  Access and usage auditing provides reports that detail who accessed what information, and what they did with it.