Liquid Machines and Brainloop AG Align to Deliver End-to-End Secure Document Management and Project Collaboration Solution

Integrated Solution Extends Brainloop’s Secure Dataroom Beyond Office 2003 Applications; Delivers Persistent Confidential Document Protection While Enabling Collaboration

GARTNER IT Security Summit -- Washington, D.C. - June 7, 2006 - Liquid Machines, Inc., the leading provider of Enterprise Rights Management solutions, and Brainloop AG today announced a strategic alliance and technology partnership to market and deliver a comprehensive secure document management and project collaboration solution. Marketed as Brainloop’s Secure Dataroom platform, the joint solution will allow customers to persistently control access to and usage of confidential documents across the extended enterprise.

 

Brainloop AG’s award-winning Secure Dataroom platform offers customers a secure web-based document management and project collaboration solution for editing and distributing confidential documents.  In August 2005, Brainloop added support for Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) to extend protection of confidential documents to the desktop and make it possible for customers to enforce specific usage rights on Microsoft Office 2003 documents such as editing, printing, and forwarding to others even after documents have been distributed and opened by authorized users.

 
Liquid Machines Document Control enhances the Brainloop and Windows RMS solution with a number of usability and reporting features that ensure consistent policy protection across the extended enterprise. Liquid Machines Document Control extends Brainloop’s RMS-based access and usage controls across more than 65 different applications and file formats including Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Visio; allows users to leverage all of an application’s collaborative operations including 'cut/copy, paste,' 'drag and drop,' and merge without removing protection; and enables the organization to monitor and log application-level events such as open, save, save as, send as e-mail, print, etc. on protected files in support of compliance initiatives.

 
“Our customers request end-to-end security for Office documents as well as other file formats including Visio and Adobe PDF,” says Markus Seyfried, Chief Technology Officer, Brainloop AG. “By integrating with Liquid Machines Document Control, we can offer effective protection for all relevant file formats and track information usage, helping our customers achieve important risk management and compliance management objectives.”

 

“We are pleased that Brainloop has chosen Liquid Machines to enhance the Brainloop Secure Dataroom server software and welcome them as our exclusive solution reseller partner in Germany and Austria,” said Mike Jacobs, vice president of global sales at Liquid Machines. “Together, our solutions offer customers a comprehensive document management and security platform that further extends the power, productivity and return on their Microsoft investments.”

 

“Combining the best-of-breed components, Brainloop Secure Dataroom, Microsoft Rights Management Services, and Liquid Machines Document Control are the perfect integrated solution set for organizations seeking to leverage their investments in the Microsoft Office 2003 platform in order to define and enforce document access policies across the extended enterprise,” says Petter Bergström, Senior Security Architect, Microsoft Germany.

 

About Brainloop AG
Brainloop is the leading provider of infrastructure and solutions for managing confidential documents. Brainloop's customers reach important risk-management and compliance objectives by deploying Brainloop Secure Dataroom for boardroom communications, financial reporting, strategic projects and any situation where confidential documents need to be made ubiquitously available to authorized users inside and outside the firewall while being protected from unauthorized access.

 

Brainloop's customers include corporations such as Thyssen-Krupp, Bankgesellschaft Berlin, and Deutsche Telekom, and leading legal and financial services firms who use Brainloop Secure Dataroom as an ASP service. Partners include Microsoft and T-Systems International. Brainloop is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

 

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 companies in the consulting, financial services, government, manufacturing, and healthcare industries to share information securely, within any application, wherever it goes, throughout its lifecycle.  Liquid Machines ERM solutions help enterprises satisfy today’s ever-increasing information security regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, NASD 2711, HIPAA and others, as well as implement and practice internal mandates for intellectual property security, product version control, or clinical data protection.
 
Based in Waltham, 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 for The Freedom of Security™, visit us at www.liquidmachines.com.

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