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Informative Graphics to Integrate Its Visual Rights™ Technology Into All Office Document, Imaging and CAD Publishing and Viewing Products

Persistent, Integrated Security Adds Exceptional Control Over Content Distribution and Usage

September 30 2003--Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a leader in Web-document and collaboration technology, announced today that its Visual Rights™ security architecture will become a standard component of the entire IGC product line, strengthening its value and position in the Enterprise Document Management (EDM) market space.

Visual Rights currently refers to security controls that can be applied to a given file when published for viewing by one of IGC’s products. Visual Rights security is persistent and utilizes standard AES 256 bit encryption. Users can publish a “content sealed” file and add controls such as password protection, hard or relative viewing expiration dates, and allow/disallow printing and copying. For CAD drawings, users can disable measurement and viewing with CAD layer controls. Visual Rights also features redaction to block out specific content within a document or drawing file. For 3D CAD models, Visual Rights offers the ability to hide the interior details of a model completely.

Introducing Visual Rights technology to IGC’s products is part of an enhancement program designed to increase product value for the enterprise and consolidate the company’s content publishing technologies under a single product brand. IGC owns the trademark Net-It®, which it currently attaches to its Web document publishing product, Net-It® Central. Going forward, IGC will use the Net-It and Visual Rights trademarks for all of its document, 2D CAD, and 3D model publishing products.

“We see our distinct advantage coming from having a solid position at both ends of document flow,” said Gary Heath, CEO at IGC. “We’re already well established as a viewing technology company. But the downstream course of any document starts with publishing, and we offer a tremendous amount of control at a greatly reduced total cost of ownership. Also, we feel we can leverage our wide-ranging CAD and 3D file expertise in ways that other companies, like Adobe, have not yet mastered,” he added.

IGC’s Visual Rights technology can be layered into existing digital rights management and document management security strategies. The company is planning to introduce a server-based Visual Rights application in 2004, along with a programming interface that will allow the Visual Rights server to communicate seamlessly with document management storage vaults from companies like Documentum and Open Text, as well as enterprise directory services and other Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems, such as Windows Rights Management Services from Microsoft® Corporation.