Alfresco introduces secure enterprise viewer for annotations
Alfresco Software, an open source content services provider, is releasing Alfresco Enterprise Viewer, a modern, HTML5 browser-based, viewing, collaborative annotation, and redaction product.
The Alfresco Enterprise Viewer enables users to view content (documents, images, audio, and video), and collaborate in real-time on annotations and redactions using editing tools and chat windows.
Combined with the Alfresco Digital Business Platform, users will significantly improve their productivity and efficiency, while the organization can increase their overall information security and content management effectiveness.
Optimized for high speed and secure viewing, the Alfresco Enterprise Viewer browser-based approach is particularly well-suited for remote workers and inconsistent network bandwidth.
The Alfresco Enterprise Viewer can be two to five times faster for viewing large documents than typical browser viewing options and PDF.js Javascript libraries.
This document viewing performance is accomplished by dividing the documents into small encoded sections for transmission, which enables very fast first page viewing. This approach has the added security benefit of circumventing the possibility of any readable components remaining in the browser cache unlike typical document download approaches.
Additionally, for security, the Alfresco Enterprise Viewer supports the addition of watermarks during viewing to discourage ‘screen grabs’ while users view documents. Extensive audit trails maintain a record of all content viewing and associated activity, and includes a controlled printing capability – all of this managed by the Alfresco Digital Business Platform.
The Alfresco Enterprise Viewer provides collaborative annotation allowing users to see each other’s annotations, in real time, as the annotations are created.
Other features include predefined stamps (approved, rejected, or user-defined…), document manipulation tools (delete, rotate, re-order), geometric annotation tools (arrows, free text, and rectangles), ‘Sticky notes’, plus those supported in Adobe Acrobat. By leveraging the PDF XFDF standard, annotations can be downloaded and viewed offline with additional annotations added offline and then uploaded back to the online viewer.
For more information about this release, visit www.alfresco.com.