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Workshare, Inc.

Product Name

Workshare “Hygiene”

Market Segment

IT management and infrastructure

Funding

Less than $1 million from private investors and around $4 million from Quester.

Competitors

Adobe Acrobat

Product Description

Every day, hundreds of millions of business documents are exchanged electronically over e-mail, portals and instant messaging. An untold numbers of these documents contain confidential, regulated or otherwise sensitive information. Workshare’s new product, codenamed “Hygiene” removes inadvertent and malicious inside-out document security leaks without any business disruption. Workshare “Hygiene” utilizes advanced document contextual analysis, smart client interactivity, and flexible policy management to provide complete control over the format, user permissions and rights, and perimeter distribution of sensitive documents.

Market Opportunity

IDC estimates the total market for content security is $3 billion today, and $7 billion in 2008. One of the fastest growing sub-segments of this market is that of “inside-out” content security. The total number of information workers creating documents with Office is more than 200 million, representing the target market.

Demo Says

It’s virtually impossible to account for the costs in dollars and reputation of leaks of sensitive corporate information. And an increasingly edgy regulatory environment makes a leaky organization all the more dangerous. Workshare prevents malicious and inadvertent document security leaks without placing onerous requirements on users by monitoring document traffic for policy compliance.