Stellent acquired SealedMedia Limited, a leader in easy-to-use, enterprise digital rights management solutions, and Bitform, a provider of content cleansing technologies. These technologies will enable Stellent customers to better secure and control sensitive content both inside and outside of the enterprise.
"A key tenet of enterprise content management (ECM) and financial compliance initiatives is the efficient and secure sharing of information both internally and externally," said Dan Ryan, chief operating officer for Stellent.
"Stellent already is an industry leader in facilitating secure access to content on Web sites and within repositories, and we provide policy-based records and retention management. However, to ensure content is secure throughout collaborative business processes, information technologies must reach beyond repository-level security. These two acquisitions strengthen our functionality in this area. Our customers will now be able to better secure and control documents internally and externally using enterprise digital rights management. In addition, we can ‘cleanse’ documents of ‘hidden’ information prior to publication and distribution."
SealedMedia is a London-based company with a broad list of Global 1000 customers, including Vodafone, Fenwick & West, the U.S. Department of Energy, Rhodia, Johnson Matthey, O2, Harvard Business School Publishing and Citrix. Founded in 1996, SealedMedia helps organizations maintain complete control, for the lifetime of a document, over who can use their most sensitive information and when they can use it. Its enterprise digital rights management software protects information wherever it is stored and used.
Unlike conventional information management products that only manage information while it resides in servers, SealedMedia extends security, control and tracking to information on remote end-user desktops, laptops and mobile wireless devices.
Bitform is an early-stage software development company. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Chicago, Bitform’s primary product addresses the rising challenge of hidden data within documents, which can create security and policy risks. This hidden information includes metadata, tracked changes and comments, revision and author history, fast-save data, and database connection details, among many other elements. The Bitform Secure SDK identifies and cleanses or strips files of sensitive, confidential or proprietary metadata and hidden information that may pose risks to organizations if exposed.
Stellent plans to integrate the SealedMedia and Bitform technologies within its enterprise software products in order to further differentiate its ECM offering.
