Prizm Content Connect Includes Local File Viewer

There’s a great feature in Prizm Content Connect that not a lot of customers use. The product includes a local file viewer that brings the power of the HTML5 document viewer to files on the user’s desktop. And everyone here at Accusoft uses it, every day.
 

Why give Prizm Content Connect dominion over the desktop? “Consistency,” says Accusoft President Jack Berlin. “Employees are opening all of these different native programs just to read, or comment on, documents, and each one works differently and requires different experience and training, to say nothing of the cost of unneeded applications.”

A local file-viewing program based on Prizm Content Connect provides a consistent, reliable, fast user experience across 300 different file types--including Microsoft Office files, PDFs, email messages, CAD/CAM files, image files, and hundreds more--whether the file is on the desktop, in an email attachment, on a shared drive or in cloud storage, Berlin explains. “Where users only need to read, annotate or redact a document but don’t need to edit it, the file doesn’t need to be made available to the native application, and that solves all kinds of problems… What a local viewer does, in effect, is enable a consistent viewing experience the way Dropbox or Google Drive enables a consistent storage experience.”

The viewing experience is not only faster and more consistent through a multi-format local file viewer, but also safer and more secure, Berlin says. Each native application has different security built into it, and some have none at all. When users have native applications just to view files, controlling access is therefore difficult. Because a local file viewer based on Prizm Content Connect can inherit that program’s digital rights management (DRM) features, companies can selectively enable or disable printing, saving, copying, or downloading a document by defined user groups, for far better internal control of intellectual property.

And because the file being viewed is never actually open on the user’s machine, a local file viewer is a great hedge against the spread of viruses or other malicious intrusions.

The local file viewer is earning raves around here. Why not give it a try at your company?