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BUZZACOTT ADOPTS WORKSHARE PROTECT TO GUARANTEE INFORMATION INTEGRITY

Long established accounting practice quick to realise client benefits of Document Integrity

London, 19th July 2005—Workshare, the leading provider of document integrity applications, today announces that Buzzacott, one of the most established and respected accounting practices in the UK, has implemented Workshare Protect across its 170-strong organisation.

Throughout its 86-year history, Buzzacott has developed a reputation for unrivalled personal service to its charity, professional and IT services client base. However, the need to gather, distribute and report more information, more often to more people, has led to an exponential increase in the number of business documents it created and exchanged. Buzzacott needed to guarantee its electronic communication would maintain the reputation that has been build over almost a century.

Workshare Protect has allowed Buzzacott to set up company-wide compliance and quality control policies that ensure that documents going out of the practice are safeguarded against inadvertent information leaks that could result in embarrassment, reputation damage or even financial penalty. Because Workshare Protect is integrated seamlessly with Buzzacott’s existing applications, employee productivity has increased, enabling Buzzacott to deliver a faster, more secure service to its clients.

Commenting on the Workshare implementation, David Fardell, Financial Director, Buzzacott said, “In a professional practice it is critical that documentation sent out of the office electronically is 100 per cent secure. Workshare has made this happen without any additional processes, ensuring that company compliance regulations are met and that confidential information remains exactly that – confidential. We no longer have to spend our time manually checking documents for sensitive data; Workshare does this automatically, allowing us to concentrate on the heart of our business – our clients”.

The accountancy sector has not traditionally been regarded as an early adopter of new technologies, however as the level of critical information exchanged via email increases, so do the risks. Exposure from distribution of hidden Information, unintentional or fraudulent changes or corruption of document content, as well as lack of activity audit information are now pressures many professional services firms are facing. The increased demands from regulators and clients to guarantee document confidentially and compliance, as well as providing evidence that such safeguards have been put in place, is creating further time, resource and technological pressures on these businesses.

Andrew Pearson, VP EMEA, Workshare commented “Buzzacott’s decision to embrace Workshare is an excellent endorsement of the increasing number of sectors outside of legal that are beginning to realise the importance of Document Integrity. Accounting is an industry that lives and dies by the accuracy and confidentiality of its information, therefore we are very excited to be working with such an established name in the industry to protect its valued reputation.”

About Buzzacott
Buzzacott is a successful, growing mid-tier accountancy firm that is rooted in the City of London, with a tradition for providing professional, independent advice to a range of clients. Buzzacott Lillywhite began trading in the City of London in 1919. By the end of the 1960’s the firm was working from offices in St Paul’s Churchyard for a number of religious and charitable clients, many of whom we still act for today. In 1972, as a result of the many mergers in the past, the name was eventually shortened from Buzzacott Vincent Watson Kilner & Co to simply Buzzacott & Co.More recently, Buzzacott has continued to grow and develop specialised teams servicing the needs of the charity sector, professional practices, expatriate taxation services as well as developing a flourishing IT consulting service.

About Workshare Protect
Workshare Protect is the industry leading document security application for Microsoft Office documents. Workshare Protect ensures that organisations are secure from the embarrassment, financial risk, and liability of confidential information leaks. They are safeguarded with Workshare Protect, which provides automatic, policy-enforced document perimeter security for Microsoft Office, and automatic secure PDF creation ensures document security across an organisation.

About Workshare
Workshare is the industry leading provider of Document Integrity software applications for professionals. Its products include Workshare Professional, DeltaView, DeltaView PE, Protect and TRACE! Workshare’s customer base spans small to large organizations in every industry segment with more than 50 percent of the Fortune 1000 and 85 percent of the ProServices 250. In total, more than 5,000 companies and over 750,000 professionals in 60 countries use Workshare software. The company has offices in London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Frankfurt, The Hague, Hong Kong and Sydney. Workshare is the sponsor of www.metadatarisk.org, the definitive source for content security.