WORKSHARE ANNOUNCES DELTAVIEW 3.0 AND THE DELTAVIEW CUSTOMER CHOICE PROGRAM
New Release and Migration Promotion Offers Broad Choices
for DeltaView Customers
for DeltaView Customers
San Francisco, Calif.- January 11, 2006- Workshare, the leading provider of document integrity solutions for the world's largest law firms and corporations, today announced DeltaView 3.0. DeltaView 3.0 features Word Act on Changes from DeltaView redlines, more than 100 enhancements to document comparison quality and accuracy, and updated email and document management platform integrations. The Act on Changes feature, also now available in the Workshare Professional suite, has been the #1 feature request from current DeltaView users.
Workshare also announced the Workshare Customer Choice Program, a set of tools and resources to assist DeltaView 2.x customers in making their future plans for upgrading to DeltaView 3.0 or for migrating to the Workshare Professional 4.5 platform. In addition, Workshare introduced the Workshare Platform Migration Incentive, which provides up to 70 percent off of the list price of migrating from DeltaView to Workshare Professional.
"DeltaView 3.0 and the Workshare Customer Choice Program further highlights our commitment to DeltaView customers," said Joe Fantuzzi, CEO and president of Workshare. "Customers may now choose between staying with DeltaView or moving to our new more modern platform, based on their requirements. We are committed to our DeltaView customers and providing them with the flexibility to the meet their evolving document comparison and document integrity needs."
Workshare Customer Choice Program
Workshare now offers three options for DeltaView 2.9 users:
- 1. Upgrade to DeltaView 3.0, available to customers under current maintenance agreements at no charge. The DeltaView 3.0 product line will not support future Microsoft Office and Operating Systems beyond Office 2003 and Windows XP. Its architecture and code base cannot be migrated to support modern technologies such as .NET, .XML and Unicode file formats and names.
- 2. Migrate at a cost to the integrated document integrity Workshare Professional 4.5 Platform, which provides not only Comparison, but also runs inside Word, has up to 10 times faster performance, full Unicode support, document security, change management and parallel review. In addition, Workshare Professional will support future Microsoft Office 12 file formats.
(See “ Workshare Updates Market Leading Solutions With Document ‘Hygiene’ Technology,)
- 3. Supplement at a cost with the Workshare Compare Service, a server based, high performance document comparison engine built on Workshare's DeltaView technology. Workshare Compare Service is built to meet the needs of occasional comparison users for remote access and customer facing portals-where document comparisons are required. (See “ Workshare Launches Compare Service”)
Pricing and Availability
The Workshare Platform Migration Incentive offers mix and match packaging options and discounts up to 70 percent off of list price for current DeltaView users moving to the new platform. Current DeltaView customers can now purchase individual modules for Compare, Secure and Review in any ratio. The pricing discounts run globally between now and March 21, 2006.
"We want to make it easy for our existing customers to take advantage of new Workshare technologies and products," said Andrew Pearson, general manager of EMEA and APAC for Workshare. "By offering packaging and pricing options and incentives, we will now be able to tailor solutions to cost effectively meet their needs."
Customer Choice Hotline and Resources
To assist customers in making this decision, Workshare has set up a set of Global Customer Hotlines and other resources. This includes a Customer Choice Portal on the Workshare homepage (www.workshare.com/choice), which includes a set of tools to help customers with their decision including an on-demand webinar.
The Workshare Customer Choice Hotlines are available in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and are reachable as follows:
Americas: 415-216-1022 or choice-americas@workshare.com
Europe: +44 (0) 20 7539 1306 or choice-europe@workshare.com
Asia Pacific: choice-asiapacific@workshare.com
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 55 percent of the Fortune 1000 and 85 percent of the ProServices 250. In total, more than 5,000 companies and over 800,000 professionals in 65 countries use Workshare software. The company has offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Washington DC, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney. Workshare is the sponsor of http://www.metadatarisk.org, the definitive source for content security. For more information, visit http://www.workshare.com.
