Workshare Press Releases

New Release of Workshare Professional Benefits Legal Professionals

Valued customer input results in quality and reliability advances

San Francisco, July 21, 2009 - Workshare, a long-time leader working with the legal industry's entrusted content, today announced the general availability of Workshare Professional 5.2 SR2. From Workshare, the company that created DeltaView, the first, true comparison and control software for the legal profession, Workshare Professional now provides increased reliability as well as a host of new, critical features.

"I'm very excited about the new features in Workshare Professional 5.2 SR2. With new and improved features like redaction, combining content into a PDF portfolio, and PDF to word comparisons," said Karen MacKenzie of Greenberg Traurig. "I think the legal community will be excited and I am certain our people will embrace it."

The feedback from the hundreds of customer beta sites around the world has led to a number of new and improved features in SR2. These will help Workshare customers increase productivity and the number and quality of services delivered to their lawyers.

"The new version of Workshare Professional is impressive. The ability to mark embedded Excel files is a huge enhancement," said Marie Pisarek of Chapman and Cutler. "I also continue to be impressed with the Workshare support team. Questions and issues have been addressed promptly."

"We continue to work toward providing the highest quality, most accurate, advanced comparison and protection products ever delivered from Workshare. We have taken the many excellent suggestions of our customers and incorporated them into SR2," said Alan Fraser, CEO, Workshare. "Building upon the reliability improvements delivered in SR1, our goal is to provide legal professionals with the products, solutions, and enhanced customer experience they deserve."

The new release of Workshare Professional includes the following advanced functionality.

New Comparison Features include:

• Comparison of Embedded Excel Tables
• Image Comparison
• Convert and Compare Image-base Documents with the Workshare OCR Server

New Document Collaboration Features:

• Combine Content into a PDF Portfolio

New Protection and Control Features:

• Document Redaction
• Metadata Discovery in Password-Protected Documents
• Previewing Cleaned Attachments and PDF Conversions
• Device Control and USB Port Protection

New 3rd Party Extensions & Integrations:

• Workshare Connector for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007

Workshare Professional 5.2 SR2 is available now worldwide and trial versions are available for download at www.workshare.com.

About Workshare
Workshare, a global leader in technology for the legal industry, enables organizations to control and manage information securely. More than one million professionals rely on Workshare solutions to increase productivity and safeguard their confidential information; ultimately securing their intellectual property, customer relationships and the organization's reputation. Workshare's document comparison and collaboration solutions provide risk management and security to over 14,000 organizations worldwide. For more information, visit www.workshare.com.