Document Control Software: Accountability and Security

If you collaborate on sensitive business documents, you will benefit from document control software that provides an audit trail and security features. An audit trail is a record of who did what, and when, to a given document so that the document's assembly, review, exchange, verification, and security are fully traceable. Audit-trail capability is a chief benefit of document control software, and is an indispensable means to control business communications and operational procedures because of its ability to establish accountability.

Document control software allows companies to validate that they followed correct internal operational and regulatory procedures.

Audit trail of changes made to a document
Policy-based document security controls

In addition to keeping a trail of who emailed, viewed, or made changes to a document, document control software also provides document security features. You are able to define what information can leave your organization via email. It also has the ability to generate PDF’s to lock down the document content.

Document control software safely controls the flow and auditability of document events inside and outside the perimeter, across email servers, portals, and repositories.

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