The Australian College of Operating Room Nurses (ACORN) has been thrilled by the use of LockLizard digital rights management (DRM) for securing their PDF documents on mobile devices. ACORN have been planning to make their documentation available electronically, but only if the DRM controls are right.
In stepped Mesuva, an Australian website development company, which integrated the LockLizard DRM straight into their web sales system without any difficulties. They implemented a successful DRM security development using the LockLizard system, primarily for securing PDF documents on iOS and Android devices.
One interesting aspect of the project was that ACORN (a standards setter for nursing) staff used iPads to both process sales of their documents and demonstrate using the LockLizard DRM system in real-time. It meant that current and prospective customers could see they were receiving a proven DRM system and that it was using the latest BYOD and cloud technologies to deliver simple and user-friendly DRM that was protecting everybody’s interests.
You don’t often see companies demonstrating that they are using DRM and proving that it does not get in the way. So, ACORN can truly be said to be setting new standards. And their customers, having paid good money to invest in the standards, do not wish to see free-loaders getting those advantages by ripping off the documents, so they are keen to see that their investment is being protected.
Mesuva found there was no need to go and develop an app to specially format or display the protected PDF documents on those platforms. The LockLizard Viewer app was able to display the medical standards documents on both iPad devices and other platforms (PC, Mac, Android) without the need for any altering or tweaking.
One of the biggest problems with the prevalence of BYOD devices is the proliferation of document formats. What looks good on a high-res PC or Mac screen does not look quite so good on a Kindle-sized tablet. Conversely, what looks good on your cell phone looks rather lost on a PC monitor. So ‘tweaking’ is normally required when cutting down from big screens to small format devices, and it can consume a lot of time and effort (and therefore introduce a potentially significant delay in getting to market). So the LockLizard Viewer saved everyone a lot of time, work and costs, and enabled the project to be finalized in a much more demanding timescale than initially anticipated. When you have a deadline of a conference for a product launch, you can’t get more demanding than that.