New clients, patent approval and additions to Litéra's core staff

April 2011 Newsletter

04.14.2011

New clients, patent approval and additions to Litéra's core staffHello to our many friends and customers,

As Director of Client Satisfaction one of the most enjoyable parts of my job is the relationship I have with the Litéra family of customers. As spring swings into full gear and we make our way towards summer, I wanted to take a moment to share with you some of the things we are excited about around the Litéra office. This spring we’ve been busy growing our rapidly expanding customer family, pioneering innovative technologies, releasing new and upgraded products and adding to our core staff.

Customer News

Litéra continues to be the industry leader in Content Lifecycle products and has added several new clients. In the past 90 days Litéra’s place as industry leader has been cemented as indicated by the unprecedented customer adoption rate for Change-Pro®, InnovaTM and Metadact®. This record growth underscores the game-changing attributes of our solutions backed by our technology, patents and world-class customer support. We are pleased to welcome 30 new clients, including:

• Hogan Lovells LLP & International


• Millbank Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP


• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP


• Kelley Drye & Warren LLP


• Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP


• Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP


• Brown Rudnick


• Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP


• Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP


• Brown & Connery LLP

• Edgar Snyder & Associates


• Goldberg Kohn


• Best Best & Krieger LLP


• Fitzgerald Abbot & Beardsley LLP


• Neumiller & Beardslee


• Figari & Davenport


• Jones Waldo


• Matheson Ormsby Prentice Dublin, Ireland


• Luthra & Luthra Law Offices New Dehli, India

Intellectual Property News

Litéra’s continuous cycle of innovation has cemented its position as the front runner in Document Content Lifecycle Management. By developing solutions based on real-world customer needs, Litérahas created the most comprehensive suite of products on the market.

I’d like to proudly announce three new patents have been awarded to Litéra.

In addition, Litéra has seven (7) additional patents in various stages of review illustrating our commitment to customer-focused innovation.

Metadata PatentPatent 7,895,276 for a server based, centralized policy system that removed metadata from e-mail attachments sent from any email client including smartphones and other mobile devices.	Collaboration PatentPatent 7,818,678 enables large groups to collaborate in real-time on electronic documents—created in Microsoft Word and other major document processing systems. This new methodology incorporates reviewer feedback into a database that can be displayed simultaneously in one document—available to select or all in real-time—enabling participants to view comments and edits as they are made or to audit the history.	Comparison Patent Patent 7,818,660 incorporates into Change-Pro—Litéra’s flagship product—which enables users to easily compare all MS Office and PDF documents down to every letter, table and embedded objects such as Excel, Visio and Chemdraw as well as images precisely to a single pixel.

Product NewsLitéra is pleased to announce the general release of Metadact 2.1 with many new features, including: An enhanced exclusion list that allows users to exclude certain types of metadata like bookmarks, fields, VBA variables and custom properties (Word only). Exclusion lists allow users to apply specific actions, like skip, for select types of metadata. Enhanced detailed reporting allows users to review metadata detected in documents and save reports for future retrieval. Users can see what types of metadata, how many instances were removed and the context of those instances. Intelligent Content Clean allows user to replace text in Word documents that matches a specific pattern. For example, all Social Security numbers can be replaced with XXX-XX-XXXX. After processing, the user sees a detailed report of every occurrence. Additionally, in early May we expect to release Metadact e, our server-based metadata cleansing solution and Innova 7.0 and Change-Pro 7.0 both of which have been enhanced with many new features.

Litéra Team NewsAt Litéra we strive to promote and support a culture of innovation and imagination. In March LitéraCEO and lead innovator, Deepak Massand received recognition as one of Business Leader magazine’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs in North Carolina. Utilizing a top down philosophy Deepak leads by example while fostering a corporate culture in which originality and client satisfaction is the manta by which every associate operates. Litéra is pleased to welcome Michael PenningtonMike will be assuming the role of Regional Sales Director, with a strong focus on our legal clients. Mike has a record of outstanding customer relationships that mirrorLitéra core values. If Mike, or any Litéra team member, can assist you or answer any questions regarding our revolutionary, newly patented and patent-pending technologies, please contact us!

Community News Litéra is strongly committed to having a positive impact on the local community. In fact, a portion of our gross profits is used to support a variety of charitable organizations. Most recently Litéra employees participated in a very successful internal fundraiser for the Second Harvest Food Bank. Second Harvest Food Bank plays a critical role in hunger-relief efforts for the region, helping to provide access to food to those who cannot afford it so that they can survive and even thrive. With the help of Litéra and other local organizations, the Second Harvest Food Bank distributes more than 2 billion pounds of food each year.

As always if I, or any member of the Litéra team, may be of personal assistance please don’t hesitate to contact us.Until next time, Chandra Holcomb Director of Client Satisfaction

Thanks Litéra® Corp E-mail:Customer-Service@Litera.com Tel No: 336.375.2991 Websites: http://www.litera.com http://www.excel-comparison.com http://www.change-pro.com http://www.literalive.com TWEET This Post:https://twitter.com/#!/LiteraCorp

U.S. Patent For Litéra’s Change-Pro®

U.S. Patent For Litéra’s Change-Pro®

05.10.2011



The methodology behind Change-Pro, Litéra’s flagship product, has been awarded U.S. Patent number 7,818,660.

McLeansville, N.C.—MAY 10, 2011—The methodology behind Change-Pro, Litéra’s flagship product, has been awarded U.S. Patent number 7,818,660. First released in 2004, Change-Pro promises unsurpassed content confidence and true document accuracy and reliability by enabling users to compare all MS Office and PDF documents down to every letter, table, and embedded objects such as Excel, Visio and Chemdraw, as well as images, precisely to a single pixel across the document revision process

“Change-Pro is revolutionary because there’s no other product on the market that can compare the total document with any and all embedded OLE objects granularly,” said inventor Deepak Massand, Litéra’s CEO.

“Litéra's Change-Pro has become a vital component of our document management processes,” said Steve Agnoli, chief information officer of K&L Gates, a global law firm with nearly 2,000 lawyers on three continents. “Because it compares critical documents in their entirety, we can better assure content accuracy and reliability and reduce the risk of costly errors. We are very pleased with Change-Pro's functionality and ease-of-use.”

Change-Pro works by comparing a Word, PowerPoint or Excel original document to a modified document, including changes to embedded objects (OLE) produced by Word, Excel, Visio, ChemDraw and other programs, as well as JPG, TIFF, BMP and GIF images. When using Change-Pro, alterations to embedded objects and images are “redlined” (not just highlighted) on the object or image itself, eliminating the need for manual comparison. Change-Pro can also compare PDF documents in their native format, including scanned PDF documents with the optional Litéra OCR Server.

In addition to Change-Pro, Litéra’s family of comparison products includes Change-Pro for Excel, the only software solution that reveals every change made to spreadsheets—including values, formulas and row and column edits—while maintaining the layout and all other aspects of the original document, and Change-Pro for PowerPoint, which enables the comparison of changes to PowerPoint presentations.

About Litéra

Litéra offers a comprehensive suite of document creation, comparison, collaboration, cleansing and control software that provides users with unsurpassed content confidence enabling them to manage their documents and data with a degree of control not available through any other solution on the market. Litéra’s patented productivity applications meet the critical content management needs of today’s business professionals, including many of the world’s leading law firms and major corporations. For more information,

visit www.litera.com.

Thanks

Litéra® Corp

E-mail:Customer-Service@Litera.com

Tel No: 336.375.2991

Websites:

http://www.litera.com

http://www.excel-comparison.com

http://www.change-pro.com

http://www.literalive.com

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Metadact®e Newly Patented Solution from Litéra®, Removes Confidential Data Sent from Smartphones and Webmail

Metadact®e Newly Patented Solution from Litéra®, Removes Confidential Data Sent from Smartphones and Webmail

05.10.2011




Litéra has been awarded U.S. patent 7,895,276 for a server-based solution for removing potentially sensitive metadata.

McLeansville, N.C.—MAY 10, 2011— Litéra has been awarded U.S. patent 7,895,276 for a server-based solution for removing potentially sensitive metadata—the descriptive, often confidential information attached to a file providing its authorship, the date and time of its creation, edits and other details—from email attachments sent via any email client including webmail and smartphones. This patent was filed in conjunction with ground-breaking research related to the development of Litéra’s new server-based metadata management product,Metadacte. The solution covers cloud-based server metadata cleaning as well. Litéra also markets Metadact, a desktop-based metadata cleansing solution.

“With Metadacte it’s easy to enforce enterprise policies to clean confidential and potentially damaging data from e-mail attachments even if they’re sent from a smart phone or via webmail,” said Deepak Massand, Litéra’s CEO and the inventor of the new server-based solution. “In today’s fast paced business world, it’s more important than ever to protect your organization’s reputation and maintain confidentiality and control on a corporate level.”

Metadacte removes metadata from all document formats and email attachments including Microsoft Office, PDF, image and ZIP files sent via Outlook and other email programs. Corporate administrators can define a centralized cleaning policy that can be implemented on a company-wide level or individual users can be given permission to personally control select settings. For example, the enhanced flexibility and functionality of Metadacte enables users to selectively remove tracked changes in Word documents, hidden cells in spreadsheets and/or speaker’s notes from PowerPoint presentations. Metadacte provides detailed logs allowing administrators to review a comprehensive list of detected and removed metadata by sender, date and additional variables.

According to the Association for Business Communication, in a survey of 100,000 Word documents collected from various websites, all 100,000 documents contained hidden metadata including general, and specific, personal information such as social security numbers and the internal network the document traveled.

About Litéra

Litéra offers a comprehensive suite of document creation, comparison, collaboration and cleansing software that provides users with unsurpassed content confidence enabling them to manage their documents and data with a degree of control not available through any other solution on the market. Litéra’s patented productivity applications meet the critical content management needs of today’s business professionals, including many of the world’s leading law firms and major corporations. For more information, visit www.litera.com.

Thanks

Litéra® Corp

E-mail:Customer-Service@Litera.com

Tel No: 336.375.2991

Websites:

http://www.litera.com

http://www.excel-comparison.com

http://www.change-pro.com

http://www.literalive.com

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Litéra® Receives Patent for Technology That Enables Simultaneous, Real-Time Collaboration on Electronic Documents

Litéra® Receives Patent for Technology That Enables Simultaneous, Real-Time Collaboration on Electronic Documents

05.10.2011




Litéra has been awarded U.S. Patent Number 7,818,678 for a technology innovation that enables large groups to collaborate in real-time on electronic documents created in Microsoft Word and other major document processing systems.

McLeansville, N.C.—MAY 10, 2011—Litéra has been awarded U.S. Patent Number 7,818,678 for a technology innovation that enables large groups to collaborate in real-time on electronic documents created in Microsoft Word and other major document processing systems. This new methodology incorporates reviewer feedback into a database that can be displayed simultaneously in one master document—available to select users or all contributors in real-time—enabling participants to view comments and edits as they are made or to audit the history.

“With Metadacte it’s easy to enforce enterprise policies to clean confidential and potentially damaging data from e-mail attachments even if they’re sent from a smart phone or via webmail,” said Deepak Massand, Litéra’s CEO and the inventor of the new server-based solution. “In today’s fast paced business world, it’s more important than ever to protect your organization’s reputation and maintain confidentiality and control on a corporate level.”

This patent was filed in conjunction with ground-breaking research and development related to Litéra IDS®, the company’s real-time collaboration solution. “This patent empowers users to harness an open collaboration environment in which authors in various locations can share input on a single live document. Users will no longer have to review multiple redlined versions of shared input to create one document. Instead, the technology supporting this new patent incorporates all feedback into one master document, open for collective view in real time,” said Deepak Massand, its inventor and Litéra’s CEO.

Massand added that this technology, unlike other applications available today, allows for multiple users to collaborate synchronously on a single document and in real-time rather than using paper copies or outdated and confusing workflow systems. “Having been through the frustrations of dealing with disparate versions of documents from multiple reviewers or sequential over-writing by other methods, my goal was to fix this broken, time consuming process and take it to the next level.”

Conventional document collaboration systems involve one individual—typically the author—receiving a series of documents with numerous, often conflicting, comments and edits. That person would then need to incorporate the changes into one global document, a tedious process that inhibits simultaneous review and quality collaboration. Litéra’s new technology incorporates all reviewer feedback into the master document in real time, enabling participants to view comments and edits as they are made. According to Massand, this process supports the best aspects of teamwork and collaboration, promotes the sharing of ideas and helps to improve accuracy, openness and productivity.

The technology provides an unlimited number of users with the ability to post and review input and feedback. The author retains control of all changes and can review all comments side-by-side and in context, without creating multiple documents. Because some projects require the utmost security, access controls ensure only authorized individuals can view documents. Litera’s technology also permits users access to a full history of all changes, sorted by person, date, topic and other criteria. E-mail notifications inform potential contributors of new documents for review and can be set for single or multiple reminders.

Massand said he is exploring every possibility the patent presents including the launch of Litera IDS as well as licensing inquiries from major players. “In this age of cloud computing, by employing this solution,” he said, “we can give users rich functionality, reduce stress and increase quality, speed and productivity across the board.”

For licensing inquires or additional information call 336-375-2991 or send e-mail to

customer-service@litera.com.

About Litéra

Litéra offers a comprehensive suite of document creation, comparison, collaboration and cleansing software that provides users with unsurpassed content confidence enabling them to manage their documents and data with a degree of control not available through any other solution on the market. Litéra’s patented productivity applications meet the critical content management needs of today’s business professionals, including some of the world’s leading law firms and major corporations. For more information visit www.litera.com.

Thanks

Litera Corp

E-mail:Customer-Service@Litera.com

Tel No: 336.375.2991

Website:

http://www.litera.com

http://www.excel-comparison.com

http://www.change-pro.com

http://www.literalive.com

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Litéra ® CEO Deepak Massand Wins Triad Business Leader Top 50 Entrepreneur Award

Litéra ® CEO Deepak Massand Wins Triad Business Leader Top 50 Entrepreneur Award




McLeansville, N.C.—March 18, 2011—Deepak Massand, CEO of Litéra, the global leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) software solutions, has received recognition as one of Business Leader magazine’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs in North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad region at a ceremony in Greensboro on March 2nd and is featured in the March issue of the magazine.

Massand founded Litéra as a startup in 2001 after 20 years as a senior executive in pharmaceutical companies, like Johnson & Johnson. In addition to guiding Litéra to success, he has received several U.S. patents for diverse inventions such as Mederma, a gel used to improve the appearance of scars; a method and system to granularly compare changes in documents; and software that enables simultaneous multi-level collaborations in real-time between an author and unlimited reviewers and, most recently, a server-based solution for processing metadata, including the processing of emails sent via webmail and smartphones. He has studied at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

“I feel privileged to be included in Business Leader magazine’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs,” said Massand. “The Triad area is emerging as the home to many innovative high-tech companies and to be recognized among its leaders is quite an honor.” In recent months the popularity of Litéra’s software solutions has grown at an unprecedented rate with record customer adoption for its established Change-Pro®, Innova^TM and Metadact® solutions.

About Litéra

Litéra offers a comprehensive suite of patented document creation, comparison, collaboration and cleansing software solutions that manage documents throughout their lifecycle. Litéra’s document lifecycle solutions allow users to gain confidence in document content by allowing them to manage their documents with a degree of control not available through any other products on the market. Litéra has some of the world’s largest law firms and corporations as clients. Find out why the world’s best organizations choose Litéra at www.litera.com.

Thanks

Litéra® Corp

E-mail:Customer-Service@Litera.com

Tel No: 336.375.2991

Website:

http://www.litera.com

http://www.excel-comparison.com

http://www.change-pro.com

http://www.literalive.com

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LegalTech New York 2011

LegalTech New York 2011

New York, NY

Booth 506

01.31.2011 / 02.02.2011

Litéra® associates will be attending LegalTech 2011 in New York, New York. LegalTech is a key resource for law firms and legal departments to get hands-on practical information for improving their law practice management. LegalTech provides an in-depth look at legal technologies and offers an expansive exhibit floor with an extensive gathering of innovative products designed to meet law firm's current and future technology needs.

For Details Visit: http://www.legaltechshow.com/r5/cob_page.asp?category_id=64790&initial_file=cob_page-ltech.asp

Thanks

Litéra® Corp

E-mail: Customer-Service@Litera.com

Tel No: 336.375.2991

Website:

http://www.litera.com

http://www.excel-comparison.com

http://www.change-pro.com

http://www.literalive.com



Litéra Achieves Record Customer Growth for Global Document Lifecycle Management Solutions

Litéra Achieves Record Customer Growth for Global Document Lifecycle Management Solutions



Second Half of 2010 Marked by Rapid Customer Adoption of Litéra Products Including Change-Pro, Innova and Metadact

MCLEANSVILLE, N.C., , December 15, 2010 – Litéra®, the global leader in document lifecycle management (DLM), today announced record customer adoption for its established Change-Pro®, Innova and Metadact® solutions. As legal, healthcare and corporate IT organizations continue to focus on ways to improve document management efficiency and compliance, Litéra solutions deliver the flexible, scalable and secure document process automation organizations need for document creation, collaboration, comparison, control and metadata cleaning.

“Each quarter we continue to deliver solid revenue and growth results that deliver customer value,” said Deepak Massand, CEO of Litéra. “The second half of 2010 was no exception as strong market demand for our Change-Pro, Innova and Metadact solutions persisted with the increasing focus legal, healthcare and IT organizations have on document efficiency, compliance and automation without boundaries. The strong success we’ve seen over the last six months underscores our projection for an explosive 2011.”

Over the past six months, Litéra has seen an exponential increase in the number of new customer wins for its suite of DLM products.

Companies that have recently adopted Change-Pro as their total document comparison solution include Hunton Williams LLP; Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP; Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP; SJ Berwin; Arthur Cox; Health New England; Filmore Riley LLP; McKee Voorhees & Sease P.L.C.; Thompson, Dorfman & Sweatman LLP; Corporate Office Properties and Trust; Premera; Pershing Square; Cheng Cohen LLC; Legislative Service Commission; Sally Beauty Holdings; Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP; Baker & Daniels; Liberty Healthcare, and Linowes & Blocher LLP.

Organizations that have recently selected Metadact as their metadata cleaning and management solution, to reduce the risk of unintentional disclosure of confidential information, include Hunton Williams LLP; Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP; Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP; Arthur Cox; McKee Voorhees & Sease P.L.C.; Pershing Square; Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP, and Liberty Healthcare.

New Litéra customers that have selected, or expanded, roll out of Innova as their document automation platform to streamline and standardize document creation and automation include The Legal Aid Society; Hughes Hubbard & Reed; Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP; Boutin Jones Inc; Bracewell & Giuliani; Schiff Hardin LLP; Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP; Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP; Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt LLP; Osborne & Helman LLP, and Linowes & Blocher LLP.

What Litéra Customers are Saying
“Litéra's Change-Pro has become a vital component of our document management processes,” said Steve Agnoli, Chief Information Officer of K&L Gates. “Because it compares critical documents in their entirety, we can better assure content accuracy and reliability and reduce the risk of costly errors. We are very pleased with Change-Pro's functionality and ease-of-use.”

“The firm was looking for a comparison and data cleansing product that would help move us forward from our old solution,” said Simon Kosminsky, IT director at SJ Berwin. “We looked for a company that lives by the high standards that we value. Our focus was on reliability, ease of use and support, but in addition also on ethics in relationships and leadership in innovation. Our due diligence showed that Litéra has set a new standard in all of these areas.”

“Litéra continues to deliver innovative solutions to key challenges we face when it comes to document content management,” said Sean Scott, Chief Intelligence Officer, Womble Carlyle. “Litéra LDF is a powerful solution to simplify the time consuming process of making changes to PDF documents. Now we can make changes to PDFs as easily as we can in a standard word processing application.”

“At Akin Gump we always focus on building long-term relationships with our technology partners,” said Lorey Hoffman, Chief Information Officer, Akin Gump. “It is important to us that our partners are thought and innovation leaders with verifiable records of delivering exceptional support. Litéra’s Change-Pro solution stood out in all of these key areas as the leading product backed by a superior organization.”

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About Litéra

Litéra is the global leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for the critical document management needs of today’s business professionals. The Litéra product portfolio represents the most comprehensive collection of DLM functionality available in an integrated suite, and includes products such as Litéra LaunchPad for integration free Document Lifecycle management, Litéra Innova for document creation and automation, Litéra IDS® for secure document collaboration (Patented), Litéra Change-Pro® for document comparison (Patented), Litéra LDF® for PDF control and management and Litéra Metadact® and Metadacte (server based, patent pending)for metadata cleaning. Learn more at www.litera.com.

Thanks


Litéra® Corp

Email: Customer-Service@Litera.com

Tel: 336.375.2991

Websites:

http://www.litera.com

http://www.excel-comparison.com

http://www.change-pro.com

http://www.literalive.com