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OTRA is pleased to introduce its first product offering in the document privacy, security and control area. The A3Control product provides positive control over electronic documents, providing authentication, authorization and audit of electronic document access for both server based and client based documents.

Developed cooperatively with FileOpen Systems, the product integrates FileOpen's Adobe Acrobat plug-in technology to package documents in PDF form, with positive access control using either off-line permission files, or on-line, network based permission control. Documents can be read in Adobe's free Acrobat reader as well as full featured versions of Acrobat.

The A3Control server is a java web application which can be installed in any J2EE compliant application server and used in conjunction with any compatible web server. The server can be configured to implement a wide range of permission schemes, and will interface with any JDBC compliant database for schemes requiring database access.

The following configurations are currently available:

A3Control BE - This basic edition of the server provides the basic server structure, and a limited set of service definitions, implemented as java classes. This fully functional permission server can be used to implement simple document delivery solutions, or can be used as the basis of more complex projects, extending the server and data access classes to fit the specific needs of the publisher. More information about this product can be found by clicking the product title, or here.

A3Control OLE - The on-line edition of the server provides a fully hosted, pre-configured version of the permission server and administrative functions, enabling smaller users access to the powerful features of the A3Control technology