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Time for a Fresh Look at Your
Document Management Strategy?
FOUR COSTLY CHALLENGES NECESSITATE A CHANGE IN YOUR PDF SOLUTION

IT organizations are being asked do to more with less, as tight budgets get stretched ever tighter.
Companies of all sizes are being challenged to find savings that can be reinvested in new money-saving or revenue-generating
technologies. From storage to security, every cost is being scrutinized in the search for savings, yet many organizations overlook one
area—document management—where significant savings can be readily had. Now is definitely the time to take a close look at yourPDF solution, and ask a basic question: Can you get the same capabilities from new PDF solution but at much lower cost?
It’s true that few CIOs jeopardize their jobs when they stick with an enterprise software leader. Adobe, the 900-pound gorilla in thedocument management arena, looks like a safe bet: Its PDF editing software and reader are everywhere and it does an adequate job
for many businesses. But are familiarity and adequacy valid reasons for sticking with any solution? After all, it’s also true that today’s
leading software tools might not meet the challenges faced by tomorrow’s businesses. And in this case, there are some compelling
reasons—saving money and more—for CIOs to ponder a new platform for PDFs. Just consider these all too familiar challenges:

CHALLENGE: ADOBE’S PDF READERIS FREE. IT’S NOT PERFECT, BUT WHATCHOICE DO I HAVE?

FREE!
Adobe is not the only game in town.
Foxit Reader is also free, and…

» It’s faster, so users don’t endure long waits toopen PDFs.

CHALLENGE: ADOBE ACROBAT IS
EXPENSIVE. IS THAT JUST A COSTI HAVE TO LIVE WITH?
Foxit’s PhantomPDF provides similarfunctionality at a lower price. The fact is…

» Adobe Acrobat costs over 3 times more.
» With Foxit, robust PDF capabilities can be

deployed to more users on the same budget.

» It’s more economical to purchase Foxit

PhantomPDF than upgrade Adobe Acrobat.
PhantomPDF
Standard$89

PhantomPDF
Business$129» It’s standards-compliant, so it works with your

Adobe Acrobat
XI Standard$299

Price toupgrade$139» It’s more secure, offering better protection

Adobe Acrobat
XI Pro$449

Price toupgrade$199» It’s lightweight, so it is easier to deploy without
wasting valuable computing resources.
existing PDFs.

against security vulnerabilities» And it offers free PDF creation, empowering

more users without the extra license expense.

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CHALLENGE: HOW CAN I MAKE IT
EASIER FOR USERS TO SEARCH FORPDF FILES?
As ubiquitous as PDFs are today, the files
don’t appear in the search results. Foxit
PDF IFilter is a game-changer…

CHALLENGE: IS IT POSSIBLE TO
RIGHTS-PROTECT MY PDF FILES LIKEMY MICROSOFT OFFICE FILES?
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» It extends Microsoft search technologies to include

Foxit PDF Security Suite extends Microsoft’s
Active Directory Rights Management
Services (RMS) to include PDF documents.
This means…

» It’s indexing is much faster than Adobe because» IT organizations can deploy and administer a single» It’s industry-leading performance and scalability» End users can access protected PDFs using thePDF documents.

of its support of multi-threading and multi-coreserver technologies.

translates into fewer servers—saving in administration, hardware, data center floor space, andpower expenses.

solution to cover rights management—saving bothtime and money.
same familiar process that they use to open
protected Microsoft Office files—saving training
and support costs.

CONCLUSION:

CIOs can keep paying for expensive, cumbersome document management, or they can reduce spending
while boosting productivity by arming more users with the ability to create, edit, protect and search for PDF
files. Your competitors are assuredly facing the same challenges—and the smart ones are already rethinking
their own approach to PDFs. So with less-expensive alternatives like Foxit gaining momentum in the PDF
space, now is the time to get your budget and your document management system on the same page.

Companies looking for lower
cost and more flexible PDF
solutions have options. Findout what 95,000 customers
and 150 million users in
190 countries already know:
Foxit offers fast, affordable, andsecure PDF solutions.

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