General
Questions
Evaluation &
Licensing Questions
Functionality Questions
Security Questions
Technical Questions
General Questions
Question:
How can Brava! Enterprise help my organization?
Brava! provides significant cost-savings by enabling
visual access to files in different formats without
requiring the native authoring software on every desktop
and by reducing the risk of compromising the original files. This
collaboration software improves communication and
process efficiency by enabling your organization and
your suppliers/customers (if desired) to review and
annotate (markup) office documents, images and CAD
drawings in a browser-accessible, unified interface.
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Question:
What's unique
about Brava Enterprise?
Brava is clean and simple. Very efficient for
both documents and drawings, it offers a single, unified user interface that requires no training to
use. It boasts excellent fidelity
and supports rich content concepts (not just raster pixels)
like text search, layers, block attributes and
scrollable paging. Brava views most any native format so no conversion is needed, though all
popular neutral formats— like PDF, XPS, DWF and secure
CSF—are also supported. Brava also handles more concurrent users with
fewer servers than competitive offerings.
Security features include Visual Rights®,
non-editable access to viewed files, standard HTTP/HTTPS
communication between client and server (no security
configuration changes required) and in-memory (not
disk) client-side processing. The client is web-served, so admin doesn't have to
spend time installing software on every machine.
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Question:
Why does Brava Enterprise handle more concurrent users
than other systems?
The more the server does in a client/server solution,
the fewer users it can handle. Competitive
solutions process (stream) every client zoom, pan, layer change and
print request on the server, requiring more resources per document and
per user. The server must keep a session for each
client, consuming significant memory to hold rendered bitmap tiles
for each client view state. Brava Enterprise minimizes
the processing load and memory consumption required by
the server by letting the client handle most view
changes. Brava Enterprise is deployed on some of the world's
largest construction project collaboration sites and
financial institutions because
it handles large concurrent loads very well.
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Question:
How
much training is required to use Brava Enterprise?
None. Brava Enterprise's
intuitive and simple interface makes it possible
to use immediately with no special training.
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Question:
Can Brava Enterprise be used with other software?
Absolutely. Brava Enterprise is
integrated with several Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and
Project Management/Collaboration offerings (see
integrations), or you can
integrate Brava Enterprise to your own intranet/extranet
deployment using the
SDK
interface and included examples.
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Evaluation and Licensing
Questions
Question:
Can we
evaluate Brava Enterprise before we license it?
Yes. You can request an
evaluation copy of Brava Enterprise by contacting our sales
department by phone at 800-398-7005 from 7am to 6pm (MST) Monday
through Friday, by e-mail at
sales@infograph.com or by filling out
the Request Demo
form. We also have an
online demo where
you can see the Java and ActiveX client interfaces and
fidelity.
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Question:
How do I get help during my evaluation period?
You may reach our Sales or Technical
Support departments at 800-398-7005 or via email at
sales@infograph.com.
Assistance is available from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. MST Monday
through Friday.
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Question:
How is Brava Enterprise licensed and what does it cost?
To receive a quote,
please contact our Sales group via email at
sales@infograph.com.
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Functionality Questions
Question:
What formats does Brava Enterprise support?
Click here to
see our format list.
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Question:
What key features does Brava Enterprise support?
Click here
to see a detailed feature summary.
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Question:
What navigation and display tools does Brava Enterprise offer?
Brava offers dynamic zoom, pan and
magnifier view controls; visual compare of two files
showing differences; rotate and mirror; layer control;
scale to gray (for black and white raster), page
thumbnails, and geometry snap
measurement tools.
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Question:
What types of annotation/markup functions does Brava Enterprise have?
Brava Enterprise's markup tools include lines,
polygon and cloud shapes, highlights, text annotations,
and sticky notes. Markups maintain author and date
information and are saved as XML overlays to the
original document. They can also be saved as DXF files,
and optionally annotations and the document can be
combined into a single rendition and saved as PDF or
secure CSF.
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Question:
How is Brava's redaction better than other alternatives?
Brava performs true redaction, with the redacted
(blocked out) content being removed as it is saved to a
PDF or secure CSF rendition. Brava removes
redacted text strings in a way that is impossible to
de-engineer (which is technically possible in other
solutions since the font and character sizing of each
letter removed remains). Search
for and redact words/phrases at one time, or redact from
a list of phrases.
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Question:
Why is Brava easier to use than competitive offerings?
Brava's familiar Windows interface is uncluttered, with
an
emphasis on navigation so you can quickly find what you need whether
you are viewing a document, image or CAD drawing.
Documents load zoomed to width for easy reading. Drawings
load in Fit All view, ready for you to select the initial zoom area.
The combination Zoom/Pan tool lets the user get to any location fast. Changemarks
make stepping through annotations/markups foolproof, so reviewing is a snap.
Our print dialog shows a detailed preview of the page, including margin lines so
there are no surprises.
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Question:
Is
Brava Enterprise available in other languages?
Brava Enterprise is currently available
in English, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese (Upon Request), Japanese, Spanish Korean, and Simple Chinesed.
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Security
Question:
Will Brava Enterprise work with my existing network security
system?
Yes. Brava Enterprise honors existing firewalls and
encryptions.
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Question:
Can Brava Enterprise edit document/drawing files?
No. Brava Enterprise does not allow for any editing
of the original file.
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Question:
Can users edit markups created by others?
Users cannot edit another user's annotations. Each
annotation entity is marked with the creator's username,
date and time. Users with sufficient permission can consolidate all markups,
even from other users, for a workflow process.
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Question:
What is secure CSF and Visual Rights?
Visual Rights allow you to control how your
documents can be used when sent to suppliers, customers
or partners. Brava allows document, image and CAD files
to be published into an accurate, encrypted, secure Content Sealed Format (CSF)
that embeds persistent Visual Rights like print,
copy, measure, markup and analyze rights and the ability
to expire the file on a certain date. You can also add
watermarks and banners and include annotations. A CSF file can be viewed with Visual Rights control
using our free Brava Reader. Unlike PDF, a secure CSF file is not an open format and cannot be edited
by third party software.
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Question:
Can a user capture a copy of the file they are viewing?
No. Brava Enterprise does not send your original
documents files to any part of the client disk. The
Brava Server processes your drawing and image files
behind the firewall and delivers compressed page by page
renditions of the documents through the HTTP/HTTPs
server. Optional client side processing for opening
files is available for PDF and TIFF and when enabled,
file information is securely passed for only memory
processing.
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Technical Questions
Question:
What type of operating system do I need to run Brava
Enterprise?
See
Technical Information.
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Question:
What is the setup and installation procedure?
Setup and installation involve installing
(if necessary) and configuring a Web server (Tomcat is
provided with Brava), installing and configuring the
Brava Server and installing the Brava Client on your
Web Server and configuring it. The client is Web-delivered
to the end user's machine and does
not require manual installation (for version 5.0, users
without the Java 2 JVM will be prompted to run that
install, which is provided automatically).
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Question:
Is Brava Enterprise implemented in
Java, .NET or ActiveX?
Brava Enterprise has two client options: Java Applet
or ActiveX. There are two server options: Java Servlet
or .NET.
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Question:
How can the client be installed on Restricted
User desktops?
The BravaClientInstall.bat script provides an
alternative method to the CAB download for installing
the Brava client control. If the user is set up as a
Restricted User as opposed to a Standard User, this
script will register the necessary components to allow a
Restricted User to run.
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