At our eRoom User Group meeting on 4/17/2008, we had a presentation of eRoom 7.4 by Eric Knutson of EMC.  In case you missed, Eric did a similar presentation recently which was recorded with essentially the same information.  eRoom 7.4 has as it’s main feature the addition of Information Rights Management (IRM), which essentially gives you control of documents once they leave the eRoom.

For example, you use an eRoom to manage an RFP process and invite vendors in eRoom to retrieve the RFP document and submit proposals.  The RFP document has proprietary specs that are confidential.  When the vendor retrieves the document from eRoom, you can set it up so that it cannot be copied or printed, and force it to expire after the submission deadline.  There are many uses for this technology for those who need security on a document AFTER it leaves the eRoom.  Other resources on this topic:

We also briefly reviewed the “next release” of EMC’s collaboration tools, code named Magellan, but the majority of time was spent on 7.4.  At the end of the meeting we reviewed the survey results from the Jan-2008 meeting.