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Bluebeam Software Offers Collaboration Platform Without The Cloud: Page 2 of 2

While Haynes and Lee demonstrated Revu 9.0's features on a blueprint for a house, and while its core customer base is in the construction and architectural design space, it has also found interest among customers in the accounting, education, government and legal sectors. In addition to blueprints, documents edited using PDF Revu can include images, manuscripts and spreadsheets.

The platform also allows users to create customized tools unique to their particular industry. "Once you allow that level of customization, that's what really drives the adoption and the usability," says Lee. "That takes most of our customers through their work flow [quicker] because now they can make project review work exactly how they want it to work."

PDF Revu 9.0 and Studio Server have different pricing schema because one is for the cloud and the other is for on-premise, says Haynes. PDF Revu 9.0 licenses are priced between $179 to $299 for each computer operated by someone who would host cloud collaboration sessions. The license limits the number of participants and documents in each session, as well as the total amount of data being edited. The Studio Server charge is $9,995 for an enterprise, and there are no limits on the number of participants, documents or the data capacity in each session.

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