An Integrated Approach to Enterprise 2.0

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Enterprise 2.0 allows your people to bloom into to their full potential. People are the greatest asset to an organization. Nurturing a culture and environment that encourages a higher plateau of connectivity and collaboration delivers the baseline for greater engagement and productivity. This social fabric of trust and teamwork is what binds people together and connects them with the processes and content they need to achieve their goals.

Our vision is to help organizations move forward, to connect and collaborate with their people both inside and outside the enterprise. With the Open Text ECM Suite as the foundation, organizations across public and private sectors can bloom by delivering the promise of the Social Workplace and the Social Marketplace enveloped by the safety of Social Compliance.

The demands of this uncertain and competitive world mean adaptation, strong networks, and creativity. Open Text sees the future of content and is ready to deliver. Our vision is ready to bloom. Is yours?

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Enterprise 2.0 Solutions »

 

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The Open Text ECM Suite offers a variety of Enterprise 2.0-inspired solutions designed to support the Social Workplace and Social Marketplace.

  • Open Text Social Media unlocks human potential. It brings together all of the social tools that have defined the modern Internet into a safe organizational framework. Users have their own personal dashboards and profiles, can work with each other using communities, blogs, and wikis, can find each other using social search, and have the choice of Web or mobile access.

  • Open Text Web Solutions are designed to help you keep pace with the Web 2.0 revolution. They provide tools for authoring, maintaining, and administering sophisticated Web sites that offer a compelling visitor experience and that integrate content from many internal and external sources seamlessly.

  • Open Text's Digital Media Solutions put rich media at users' fingertips. They provide a specialized set of content management services for ingesting, browsing, searching, viewing, assembling, and delivering rich media content types, including images, audio, video, Adobe Flash, and so on.

  • Open Text Visualization brings the value of your content to life. It enables the expression of digital content into common objects so they can be freely assembled, displayed and shared.

Enterprise 2.0 Customer Successes »

Bank of Nova Scotia

Open Text helps major financial institutions launch new systems based on Web 2.0 tools to foster collaboration among employees worldwide...more

International Standards Organization (ISO)

International Standards Organization (ISO) had the challenge of developing and publishing standards faster to match evolving market needs, but, at the same time, fully preserving the "due process" ensuring openness, transparency, and the application of the consensus principle to international standards development...more

Northrop Grumman

Open Text Communities of Practice enables groups of people with common interests to get together and share information and expertise...more

 

An Effective Enterprise 2.0 Strategy »

An effective Enterprise 2.0 strategy requires a holistic approach that factors in all of the 2.0 content being created. Open Text has an innovative track record in Web-centricity, collaboration, and search. We help organizations apply records and archiving rules to content across many systems—from email, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, SAP applications, and Oracle applications to our own content repositories.

The Foundation of a 2.0 Strategy:

Click the links below to learn more about the elements that comprise the foundation of an Enterprise 2.0 strategy:

Experience Optimization

Optimize the end user experience through personalization, language preferences, analytics, voting, tagging, blogs, and moderation.

Workgroup Optimization

Optimize collaborative applications that enhance the variety of workgroup structures in an organization—such as teams, projects, communities of practice, and program offices.

Enterprise 2.0 Content Management

Provide flexible use of wikis, forums, blogs, tagging, and real-time collaboration. Provide advanced handling of rich-media content, with special emphasis on video, which is quickly becoming the de-facto format for 2.0-style work.

Make Enterprise 2.0 Content Safe

Manage Enterprise 2.0 content holistically, alongside other content repositories, providing a consistent implementation of archiving, disposition, retention, and compliance policies.

Find Before Search

Intuitively find and deliver information relevant to the user’s current context and present that information without the user explicitly searching for the same.

To learn more, read our Enterprise 2.0 Whitepapers.

University of Waterloo Partnership: Planting the Seeds of Innovation »

Open Text Partners with the University of Waterloo to Create Leading Institute for Web 2.0 and Digital Media

“From Facebook to YouTube to Wikipedia, we are witnessing a revolution in the way consumers socialize, share knowledge, and harness collective intelligence,” said Tom Jenkins, Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer for Open Text. “But we’ve only just begun. There’s enormous potential to build on what’s been created so far, and apply these new technologies to business, government, and culture in new and exciting ways. Through our partnership with the University of Waterloo, we’re planting the seeds of that innovation right here in the Waterloo Region.” More about the partnership.

See highlights of this initiative on the Stratford Institute OTO community (registration required).