Open Text Introduces Livelink 8.1

Integrated group scheduling and enhanced search capabilities provide building blocks for organisations to move toward HyperInnovation

Beaconsfield, UK - 1999-04-15 - Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX; TSE:OTC), today introduced Livelink 8.1, the latest version of its award-winning knowledge management software. Livelink 8.1 extends an organisation's ability to effectively manage corporate knowledge and promote collaboration, encouraging and accelerating innovation across the enterprise.

The addition of project calendars, directory synchronisation and Microsoft BackOffice certification, along with advances in the traditional technologies such as compound document support, gives Livelink users and administrators unique benefits, particularly in dynamic, global companies.

Livelink 8.1 significantly broadens the collaboration capabilities of Livelink projects with the addition of the Livelink OnTime module . Livelink OnTime adds project and personal calendar capabilities to Livelink, enabling Livelink users to keep track of critical project milestones and schedule activities with full knowledge of each participants' calendar, coordinate their time, and quickly turn ideas into implementation.

"Livelink 8.1 reflects Open Text's ongoing dialogue with our customers around the world," said Derek Buchanan, UK Country Manager, Open Text. "We have made enhancements to Livelink that meet and exceed their demands, resulting in a product that, more than ever, enables enterprise-wide collaborative knowledge management."

Livelink 8.1 also offers an integrated directory services component that supports synchronisation using LDAP and NT Domain directories, and unified logon capabilities, allowing organisations to easily support Livelink installations that scale to include all users in the enterprise.

With this release, compound document check-in and check-out capabilities become a single-step process, thus helping the management of very complex documents. In addition, Livelink 8.1 includes updates to the Livelink SDK, as well as improved developer documentation and online help.

Availability

Livelink 8.1 is available now in English, with French and German editions to follow.

For more information, please contact

Myriam McLoughlin
Account Manager
Grant Butler Coomber
(00 44) 0181 322 1922
myriamm@gbc.co.uk

Jill Wilkin
Marketing Director, Northern Europe
Open Text UK Ltd.
(00 44) 01494 679700
jwilkin@opentext.co.uk