Open Text Forges Strategic Partnership With Epicentric To Provide Comprehensive E-Business Solution
Open Text s Open Interchange Architecture Extends the Power of Livelink to Epicentric s Portal Server
San Francisco, CA - 2000-08-08 - At the Epicentric Summit 2000 conference and exhibition, Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), the leading provider of collaborative intranet, extranet and e-business applications, today announced a strategic partnership with Epicentric Inc., the leading provider of next generation e-commerce portals. The agreement will provide mutual customers with single point access to content, legacy applications and structured data within an organization.
Epicentric is the first portal server vendor to take advantage of Open Text s Open Interchange Architecture (OIA) since its introduction last week. Facilitating the development of e-business applications, the OIA enables the integration of Epicentric s portal server capabilities with the robust collaborative functions of Livelink®, Open Text s collaborative environment for the development of Web-based intranets, extranets and e-business applications.
This agreement enables Open Text and Epicentric to collaborate and cooperate in gaining new customers, extending Epicentric s established customer base to Open Text and, conversely, extending Open Text s established client base to Epicentric.
Our partnership with Open Text gives users innovative new options in developing their e-business solutions, said Kathleen Hayes, Vice President of Business Development at Epicentric. Open Text customers can now choose to deploy the Epicentric Portal Server, providing complete customization and personalization while delivering and managing Internet content, applications and e-commerce services. In addition, by providing access to Livelink s powerful collaborative capabilities through Epicentric Portal Server, Epicentric customers gain key e-business services such as virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling and information retrieval services.
Integration between Epicentric Portal Server and Livelink is achieved by leveraging myLivelink®, a collaborative knowledge portal for e-business applications that gives users a personalized interface to Livelink. Customers are able to take advantage of myLivelink s best-of-breed portal access to Livelink without having to create and support custom Epicentric modules to provide Livelink access. Since administration and configuration of Livelink controls are provided directly from within Epicentric Portal Server, users are not required to maintain separate myLivelink accounts. In addition, new controls for accessing Livelink can be easily deployed and exposed within the Epicentric Portal Server by adding them to myLivelink.
We are pleased to enter into this partnership with Epicentric. Using the Open Interchange Architecture to integrate Livelink with Epicentric Portal Server has enabled us to provide customers with a single point of access to Web services, legacy systems, collaborative commerce capabilities, and more, said Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing, Open Text. Some of the key features of the OIA are low administration requirements, ease-of-deployment and maintenance, and high scaleability. In addition, organizations are able to build next-generation collaborative e-commerce solutions through a distributed architecture that spans multiple portal servers and Livelink instances.
About Epicentric, Inc.
Epicentric, Inc. is the leading provider of next generation portals and portal networks that enable enterprise and dot.com companies to quickly launch fully integrated and personalized solutions that power the Internet relationships driving e-commerce. Epicentric s portal network solution enables any end user to create, customize and publish an enterprise class portal directly from a web browser. Founded in 1998, Epicentric, Inc. has provided portal solutions for customers such as Altra, Autodesk, ChemConnect, Cofix, eDaycare, GE, Jguru, Lockheed Martin, Mucho.com, SCom, Unilink, and Valleynet. Epicentric, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Austin, Chicago, and Washington D.C. International headquarters located in Atlanta with offices in Germany and Paris. Investors include Bowman Capital Management, LLC; Putnam Investments; Capital Research and Management Company; Chase H&Q s Access Technology Partners, L.P.; J.P. Morgan; Sandler Capital Management; US Bancorp Piper Jaffray; Autodesk; Dain Rauscher Wessels; Essex Investment Management Company, LLC. For more information visit the company s website at www.epicentric.com
About Livelink
Livelink is a highly scaleable e-business application. Its richly-featured enterprise services include virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling and information retrieval services, all tightly integrated into a solution that is easily customized and extended. Livelink is essential to the effective management and development of communities of interest that span organizations and industries. For everything from the creation of complex e-community relationships to the automation of simple e-business processes, Livelink delivers true dynamic collaboration between individuals, organizations, and large trading communities. Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure rapid deployment and easy access to its full functionality through a standard Web browser.
About myLivelink
myLivelink is the leading collaborative knowledge portal solution for business. It connects users to information from within their enterprise business systems, intranets, extranets and global e-community all from a single Web interface. Using myLivelink, users can filter and access information from selected sources, set up virtual teams, collaborate on projects, and participate in discussions across the globe without leaving the desktop. A 'hub' for navigating and accessing a variety of information sources, myLivelink enables users to personalize access to corporate information, industry data, enterprise business systems, consumer links, e-mail, conferencing, calendaring, forms processing, news feeds, and more.
About Open Text
Open Text has pioneered the development of innovative intranet, extranet and e-Business applications. Since creating one of the first search engines to index the World Wide Web, the Company has remained at the forefront of Internet-based technologies. Today, Open Text solutions allow individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on projects, share ideas and accelerate innovation to the fastest possible speed. We call it HyperInnovation and it is already a major factor in the success of leading Global 2000 organizations. Open Text has become the largest supplier of collaborative, Web-based e-Business applications for the enterprise, with over 3.5 million users in 31 countries, speaking 12 languages throughout the world. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.
Trademark
Copyright © 2000 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink, 'Effective Solutions. Driven By Vision. Powered By Innovation.', HyperInnovation, b2bScene.com, and Open Text are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation., Inc. This list is not exhaustive. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Release Disclaimer
This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the deployment of Livelink and myLivelink by customers, and future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks involved in the completion and integration of acquisitions, the possibility of technical, logistical or planning issues in connection with deployments, the continuous commitment of the Company s customers and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the final prospectus for the Company s initial public offering of common stock in January 1996, Form 10-K for the years ended June 30, 1998, and June 30, 1999, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 1999, December 31, 1999 and March 31, 2000. Forward-looking statements are based on management s beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made, and the Company does not undertake any obligations to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management s beliefs or opinions change.
For more information, please contact
Colleen Nichols
Public Relations Manager
Epicentric, Inc.
415-597-8374
cnichols@epicentric.com
Greg Secord
Open Text Corporation
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gsecord@opentext.com
