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Open Text Announces Availability of Livelink Archive for SAP R/3
New product offering reinforces Open Text's collaborative commerce strategy
Waterloo, ON - 2001-09-06 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), a worldwide leader in delivering collaborative commerce solutions, today announced the certification and availability of Livelink Archive for SAP® R/3®. This new product offering enables organizations to leverage their existing investments in SAP products by extending SAP's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System, SAP R/3, with Livelink®'s collaboration, document management, library and search capabilities. Current Livelink customers can leverage their existing Livelink infrastructure, eliminating the expense of purchasing separate repository hardware and software for their SAP R/3 documents. The release of Livelink Archive for SAP R/3 demonstrates Open Text's ongoing commitment to delivering open and extensible solutions that are easily integrated with enterprise solutions from other vendors.
Certified by SAP, Livelink Archive for SAP R/3 uses SAP's ArchiveLink® communication interface to enable customers to:
- Archive SAP R/3 images and business documents in Livelink and retrieve them from SAP/R3.
- Copy desktop files to the Livelink repository and intelligently link them to an R/3 business object or transaction using the SAP R/3 office applications, enabling SAP users to access required information at the appropriate points in their daily business operations.
- Store incoming documents, such as fax and scanned images, in Livelink and view them from a SAP R/3 business process, where the information is used for decision-making and further processing.
- Store outgoing documents, such as print lists (reports), in Livelink and hyperlink fields to other archived documents and an index page, enabling efficient viewing of desired report sections.
- Create secure access to SAP R/3 documents archived in Livelink, ensuring viewing and use by authorized users only.
In addition to Livelink Archive for SAP R/3, Open Text's strategy of integration and interoperability with SAP products includes:
- Livelink Activator for SAP R/3, a toolkit that allows developers to write custom integrations between Livelink and SAP R/3.
- Support for XML data interchange with SAP R/3.
- An integration that exposes Livelink content and services inside mySAP Workplace portal.
"SAP-related documents no longer need to be searched in physical libraries a very time consuming process," says Ralf Aussel, General Manager, Competence Center eDMS, Comline AG. "With Livelink Archive for SAP R/3, Open Text provides advanced collaboration and intelligent information retrieval for SAP data and documents to SAP and Livelink users. With Open Text's SAP integration offerings, the merger of global collaboration and commercial business "e-powers" the business of our customers."
"Enhancing an organization's collaborative commerce strategy, Livelink Archive for SAP R/3 enables customers to utilize Livelink as the vehicle for managing and disseminating key documents that originate in R/3," said Andrew Pery, Open Text's Senior Vice President of Global Marketing. "This new product offering reflects Open Text's commitment to protect our customers' technology investments through solutions designed for enterprise data integration."
"Corporate interests in productivity and efficiency demand a means of accessing both structured and unstructured information from a single interface," said Ian Campbell, Vice President, Nucleus Research, Inc. "The combination of SAP R/3 and Livelink provides a powerful package for searching, browsing and easily navigating mission-critical information."
About Livelink
Livelink is a highly scalable collaborative commerce and knowledge management 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. For more information about Livelink, visit www.opentext.com/livelink.
About Open Text
Open Text provides collaborative commerce solutions for e-business that enable users to extend and build CRM, SCM and ERP applications and allow them to work together within and across organizations. 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. Its solution family called Livelink enables individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on e-business applications that facilitate e-commerce and other transactions among Global 2000 organizations. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.
Trademark
Copyright (C) 2001 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink and Open Text are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation. SAP, R/3, mySAP and all other SAP product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries. 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 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, June 30, 1999, and June 30, 2000, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 2000, December 31, 2000 and March 31, 2001. 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
Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2410
mdobbin@opentext.com
