Ford Deploys Open Text Livelink Intranet To 135,000 Users Worldwide, Achieving Corporate Strategy of Web-based Functionality

Automotive Giant Selects Open Text Livelink As Underlying Technology For Business Information Repository Enterprise-Wide

Chicago, IL - 1998-01-27 - -- Ford Motor Company has selected Open Text's Livelink Intranet as the company's underlying technology for its Web-based corporate business information repository, providing employees around the world with an advanced knowledge management solution. Initially used to manage corporate and ISO 9000 documents, Livelink has now been implemented on an enterprise-wide scale and is available to 135,000 users to enhance global engineering of products and facilitate knowledge exchange across the company.

As the world's second largest automotive manufacturer, Ford selected Livelink Intranet based on its ability to meet the demanding needs of large corporate environments and deploy quickly to tens of thousands of users. Open Text Livelink provides Ford with a powerful collaborative environment that enables employees to capture, share, and reuse corporate knowledge across the company.

See what See what David Yockelson, Vice President and Service Director, Advanced Information Management Strategies, META Group, has to say.

"We are pleased that Ford chose Open Text Livelink Intranet, and we are confident that Livelink's collaborative knowledge management capabilities will give Ford a significant competitive advantage," said Brett Newbold, President, Open Text Corporation. "Ford's enterprise-wide deployment of Livelink once again confirms Open Text's ability to meet the mission-critical business needs of the world's largest corporations and demonstrates Livelink's extraordinary scalability."

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Anna Brown
Communications and Awareness
Enterprise Information Management Ford Motor Company
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