Vitro Corporation Chooses Open Text's Livelink Intranet To Improve Systems Engineering Document Management
Chicago, IL - 1997-03-25 - - Vitro Corp., a Tracor company, of
Rockville, Maryland, has chosen Open Text Corporation's (OTEX:Nasdaq)
Livelink Intranet Suite 7 to manage its engineering documents and
workflows for a major Department of the Navy (DON) customer. Tracor, Inc,
based in Austin, Texas, is one of the 15 largest defense electronics firms
in the United States with annual sales in 1996 of more than $1billion. The
company provides sophisticated electronic and information technology
products, systems and services to its customers in the U.S. Department
of Defense, as well as in non-defense U.S. government agencies, other
governments and the commercial marketplace.
"Livelink Intranet offered the easiest product to set up and use. We
developed a requirements document which was issued to a number of
vendors and then conducted an in-house product competition to narrow
down our choices. Livelink came out on top in a wide range of attributes,
such as user interface, ease-of-use and administration, document
management features, application compatibility and strong workflow
capabilities," said Bert McLean, Vitro's Technical Director, Systems
Definition and Control Department.
"We were looking for a new way to manage our engineering documents
and projects for a major Navy client, and improve work management
processes. We needed to increase our productivity and decrease the time
involved getting documents approved and Open Text's Livelink Intranet
Suite 7 met our requirements," added McLean.
Livelink Intranet manages and maintains vast stores of critical business
documents and allows for access and sharing of information across
computing platforms, through industry-standard browsers. This held great
appeal to Vitro, which employs more than 4,000 people in 40 locations
world-wide, prompting McLean to say that "We found Livelink's ability to
bring everyone together electronically to be very appealing."
Initially, Livelink Intranet will be used by approximately 100 Vitro engineers,
expanding to 500 users within the year. Livelink will run on a Sun
UltraSPARC computing platform connected to an Oracle database. It will
be used in a mixed PC/Macintosh environment.
"Livelink makes it easy to move a company's workflow processes on to an
intranet," said Tom Jenkins, President and CEO of Open Text Corp. "Our
software adapts to the company's workflow, not the other way around, and
that's a plus with many of our customers."
About Vitro Corp.
Vitro supports major defense, aviation and space programs and provides expertise in systems engineering and integration. Major customers include the Department of the Navy, Dept. of the Army, NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. government's intelligence community and other, international governments.
Release Disclaimer
This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking statements, specifically those concerning future performance, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties are 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 year ended June 30, 1997, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 1997, and December 31, 1997. Note to Editors: Livelink Pinstripe, Livelink 8, Livelink Search, Livelink Library, Livelink Workflow and Livelink Project Collaboration are trademarks of Open Text Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.
For more information, please contact
Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2410
mdobbin@opentext.com
