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Integration Enhances Open Text's Collaborative KM and ERP Solutions
Eliminating Paper Revisions, Livelink Users Can View & Markup Documents Electronically With AutoVue for JAVA
Waterloo, ON - 2000-12-12 - Open Text™ Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX, TSE:OTC), a worldwide leader in collaborative commerce software for e-business, and Cimmetry Systems, leader in document visualization and online collaboration solutions, today announced that AutoVue and Panoramic! for JAVA now integrate with Livelink®, further expanding the extensive portfolio of solutions with which Livelink is interoperable. This integration will provide Livelink customers with enhanced tools for their knowledge management (KM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions.
Cimmetry Systems, an Open Text Affinity partner, has established itself as a leading source of visual data access and collaboration technology. Integrating Cimmetry's AutoVue and Panoramic! for JAVA products with Livelink enables users in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries, as well as those in the financial, pharmaceutical, utility, government, manufacturing and process industries, to:
- Securely access drawings and documents through Livelink from any Web browser in the world
- Add graphical or textual information to documents and drawings independently of the authoring application, without altering the original
- Create a workflow for making revisions to engineering drawings and business documents
- Associate drafts with the original documents in the Livelink repository for easy tracking and retrieval
- View documents and collaborate on designs in virtual project workspaces
"Open Text's Livelink is a powerful driving force in the Internet based world of collaborative e-business applications," said Brian Strasser, Business Development Manager at Cimmetry Systems. "As an added tool set to Livelink, AutoVue and Panoramic! for JAVA enable employees, partners and customers to view and markup business documents, drawings and CAD files in over 200 formats without ever leaving the Livelink environment."
"It is important to Open Text to be able to deliver comprehensive KM and ERP solutions that address the specific needs of all our Livelink customers," said Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing, Open Text. "Our clients in the manufacturing, service, government and AEC industries can benefit from the integration of Livelink with AutoVue and Panoramic! for JAVA. Providing a paperless method of making graphical revisions, as well as the means to easily track drafts, will help our customers reduce their overhead, improve time to market and overcome geographical boundaries.
Cimmetry Systems, an Open Text Affinity partner, has established itself as a leading source of visual data access and collaboration technology. Integrating Cimmetry's AutoVue and Panoramic! for JAVA products with Livelink enables users in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries, as well as those in the financial, pharmaceutical, utility, government, manufacturing and process industries, to:
- Securely access drawings and documents through Livelink from any Web browser in the world
- Add graphical or textual information to documents and drawings independently of the authoring application, without altering the original
- Create a workflow for making revisions to engineering drawings and business documents
- Associate drafts with the original documents in the Livelink repository for easy tracking and retrieval
- View documents and collaborate on designs in virtual project workspaces
"Open Text's Livelink is a powerful driving force in the Internet based world of collaborative e-business applications," said Brian Strasser, Business Development Manager at Cimmetry Systems. "As an added tool set to Livelink, AutoVue and Panoramic! for JAVA enable employees, partners and customers to view and markup business documents, drawings and CAD files in over 200 formats without ever leaving the Livelink environment."
"It is important to Open Text to be able to deliver comprehensive KM and ERP solutions that address the specific needs of all our Livelink customers," said Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing, Open Text. "Our clients in the manufacturing, service, government and AEC industries can benefit from the integration of Livelink with AutoVue and Panoramic! for JAVA. Providing a paperless method of making graphical revisions, as well as the means to easily track drafts, will help our customers reduce their overhead, improve time to market and overcome geographical boundaries.
About Cimmetry Systems Inc.
Cimmetry Systems Inc., a privately held company founded in 1988, is a recognized technology pioneer and market leader in the area of Visual Data Access and Collaboration for the engineering and office automation markets. Cimmetry's viewing and markup products are strategically designed to integrate seamlessly with Document Management (DM, EDM) Workflow, Product Data Management (PDM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), ASP and B2B Portal systems either directly or through the Web. Cimmetry's flagship product, AutoVue, is sold worldwide and available in many languages. AutoVue is the premier enterprise-wide viewing and markup package, providing native file format support for more than 200 formats including office formats, graphics, CAD, raster, and Mechanical 3D data.
For additional information on Cimmetry Systems and its product line, or to download your free evaluation copy of AutoVue for JAVA, please visit: www.cimmetry.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 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.
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