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Open Text’s Livelink Empowers More Than 1 Million Users In The Telecommunications Industry
Strongly positions Open Text to leverage the emerging ASP infrastructure
Chicago, IL - 2000-12-14 - Open Text™ Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), a worldwide leader of collaborative commerce software for e-business, today announced marketshare leadership in the telecommunications industry, having secured 16 of the top 20 telco companies in the world as customers.
With new accounts in the telecommunications industry and existing customers expanding their implementations of Livelink, more than 1 million users from more than 50 telecommunication companies will realize the benefits of Open Text’s collaborative commerce platform for integrating e-business applications with existing CRM, ERP and SCM solutions.
Livelink is used by such high profile industry leaders as Alcatel, AT&T, British Telecom, Ericsson, KPN, KPNQwest, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel Networks, NTT Communications, Qualcomm, Research in Motion (RIM), Siemens, Sprint, Vodafone and WorldCom. Established relationships with the industry leaders strongly positions Open Text to leverage the emerging ASP infrastructure. The company has already announced ASP relationships with British Telecom and KPNQwest, and will further extend its associations with telecommunications companies to deliver ASP services to industry-specific markets.
“As the ASP industry continues to evolve, we anticipate that telecommunications companies will play a major role in delivering e-business services to members of the vertical ASP market,” said Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing, Open Text. “Having established such a large customer base in the telecommunications industry, Open Text plans to take advantage of this emerging ASP infrastructure, offering new customers access to robust collaborative commerce capabilities and extending Livelink’s market reach beyond traditional supply channels.”
With new accounts in the telecommunications industry and existing customers expanding their implementations of Livelink, more than 1 million users from more than 50 telecommunication companies will realize the benefits of Open Text’s collaborative commerce platform for integrating e-business applications with existing CRM, ERP and SCM solutions.
Livelink is used by such high profile industry leaders as Alcatel, AT&T, British Telecom, Ericsson, KPN, KPNQwest, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel Networks, NTT Communications, Qualcomm, Research in Motion (RIM), Siemens, Sprint, Vodafone and WorldCom. Established relationships with the industry leaders strongly positions Open Text to leverage the emerging ASP infrastructure. The company has already announced ASP relationships with British Telecom and KPNQwest, and will further extend its associations with telecommunications companies to deliver ASP services to industry-specific markets.
“As the ASP industry continues to evolve, we anticipate that telecommunications companies will play a major role in delivering e-business services to members of the vertical ASP market,” said Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing, Open Text. “Having established such a large customer base in the telecommunications industry, Open Text plans to take advantage of this emerging ASP infrastructure, offering new customers access to robust collaborative commerce capabilities and extending Livelink’s market reach beyond traditional supply channels.”
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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Copyright (C) 2000 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink and Open Text are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation. 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 quarter ended September 30, 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.
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