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Open Text to Provide Livelink Campus Collaboration to the UK Academic Community
Livelink Offers Sophisticated Management Capabilities for Knowledge-Based Environments
London, UK - 2002-10-11 - Open Text™ Corporation, provider of Livelink®, the leading collaboration and knowledge management software for the global enterprise, today announced that CHEST has approved Open Text's offer to supply Livelink Campus Collaboration to the UK academic community, which includes universities, research establishments, higher and further educations authorities. The offer is also open to universities and colleges in the Republic of Ireland.
CHEST conducted an evaluation of Livelink by assessing the existing Livelink implementations at the University of North London and the University of Manchester. The success of the existing implementations of Livelink within these academic settings demonstrated a highly scaleable and comprehensive collaborative environment for the development of Web-based intranet, extranets and e-business applications. Dynamic collaboration is facilitated throughout the universities, removing institutional and geographical barriers and enhancing all areas of academic life.
Livelink Campus Collaboration has been packaged specifically for the academic community. An entirely Web-based application, it delivers a fully integrated set of powerful enterprise services directly to the desktop. Livelink Campus Collaboration is instantly deployable and highly scaleable with core functionality that includes document and knowledge management, virtual team collaboration, information retrieval, business process automation, and event notification that provides the foundation for the building of managed learning environments.
"Paper overload has traditionally been a significant challenge for the academic world. The implementation of a robust document management system is highly overdue," says Nigel Kirkman, Project Design Manager, University of Manchester. "Livelink offers the University of Manchester not only the ability to manage and store documents, and improve documentation availability across campus, it harnesses the full power of the Web to bring together all members of the academic community for greater communications and interaction. In the earliest stages, Livelink showed a return on investment by providing electronic access to student records. Livelink reduced the time required by the staff of the Registrar and Secretary's departments to file, store, retrieve and collaborate on these documents."
"With the academic environment becoming increasingly competitive in terms of funding and attracting students, universities must be able to exploit tools which have previously been the domain of blue chip organisations," says Brenda Morris, Managing Director for Open Text UK. "Livelink Campus Collaboration provides a comprehensive set of collaborative tools for students, teachers and administrative staff alike. Teaching and administrative staff are able to benefit from a single repository of information where ideas and knowledge can be exchanged in a secure user-friendly environment."
Livelink Campus Collaboration, and its associated services, is available for purchase by selected members of CHEST under three licensing options: administrative staff, student access and student one-year term. In line with their commitment to the education sector, Open Text will hold an Education Seminar in November 2002 targeted specifically at the academic community.
CHEST conducted an evaluation of Livelink by assessing the existing Livelink implementations at the University of North London and the University of Manchester. The success of the existing implementations of Livelink within these academic settings demonstrated a highly scaleable and comprehensive collaborative environment for the development of Web-based intranet, extranets and e-business applications. Dynamic collaboration is facilitated throughout the universities, removing institutional and geographical barriers and enhancing all areas of academic life.
Livelink Campus Collaboration has been packaged specifically for the academic community. An entirely Web-based application, it delivers a fully integrated set of powerful enterprise services directly to the desktop. Livelink Campus Collaboration is instantly deployable and highly scaleable with core functionality that includes document and knowledge management, virtual team collaboration, information retrieval, business process automation, and event notification that provides the foundation for the building of managed learning environments.
"Paper overload has traditionally been a significant challenge for the academic world. The implementation of a robust document management system is highly overdue," says Nigel Kirkman, Project Design Manager, University of Manchester. "Livelink offers the University of Manchester not only the ability to manage and store documents, and improve documentation availability across campus, it harnesses the full power of the Web to bring together all members of the academic community for greater communications and interaction. In the earliest stages, Livelink showed a return on investment by providing electronic access to student records. Livelink reduced the time required by the staff of the Registrar and Secretary's departments to file, store, retrieve and collaborate on these documents."
"With the academic environment becoming increasingly competitive in terms of funding and attracting students, universities must be able to exploit tools which have previously been the domain of blue chip organisations," says Brenda Morris, Managing Director for Open Text UK. "Livelink Campus Collaboration provides a comprehensive set of collaborative tools for students, teachers and administrative staff alike. Teaching and administrative staff are able to benefit from a single repository of information where ideas and knowledge can be exchanged in a secure user-friendly environment."
Livelink Campus Collaboration, and its associated services, is available for purchase by selected members of CHEST under three licensing options: administrative staff, student access and student one-year term. In line with their commitment to the education sector, Open Text will hold an Education Seminar in November 2002 targeted specifically at the academic community.
About CHEST
Based in the centre of Bath, CHEST is a not-for-profit organization that acts as a focal point for the supply of data, information, training materials and other IT related products to the Higher and Further Education sectors. It negotiates and manages software licence agreements for technical functionality its members have requested. CHEST is driven only by demand and the need to provide the best possible value in technology to institutions of higher education, which must be highly conscious of the return on every pound spent.
About Livelink
Livelink is the leader in collaboration and knowledge management for the global enterprise. 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, visit www.opentext.com/livelink/.
About Open Text
Since 1991, Open Text Corporation has delivered innovative software that brings people together to share knowledge, achieve excellence, deliver innovation, and enhance processes. Its legacy of innovation began with the successful deployment of the world's first search engine technology for the Internet. Today, as the leading global supplier of collaboration and knowledge management software for the enterprise, Open Text supports six million seats across 4,500 corporations in 31 countries and 12 languages throughout the world. As a publicly traded company, Open Text manages and maximizes its resources and relationships to ensure the success of great minds working together. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.
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Copyright © 2002 by Open Text Corporation. LIVELINK, LIVELINK MEETINGZONE, and OPEN TEXT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation in the United States of America, Canada, the European Union and/or other countries. This list of trademarks is not exhaustive. Other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names, company names, brands and service names mentioned herein are property of Open Text Corporation or other respective owners.
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This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the deployment of Livelink and Livelink Classifications 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, June 30, 2000, and June 30, 2001, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 2001, December 31, 2001 and March 31, 2002. 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
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2410
mdobbin@opentext.com
