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Open Text Announces First Comprehensive System for Integrated Records, Archiving, Storage Management
Open Text Enterprise Library Services Provides a Trusted Repository to Consistently Manage Retention, Compliance Rules for All Content Types Enterprise-wide.; One of Three New Content Services Introduced by Open Text Today
LiveLinkUp 2007, Orlando, FL - 2007-10-22 - Open Text™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today announced Open Text Enterprise Library Services which provides the industry’s first comprehensive offering for integrated records, metadata, archiving and storage management for all content types across an enterprise. The offering gives customers a single “trusted repository” delivered as a shared service for all content, allowing customers to set consistent rules for managing and archiving content to meet compliance and business requirements, while helping organizations reduce storage costs.
Open Text Enterprise Library Services is one of three new content services announced today at Open Text’s LiveLinkUp 2007 conference. The three form the basis for a next-generation content management framework that takes a unique, repository-agnostic approach to ECM, eliminating the content and process silos created by different systems by decoupling the user experience from the underlying information repositories.
Open Text Enterprise Library Services provides the critical foundation for a true enterprise-wide ECM strategy, allowing organizations to manage content and metadata in a single, consistent way. Information is archived and stored based on a lifecycle defined by records retention and disposition rules and the value of the content to the organization, utilizing records management that is already U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2-STD compliant (a key standard for records management software used in corporations and government). Enterprise Library Services integrates with SAP and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, as well as Open Text products, including Livelink ECM, Livelink ECM–eDOCS (formerly Hummingbird Enterprise) and Artesia (RedDot will be integrated next year).
“Customer can’t solve corporate-wide content management challenges without a single records management and archiving system that applies one set of ground rules to all content,” said Kirk Roberts, President, Livelink ECM Division at Open Text. “It’s critical to meeting compliance and legal rules, but the benefits go far beyond that. Enterprise Library Servicesgives customers a single system with the power to, once and for all, organize the daily onslaught of email and documents that flood their systems every day. The result is lower costs and great value for IT, and improved productivity for staff.”
An important benefit of Enterprise Library Services, according to Roberts, is that customers gain added value from critical systems such as email by adding a ready-to-use records management and archiving system that can manage content for the long term. Customers can improve the performance of systems such as email and be assured that content that must be retained for many years is being properly archived and managed outside of systems that are designed for short-term storage.
Enterprise Library Services solves customers’ biggest storage challenges because it uses Open Text’s Intelligent Storage Management (ISM) capabilities. Rather than have storage requirements define where content is stored, ISM virtualizes storage and lets retention rules, policies and the importance of content define how information is stored, right down to defining specific storage devices. Open Text integrates with all major storage systems from leading vendors such as EMC, Hitachi, Sun, HP and others, so customers have the flexibility to use any combination of storage systems they want. Because the rules governing how information is stored is independent from the storage devices themselves, customers have the flexibility to change out older storage systems without having to worry about the content stored on those systems.
Enterprise Library Services also provides a robust search capability, including brokered or federated search, helping users easily search content in multiple systems to find the information they need. The federated search capability lets users enter a search term and receive unified results from multiple search engines inside and outside of the company’s systems.
Records Management Leadership
Enterprise Library Services furthers Open Text’s worldwide leadership in records management and continues a string of records management innovations this year. In April, Open Text became the first ECM vendor to offer an SAP-endorsed business solution for records management (http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1872). Open Text was also first-to-market with a records management solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 earlier this year (http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1835).
Open Text is also the leader in document management and archiving for SAP applications, with solutions deployed in more than 2,500 SAP customer sites around the world.
Availability:
Open Text Enterprise Library Services is available today for Livelink ECM, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003 and 2007, SAP applications, major email systems and file systems, as well as more limited archiving capabilities for Open Text’s Artesia DAM solution. Enterprise Library Services for Livelink ECM – eDOCS will be available in the second quarter, 2008. Open Text will extend the full capabilities in Enterprise Enterprise Library Services to Artesia DAM and RedDot later in 2008. For more information, go to http://opentext.com/2/sol-products/content-services/enterprise-library-services.htm.
LiveLinkUp 2007
Open Text’s LiveLinkUp 2007 conference is being held this year at the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes, Orlando, Florida. For more information, go to: http://livelinkup.opentext.com/orlando/2007/
About Open Text
Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.
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This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the success of any of the Company’s strategic initiatives, the Company’s growth and profitability prospects, the benefits of the Company’s products to be realized by customers, the Company’s position in the market and future opportunities therein, the deployment of Livelink and our other products by customers, and future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking statements may also include, without limitation, any statement relating to future events, conditions or circumstances. Forward-looking statements in this release are not promises or guarantees and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. The risks and uncertainties that may affect forward-looking statements include, among others, the failure to develop new products, risks involved in fluctuations in currency exchange rates, delays in purchasing decisions of customers, 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, demand for the Company's products and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2007. You should not place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which 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.
Copyright © 2007 by Open Text Corporation. LIVELINK ECM 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.
Open Text Enterprise Library Services is one of three new content services announced today at Open Text’s LiveLinkUp 2007 conference. The three form the basis for a next-generation content management framework that takes a unique, repository-agnostic approach to ECM, eliminating the content and process silos created by different systems by decoupling the user experience from the underlying information repositories.
Open Text Enterprise Library Services provides the critical foundation for a true enterprise-wide ECM strategy, allowing organizations to manage content and metadata in a single, consistent way. Information is archived and stored based on a lifecycle defined by records retention and disposition rules and the value of the content to the organization, utilizing records management that is already U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2-STD compliant (a key standard for records management software used in corporations and government). Enterprise Library Services integrates with SAP and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, as well as Open Text products, including Livelink ECM, Livelink ECM–eDOCS (formerly Hummingbird Enterprise) and Artesia (RedDot will be integrated next year).
“Customer can’t solve corporate-wide content management challenges without a single records management and archiving system that applies one set of ground rules to all content,” said Kirk Roberts, President, Livelink ECM Division at Open Text. “It’s critical to meeting compliance and legal rules, but the benefits go far beyond that. Enterprise Library Servicesgives customers a single system with the power to, once and for all, organize the daily onslaught of email and documents that flood their systems every day. The result is lower costs and great value for IT, and improved productivity for staff.”
An important benefit of Enterprise Library Services, according to Roberts, is that customers gain added value from critical systems such as email by adding a ready-to-use records management and archiving system that can manage content for the long term. Customers can improve the performance of systems such as email and be assured that content that must be retained for many years is being properly archived and managed outside of systems that are designed for short-term storage.
Enterprise Library Services solves customers’ biggest storage challenges because it uses Open Text’s Intelligent Storage Management (ISM) capabilities. Rather than have storage requirements define where content is stored, ISM virtualizes storage and lets retention rules, policies and the importance of content define how information is stored, right down to defining specific storage devices. Open Text integrates with all major storage systems from leading vendors such as EMC, Hitachi, Sun, HP and others, so customers have the flexibility to use any combination of storage systems they want. Because the rules governing how information is stored is independent from the storage devices themselves, customers have the flexibility to change out older storage systems without having to worry about the content stored on those systems.
Enterprise Library Services also provides a robust search capability, including brokered or federated search, helping users easily search content in multiple systems to find the information they need. The federated search capability lets users enter a search term and receive unified results from multiple search engines inside and outside of the company’s systems.
Records Management Leadership
Enterprise Library Services furthers Open Text’s worldwide leadership in records management and continues a string of records management innovations this year. In April, Open Text became the first ECM vendor to offer an SAP-endorsed business solution for records management (http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1872). Open Text was also first-to-market with a records management solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 earlier this year (http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1835).
Open Text is also the leader in document management and archiving for SAP applications, with solutions deployed in more than 2,500 SAP customer sites around the world.
Availability:
Open Text Enterprise Library Services is available today for Livelink ECM, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003 and 2007, SAP applications, major email systems and file systems, as well as more limited archiving capabilities for Open Text’s Artesia DAM solution. Enterprise Library Services for Livelink ECM – eDOCS will be available in the second quarter, 2008. Open Text will extend the full capabilities in Enterprise Enterprise Library Services to Artesia DAM and RedDot later in 2008. For more information, go to http://opentext.com/2/sol-products/content-services/enterprise-library-services.htm.
LiveLinkUp 2007
Open Text’s LiveLinkUp 2007 conference is being held this year at the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes, Orlando, Florida. For more information, go to: http://livelinkup.opentext.com/orlando/2007/
About Open Text
Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.
Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the success of any of the Company’s strategic initiatives, the Company’s growth and profitability prospects, the benefits of the Company’s products to be realized by customers, the Company’s position in the market and future opportunities therein, the deployment of Livelink and our other products by customers, and future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking statements may also include, without limitation, any statement relating to future events, conditions or circumstances. Forward-looking statements in this release are not promises or guarantees and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. The risks and uncertainties that may affect forward-looking statements include, among others, the failure to develop new products, risks involved in fluctuations in currency exchange rates, delays in purchasing decisions of customers, 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, demand for the Company's products and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2007. You should not place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which 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.
Copyright © 2007 by Open Text Corporation. LIVELINK ECM 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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