Software accelerates social computing and collaboration.
Press Release Summary:
Extending power of Web 2.0, Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration connects people, processes, and content across organization, creating work environment where employees can circulate ideas, experience, and knowledge in real-time. Set of community applications brings enterprise-ready tools, such as forums, blogs, wikis, and real-time collaboration; along with newsletter views, FAQs, and event calendars to promote shared expertise and best practices.
Original Press Release:
Open Text Introduces Solution to Accelerate Social Computing and Collaboration in Organizations
New Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration Connects People, Processes and Content in Real-Time
AIIM Conf. & Expo 2008, BOSTON and CeBIT 2008, HANNOVER, March 3 / -- Open Text(TM) Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX)(NASDAQ:TSX:)(NASDAQ:OTC), a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today announced a major new collaboration offering that will help organizations extend the power of Web 2.0 to the promise of Enterprise 2.0: Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration, which will give customers a powerful set of communities, social computing and real-time collaboration tools in Livelink ECM.
The new offering is one of several product initiatives the company will be introducing as part of a broad new Enterprise 2.0 strategy (http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=2018) unveiled today to help customers transform their organizations with powerful social computing tools. Open Text is taking its collaboration and Web solutions offerings to a new level, providing 2.0 capabilities, including wikis, forums, blogs, tagging, moderation, communities and real-time collaboration within an organization's broader ECM strategy. Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration is complemented by Open Text's strong Web Solutions offerings that are well integrated with the Livelink ECM platform, and other popular content repositories.
"Large organizations today are operating in highly competitive global markets, managing a decentralized workforce and legions of remote workers. The need for transparency, collaboration and knowledge sharing are more important than ever," said Cheryl McKinnon, Director, Collaborative Content Management at Open Text. "Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration gives organizations a roadmap to Enterprise 2.0 within a broader ECM strategy, while providing dynamic new ways to improve employee collaboration and productivity, and increase customer loyalty."
Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration connects people, processes and content across an organization, creating a work environment where employees can easily circulate ideas, experiences and knowledge in real-time. The solution combines a robust knowledge repository with project workspaces, polls, news channels, tasks and milestones. A set of community applications brings specialized, enterprise-ready tools, such as forums, blogs, wikis, and real-time collaboration; along with newsletter views, FAQs, and event calendars to promote shared expertise and best practices.
These collaborative and community-oriented tools co-exist with content in an intuitive environment that encourages people to work together, while capturing critical project information in an underlying ECM framework. Security, access control, and retention policies are strictly enforced using the native security mechanisms already in place, without adding another administrative layer. Empowered workers can quickly and securely form cross-functional project teams, capture shared knowledge, manage processes and meet project deadlines even across geographic and departmental boundaries.
- Sharing Expertise and Promoting Best Practices within Communities: Organizations can effectively interconnect their islands of knowledge and expertise, enabling employees with similar goals and challenges to connect with one another. They can create a support network to share news ideas and opportunities, establish standards and best practices, and work more effectively with customers and partners. Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration also offers the ability to place content from the communities environment under secure records management controls.
- Enhancing Organizational Agility with Project Management: Dedicated project workspaces can create a sense of focus for team members. Coordinators can form project teams on the fly - adding team members and assigning multiple roles and tasks within a Web-based interface. All relevant project information - including plans, documents, task lists, and URLs - is consolidated and stored in the project space for easy access. Communication among project members can be captured within threaded discussions and integrated with popular email systems for desktop delivery.
- Access to People and Information in Real-Time: Real-time capabilities provide the ability to collaborate in an ad-hoc, spontaneous fashion within the secure walls of an organization. Support for team meetings, instant messaging, screen and application sharing, as well as shared collaborative workspaces will improve teamwork and enhance productivity.
Availability: Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration will be released in May 2008. For more information, go to: www.opentext.com/2/sol-products/sol-pro-docmgmt-collaboration/pro-ll- collaboration.htm
AIIM Conference & Expo 2008, CeBIT 2008 Conference
Open Text is announcing its Enterprise 2.0 news in conjunction with the AIIM Conference this week in Boston, where Open Text is exhibiting in booth # 3221, and at the CeBIT 2008 Conference in Hannover, Germany, where Open Text is exhibiting in booth # D09, Hall 3.
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(TM) 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.
Copyright (C) 2008 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.
CONTACT: Richard Maganini, Open Text Corporation, (847) 267-9330 ext.4266, rmaganin@opentext.com; Stephanie Dodge, Open Text Corporation, (519) 888-7111, x2429, sdodge@opentext.com
