Balfour Beatty Rail Maintenance Selects Livelink for Information Management.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1998-- Open Text's collaborative knowledge management approach satisfies vision of Web-based future Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :OTEXF)(TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). ) announced today that Balfour Beatty Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY) is a British based construction and civil engineering company based in central London. It is the largest construction company in the UK, and the 15th largest in the world.[3] It is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Rail Maintenance (BBRM), one of the UK's leading railway engineering contractors, has selected Livelink to publish, control and disseminate essential documentation used in the day-to-day running of its operations. The system will allow BBRM to make substantial savings by reducing print and distribution costs distribution costs distribute npl → Vertriebskosten pl . The company expects a return on investment within 18 months. Livelink will run on a NT/Oracle platform and it is planned to provide access for up to 800 users involved in BBRM's railway infrastructure inspection, maintenance and management activities. "In our business, we have volumes of technical information which have to be readily available to a geographically dispersed workforce," said Paul Banyard, BBRM's system development manager. "After assessing other, more traditional solutions, we chose Livelink for a variety of reasons including its ease-of-use, low cost of deployment and tremendous scalability. "Our research convinced us that Web-based systems were the way forward for us and Livelink appeared to be well ahead of the game," added Banyard. Currently, BBRM receives regular information updates from Railtrack in CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). format which have to be printed and circulated to staff across much of the UK. Taking account of issues such as speed of delivery and printing and distribution costs, a corporate intranet offers an attractive alternative. "Entering the selection process late in the day, Open Text became the premier choice. The combination of our consultancy, expertise and focus on client satisfaction enabled us to demonstrate that Livelink was the only product to meet Balfour Beatty's requirements," said Derek Buchanan, UK country manager for Open Text. "The message is clear - Web-based collaborative knowledge management is definitely the way ahead." Paul Banyard expects the system to play more than one key role. "I see it as an ideal vehicle for providing news and background information about BBRM to our employees, helping them get a better understanding of the company's aims and ambitions." About Balfour Beatty Rail Maintenance Balfour Beatty Rail Maintenance (BBRM) is the UK's only specialist contractor dedicated solely to managing and maintaining railway infrastructure. Its 3500 employees provide routine and emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' from the Scottish border to the Channel Tunnel Channel Tunnel, popularly called the "Chunnel," a three-tunnel railroad connection running under the English Channel, connecting Folkestone, England, and Calais, France. The tunnels are 31 mi (50 km) long. There are two rail tunnels, each 25 ft (7. for local and high-speed lines carrying commuter, inter-city and international passenger and freight traffic. It is one of five main operating companies operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. within Balfour Beatty Rail which together cover all aspects of railway infrastructure design, construction, renewal and maintenance. About Livelink Livelink Intranet is a highly scaleable, collaborative knowledge management application for intranets. Its richly featured enterprise document management, workflow, project collaboration and search engines are tightly integrated into an off-the-shelf application that is easily customized and extended to fill a broad range of information and knowledge management needs. Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure very rapid deployment, requiring just a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. on a users' desktop to access its full functionality. Livelink runs on Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT and the leading UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms and supports most popular database management systems. About Open Text Corporation Open Text Corporation's software and services enable the world's largest companies to leverage the global reach and openness of intranets, truly "Putting the web to work"(TM). Open Text's dramatic growth has been fuelled by the rapid market acceptance of its innovative collaborative knowledge management system, Livelink. The company has been named the growth leader by the Delphi Group and the market share leader by International Data Corporation. Further information about the company, its products and services, partners and customers can be found at http://www.opentext.com. Note to Editors: Livelink is a registered trademark of Open Text Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.
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