CHIRON CORPORATION CHOOSES OPEN TEXT LIVELINK SOLUTION FOR ALLIANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 1996--Open Text Corporation (OTEXF: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 ) of Waterloo, Ontario Coordinates: Waterloo is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, and is adjacent to the larger city of Kitchener. , Canada today announced that biotechnology company Chiron Corporation Chiron Corporation was a multinational biotechnology firm based in Emeryville, California that was acquired by Novartis International AG on April 20 2006. It had offices and facilities in eighteen countries on five continents. (CHIR CHIR Chiricahua National Monument (US National Park Service) :NASDAQ) of Emeryville, California has chosen the Livelink solution as the basis for a global alliance management system. The system implementation, to be completed by the end of this year, is initially being rolled out at the company's corporate headquarters. When the planned global installation is completed by the end of 1997, the majority of Chiron's managers who are responsible for alliances and contracts around the world will be using the new Livelink system. "Open Text's Livelink suite has the integrated, collaborative computing architecture we need, in an easy to install, intuitive client/server package," said Steve Cedeno, Manager, Chiron Contract Compliance and Analysis. "The system also has an easy upgrade path to Open Text's Livelink Intranet suite when we decide to 'go to the net' to implement a web-based intranet system." The Livelink-based contract management system is replacing inefficient paper-based manual systems and will allows users easy, shared access to the hundreds of contracts and alliance-related documents that reside in numerous databases across the company. "Our Livelink C/S See client/server. solution, in use at firms as diverse as British Petroleum and United Airlines, has always been a best-of-breed solution," said Tom Jenkins, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Open Text Corporation, "and provides the perfect stepping stone to our Livelink Intranet solutions when Chiron decides to go that route. This is a strength that few other collaborative computing vendors can provide, and which has attracted other bio-technology and pharmaceutical firms such as Amgen and Genzyme." Running on the Sun/Solaris platform and using an Oracle relational database, Open Text's Livelink solution offers an easy user interface and graphical workflow painter as part of the new alliance management system. The initial pilot has been implemented on a client/server platform and can be upgraded to a standalone Intranet version. Chiron Corporation is a science-driven healthcare company that combines diagnostic, vaccine and therapeutic strategies for controlling disease. headquartered in Emeryville, California, near San Francisco, with operations on four continents, Chiron had revenues in 1995 of more than $1 billion. Chiron participates I four global healthcare markets: diagnostics, including immunodiagnostics, critical care diagnostics and new quantitative probe tests; therapeutics, with an emphasis on oncology and infectious disease Infectious disease A pathological condition spread among biological species. Infectious diseases, although varied in their effects, are always associated with viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites and aberrant proteins known as prions. ; pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. and adult vaccines; and ophthalmic surgical products for the correction of vision. Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEXF) is an intranet applications company whose mission is to put the Web to work. Open Text enables organizations to leverage the power and global reach of Internet technology by providing applications, tools and services that transform intranets into platforms for collaborative, distributed computing. Global 2000 companies use Open Text solutions to find and manage information and documents, empower teams and drive critical business processes. This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking statements, specifically those concerning future performance, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties are detailed from time to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the final prospectus Final Prospectus A legal document stating the price of a newly issued security, the delivery date, and other facts that are important for investors. Notes: The final prospectus must be given to every investor who purchases a new issue of registered securities. for the company's initial public offering of common stock in January 1996, and Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended June 30, 1996. Note to Editors: Open Text, Livelink Intranet and Livelink Client/Server are trademarks of Open Text Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. CONTACT: David Paolini PR Director, Open Text Corporation Tel:(416) 596-0296 ex. 13/Fax (416) 596-1374 Open Text URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. - http://www.opentext.com Email: davep@opentext.com or Jacqueline Docherty Brodeur Porter Novelli Tel: (617) 587-2843 Email: jdocherty@brodeur.com |
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