Naval Surface Warfare Center Chooses Livelink to Manage Global Extranet.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999-- Government Facilities to Deploy Livelink to Shorten Government Processes, Reducing Cycle Times From 2 Years to 2 Months 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 :OTEX OTEX Open Text Corporation (stock symbol) OTEX Orientation Technico-Economique de l’Exploitation )(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). ), the worldwide leader of Web-based collaborative knowledge management application software, today announced that the Naval Surface Warfare Center Noun 1. Naval Surface Warfare Center - the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare NSWC in Port Hueneme, California Port Hueneme (IPA: [ˌpoɹt waɪˈnimi]) is a small harbor city in Ventura County, California surrounded by Oxnard. The name derives from the Spanish spelling of the Chumash wene me, meaning "resting-place". , is deploying Livelink to manage their extranet. For the past year, this government facility has used Livelink to link together facilities, enabling the sharing of tens of thousands of documents with customers, partners, suppliers and employees. The Naval Surface Warfare Center uses Livelink to develop, store, and support Missile Systems' contracts, contract deliverables, technical documents and engineering drawings. Before Livelink, this process was paper-based and time-consuming, involving the mailing of documents to each facility numerous times. Now, with the deployment of their Livelink-based global extranet, the Naval Surface Warfare Center has empowered its employees to collaborate with government partners and contractors in a fast and efficient Web-based environment. "With Livelink's Enterprise Libraries and Project work spaces, each user knows that they can access the `latest and greatest' version of a document even though system users are collaborating with different facilities around the world," said Greg Tomczyk, Systems Manager at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. "Livelink's secure, collaborative extranet capabilities have enabled users to work together and increase productivity. In some specific cases, it has shortened a costly and reoccurring government process from two years to two months." "Another huge benefit the customers have realized with Livelink is cost avoidance Cost avoidance is a management accounting term referring to an expense one has avoided incurring. It is commonly used in the field of energy management to describe the energy costs you avoided due to energy management initiatives. ," added Tomczyk. "Before Livelink, government employees and contractors from these many facilities would meet once a month in selected locations. Now, knowledge sharing and project collaboration is happening daily and most project managers only need to meet face to face a few times a year, saving thousands of dollars in yearly travel costs and time." "The Naval Surface Warfare Center is an excellent example of the benefits that Livelink's extranet solution brings to a global organization," said Dan Latendre, Vice President of Product Marketing, Open Text Corporation. "By providing a secure, Web-based collaborative environment, Livelink enables thousands of people to share knowledge and work together, regardless of geographic location. This type of collaboration has been proven to increase productivity and reduce costs for many of our Global 2000 companies." ABOUT NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER The Port Hueneme Port Hueneme (wī'nē`mē), city (1990 pop. 20,319), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; founded 1870, inc. 1948. It has an artificial deep-sea harbor and is the site of a huge naval construction-battalion (Seabee) center. Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (PHD NSWC PHD NSWC Port Hueneme Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center ), is the Navy's premier in-service engineering and logistics center. This Division's workforce focuses on the successful operation of surface combat and weapons systems utilizing state-of-the-art engineering facilities. Their mission is to provide test and evaluation, in-service engineering, and integrated logistics support A composite of all the support considerations necessary to assure the effective and economical support of a system for its life cycle. It is an integral part of all other aspects of system acquisition and operation. Also called ILS. for surface warfare That portion of maritime warfare in which operations are conducted to destroy or neutralize enemy naval surface forces and merchant vessels. Also called SUW. combat systems and subsystems, unique equipments, and related expendable ordnance of the Navy Surface Fleet. Greg Tomczyk is an Electronics Engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division, who is the author of a technical paper entitled, `Missile Systems Integrated Data Management System.' This paper, which describes the use of Livelink by a PHD NSWC department, was recently presented at the Naval Logistics Conference in Arlington, Virginia, in October of 1998. The sponsors of this conference were the American Society of Naval Engineers, the International Society of Logistics, the US Marine Corps and the US Navy. One of the themes of the conference was Information Technology and Integrated Data Environments. About Livelink Livelink is a highly scalable, collaborative knowledge management application for intranets. Livelink's richly-featured enterprise document management, virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling and information retrieval services 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 users' desktops to access its full functionality. Livelink runs on Microsoft Windows NT(R) 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 relational database management systems See DBMS for a shorter list of “typical”, representative database management systems. Open-source software
ABOUT OPEN TEXT 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 has a worldwide installed base of 2.5 million users in 3,500 corporations. Open Text's dramatic growth has been fueled 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, and its partners and customers can be found at http://www.opentext.com. Note: Open Text and Livelink are trademarks of Open Text Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the deployment of Livelink 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 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 Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended June 30, 1998, and Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarters ended September 30, 1997, December 31, 1997, March 31, 1998 and September 30, 1998. 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. |
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