Open Text Launches New Livelink for Knowledge Management; New Livelink Release Offers Lowest Total Cost of Ownership for End-to-End Collaborative Knowledge Management.Business Editors & High Tech Writers LiveLinkUp 2001 LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2001 Open Text(TM) Corporation (Nasdaq: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). ), a worldwide leader in delivering collaborative commerce solutions, today unveiled Livelink(R) 9.1, the newest version of its collaborative knowledge management platform. Open Text is showcasing Livelink 9.1 enhancements to its global install base of users from many different industries who are gathering this week in Las Vegas for LiveLinkUp 2001, the Company's annual user conference. "With this new version, Open Text delivers innovative enhancements that enable our customers to realize even greater return on their investment in Livelink," said John Shackleton John Shackleton (? - 14 or 16 March 1767, London) was a British painter and draughtsman who produced history paintings and portraits. His parents and origins are unknown. Output , President of Open Text. "Livelink offers the lowest total cost of ownership for an end-to-end knowledge management platform, supporting collaborative business applications that drive increased productivity and efficiency." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Richard Medina, principal analyst at Doculabs, Inc., an industry analyst and consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , "Open Text's release of Livelink 9.1 advances its strategy to help organizations effectively add real business value to their previous Livelink investment in online collaboration and knowledge management. Key enhancements designed to improve productivity and efficiency can help generate significantly improved levels of return on an organization's intellectual capital." Significant new features that complement Livelink's Web-based, collaborative functionality include: Knowledge Management enhancements
"We are very excited about rolling out Livelink 9.1 to our
users, especially given the enhancements to search," said Judy
Regan, GIS - Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions, Motorola.
"With over 2.5 million objects in our library, the use of
natural language, result themes, and `find similar' will
vastly improve our ability to quickly narrow a result set to
those specific items we want."
A variety of additional enhancements have been built into Livelink 9.1 to further extend an organization's end-to-end knowledge strategy, such as: -- Advanced search and retrieval - such as natural language query, content only search, multiple search templates, hit highlighting, `find similar' and result themes - enables users to not only locate explicit knowledge easily, but also to discover the context and find the experts who contribute the knowledge -- Personalized user profiles add support for photos, Websites, interests, and more - enables users to locate the people in the organization who have special expertise and tap into their implicit knowledge -- XML import allows data to be moved quickly between Livelink systems -- Sophisticated collaborative features for driving innovation, including online polling; milestone tracking; and separate user group domains for online projects, extranets and joint ventures - attracts more users to the system, thereby increasing its value to the organization Livelink for Microsoft's webFolders (WebDAV)
"Cultural acceptance is often the greatest barrier to
implementing a successful knowledge management system.
Livelink WebDAV is critical to overcoming this barrier at
Volvo Cars," said Roger Aspelin, IT, Volvo Cars. "By using
WebDAV, every employee can easily share the information they
manage with the organization, simply by using the same tools
they use every day."
Livelink WebDAV(TM) adds support for WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) protocol to Livelink. A set of enhancements to the HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. protocol, WebDAV makes it possible for users to collaboratively edit and manage files stored on remote web servers, such as Livelink, as easily as if they were stored on a local file server. Using Livelink WebDAV Server, Livelink users can create, move, copy, and delete documents and folders, check-out documents, and view Livelink folder contents directly from desktop applications such as Microsoft webFolders (enables drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. between desktop and Livelink repository), Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. , Adobe Acrobat and more. Brokered Search for searching the enterprise Brokered Search(TM) release 1.5 enables users to search multiple Livelink repositories and external information sources using a single query. Unlike other meta-search tools, Livelink Brokered Search allows authenticated, secure, and personalized searching of multiple repositories through multiple search engines. In addition to the ability to use any Web-based search engine, its extensible architecture enables it to search document repositories from other vendors, as well as subscription-based information services See Information Systems. simultaneously. This provides a tremendous boost to users who need to quickly locate information that may reside in any available repository. Features such as hit highlighting, summaries, and `find similar', help users interpret and act on search results more easily, regardless of their source. In response to customer demand for this capability in all enterprise applications, this version can be incorporated in any Web-based application via a simple, embeddable HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. interface. Livelink 9.1 offers enhancements to more than 4,500 enterprise customers that are already using Open Text's platform to improve collaboration among employees, partners and suppliers, and to better leverage intellectual capital. Spanning a wide range of industries, these customers include AFLAC AFLAC American Family Life Assurance Company AFLAC American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus AFLAC Apologies For Lack of Audi Content (Audi listservs) , Pfizer Inc., Motorola and Shell Oil. Combined with ongoing support for wireless handheld devices, Livelink 9.1 continues to be recognized as one of the most comprehensive out-of-the-box collaborative knowledge management solutions available on the market. About Livelink Livelink is a highly scalable collaborative commerce and knowledge management application. Its richly-featured enterprise services include virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling and information retrieval services, all tightly integrated into a solution that is easily customized and extended. Livelink is essential to the effective management and development of communities of interest that span organizations and industries. For everything from the creation of complex e-community relationships to the automation of simple e-business processes, Livelink delivers true dynamic collaboration between individuals, organizations, and large trading communities. Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure rapid deployment and easy access to its full functionality through 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. . For more information, visit www.opentext.com/livelink/. About Open Text Open Text provides collaborative commerce solutions for e-business that enable users to extend and build CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. applications and allow them to work together within and across organizations. Open Text has pioneered the development of innovative intranet, extranet and e-business applications. Since creating one of the first search engines to index the World Wide Web, the Company has remained at the forefront of Internet-based technologies. Its solution family called Livelink enables individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on e-business applications that facilitate e-commerce and other transactions among Global 2000 organizations. For more information, visit www.opentext.com. Copyright (C) 2001 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink and Open Text are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation. This list is not exhaustive. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. This new release contains forward-looking statements which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company, or the developments in the Company's business or its industry, to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance, achievements or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the Company's ability to effectuate the stock repurchase Stock repurchase A firm's repurchase of outstanding shares of its common stock. program, the Company's liquidity and capital resources, the volatility of the Company's stock price, a reduction in the Company's cash flow from operations Cash flow from operations A firm's net cash inflow resulting directly from its regular operations (disregarding extraordinary items such as the sale of fixed assets or transaction costs associated with issuing securities), calculated as the sum of net income plus noncash expenses and/or increased operating expenses Operating expenses The amount paid for asset maintenance or the cost of doing business, excluding depreciation. Earnings are distributed after operating expenses are deducted. , as well those factors set forth in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K/A and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. . Forward-looking statements are based on management's current plans, estimates, opinions and projections as of the date they are made, and the Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if assumptions of these plans, estimates, opinions or projections should change. |
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