CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
24 November 2004
Company News
Open Text Sees Record Attendance, Highlights Product Integrations at User Conference -LinkUp Phoenix 2004
Open TextT Corporation said its user conference last week, LinkUp Phoenix 2004, was its largest and most successful ever, presenting an opportunity to demonstrate its success in integrating new technologies from acquired companies such as IXOS, Gauss and Artesia, as well as its Vista Plus® product suite.
About 1100 attendees, including senior executives, systems integrators and industry experts, attended this year's event. Open Text used the expanded forum to present its integrated product roadmap, including e-mail management solutions that combine Open Text's search and records management software with IXOS' e-mail archiving technology. Open Text also demonstrated its ability to deliver flexible storage options by integrating Livelink solutions with IXOS' content repository. Livelink customers benefit from a choice of multiple storage vendors, including Hitachi Data Systems, Network Appliance, StorageTek, EMC, Hewlett-Packard and others. Open Text also revealed plans for new BPM and production document management solutions to come over the next few months, which further integrate Open Text, IXOS and Gauss technologies.
Open Text also announced its Livelink ECM Services Architecture, which is designed to help smooth the evolution of existing applications and speed the development of new ones. Built entirely in Java with native support for SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)-based Web Services, the platform provides a layer of software "services" that link corporate applications to repositories of information, no matter where they reside. Open Text introduced the first of these services, called Livelink Touchpoint, a contextual collaboration environment that enhances person-to-person interaction.
Jenkins gave the keynote address at the conference on the future of ECM, and Chief Technology Officer David Glazer and Senior Vice President of Research and Development Hartmut Schaper presented the company's technology strategy and integrated product roadmap. The event also included more than 100 breakout sessions, and the Winning Solutions Pavilion, which featured product demonstrations from Open Text and partners such as SAP, Deloitte, Hitachi Data Systems®, Adobe, Network Appliance, Kofax, Ricoh, Informative Graphics and Hewlett-Packard.
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