CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
12 April 2007
Events News
Open Text to Host Major European User Conferences in Munich and London
Open TextT Corporation said that it will showcase its integrated product roadmap, new solutions and major partner initiatives in Europe at its LiveLinkUp Europe 2007 user conferences next week. Open Text will hold two LiveLinkUp Europe 2007 events: In Munich, April 18, and in London, April 19.
Entitled: "ECM: Your Road to Innovation," the LiveLinkUp Europe conferences will bring together senior executives, corporate technology managers and executives from leading global organizations, who will converge and network with their peers, as well as the management, sales and marketing staff, and technical experts of Open Text. The events will include keynotes from Open Text senior executives, including Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer Tom Jenkins, and President and Chief Executive Officer John Shackleton.
The LiveLinkUp Europe 2007 conferences are the first combined European customer events of the new Open Text, bringing together both Open Text and former Hummingbird customers. The executive team will outline Open Text's strategic vision for ECM and unveil its latest solutions and product integration plans with Hummingbird products, as the company moves forward with a product and solution portfolio unmatched in the industry. In addition, RedDot, The Open Text Web Solutions Group, and Open Text's Hummingbird ConnectivityT division, will update delegates on their latest product initiatives.
A key focus for the events will be Livelink ECM 10, the next major release of Open Text's ECM offering. First unveiled last November with capabilities being rolled out this year, Livelink ECM 10 lets customers implement a true enterprise-wide content management strategy to preserve and protect intellectual capital, leverage business content across all applications, and effectively address governance and regulatory compliance requirements. The conferences will allow Open Text to outline for customers how the broad new capabilities in Livelink ECM 10 will help them achieve enterprise transparency-moving beyond simply tracking and controlling information to leveraging it for business advantage.
Many of Open Text's major European customers will be presenting at the events to discuss their Livelink ECM solutions and how they use ECM to manage information and improve processes.
"Over the past year, we witnessed the coming of age of Enterprise Content Management as a business necessity throughout the world and, most importantly, the continued success of our customers. With the addition of Hummingbird to the Open Text family, we are now the largest independent vendor of enterprise content management solutions in the world with the broadest range of ECM solutions and in depth domain expertise to apply to specific business and industry challenges," said John Shackleton, President and Chief Executive Officer at Open Text. "We are looking forward to interacting with our European customers and partners at LiveLinkUp."
The events will feature even more hands-on workshops and breakout sessions to choose from - delivered by customers, partners and Open Text staff. Conference presentations will highlight Open Text solutions for SAP and Microsoft, Document and Records Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, Information Lifecycle Management and much more. This year, the agenda also includes a vertical solution stream.
Product Roadmaps - A Glance at What the Future Holds
Alongside introductions to new capabilities in Livelink ECM 10 such as Enterprise Library Services and Open Text's future product strategy, delegates will receive an update on the Open Text solutions running on this platform for the management of contracts, customer information, and email. The conference will also feature a roadmap presentation on RedDot.
Open Text's Hummingbird ConnectivityT division will also be at the conferences with a series of presentations on host system connectivity, an area this Open Text division addresses with a comprehensive set of core network technologies that enable the enterprise to connect to any type of legacy system. The Hummingbird Connectivity family of products include Exceed®, Exceed onDemand®, NFS MaestroT, HostExplorerT and Connectivity Secure ShellT.
Open Text Partner Exposition
Several Open Text partners will be showcasing solutions that complement Open Text products. The solutions will range from document capture and storage solutions to add-ons for Livelink ECM and services like consulting and implementation. Partners exhibiting at the events include AnyDoc, Atos Origin, Blubaker, Cadre SCM, Cardiff, Causeway, Centrom, Edoras, Hitachi Data Systems® , HP, Kofax, LogicaCMG, Microsoft, Oracle, Perfectus, RSH, SAP, SAW, Steria, Sun Microsystems, T-Systems and WeWebU.
Venue Information
LiveLinkUp Europe 2007 will take place in two European venues: on April 18th at Munich's Kempinski Airport Hotel, and on April 19th at The West Stand at Chelsea Football Club in London, England. For further information and to register, please visit: http://livelinkup-europe.opentext.com/
Open Text will be holding a third European conference, LiveLinkUp Paris 2007, on June 7th at Coeur Defense. For further information and to register for this event, please visit: http://livelinkup-europe.opentext.com/paris/
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