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23 April 2007
Product News
Open Text Sees Customer Momentum with Livelink ECM Integration for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Open TextT Corporation said that it is seeing strong customer momentum with its Livelink ECM integration for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, including its first-to-market solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 released in early March. Open Text is a leader in providing ECM solutions that extend the Microsoft platform, and offers comprehensive enterprise records management and archiving capabilities for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
Open Text is seeing strong momentum for the solutions from customers that want enterprise-scale records management and compliant, long-term archiving to complement and extend the value of their Office SharePoint Server deployments. Customers recently choosing the Open Text integration, either for the 2003 or 2007 versions of Office SharePoint Server, include the U.S.'s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Aera Energy LLC.
Open Text has worked closely with Microsoft to extend the functionality of its Livelink ECM integration for Office SharePoint Server to meet the full range of customer requirements and usage scenarios. With its latest integration for Office SharePoint Server 2007, Open Text once again demonstrated its leadership in being first-to-market with a solution that integrates with the latest Microsoft applications. Livelink ECM was the first to be certified for its integration with Office SharePoint Server 2007 under the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 certification program, a critical standard for records management software being purchased by major corporations and government agencies.
Livelink ECM adds value in four main areas common among many enterprise customers using Office SharePoint Server today, including:
Lifecycle Management - The ability to meet compliance and legal requirements around document retention and litigation support, while transparently offsetting the storage load from the front line Office SharePoint Server environment to a wide range of best of breed storage media. This also allows SharePoint Server documents to be classified as records in compliance with U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2 standards directly from the native SharePoint Server interface.
Office SharePoint Server Content Archiving - Intelligent archiving and storage management of Office SharePoint Server data and documents, offering lower cost and easier management for large-scale applications. In addition, enterprises are assured of long-term support for all major enterprise storage systems, including EMC Centera, IBM, NetApp, Sun, Hitachi Data Systems and HP.
Access to Existing Livelink ECM Services - Users can stay in their familiar Office SharePoint Server environment and gain full access to content, workflow, reports and document classification information from Livelink ECM.
Federated Search - The integration provides the ability for users to use search from within Office SharePoint Server to not only search SharePoint Server content across multiple sites, but also content stored in Livelink ECM. This lets users stay in their SharePoint Server environment, find the content they are looking for and repurpose it in many different ways. A key component of the search integration is that it maintains all user permissions to the content in Livelink ECM.
Open Text is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and last year was named the 2006 Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the Year. For more information on the Microsoft and Open Text relationship, go to http://www.opentext.com/2/strategic-partners/part-strat-microsoft.htm . For more information on Open Text's records management solutions, go to: http://www.opentext.com/2/sol-products/sol-pro-records-management.htm
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