CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
21 August 2007
Product News
Open Text Reaffirms Commitment to eDOCS Product Line
Open TextT Corporation announced the latest release of its Livelink ECM - eDOCS DM document management offering (formerly Hummingbird Enterprise DM), continuing to advance the product line with new key features including support for the latest Microsoft technologies.
Open Text is presenting details on eDOCS DM version 5.2 today at the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA)'s 30th Annual Educational Conference in Orlando, Florida.
"Open Text is continuing to invest in the eDOCS product line to better address the needs of our customers today and in the future," said Kirk Roberts, President, Livelink ECM Division at Open Text. "This new version will allow our customers to further leverage their investments, deploy eDOCS DM on Windows Vista and leverage the new capabilities of Microsoft Office 2007."
The release of eDOCS DM 5.2 marks another milestone on the road to "DM X," the upcoming major release that represents the true convergence of Open Text and Hummingbird technologies and know-how. With DM X, customers will be able to take advantage of the broader product set Open Text has to offer while continuing to derive value from their eDOCS deployment. Unveiled earlier this year ( http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1838 ), DM X will be demonstrated at Open Text's LiveLinkUp Orlando user conference this October.
The latest release of Livelink ECM - eDOCS builds upon the heritage of the DM product providing both significant enhancements to the current release, as well as brand new features and capabilities. Customers will be able to deploy many of the new third party integrated product offerings and desktop operating systems within their organizations, such as Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista, Lotus Notes, Corel WordPerfect Office, Adobe Acrobat 8, and more. Key capabilities include:
• Seamless support for office productivity applications: Livelink ECM -- eDOCS DM 5.2 will provide seamless application integration with entirely new interfaces including Office 2007 and Windows Vista, benefiting any customers that are on the fast track to deploying those platforms and wishing to continue to leverage their eDOCS DM investment.
• New DM Extension for Lotus Notes provides robust document management capabilities directly within the Lotus Notes client. Customers leveraging Lotus Notes will have seamless access to the rich document management experience without having to leave the Notes client. Users will be able to drag and drop email to DM and will also have full DM search capabilities and exposure of the client/matter folders right within their existing Notes application.
• New 'Save' Document User Interface will help information workers save time by reducing the number of clicks to save content from within common authoring applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel, and by allowing for dynamically updated metadata. At the same time, new users of the system will require minimal training as the new user interface more closely mimics the native Microsoft Office process. This new feature will encourage end user adoption and will make deployments faster and less costly for customers, thus increasing their return on investment.
• Enhanced Dynamic Views provide a clear and concise 'business-centric' view of content, allowing end users to work the way they are used to working.
Livelink ECM - eDOCS DM 5.2 is scheduled for release at the end of September 2007. For more information about the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Conference, visit: https://conference.iltanet.org/home.asp
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