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15 October 2007
Events News
Open Text Conference Defines How the Content Management Revolution is Driving Business Value
The future of enterprise content management (ECM) software and its growing importance in the information strategies of the world's largest organizations will be central themes of Open Text'sT LiveLinkUp 2007 Conference. The event will be held October 22-26 in Orlando, Florida.
The event will address the challenges and opportunities for customers as ECM undergoes a revolution that is redefining the way it will deliver value for organizations in the years to come. Analyst reports predict strong growth in ECM at almost 13 percent, and CIOs now view ECM as key to their overall information strategies. Meanwhile, major trends such as industry consolidation and the increasing maturity of solutions present new options for customers. Key to this are the strategies companies need to develop for a more comprehensive, enterprise-wide approach to managing the exploding volume of business information, and how these strategies can add value in organizations by improving business processes and productivity.
Keynote speakers for the event will include Accenture's Royce Bell and Open Text's Tom Jenkins, both leading experts on information and content management. Mr. Bell, Chief Executive Officer of Accenture Information Management Services, has more than 23 years experience in management consulting, technology and outsourcing services. Mr. Bell brings tremendous vision and business know-how gained through his work with major multinationals, and major government institutions. Mr. Jenkins, Open Text's Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, has played a key role in the development of key component technologies that make up ECM, including one of the first internet search engines used by Netscape®, Yahoo!® and IBM®; and the first Internet-based systems for document management, workflow, portals and online meetings. Mr. Jenkins has also co-authored three books on ECM ( http://www.opentext.com/corporate/ecm-book.html ). The executive presentations will form the basis of a forthcoming joint white paper by Open Text and Accenture to be released after the conference.
LiveLinkUp 2007
With the theme Architecting Value, LiveLinkUp 2007 will bring together industry experts and executives from some of the world's largest organizations deploying the latest ECM solutions to share their expertise and best practices. The event will explore how ECM adds value by providing critical support to the key processes that drive organizations, improving the flow of information and providing the structure to manage content efficiently to improve operations, reduce costs and meet compliance mandates.
LiveLinkUp 2007 will feature 125 educational sessions -- technical breakouts, customer case studies, best practice sessions; industry-focused sessions for financial services, government, energy and life sciences; and conference-within-a-conference programs for customers using specific Open Text products.
More than 30 partners will exhibit at LiveLinkUp, including the event's major sponsors -- Accenture, Microsoft, SAP and Sun Microsystems. Open Text will also hold a Partner Day, where partners will have a chance to meet with Open Text executives and network with peers. Open Text will also present its annual Partner Awards.
"LiveLinkUp 2007 will offer customers a powerful vision of where ECM is going and how it can bring value to their organizations," said John Shackleton, President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Text. "As the largest company in the world focused exclusively on ECM, we are in a unique position to drive thought leadership in the market and advance ECM best practices that will ultimately support the needs of our customers. That's the real goal of LiveLinkUp 2007 and the value of the event for attendees."
2007 GlobalStar Enterprise Awards Finalists
Open Text will also recognize its 2007 GlobalStar Enterprise Award nominees and announce a single winner. Finalists were chosen for having comprehensive solutions with visible value to their organizations. This year's finalists are 46th Test Wing, U.S. Air Force, Eglin Air Force Base; bioMerieux; Central Arizona Project; Developers Diversified Realty; the European Court of Human Rights; Genzyme; Salford City Council; Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council; T-Systems; Transamerica Reinsurance; and Tronox.
For more information on LiveLinkUp 2007, go to: http://livelinkup.opentext.com/orlando/2007/
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