CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

12 November 2007

Product News

Open Text's Genio Offering to Strengthen Content and Data Integration

Open TextT announced that its Genio product line will play a significant role in a broader content and data integration strategy and suite of solutions. The focus on content and data integration are key as customers demand more powerful solutions to bridge islands of information and improve access for better decision making, so that customers can gain more value from information throughout the enterprise.

Open Text is committed to offering leading content and data integration solutions, with plans for a new version of Genio next month. But Genio will also figure prominently into Open Text's plans to strengthen content and data integration technologies into its broader ECM offering. Open Text has been expanding its portfolio of solutions to give customers more powerful ways to manage all business information across systems and departments in large organizations, most recently introducing Open Text Content Services ( http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1948 ) as part of this strategy.

Genio represents a new generation of content and data integration solutions that transform, cleanse, enrich and direct unstructured and structured information across the entire spectrum of decision support systems and corporate applications, spanning projects that include data warehouses, data marts, mainframe systems, ERP systems, CRM systems, and content management deployments. Genio's ability to exchange information between ERP systems fits well with Open Text's leadership in delivering ECM solutions that manage documents from systems such as SAP through business processes.

"Genio is a crucial application in our information management system," said David Mathieu, CIO of André, a trade name of the Vivarte Group, a leading European clothing and footwear retailer. "We are very pleased with the direction the product is taking under Open Text's leadership and look forward to the evolution of the product to better leverage its capabilities to address our content and data integration challenges."

Genio delivers a rich set of benefits that offers organizations significant and tangible return on investments. Genio was built on the foundation of four key principles of openness, flexibility, ease of use, and reusability, and decouples business processes from the complexity of the IT systems infrastructure, allowing organizations to better execute their agile business practices.

"The volume of data in companies today is exploding and organizations are in constant change with the demands of global competition," said Bill Forquer, Executive Vice President of Marketing at Open Text. "Companies need more powerful data integration tools that can help them quickly turn raw data into useful information. For over 10 years, some of the world's largest organizations have been leveraging Genio in mission critical applications. As market needs evolve to address the requirements of a more holistic approach to content and data integration, Genio will be in a leadership position to satisfy the most pressing challenges within these organizations."

Genio will be featured at the ITEC show, December 5-6, 2007 at the COBB Galleria Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where Open Text's Genio representatives will discuss best business practices for content and data integration. For more information visit: http://pages.crosstechmedia.com/WebSite/Index.aspx?C=70000087&S=50000092 .

For more information on Genio, go to:   http://connectivity.hummingbird.com/products/nc/genio.html .

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