Open Text, Anbieter für Enterprise Content Management (ECM)-Software und -Lösungen, gab die Übernahme des weltweit agierenden CMS-Anbieters Vignette bekannt. Vignette mit Hauptsitz in Austin, Texas, gilt mit seiner über zehnjährigen Erfahrung und mehrfachen Produktauszeichnungen als führender Anbieter innovativer Technologien im Content Management.
Die beiden Unternehmen haben sich bereits über einen Gesamtkaufpreis von 310 Millionen Dollar geeinigt, Vignette-Aktionäre sollen pro Aktie 12,70 US-Dollar erhalten. Wenn Aktionäre und Börsenaufsichtsbehörde ihre Zustimmung zur Übernahme geben, soll diese im zweiten Halbjahr 2009 abgeschlossen sein.
Nach John Shackleton, President und Chief Executive Officer bei Open Text, profitiert das Unternehmen von der Übernahme durch die Möglichkeit das eigene Produktportfolio deutlich zu verbreitern und so zukünftig die Position als führender, unabhängiger Anbieter im ECM Markt zu stärken.
Nach zahlreichen Übernahmen verschiedener Anbieter aus der ECM-Branche in den letzten Jahren, unter anderem Gauss (WCM) 2003, SER (DMS/Workflow) 2003, IXOS (Archiv) 2004 und Hummingbird (WCM, DMS, …) 2006, wäre dies nun der nächste große Coup von Open Text.
Detaillierte Informationen zur Vignette-Übernahme finden sie in der englischsprachigen Originalmeldung unter:
08.05.2009, Contentmanager.de
http://www.contentmanager.net/magazine/news_h35957.html
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Forrester Blog For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals
The Forrester Blog For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals
Open Text Makes A DAM SaaS-y Move
By Stephen Powers
I'll give you five seconds to recover from your pun-induced groaning [5...4...3...2...1] Now, on to the news: Open Text announced late last week that it has acquired eMotion, a software-as-a-service digital asset management (DAM) product, from Corbis. Open Text plans to rebrand eMotion as Artesia on Demand for Marketing, complementing its full-featured, installed Artesia DAM product.
This move into SaaS DAM is a smart move by Open Text. The installed version of Artesia has a reputation as one of the top DAM solutions out there, but its functionality and price tag may be daunting for those organizations just starting to dip their toes into the DAM waters. Some enterprises don't have the need for some of the high-end functionality - management of broadcast-quality video, for example - that "Classic Artesia" offers. Instead, many enterprises exploring DAM want to use it to manage rich media assets for use in the online channel.
In addition, marketers are now driving some of the demand for DAM, and they're not excited about waiting in the IT queue for another installed content management implementation. While other components of ECM (like Web content management) may need customizations that don't lend always themselves to the SaaS model, marketing requirements for DAM tend to be more a bit more straightforward: repository, workflow, search, metadata, permissions, and hooks into delivery mechanisms.
Now, Open Text has a DAM solution that can meet mid-level needs, and customers who want SaaS - without worrying about the stability of some of the niche DAM vendors - get the benefit of the relative stability of Open Text. Plus, this acquisition has the possibility of being an effective answer to North Plains' recent release of a SaaS version of its TeleScope product. Time will tell how much tinkering Open Text needs to do with its new acquisition, but this is a good first step into the SaaS world.
Open Text Makes A DAM SaaS-y Move
By Stephen Powers
I'll give you five seconds to recover from your pun-induced groaning [5...4...3...2...1] Now, on to the news: Open Text announced late last week that it has acquired eMotion, a software-as-a-service digital asset management (DAM) product, from Corbis. Open Text plans to rebrand eMotion as Artesia on Demand for Marketing, complementing its full-featured, installed Artesia DAM product.
This move into SaaS DAM is a smart move by Open Text. The installed version of Artesia has a reputation as one of the top DAM solutions out there, but its functionality and price tag may be daunting for those organizations just starting to dip their toes into the DAM waters. Some enterprises don't have the need for some of the high-end functionality - management of broadcast-quality video, for example - that "Classic Artesia" offers. Instead, many enterprises exploring DAM want to use it to manage rich media assets for use in the online channel.
In addition, marketers are now driving some of the demand for DAM, and they're not excited about waiting in the IT queue for another installed content management implementation. While other components of ECM (like Web content management) may need customizations that don't lend always themselves to the SaaS model, marketing requirements for DAM tend to be more a bit more straightforward: repository, workflow, search, metadata, permissions, and hooks into delivery mechanisms.
Now, Open Text has a DAM solution that can meet mid-level needs, and customers who want SaaS - without worrying about the stability of some of the niche DAM vendors - get the benefit of the relative stability of Open Text. Plus, this acquisition has the possibility of being an effective answer to North Plains' recent release of a SaaS version of its TeleScope product. Time will tell how much tinkering Open Text needs to do with its new acquisition, but this is a good first step into the SaaS world.
Monday, April 14, 2008
FT.com / Services & tools / Search
FT.com / Services & tools / Search
The future of search: It's how, not where, you look
,By Alan Cane, FT.com site
Published: Mar 28, 2007
The time staff waste searching for "stuff " - the information necessary to do their jobs more effectively - has become legendary. Accenture, the consultancy, polled more than 1,000 executives in the US and UK and found that managers were on average spending up to two hours - a quarter of their working day - searching for stuff.
When they found it, moreover, at least 50 per cent was useless: irrelevant, out-of-date or just wrong.
Concerned that its intranet was becoming overburdened, BAE Systems, the aerospace group, carried out its own survey and discovered that four out of five employees on the network were wasting an average of 30 minutes a day retrieving information while 60 per cent were spending an hour or more duplicating the work of others.
The solution was a system from Autonomy, a UK company which, with 16,000 customers worldwide, leads the market for what is known as "enterprise search ", a family of technologies that make it possible to extract information quickly from both structured and unstructured sources. With the Autonomy system in place, BAE estimates that time spent in finding information is down by more than 90 per cent.
Another example: lawyers with the US firm Morrison & Foerster found they were drowning in information scattered through their systems: client histories were stored in accounting and customer relationship management systems, documents were stored in a document management system, communications in e-mail servers and so on.
The firm drew up a specification for an ideal solution, which it called AnswerBase, and commissioned a system from Recommind, a legal search vendor. Searches which had previously taken hours could be completed in seconds using AnswerBase; those taking days were reduced to minutes.
As Craig Carpenter, Recommind's head of marketing and business development, puts it, the days when enterprise search was a non-essential novelty are past; now the future lies with search technologies which will home in on concepts rather than keywords.
Enterprise search is a comparatively recent phenomenon, forced on companies by the internet, e-mail, company intranets and the 20bn gigabytes of new data now being created by businesses each year.
Google currently leads the world in conventional internet search but as Mike Lynch, Autonomy chief executive, emphasises, enterprise search is different: "Unlike the internet, enterprise information is in different formats. A large company might support 300 different information formats scattered through 5,000 separate repositories.
"An enterprise search engine has to be able to understand all those formats and talk to all those repositories. And most staff are not allowed to see all the information a company has stored away. In a large group, for example, an individual might be allowed to see only one in every 10,000 documents. Each repository has its own set of complex rules governing who is allowed to see what and it is changing all the time. "
So Autonomy uses "spiders " and "ants " - intelligent software - to roam the intranet, indexing all the material available for a search: in that sense, even unstructured data has a structure of sorts. Ants are self-learning and capable of appreciating that particular pieces of information are frequently requested or that some categories of information change rapidly. Mr Lynch says attempts to create search tools without overall indexing - known as "federated search " - are unworkable: "They glow red hot and melt. "
Tamara Alairys, global leader for search at Accenture, points out that using Google to search a word like "Turkey " will return thousands of hits but it will not distinguish between the country and the bird: "The challenge for people searching their intranets has been to get better search relevancy and to retrieve data that can help them make a better decision. "
She argues that search technologies have improved "by leaps and bounds " in the past two years: "Early capabilities were limited: a user could only perform basic keyword searches and sort the results using parameters such as the date of creation. Much more is possible today. Structured and unstructured data can be searched. And natural language processing enables the search engine to understand the intent behind a user's query and give a meaningful response. "
The cost of failing to retrieve relevant data can be high. Zia Zaman, in charge of strategic market development for Fast, a search company based in Oslo, Norway, recalls a pharmaceuticals company that entered into a strategic relationship with a drug delivery group: "The two companies invested years and millions of dollars in trying to figure out how they could work together but in the end they had to pull the plug on the deal. Then the pharmaceuticals company found a document in its own files which detailed how the drug delivery mechanism could never work. They had been making decisions in a fog. "
Changes in the legal environment in the US is driving interest in enterprise search. The latest revision of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the code for civil legal action, published in December year, gives companies involved in a lawsuit 99 days to produce relevant information stored electronically compared with three years or so previously.
Mike Lynch comments: "This will be impossible for a big drug company or manufacturer unless they already have a system in place. Companies which have some experience of lawsuits have already realised how important this is. Others are just waking up to it. Later this year I would expect to see the first prosecutions resulting from a failure to comply with the requirements. " It is expected that other countries will follow the US lead in principle.
Over the past 18 to 24 months there have been significant improvements in search technology, and the number of vendors of enterprise search systems has grown. IBM, Microsoft and Google have offerings aimed at business. The top end of the market is dominated by Autonomy, Convera, Fast and Open Text while specialist players include Endeca, InQuira, Siderean Software and Vivisimo.
The result, as Jerome Pesenti of Vivisimo writes, is that the search market is fragmented and confusing but that should not stop companies experimenting: customers don't know what to ask, what features are needed and which vendors to look at, he notes, going on to argue that search should be seen as a long-term application, deployed quickly and improved in phases based on end-user feedback: "There is no limit as to how good and useful a search can be, " he claims, "but modest goals, early rewards and especially, valuable user feedback, can be obtained through quick deployment. "
The BBC has difficult information retrieval needs. It is awash with information: core business systems as well as financial information about programmes, approvals processes, e-mails, audio and video.
Keith Little, BBC chief information officer, says: "We have lots of information that is unsearchable - valuable information that nobody can access. We have systems with search facilities but these are silos and then there are e-mails and other repositories of unstructured data that go right across the organisation. "
The BBC uses several search tools - Autonomy, Microsoft Sharepoint and OpenText Livelink among them. Mr Little says: "At the top level, our search strategy is to create a framework for plugging in, in a service-oriented manner, legacy and future systems.
"We need the ability to put those together to meet the search requirements from the business and we then have to think about how we provide access to our real audience - the people who pay our licence fees. " "Infax ", a simple programme search tool, was made available to the public last year.
What lies ahead for enterprise search? Ms Alairys of Accenture sees four developments. First, advanced analytics and monitoring which will make it possible to tap information in real time and provide rapid responses. Second, sentiment analysis which uses textual analysis to gauge the tone of a document - whether results show a company in a positive or negative light, for example. Third, multimedia search across textual, video and audio sources. And fourth, guided information discovery - exploring information without a specific query.
So in future, even if you don't know what you want or where to find it, enterprise search will guide you to the right answer.
The future of search: It's how, not where, you look
,By Alan Cane, FT.com site
Published: Mar 28, 2007
The time staff waste searching for "stuff " - the information necessary to do their jobs more effectively - has become legendary. Accenture, the consultancy, polled more than 1,000 executives in the US and UK and found that managers were on average spending up to two hours - a quarter of their working day - searching for stuff.
When they found it, moreover, at least 50 per cent was useless: irrelevant, out-of-date or just wrong.
Concerned that its intranet was becoming overburdened, BAE Systems, the aerospace group, carried out its own survey and discovered that four out of five employees on the network were wasting an average of 30 minutes a day retrieving information while 60 per cent were spending an hour or more duplicating the work of others.
The solution was a system from Autonomy, a UK company which, with 16,000 customers worldwide, leads the market for what is known as "enterprise search ", a family of technologies that make it possible to extract information quickly from both structured and unstructured sources. With the Autonomy system in place, BAE estimates that time spent in finding information is down by more than 90 per cent.
Another example: lawyers with the US firm Morrison & Foerster found they were drowning in information scattered through their systems: client histories were stored in accounting and customer relationship management systems, documents were stored in a document management system, communications in e-mail servers and so on.
The firm drew up a specification for an ideal solution, which it called AnswerBase, and commissioned a system from Recommind, a legal search vendor. Searches which had previously taken hours could be completed in seconds using AnswerBase; those taking days were reduced to minutes.
As Craig Carpenter, Recommind's head of marketing and business development, puts it, the days when enterprise search was a non-essential novelty are past; now the future lies with search technologies which will home in on concepts rather than keywords.
Enterprise search is a comparatively recent phenomenon, forced on companies by the internet, e-mail, company intranets and the 20bn gigabytes of new data now being created by businesses each year.
Google currently leads the world in conventional internet search but as Mike Lynch, Autonomy chief executive, emphasises, enterprise search is different: "Unlike the internet, enterprise information is in different formats. A large company might support 300 different information formats scattered through 5,000 separate repositories.
"An enterprise search engine has to be able to understand all those formats and talk to all those repositories. And most staff are not allowed to see all the information a company has stored away. In a large group, for example, an individual might be allowed to see only one in every 10,000 documents. Each repository has its own set of complex rules governing who is allowed to see what and it is changing all the time. "
So Autonomy uses "spiders " and "ants " - intelligent software - to roam the intranet, indexing all the material available for a search: in that sense, even unstructured data has a structure of sorts. Ants are self-learning and capable of appreciating that particular pieces of information are frequently requested or that some categories of information change rapidly. Mr Lynch says attempts to create search tools without overall indexing - known as "federated search " - are unworkable: "They glow red hot and melt. "
Tamara Alairys, global leader for search at Accenture, points out that using Google to search a word like "Turkey " will return thousands of hits but it will not distinguish between the country and the bird: "The challenge for people searching their intranets has been to get better search relevancy and to retrieve data that can help them make a better decision. "
She argues that search technologies have improved "by leaps and bounds " in the past two years: "Early capabilities were limited: a user could only perform basic keyword searches and sort the results using parameters such as the date of creation. Much more is possible today. Structured and unstructured data can be searched. And natural language processing enables the search engine to understand the intent behind a user's query and give a meaningful response. "
The cost of failing to retrieve relevant data can be high. Zia Zaman, in charge of strategic market development for Fast, a search company based in Oslo, Norway, recalls a pharmaceuticals company that entered into a strategic relationship with a drug delivery group: "The two companies invested years and millions of dollars in trying to figure out how they could work together but in the end they had to pull the plug on the deal. Then the pharmaceuticals company found a document in its own files which detailed how the drug delivery mechanism could never work. They had been making decisions in a fog. "
Changes in the legal environment in the US is driving interest in enterprise search. The latest revision of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the code for civil legal action, published in December year, gives companies involved in a lawsuit 99 days to produce relevant information stored electronically compared with three years or so previously.
Mike Lynch comments: "This will be impossible for a big drug company or manufacturer unless they already have a system in place. Companies which have some experience of lawsuits have already realised how important this is. Others are just waking up to it. Later this year I would expect to see the first prosecutions resulting from a failure to comply with the requirements. " It is expected that other countries will follow the US lead in principle.
Over the past 18 to 24 months there have been significant improvements in search technology, and the number of vendors of enterprise search systems has grown. IBM, Microsoft and Google have offerings aimed at business. The top end of the market is dominated by Autonomy, Convera, Fast and Open Text while specialist players include Endeca, InQuira, Siderean Software and Vivisimo.
The result, as Jerome Pesenti of Vivisimo writes, is that the search market is fragmented and confusing but that should not stop companies experimenting: customers don't know what to ask, what features are needed and which vendors to look at, he notes, going on to argue that search should be seen as a long-term application, deployed quickly and improved in phases based on end-user feedback: "There is no limit as to how good and useful a search can be, " he claims, "but modest goals, early rewards and especially, valuable user feedback, can be obtained through quick deployment. "
The BBC has difficult information retrieval needs. It is awash with information: core business systems as well as financial information about programmes, approvals processes, e-mails, audio and video.
Keith Little, BBC chief information officer, says: "We have lots of information that is unsearchable - valuable information that nobody can access. We have systems with search facilities but these are silos and then there are e-mails and other repositories of unstructured data that go right across the organisation. "
The BBC uses several search tools - Autonomy, Microsoft Sharepoint and OpenText Livelink among them. Mr Little says: "At the top level, our search strategy is to create a framework for plugging in, in a service-oriented manner, legacy and future systems.
"We need the ability to put those together to meet the search requirements from the business and we then have to think about how we provide access to our real audience - the people who pay our licence fees. " "Infax ", a simple programme search tool, was made available to the public last year.
What lies ahead for enterprise search? Ms Alairys of Accenture sees four developments. First, advanced analytics and monitoring which will make it possible to tap information in real time and provide rapid responses. Second, sentiment analysis which uses textual analysis to gauge the tone of a document - whether results show a company in a positive or negative light, for example. Third, multimedia search across textual, video and audio sources. And fourth, guided information discovery - exploring information without a specific query.
So in future, even if you don't know what you want or where to find it, enterprise search will guide you to the right answer.
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Erweiterte Open Text-Lösung beschleunigt Social Computing und Collaboration unternehmensweit
Erweiterte Open Text-Lösung beschleunigt Social Computing und Collaboration unternehmensweit
Open Text, globaler Anbieter im Enterprise Content Management (ECM), präsentiert auf der CeBIT in Halle 3, D09 seine neue Lösung Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration. Mit diesem umfassenden neuen Angebot an Tools für Online-Communities, Social Computing und Echtzeit-Collaboration hebt Open Text Web 2.0 auf eine neue Stufe: Enterprise 2.0.
Das neue Angebot ist Teil einer ganzen Serie von Produktinitiativen, die Open Text im Rahmen seiner umfassenden, ebenfalls heute vorgestellten Enterprise 2.0-Strategie bereits auf den Markt gebracht hat und bringen wird. Das Ziel dieser Strategie besteht in der Weiterentwicklung von Organisationsstrukturen durch den unternehmensweiten Einsatz leistungsstarker Social-Computing-Werkzeuge. Open Text stattet die neue Generation seiner Collaboration- und Weblösungen mit Web 2.0-Funktionalitäten wie Wikis, Foren, Blogs, Tagging, Moderation, Online-Communities und Echtzeit-Collaboration aus, die Unternehmen im Rahmen breit angelegter ECM-Strategien einsetzen können. Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration folgte den leistungsstarken Angeboten an Weblösungen von RedDot, der Open Text Web Solutions Group, die alle mit der Livelink ECM-Plattform und anderen gängigen Content Repositories integrierbar sind.
"Große Unternehmen operieren heute auf hart umkämpften globalen Märkten und müssen eine internationale und zunehmend mobile Belegschaft managen. Transparenz, Collaboration und der Austausch von Wissen sind daher wichtiger denn je", so Cheryl McKinnon, Director, Collaborative Content Management bei Open Text. "Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration gibt Unternehmen einen Leitfaden zu Enterprise 2.0 im Rahmen einer breit angelegten ECM-Strategie an die Hand. Gleichzeitig eröffnet das Produkt neue Wege, um die Zusammenarbeit und Produktivität der Mitarbeiter zu verbessern und die Kundentreue zu steigern."
Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration verbindet Menschen, Prozesse und Inhalte unternehmensweit und lässt eine Arbeitsumgebung entstehen, in der die Mitarbeiter problemlos Ideen, Erfahrungen und Wissen in Echtzeit austauschen können. Die Lösung verbindet eine zuverlässige Wissensdatenbank mit Funktionalitäten für Projekträume, Umfragen, Nachrichtenticker, Aufgaben und Projektmanagement. Community-Applikationen mit speziellen, unternehmensweit skalierbaren Tools und Echtzeit-Collaboration sowie Newsletter, FAQ, und Veranstaltungskalender fördern den Austausch von Expertise und Best Practices.
Die Collaboration- und Community-Tools sind zusammen mit sämtlichen Inhalten in einer intuitiv bedienbaren Umgebung zugänglich. Das fördert die Zusammenarbeit und gleichzeitig werden Projektinformationen im darunter liegenden ECM Framework erfasst. Sicherheit, Zugriffskontrolle und Aufbewahrungsregeln werden unter Nutzung der bereits vorhandenen nativen Sicherheitsmechanismen und ohne zusätzliche Administrationsschicht durchgängig angewandt. Die damit ausgestatteten Mitarbeiter können schnell und sicher bereichs- und aufgabenübergreifende Teams bilden, ausgetauschtes Wissen erfassen, Prozesse managen und Projektfristen selbst über Abteilungs- und Ländergrenzen hinweg zuverlässig einhalten.
- Verbreitung von Expertenwissen und Best Practices in Communities: Unternehmen können effektiv ihre Wissensinseln miteinander verknüpfen und Mitarbeiter, die vor ähnlichen Zielen und Herausforderungen stehen, zusammenbringen. Neue Ideen und Chancen lassen sich in Support-Netzwerken kommunizieren, Standards und Best Practices können festgelegt werden, die Zusammenarbeit mit Kunden und Partnern wird effektiver. Zudem können mit Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration sichere Records Management-Kontrollen auf Inhalte aus der Community-Umgebung angewandt werden.
- Agilere Unternehmensstrukturen durch Projektmanagement: In eigenen Projekträumen können sich Mitarbeiter voll und ganz auf ihre Arbeit konzentrieren. Projektleiter können flexibel Teams zusammenstellen, neue Teammitglieder über eine Browser-basierende Benutzeroberfläche hinzufügen und ihnen verschiedene Rollen und Aufgaben zuweisen. Alle relevanten Projektinformationen - Pläne, Dokumente, Aufgabenlisten, URLs etc. - werden zentral im Projektraum gespeichert und vorgehalten. Die Kommunikation der Projektmitglieder kann innerhalb so genannter Threaded Discussions erfasst, in gängige E-Mail-Systeme integriert und auf dem Desktop bereitgestellt werden.
- Echtzeit-Zugriff auf Menschen und Informationen: Echtzeit-Funktionalitäten ermöglichen die flexible und vor unerlaubtem Zugriff geschützte Zusammenarbeit im Unternehmen. Unterstützung für Teambesprechungen, Instant Messaging, Screen- und Applikationssharing sowie gemeinsam genutzte Arbeitsräume verbessern das Arbeiten im Team und erhöhen die Produktivität.
Verfügbarkeit
Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration wird im Mai 2008 verfügbar sein. Weitere Informationen sind unter http://www.opentext.com/... erhältlich.
05.03.2008, Katalin Balogh
Open Text, globaler Anbieter im Enterprise Content Management (ECM), präsentiert auf der CeBIT in Halle 3, D09 seine neue Lösung Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration. Mit diesem umfassenden neuen Angebot an Tools für Online-Communities, Social Computing und Echtzeit-Collaboration hebt Open Text Web 2.0 auf eine neue Stufe: Enterprise 2.0.
Das neue Angebot ist Teil einer ganzen Serie von Produktinitiativen, die Open Text im Rahmen seiner umfassenden, ebenfalls heute vorgestellten Enterprise 2.0-Strategie bereits auf den Markt gebracht hat und bringen wird. Das Ziel dieser Strategie besteht in der Weiterentwicklung von Organisationsstrukturen durch den unternehmensweiten Einsatz leistungsstarker Social-Computing-Werkzeuge. Open Text stattet die neue Generation seiner Collaboration- und Weblösungen mit Web 2.0-Funktionalitäten wie Wikis, Foren, Blogs, Tagging, Moderation, Online-Communities und Echtzeit-Collaboration aus, die Unternehmen im Rahmen breit angelegter ECM-Strategien einsetzen können. Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration folgte den leistungsstarken Angeboten an Weblösungen von RedDot, der Open Text Web Solutions Group, die alle mit der Livelink ECM-Plattform und anderen gängigen Content Repositories integrierbar sind.
"Große Unternehmen operieren heute auf hart umkämpften globalen Märkten und müssen eine internationale und zunehmend mobile Belegschaft managen. Transparenz, Collaboration und der Austausch von Wissen sind daher wichtiger denn je", so Cheryl McKinnon, Director, Collaborative Content Management bei Open Text. "Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration gibt Unternehmen einen Leitfaden zu Enterprise 2.0 im Rahmen einer breit angelegten ECM-Strategie an die Hand. Gleichzeitig eröffnet das Produkt neue Wege, um die Zusammenarbeit und Produktivität der Mitarbeiter zu verbessern und die Kundentreue zu steigern."
Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration verbindet Menschen, Prozesse und Inhalte unternehmensweit und lässt eine Arbeitsumgebung entstehen, in der die Mitarbeiter problemlos Ideen, Erfahrungen und Wissen in Echtzeit austauschen können. Die Lösung verbindet eine zuverlässige Wissensdatenbank mit Funktionalitäten für Projekträume, Umfragen, Nachrichtenticker, Aufgaben und Projektmanagement. Community-Applikationen mit speziellen, unternehmensweit skalierbaren Tools und Echtzeit-Collaboration sowie Newsletter, FAQ, und Veranstaltungskalender fördern den Austausch von Expertise und Best Practices.
Die Collaboration- und Community-Tools sind zusammen mit sämtlichen Inhalten in einer intuitiv bedienbaren Umgebung zugänglich. Das fördert die Zusammenarbeit und gleichzeitig werden Projektinformationen im darunter liegenden ECM Framework erfasst. Sicherheit, Zugriffskontrolle und Aufbewahrungsregeln werden unter Nutzung der bereits vorhandenen nativen Sicherheitsmechanismen und ohne zusätzliche Administrationsschicht durchgängig angewandt. Die damit ausgestatteten Mitarbeiter können schnell und sicher bereichs- und aufgabenübergreifende Teams bilden, ausgetauschtes Wissen erfassen, Prozesse managen und Projektfristen selbst über Abteilungs- und Ländergrenzen hinweg zuverlässig einhalten.
- Verbreitung von Expertenwissen und Best Practices in Communities: Unternehmen können effektiv ihre Wissensinseln miteinander verknüpfen und Mitarbeiter, die vor ähnlichen Zielen und Herausforderungen stehen, zusammenbringen. Neue Ideen und Chancen lassen sich in Support-Netzwerken kommunizieren, Standards und Best Practices können festgelegt werden, die Zusammenarbeit mit Kunden und Partnern wird effektiver. Zudem können mit Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration sichere Records Management-Kontrollen auf Inhalte aus der Community-Umgebung angewandt werden.
- Agilere Unternehmensstrukturen durch Projektmanagement: In eigenen Projekträumen können sich Mitarbeiter voll und ganz auf ihre Arbeit konzentrieren. Projektleiter können flexibel Teams zusammenstellen, neue Teammitglieder über eine Browser-basierende Benutzeroberfläche hinzufügen und ihnen verschiedene Rollen und Aufgaben zuweisen. Alle relevanten Projektinformationen - Pläne, Dokumente, Aufgabenlisten, URLs etc. - werden zentral im Projektraum gespeichert und vorgehalten. Die Kommunikation der Projektmitglieder kann innerhalb so genannter Threaded Discussions erfasst, in gängige E-Mail-Systeme integriert und auf dem Desktop bereitgestellt werden.
- Echtzeit-Zugriff auf Menschen und Informationen: Echtzeit-Funktionalitäten ermöglichen die flexible und vor unerlaubtem Zugriff geschützte Zusammenarbeit im Unternehmen. Unterstützung für Teambesprechungen, Instant Messaging, Screen- und Applikationssharing sowie gemeinsam genutzte Arbeitsräume verbessern das Arbeiten im Team und erhöhen die Produktivität.
Verfügbarkeit
Livelink ECM - Extended Collaboration wird im Mai 2008 verfügbar sein. Weitere Informationen sind unter http://www.opentext.com/... erhältlich.
05.03.2008, Katalin Balogh
Thursday, January 31, 2008
CeBIT: Open Text macht Web 2.0 sicher und verbindet Compliance mit Social Computing
CeBIT: Open Text macht Web 2.0 sicher und verbindet Compliance mit Social Computing
Open Text, Anbieter im Bereich Enterprise Content Management (ECM), präsentiert zur CeBIT 2008 Lösungen, um die kollaborative Zusammenarbeit auch im Umfeld von Web 2.0 sicher und produktiv zu gestalten. Die Kombination aus den neuen Web 2.0-Lösungen der Open Text Web Solutions Group mit Records Management, Security und Archivierung schlägt die Brücke zwischen Regularien (Compliance) und mehr Produktivität im Umgang mit Wissen für Unternehmen.
Open Text stellt auf der CeBIT 2008 gemeinsam mit RedDot, der Open Text Web Solutions Group, Konzepte und Lösungen vor, um Unternehmen den sicheren Einsatz von Enterprise 2.0-Technologien zu ermöglichen. Open Text bietet mit über 15 Jahren Erfahrung im kollaborativen Umfeld beste Lösungen, um jegliche Informationsprozesse in Unternehmen zu unterstützen. Die Content Experten kümmern sich auch um die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen wie Compliance, Zugriffsschutz und Risikomanagement. Integriert mit den neuen RedDot Web 2.0-Anwendungen wie Foren, Blogs, Wikis und Tagging, bieten diese vielfältige Möglichkeiten, um Mitarbeiterwissen in Unternehmen auf sicherem Wege durchsuchbar zu machen und produktiver zu gestalten. "Dies ermöglicht eine Konsistenz, wie sie bisher nur beim traditionellen Umgang mit Content realisierbar war. Web 2.0 wird dadurch für Unternehmen erstmals entsprechend integriert und sicher einsetzbar", so Daniel Kraft, President von RedDot, der Open Text Web Solutions Group.
Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt am Messestand bilden die neuen Open Text Content Services, eine system- und applikationsunabhängige Schicht von Webdiensten für ECM. Die Open Text Content Services bilden die Basis der neuen Produktgeneration von Open Text, das damit einen innovativen und Storage-agnostischen, das heißt von den physischen Aufbewahrungsorten der Inhalte abstrahierenden Ansatz zu ECM verfolgt. Durch die Bereitstellung von ECM-Funktionalitäten zwischen der Ebene der Content-Speicher einerseits und der Applikationen und Anwenderoberflächen andererseits beseitigt Open Text die durch unterschiedliche Systeme erzeugten Silos für Inhalte und Prozesse.
"Mit den Open Text Content Services können Unternehmen die Reichweite ihrer Implementierungen von inhaltsintensiven Anwendungen problemlos auf das gesamte Unternehmen ausdehnen. Dazu zählen neben branchenspezifischen Applikationen Anwendungen zu Eingangsrechnungsbearbeitung, Management von Personalakten (Employee Information Management), Kundenakten (Customer Information Management) oder Lieferantenakten (Supplier Information Management), Vertragsmanagement, Management regulierter Dokumente oder von Prozessakten, interner Revision und Risikomanagement sowie Markenmanagement", so Urs Sträuli, Vice President of Sales, Central and Eastern Europe, Open Text.
Der Hauptnutzen der Services liegt in ihrer Integrationsfähigkeit in die vorhandene IT-Infrastruktur einer Organisation. Denn dadurch lassen sich Inhalte aus verschiedensten Systemen im Rahmen einer kohärenten Strategie miteinander verknüpfen und managen. Gleichzeitig steigt für die Unternehmen der Wert ihrer wichtigen Unternehmensapplikationen. Open Text kann diese integrierten Funktionalitäten aufgrund seiner strategischen Partnerschaften speziell mit Microsoft und SAP liefern und verfügt damit über ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal im Markt.
31.01.2008, Katalin Balogh
Open Text, Anbieter im Bereich Enterprise Content Management (ECM), präsentiert zur CeBIT 2008 Lösungen, um die kollaborative Zusammenarbeit auch im Umfeld von Web 2.0 sicher und produktiv zu gestalten. Die Kombination aus den neuen Web 2.0-Lösungen der Open Text Web Solutions Group mit Records Management, Security und Archivierung schlägt die Brücke zwischen Regularien (Compliance) und mehr Produktivität im Umgang mit Wissen für Unternehmen.
Open Text stellt auf der CeBIT 2008 gemeinsam mit RedDot, der Open Text Web Solutions Group, Konzepte und Lösungen vor, um Unternehmen den sicheren Einsatz von Enterprise 2.0-Technologien zu ermöglichen. Open Text bietet mit über 15 Jahren Erfahrung im kollaborativen Umfeld beste Lösungen, um jegliche Informationsprozesse in Unternehmen zu unterstützen. Die Content Experten kümmern sich auch um die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen wie Compliance, Zugriffsschutz und Risikomanagement. Integriert mit den neuen RedDot Web 2.0-Anwendungen wie Foren, Blogs, Wikis und Tagging, bieten diese vielfältige Möglichkeiten, um Mitarbeiterwissen in Unternehmen auf sicherem Wege durchsuchbar zu machen und produktiver zu gestalten. "Dies ermöglicht eine Konsistenz, wie sie bisher nur beim traditionellen Umgang mit Content realisierbar war. Web 2.0 wird dadurch für Unternehmen erstmals entsprechend integriert und sicher einsetzbar", so Daniel Kraft, President von RedDot, der Open Text Web Solutions Group.
Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt am Messestand bilden die neuen Open Text Content Services, eine system- und applikationsunabhängige Schicht von Webdiensten für ECM. Die Open Text Content Services bilden die Basis der neuen Produktgeneration von Open Text, das damit einen innovativen und Storage-agnostischen, das heißt von den physischen Aufbewahrungsorten der Inhalte abstrahierenden Ansatz zu ECM verfolgt. Durch die Bereitstellung von ECM-Funktionalitäten zwischen der Ebene der Content-Speicher einerseits und der Applikationen und Anwenderoberflächen andererseits beseitigt Open Text die durch unterschiedliche Systeme erzeugten Silos für Inhalte und Prozesse.
"Mit den Open Text Content Services können Unternehmen die Reichweite ihrer Implementierungen von inhaltsintensiven Anwendungen problemlos auf das gesamte Unternehmen ausdehnen. Dazu zählen neben branchenspezifischen Applikationen Anwendungen zu Eingangsrechnungsbearbeitung, Management von Personalakten (Employee Information Management), Kundenakten (Customer Information Management) oder Lieferantenakten (Supplier Information Management), Vertragsmanagement, Management regulierter Dokumente oder von Prozessakten, interner Revision und Risikomanagement sowie Markenmanagement", so Urs Sträuli, Vice President of Sales, Central and Eastern Europe, Open Text.
Der Hauptnutzen der Services liegt in ihrer Integrationsfähigkeit in die vorhandene IT-Infrastruktur einer Organisation. Denn dadurch lassen sich Inhalte aus verschiedensten Systemen im Rahmen einer kohärenten Strategie miteinander verknüpfen und managen. Gleichzeitig steigt für die Unternehmen der Wert ihrer wichtigen Unternehmensapplikationen. Open Text kann diese integrierten Funktionalitäten aufgrund seiner strategischen Partnerschaften speziell mit Microsoft und SAP liefern und verfügt damit über ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal im Markt.
31.01.2008, Katalin Balogh
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Open Text Extends Alliance With Microsoft, Announces New Comprehensive Solution for Law Firms
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Open Text Extends Alliance With Microsoft, Announces New Comprehensive Solution for Law Firms
New Offering Enables Law Firms To Utilize Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Matter Lifecycle Management, While Mitigating Legal and Compliance Risks
Open Text Extends Alliance With Microsoft, Announces New Comprehensive Solution for Law Firms
New Offering Enables Law Firms To Utilize Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Matter Lifecycle Management, While Mitigating Legal and Compliance Risks
Monday, August 20, 2007
Open Text To Build Law Firm-Focused Content Management System On Microsoft SharePoint > Information Management > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions
Open Text To Build Law Firm-Focused Content Management System On Microsoft SharePoint > Information Management > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions
Open Text To Build Law Firm-Focused Content Management System On Microsoft SharePoint
The new product, available next year, would would combine Open Text's expertise in lifecycle management of legal documents with the collaboration and content management capabilities of SharePoint.
By Antone Gonsalves
Open Text on Monday said it would offer law firms a content management system based entirely on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
The new product, unveiled at the ILTA legal conference in Orlando, Fla., would combine Open Text's expertise in lifecycle management of legal documents with the collaboration and content management capabilities of SharePoint. Open Text currently sells its own product for the legal market called LegalKEY.
SharePoint is used by law firms for broadly used intranet, extranet and collaboration capabilities, while Open Text technologies have been tailored to specific law firm processes, Open Text officials said. Under the combined offering, SharePoint could become a firm's central content repository, and lawyers and staff could use its interface to access Open Text's practice-centric views of content and virtual file cabinets.
The integrated product is expected to help firms manage new business and potential conflicts of interest, establish ethical walls separating client cases, and provide records management and archiving that meets compliance requirements. In addition, users can perform federated searches across matters, and automatically assign metadata to allow correct classification of documents and pre-population of relevant content. The single point of content management through SharePoint also means that firms can apply retention schedules across repositories in a consistent and centralized manner.
Open Text two years ago launched an initiative to combine Microsoft productivity tools with its enterprise content management software and vertical-market expertise. Earlier this year, Open Text launched software integrated with SharePoint for managing U.S. Department of Defense-certified records. The company also launched a joint SharePoint-Open Text product that life sciences companies could use to manage documents that meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements.
The latest integrated product is scheduled to be fully available to law firms by early next year. Pricing was not disclosed.
Open Text To Build Law Firm-Focused Content Management System On Microsoft SharePoint
The new product, available next year, would would combine Open Text's expertise in lifecycle management of legal documents with the collaboration and content management capabilities of SharePoint.
By Antone Gonsalves
Open Text on Monday said it would offer law firms a content management system based entirely on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
The new product, unveiled at the ILTA legal conference in Orlando, Fla., would combine Open Text's expertise in lifecycle management of legal documents with the collaboration and content management capabilities of SharePoint. Open Text currently sells its own product for the legal market called LegalKEY.
SharePoint is used by law firms for broadly used intranet, extranet and collaboration capabilities, while Open Text technologies have been tailored to specific law firm processes, Open Text officials said. Under the combined offering, SharePoint could become a firm's central content repository, and lawyers and staff could use its interface to access Open Text's practice-centric views of content and virtual file cabinets.
The integrated product is expected to help firms manage new business and potential conflicts of interest, establish ethical walls separating client cases, and provide records management and archiving that meets compliance requirements. In addition, users can perform federated searches across matters, and automatically assign metadata to allow correct classification of documents and pre-population of relevant content. The single point of content management through SharePoint also means that firms can apply retention schedules across repositories in a consistent and centralized manner.
Open Text two years ago launched an initiative to combine Microsoft productivity tools with its enterprise content management software and vertical-market expertise. Earlier this year, Open Text launched software integrated with SharePoint for managing U.S. Department of Defense-certified records. The company also launched a joint SharePoint-Open Text product that life sciences companies could use to manage documents that meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements.
The latest integrated product is scheduled to be fully available to law firms by early next year. Pricing was not disclosed.
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