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Oracle and Open Text Announce Partnership Enabling Single Point Access To Content Management and Collaborative Capabilities
Open Text’s Open Interchange Architecture Extends The Power of Livelink
With Oracle Portal
Waterloo, ON — September 7, 2000 — Open Text (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), a worldwide leader of
collaborative commerce software for e-business, today announced a strategic partnership with Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's leading supplier of software. The partnership enables
organizations to build highly scalable solutions by providing access to Livelink’s powerful collaborative capabilities through Oracle(R) Portal, a browser-based software environment for
building and deploying enterprise portals.
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Open Text’s Open Interchange Architecture™ (OIA) has made this innovative partnership possible. Recently
introduced, the OIA supports the further extension of Livelink to integrate with third party portal development frameworks. Ensuring interoperability, the OIA makes use
of industry standards—XML for data interchange and CORBA for distributed computing. The openness of the OIA facilitates a new method of winning customers, shifting corporate focus from competition to collaboration.
Integration between Oracle Portal and Livelink is achieved by leveraging myLivelink®, a
collaborative knowledge portal for e-business applications that gives users a personalized interface to Livelink. myLivelink information access controls are exposed as portlets, reusable
interface components that provide access to Web-based resources, within Oracle Portal. Since administration and configuration of Livelink controls are provided directly from Oracle Portal,
customers are able to take advantage of myLivelink’s best-of-breed portal access to Livelink without having to create or support custom Oracle portlets.
Facilitating the creation of highly scalable collaborative applications, myLivelink’s distributed
architecture spans multiple portal servers and Livelink instances. The combination of Oracle Portal, part of the Oracle Internet Platform, with Open Text’s Livelink offers organizations a
comprehensive platform for collaboration, content management, data warehousing, business intelligence, application integration, and mobile computing.
“We are pleased with the new partnership between Oracle and Open Text,” said Jeremy Burton,
Oracle Senior Vice President, Product and Services Marketing. “By integrating the Livelink knowledge management solution with Oracle Portal, Open Text customers can have access to
Oracle’s portal infrastructure that offers a secure, organized, and personalized view of the business information, Web content, and applications essential to knowledge workers. In addition,
Oracle customers can leverage the robust collaborative capabilities of Livelink, including workflow, enterprise group scheduling, and virtual project workspaces, through Oracle Portal.
“Our agreement with Oracle emphasizes the high scalability of the Open Interchange
Architecture,” said Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing, Open Text. “Over 50% of our installed customer base already employ Oracle technology, the leading e-business software
provider. Through collaboration and cooperation, the OIA allows us to provide joint customers with a single point of access to all of the corporate knowledge, content, legacy applications and
structured information warehoused in the Livelink repository. By partnering with Oracle, we further strengthen our leadership in collaborative e-business applications.”
About Oracle Portal:
Oracle Portal (the next generation release of Oracle WebDB) combines an extensible portal
framework with self-service Web publishing to form the infrastructure that e-businesses need to build and manage enterprise-class portals. Oracle Portal is a browser-based software
environment for building and deploying enterprise portals. It provides a secure, manageable framework for delivering access to distributed software services and information resources. The
easy-to-use portal interface offers an organized, personalized view of the business information, web content, and applications needed by each user. Self-service publishing features eliminate
webmaster bottlenecks by allowing end users to post and share any kind of document or web content with other users anywhere in the world. The deployment architecture is optimized for
scalability and security, and allows for centralized administration of all portal services through a browser. In addition to its core portal development and management features, Oracle Portal
provides an extensible framework for integrating applications and business information. The framework is based on Oracle's unique portlet technology. Portlets are reusable interface
components that provide access to web-based resources. Any web page, application, business intelligence report, syndicated content feed, hosted software service or other resource can be
accessed through a portlet, allowing it to be personalized and managed as a service of Oracle Portal.
About myLivelink:
myLivelink is the leading collaborative knowledge portal solution for business. It connects users to
information from within their enterprise business systems, intranets, extranets and global e-community—all from a single Web interface. Using myLivelink, users can filter and access
information from selected sources, set up virtual teams, collaborate on projects, and participate in discussions across the globe—without leaving the desktop. A 'hub' for navigating and
accessing a variety of information sources, myLivelink enables users to personalize access to corporate information, industry data, enterprise business systems, consumer links, e-mail,
conferencing, calendaring, forms processing, news feeds, and more.
About Livelink:
Livelink is a highly scaleable e-business application. Its richly-featured enterprise services include
virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling and information retrieval services, all tightly integrated into a solution that is easily customized and
extended. Livelink is essential to the effective management and development of communities of interest that span organizations and industries. For everything from the creation of complex
e-community relationships to the automation of simple e-business processes, Livelink delivers true dynamic collaboration between individuals, organizations, and large trading communities.
Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure rapid deployment and easy access to its full functionality through a standard Web browser.
About Open Text:
Open Text has pioneered the development of innovative intranet and extranet e-business applications.
Since creating one of the first search engines to index the World Wide Web, the Company has remained at the forefront of Internet-based technologies. It's product family called Livelink enables
individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on e-business applications that facilitate e-commerce and other transactions among Global 2000 organizations.
Open Text has become one of the largest providers of Web based collaboration for e-business applications for e-communities of all types from intranets to extranets and public groups. The
Livelink product family has over 4 million users in over 4,000 installations in 31 countries, speaking 12 languages throughout the world.
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