Doorways to content, email
Doorways to content, email
Canadian software developer Open Text has introduced a data integration tool to its flagship Livelink application, upgraded its content management features, and will acquire fellow Canadian developer Centrinity for its unified mail software.
Livelink Doorways will allow users of the Open Text suite to integrate content from Documentum 4I repositories, as well as file systems stored on servers running Windows, Unix NFS or Oracle iFS.
Further updates to the tool will add support for repositories used by applications from Hummingbird and Lotus, among others.
Open Text users would not have to migrate third-party databases to one system, according to the company, and could instead interact with documents in their native format through the Livelink interface.
Also, Content Management for Livelink is now a component of the main application removing the need for Livelink users to develop their own custom solutions to address content management issues like publishing enterprise content to external Web sites.
The Content Management module is comprised of content authoring and creation tools, multilingual site creation and management, content approval and staging, content distribution and syndication, and content delivery and personalisation.
Employees will also be able to add search facilities to their sites, using Livelink’s abilities in generating metadata for unstructured documents.
The Content Management component will allow integration with the Weblogic server from BEA Systems, plus IBM’s Websphere, as well as other server platforms and personalisation engines, according to Open Text.
Meanwhile, the acquisition of Centrinity will mean Open Text can add the former’s unified mailbox technology to the extensive range of collaboration features in its Livelink platform.
Centrinity’s main application is FirstClass, which allows mobile workers to unify their email, voicemail and fax messages into a single mailbox, which can then be accessed via computer, phone or PDA.
Inclusion of voice communications into the corporate knowledge base had already been started in Livelink with a videoconferencing feature called MeetingZone.Open Text said the acquisition would enable integration of “the previously disparate worlds of email, voicemail and other unstructured content”.