Content Management Matters ™

Vital Path has just released a new version of its PathBuilder offering, in which vestiges of virtualization are used for the greater good: "in-place" records management (that's VP's specialty).

The answer is buyer's remorse. The question is: what was the emotion felt by the senior leadership of all the organizations that invested in Hummingbird Enterprise just before their subsequent acquisition by ECM behemoth Open Text?

While most acquisition stories end with the acquiree going away never to be heard from again, this tale continues to have a happy ending for Hummingbird Enterprise customers.

v5.1 of Open Text's Livelink ECM - Vendor Invoice Management (for use with SAP offerings) now includes out-of-box reporting and analytics.

The souped-up solution boasts 35 new best-practice workflows for exceptions related specifically to invoicing (missing goods receipts, incorrect pricing or tax, etc).

Other enhancements include upgraded Vendor Self Service Portal capabilities and fresh diagnostic tools for faster configuration and deployment.

Today at the 45th Annual Aerospace and Defense Contract Management Conference in California, Open Text announced its latest version of Livelink ECM - Contract Lifecycle Management.

The ECM firm built Contract Lifecycle Management to specifically address contact creation, negotiation, fulfillment and renewals issues.

ECM provider Open Text has announced the availability of an Office Business Application for accessing, and managing, customer information.

Built on the '07 Microsoft Office system for commercial availability, the Livelink ECM -- Customer Information Management tool provides a complete view of all the information associated with a customer, from any typically-utilized content repository.

Tribal Group, a prominent provider of consulting and professional support services in the UK, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Open Text, a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology.

What if you could obtain an electronic version of a book that is currently checked out? What if you could listen to an interview with the author of a book to decide if you want to take it home? What if you could get digital copies of the journals and documents listed in the bibliography of a textbook?

These are just some of the questions to which Open Text hopes to guide the answer with a special version of Livelink, their enterprise content management product, customized for libraries.

Open Text and Sun Microsystems join forces to deliver a powerful e-mail management offering. The solution targets the big boys -- having been designed to serve global organizations facing problems with monitoring and archiving volumes of correspondence -- and is of course fueled by the on-going race to meet regulatory compliance demands.

Following their acquisition of Hummingbird this past summer, Open Text has recently announced their latest public intentions for the Hummingbird brand of Enterprise Content Management software and for 2007 as a whole.