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Two new add-ons for Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 strive to not only make it easier and faster for users to locate their content but also enable them to store content in SharePoint directly from Outlook.

Open Text, a well known leader in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space have announced their financial results for their third quarter which ended March 31.

As compared to the same quarter last year (prior to the Hummingbird acquisition in August 2006) both total revenues and software license revenues were strongly up over 50% while profit sharply dropped 47 percent, related to higher operating costs and a number of one-time expenses.

Having leveraged the standard enterprise’s need to archive material and manage records, Open Text is starting to see a strong response for its Livelink ECM integration for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

This also includes its solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which was just released in early March.

We can’t think of webs more tangly than the ones showcased in the sober environment of a court room. Enterprise CMS giant Open Text leaps into messy matters of law with LegalKEY Risk Indicator, a new solution that helps analysts better identify high-risk conflicts of interest.

In more positive news for ECM vendor Open Text, Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS), the largest of Vermont’s 21 utility companies, just implemented the company’s Livelink ECM. Livelink will assist in managing CVPS’s e-documentation and records for compliance purposes and e-discovery.

Open Text, the ECM solutions provider (and contender for world domination), announces that RedDot’s most current content management and delivery software are available, in the form of RedDot CMS 7.5 and RedDot LiveServer 3.5. Post acquisition, RedDot functions as the Open Text Web Solutions Group.

The three-time Readers’ Choice Award winners at Open Text just signed a contract with the Defense Science and Technology Lab to provide an electronic document and records management solution in the form of Livelink ECM.

The Lab selected Open Text after a competitive process that ultimately came down to cost and functionality, as determined by private testing - a process conducted in a manner most hush-hush by their change management program.

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.

Everybody’s got a problem staying up-to-date with whatever still-wet ink on paper has just been printed to alleviate (or fuel?) an ongoing compliance crisis. Even life science companies have trouble keeping the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) happy, and that’s why they’ve enlisted the aid of ECM goliath Open Text.

Open Text, the largest independent provider of Enterprise CMS software, has released the data for their unaudited financial results for their second fiscal quarter of 2007 (ended December 31, 2006).

With their total revenues for the quarter at US$ 163.3 million, as compared to US$ 110.8 million for the same period in the year prior, we’d have to say that 2007 is getting started with a decent sized bang. And the market seems to be agreeing with us.

Of late there’s been more records management and eDiscovery announcements than fitful man can shake a stick at. Open Text takes the scoop of the day, delivering good news for themselves, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) managers, and Microsoft.

Come early March the company will have achieved the first U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 certification for records management of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 business data.

According to a recent report by the UK-based Butler Group, outdated document collaboration processes are wasting time and posing risks to companies.

“Document management systems have helped organizations improve internal efficiency,” said the report. “However, extending these systems to partners and stakeholders has proved much more difficult. Internet connectivity now provides the information worker with incredible reach, but productivity is still constrained by the collaborative range of office productivity tools and ingrained working practices.”

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Open Text has announced that they’ve received three Readers’ Choice Awards from KMWorld Magazine, recognizing their achievements in the Enterprise CMS technology areas of Email Management, Document Management, and Collaboration.

The results of the KMWorld 10th Anniversary Readers’ Choice Awards were announced in this month’s State-of-the-Industry issue. Readers were asked which companies came to mind in various categories, like document management, email management, search, and collaboration.

Now you have another reason to go. Open Text will be showcasing their latest Enterprise CMS solutions at their upcoming Summit 2007, a worldwide user conference for Hummingbird customers and partners. Attended by over 900 individuals, it will be held at the Hyatt Resort & Spa in Huntington Beach, California from February 11th through 14th.

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.