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The ECM Suites Report 2009 looks at... Open Text's Document Management

"At an enterprise level, Open Text can add value in heterogeneous environments through the use of what it calls "Enterprise Library Services." In some ways this is the core of the LiveLink offering, a platform to manage content wherever it resides. This is very different from the "put everything in my repository" approach to ECM. Instead, Open Text recognizes that content will reside on file servers, databases and any number of third-party repositories. With Enterprise Library Services, Livelink aims to manage the metadata centrally for these disparate resources. Of course, integrating metadata will prove much more complicated than integrating data ..."

(p. 198-199)

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Open Text in a thousand words

28-Aug-2007

My colleague Alan Pelz-Sharpe proves that it's possible -- just barely -- to describe a major ECM vendor that markets hundreds of products, in just three screens of text. His review of Open Text in Intelligent Enterprise magazine doesn't have all the juicy bits that you'll find in our ECM Suites Report, but it gives you a good sense for that vendor is all about...

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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