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"We can simply do a search on it and get the information we need, saving a lot of time. Open Text Document Management (formerly Livelink) has really become a common word at Genzyme—as common as Outlook or Word."
Mark Wescott, Senior IT Manager, ECM at Genzyme
Managing information is critical to the success and security of your business. The need to effectively manage business documents reaches across your organization. Business documents, whether they originate in electronic or paper form, define your business and the way that it operates.
Knowing where documents are, controlling access to them, finding them quickly, linking them to business processes, and archiving or destroying them at the right time in their lifecycle are fundamental requirements. The Document Management component of the Open Text Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Suite meets these requirements for managing business documents in any electronic format.
Effective management of business documents lies at the heart of an effective enterprise-wide ECM strategy, enabling you to:
Improve personal productivity by making it easier to find information
Get more value from existing information assets by connecting them with business processes
Improve decision making by putting corprate history at the fingertips of today's decision makers
Reduce risk through the effective governance of vital corporate information
Depending on your current requirements, you have the flexibility of selecting one of the two following applications to provide the Document Management component of the Open Text ECM Suite:
Open Text Document Management is a fully featured, highly scalable and Web-based document management system that provides a secure, single repository for the organization and sharing of electronic documents across the enterprise.
Open Text Content Lifecycle Management includes all of the capabilities of Open Text Document Management and adds complete lifecycle management with its content archiving and records management capabilities.
The following offerings are designed to extend the value of your investments in Open Text Document Management or Open Text Content Lifecycle Management with enhancements that address specific needs:
Open Text Enterprise Connect provides users with access to all their business content and processes from multiple sources (Open Text Document Management, Open Text Content Lifecycle Management, Open Text eDOCS, or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) directly from Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Windows Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, and browser-based interfaces.
Open Text Extended Collaboration enhances the team collaboration capabilities of Open Text Document Management and Open Text Content Lifecycle Management with project and community workspaces, tasks, polls, discussion forums, blogs, FAQs, community calendars, wikis, real-time collaboration, and more.
Open Text Extended Workflow extends Open Text Document Management and Open Text Content Lifecycle Management with enhanced process management capabilities, including electronic signatures, XML enhancements to standard workflow, PDF forms support, and a powerful content reporting tool.
Open Text Knowledge Management enhances the knowledge sharing and retrieval capabilities of Open Text Document Management and Open Text Content Lifecycle Management with Web crawling, virtual folders, automatic classifications and federated searching.
Add-On Modules for Open Text Document Management and Open Text Content Lifecycle Management provides you with the flexibility to extend their functionality to meet your particular needs