Adobe teams with Open Text! Good article...Nice Move! "Smart"
Wednesday April 9 2:37 PM EDT
Open Text and Adobe announce smart "push" of business
documents
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 1997--
Livelink Integrates with Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Capture for
Agent-Based Business Process Automation Systems
Open Text Corporation (OTEXF:Nasdaq) today announced that its industry leading1 Livelink
Intranet product will use its agent-based "smart push" capabilities to deliver highly relevant
information to corporate users in the Portable Document Format (PDF), the file format created by
Adobe( Acrobat( and Adobe Capture( software that preserves document fidelity across computer
platforms and printers.
With the integration of Adobe Acrobat technology and Livelink, organizations can automate the
movement of documents regardless of source - paper or electronic - through complex, global
business processes. Anyone anywhere with access permission can view the work in progress or the
final results without any loss of the visual richness of the document.
Customers could, for example, configure a Livelink system so that documents scanned using Adobe
Capture automatically trigger processes such as full-text indexing and initiation of appropriate
Livelink workflows. In addition, a user could ask a Livelink Change Agent to notify her whenever a
particular workflow step is late, or a specific type of document in PDF is entered into a project or a
folder that she cares about. With today's announcement, the object can not only be downloaded by
clicking on a link in the email notification message, but can also be viewed in full WSIWYG mode as
a PDF file.
By using Acrobat Capture 2.0 software, large quantities of paper documents can be converted into
an electronic format that can be easily distributed and managed on corporate intranets. Acrobat
Capture software uses a combination of OCR, font and page recognition to convert scanned paper
documents into small, fully searchable PDF files. Once converted to PDF via Acrobat Capture,
electronic documents maintain all the formatting and graphic elements of the paper original, including
tables, photographs and handwritten notes or signatures.
Alternatively, documents that are available in electronic source, such as native word processor files,
can be automatically rendered into PDF and full-text indexed upon being checked into Livelink. As a
result, a high-quality, viewable version of the native document is always available.
"Because so many critical business processes manifest themselves as documents, from the
negotiation of contracts to the development of standard operating procedures, automating how those
documents are collaborated on and distributed can significantly reduce costs and speed time to
market," said John Kunze, Vice President and General Manager of Internet Products at Adobe
Systems. "We are very pleased to be working with Open Text, which has taken an innovative
approach to using the Web for collaboration on critical business processes. The integration between
Open Text's Livelink and Adobe Acrobat software enables customers to automatically move both
paper-based and electronic information through their business workflows, without losing the integrity
or quality required by important business documents."
"Adobe is a strategic partner for Open Text because of Adobe's vision and leading position in the
corporate and Web-based markets. Acrobat Capture delivers information in enriched forms that
Livelink's intelligent agents can leverage, and Adobe Acrobat provides the premier solution for
creating portable, high quality electronic documents. By integrating with these two leading edge
products, Livelink's push capability has become not only smart but also good looking," said Tom
Jenkins, the CEO and President of Open Text Corporation.
Livelink Intranet provides document management, visual workflow, project collaboration and
searching, all fully accessible over intranets via standard Web browsers. Livelink's recently-
announced Change Agents monitor all of the information and business processes within Livelink's
purview, notify users of changes relevant to their interests and needs, and allow users to interact with
the system through standard email clients.
The new capabilities will be available this summer.
Open Text Corporation (www.opentext.com) - recently recognized by International Data Corp. as
the market leading supplier of Web-enabled document management systems - creates and markets
intranet application software, tools and services that enable organizations to leverage the global
reach and openness of Internet technologies within a powerful, collaborative environment for
communicating, managing and working together. Open Text's solutions are used by Global 2000
companies to find and manage information and documents, empower teams and drive critical
business processes. Open Text: "Putting the Web to work." |
