JETFORM AND OPEN TEXT ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
Industry leaders to jointly develop and market
Web-based Java forms and administrative workflow solutions
OTTAWA/WATERLOO, July 22 /CNW/ - JetForm Corporation
(NASDAQ: FORMF) and Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEXF)
today announced a strategic partnership that will enable the
two companies to jointly develop and market powerful,
enterprise-class solutions for managing and using Java-based
forms over corporate intranets and extranets.
JetForm is the global leader in Web-enabled electronic
forms and administrative workflow, providing solutions that
streamline business processes. Open Text is the pioneer and
market leader in scaleable intranet application software for
managing documents and collaborative business processes.
Together they will develop software that will allow
organizations to collaboratively create, track and manage what
may be vast libraries of electronic forms, and to use forms in
collaborative workflow processes.
For Livelink users, this partnership will provide them
with JetForm's ability to design and deploy forms-based
applications from within their Livelink intranet. In
addition, they will be able to create and modify Java-based
forms as a user interface to aspects of Livelink, which
currently uses dynamically constructed HTML pages as its
primary interface.
For JetForm Customers, this will bring to bear Open Text
Livelink's, ability to handle complex version histories and to
route forms through controlled workflows to ensure that they
are approved before use. Users will be able to retrieve from
the Livelink library both the data and form associated with
any particular transaction, always certain of the integrity of
the data and that the right form is being delivered with the
right data.
Working as partners means we can both get to where we're
going faster - helping enterprises manage the full range of
their business processes using the unprecedented connective
power of the Web,'' said Abe Kleinfeld, Open Text's Senior
Vice President of Marketing. JetForm's Java forms
capabilities will go far in enabling our customers to do just
that. We are delighted not only with our development,
marketing and sales agreement with JetForm, but also with the
agreement's comprehensiveness and depth.''
This is a win-win situation for both companies, and for
our customers, many of whom have already begun moving to a
Web-based platform,'' said Phil Weaver, JetForm's Executive
Vice President. We've already committed to providing our
customers with Java forms solutions, and we're extending our
reach by partnering with the acknowledged leader in business
applications for corporate intranets and extranets. We're
excited at the prospect of working together.''
The two companies will jointly promote the new products
through their direct sales forces and reseller channels to
leverage each other's efforts. The first integrated products
are expected to be available from both companies this fall. |
