BellSouth Corporation Chooses Open Text Livelink Intranet Suite for Web-Based Collaboration,
DOC. Management Needs
ATLANTA, GA. (Oct. 28) BUSINESS WIRE -Oct. 28, 1996--OPEN TEXT
CORPORATIO (NASDAQ:OTEXF) The following news release was previously
transmitted on October 24, 1996.
Open Text Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada today announced
that BellSouth.net Inc. has chosen Open Text's Livelink Intranet suite
for its internal support and collaboration needs. BellSouth.net develops
Internet and electronic commerce strategies and services, enabling
BellSouth and its affiliates to offer these services to residential and
business customers.
"To bring to the Internet and electronic commerce the same
reliability and high quality of service that customers have come to
expect from BellSouth's voice telephone service is no easy task," said
Bob Popp, Project Manager, BellSouth.net. "We needed a collaborative
computing solution that would help our employees work better as a
virtual team, and the integrated applications of Livelink Intranet met
our needs."
Initially, the suite will run on a single Sun/Solaris system, using
a Sybase database, that connects BellSouth.net staff. The firm plans on
having most users on the system by January, including engineers,
software developers, marketers and product developers.
"At first we were mainly concerned with obtaining a world-class
document repository system, which the Livelink Library for Document
Management module provides," said Popp. "But the web-interface and
other features such as its search, workflow status and collaboration
engines helped us see beyond our immediate needs to ways we could
further improve our internal communications and planning activities."
"The strengths of our product and our vision to put the web to work
for enterprises on intranets is being recognized, particularly by
communication firms like BellSouth and, in September, Bell Canada, where
customer service is crucial for success going into the 21st century,"
said Tom Jenkins, President and CEO, Open Text Corporation.
BellSouth is a $17.9 billion communications services company. It
provides telecommunications, wireless communications, directory
advertising and publishing, Internet and information services to more
than 25 million customers in 17 countries worldwide. BellSouth's
telecommunications operations provide service over one of the most
advanced networks in the world for nearly 22 million access lines in its
nine-state region that includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Visit the World Wide Web site for BellSouth's Internet services at
bellsouth.net.
Open Text Corporation is an intranet applications company whose
mission is to put the Web to work. Open Text enables organizations to
leverage the power and global reach of Internet technology by providing
applications, tools and services that transform intranets into platforms
for collaborative, distributed computing. Global 2000 companies use
Open Text solutions to find and manage information and documents,
empower teams and drive critical business processes.
This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating
to the future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking
statements, specifically those concerning future performance, are
subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may
differ materially. These risks and uncertainties are detailed from time
to time in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), including the final prospectus for the company's
initial public offering of common stock in January 1996, and Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended June 30, 1996.
Note to Editors: Open Text and Livelink Intranet are trademarks of
Open Text Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective companies.
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CONTACT: Open Text Corporation
David Paolini, 416/ 596-0296 ext. 13
416/ 596-1374 (FAX)
Open Text URL - opentext.com
davep@opentext.com (Email)
or
BellSouth
Ted Creech, 404/ 330-0550
BellSouth URL: bellsouth.net
tcreech@bellsouth.net (Email)
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