Geek -
I've been using the web to research document management companies for a while. My company is starting a project to organize our internal procedures, as well as documents delivered to the customer. Companies like Documentum and FileNet (Saros) are also pushing collaborative, distributed document management and workflow solutions. These seem to be well established players in this niche. For a list of other companies in this and closely related areas, check out aiimguide.com
As a shareholder, I would hope that Opentext would have effective marketing and sales material. To their credit, their web page is at least as informative as the ones mentioned above, and unlike the others, a "tour" of the user interface is available. The text does a pretty good job of explaining their product. My problem is with the "tour of Livelink."
The tour makes the software LOOK kind of like a PIM. IMO, they should stress creating and managing collaborative documents, storing the information in the dissimilar native application formats, and tying the pieces together for publication. Of the 10-12 pages in the tour, only one screen shot concerns this, and about 5 to 7 pages show the task list and basic check in, check out version control. That's why I said it was lame-o. If there is something innovative about the task list, please let me know, and I'll retract my statement.
BTW, if you do a search on "Document Management" on microsoft.com, you will see an article about Word being ODMA compliant. They reccomend Documentum and Saros as document managers. Is Livelink ODMA compliant? |
