DLA Document Services Brings Open Text ECM Suite to the U.S. Department of Defense

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Nov 09, 2010, 09:06 ET

Offers All Military Branches Easy, Cost Effective Way to Take Advantage of Industry Leading Content Lifecycle Management Technology

CONTENT WORLD, Washington, D.C., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ - Open Text Corporation, (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC) today announced that DLA Document Services is offering the Open Text ECM Suite, Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions to U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, providing easier, more cost effective ways for all branches of the military to access and manage the lifecycle of content, including important records and email documents in SharePoint, among others. Open Text announced the news this week at Content World, its annual industry conference underway this week in Washington, D.C.

DLA Document Services is the catalyst for document automation in the DoD by actively functioning as a transformation agent to move the department toward the use of online documents and services. As part of its mission, DLA Document Services works with its military customers to consolidate records and storage, reduce paper, provide easy to use content management and search capabilities, and create efficiencies through workflow and records management. To help it fulfill this mission, DLA Document Services has selected Open Text as a core technology and implementation provider, tapping Open Text's extensive ECM solutions and expertise in helping organizations manage content more effectively.

"By offering Open Text's CLM solutions, DoD customers have a cost effective solution without having to go through the traditional contracting process typically required for licensing these types of tools," said Michael Smith, Vice President, Public Sector, Open Text. "Open Text's CLM tools will help U.S. military customers easily manage their content throughout its entire lifecycle and ensure it is secure, meets DoD requirements, and reduces risk and storage requirements. These are all imperatives for this market."

Open Text ECM Suite, Content Lifecycle Management, provides a set of integrated ECM capabilities that allow customers to manage large volumes of information across many systems. With this solution, DLA Document Services enables DoD agencies to:

Manage all documents and data in an electronic file cabinet; a document system that lets customers securely file, archive, and find every document, no matter its original source.
Establish consistent information governance across their businesses and mitigate the risks and costs of all their content - from email to file shares, from Microsoft SharePoint to SAP throughout the content's lifecycle - from creation through to destruction.
Reduce corporate risk and legal liability by enabling employees to apply retention and disposition rules to the content they create and manage.
Reduce physical storage requirements and costs by archiving and disposing of content in a legally defensible way.
Integrate content into business processes and manage it as a critical business asset.
Deliver and share content.
Provide content security and integrity throughout its entire lifecycle.
Set event notifications.
Create an enterprise workspace, and personal workspaces.
Use Open Text Pulse to provide such social capabilities as activity feeds and microblogging.

As a field activity of the Defense Logistics Agency, DLA Document Services has been serving the Department of Defense for more than 60 years. DLA Document Services currently manages more than 180 service facilities, primarily located on U.S. military bases worldwide in seven countries, and provides a full portfolio of document services ranging from traditional offset printing, through on-demand output, to online document services. For more information on DLA Document services, visit www.daps.dla.mil.

Open Text's CLM solution is available today to U.S. Department of Defense agencies by contacting DLA Document Services [email protected]. For more information on Open Text's CLM solution, visit http://www.opentext.com/2/global/ecm-suite-lifecycle

Content World

Content World, Open Text's annual conference for customers and partners, convenes this week to discuss the latest trends in enterprise content management. Open Text will provide deep insight into its recently released ECM Suite 2010 and how enterprise customers in all industries, including the public sector, can establish sound content governance, improve efficiency, and drive the monetization of ECM. Participants will also learn vital information about how to optimize current Open Text solutions—whether their focus is on lifecycle management, engagement, or transactional content. For more information on Content World 2010 and its sessions, go to: http://www.opentext.com/contentworld2010. Follow the conference on Twitter @OTContentWorld. The conference hashtag is #OTCW.

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About Open Text

Open Text, a global ECM leader, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 100 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.

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