Lava Systems Africa, an affinity partner of Canadian-based for Open Text, today announced that the latter had signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Vista Plus suite of products and related assets from Quest Software Inc.
Vista Plus captures and stores business-critical information from packaged applications like Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and mySAP, as well as custom and mainframe legacy environments. The acquisition expands Open Text`s integration and report management capabilities as part of its comprehensive ECM suite. Vista provides a strong platform from which to address report content found in ERP applications, and business intelligence (BI) software from Cognos, Business Objects, Crystal Reports and others.
"With Vista Plus, we`re acquiring world-class technology that captures and stores business-critical information from ERP systems," commented Tom Jenkins, Chief Executive Officer of Open Text. "Current Vista Plus customers will benefit from the integration with Open Text`s ECM platform. We will work together to integrate our teams, while continuing to support and serve Vista Plus customers."
Vista Plus` integration with SAP R/3, PeopleSoft and Oracle Applications provides value for automating and tracking the delivery of reports and documents to physical destinations like printers and fax servers, as well and electronic delivery to end-users.
Vista Plus "report" customers will benefit from Open Text`s full line of ECM capabilities such as digital image access, workflow, and other document capture and viewing features that Open Text offers in its Livelink product suite.
The Vista Plus Suite consists of three components: an output manager, electronic forms server and a scalable central repository. Together they control and deliver all business output to any user via multiple delivery channels. Benefits include:
* Enables self-service access to reports and statements over intranets or extranets.
* Provides page-level security to protect sensitive report content.
* Eliminates hard-copy report distribution to reduce print consumables expense.
* Simplifies administration by integrating with packaged application security models.
* Enables data mining and analysis against fixed content.
* Assures delivery of business-critical documents in electronic and hard-copy formats.
* Automates the merge of raw application output with electronic forms.
As part of the transaction, Quest employees that developed, sold and supported the Vista Plus Suite will also become a part of Open Text.
For further information, please contact Iain McMurray, Lava Systems Africa: telephone (011) 675 3704, fax (011) 675 1021, e-mail ianm@lavasystems.co.za.
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Open Text is the market leader in providing enterprise content management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organisations. Since launching the world`s first Internet search engine and the first Web-based enterprise collaboration and knowledge management software, Open Text continued its leadership in providing global enterprises with innovative and effective solutions.
Throughout its history, Open Text has matched its tradition of innovation with a track record of financial strength and growth. Today, the Canadian company supports 15 million end-users across deployments in 31 countries and 12 languages worldwide and includes among its client base government departments in Australia, Canada and Japan; the UK Metropolitan Police; British telecommunications, UNHCR and the US Department of Defence.
Open Text`s flagship product, Livelink seamlessly combines collaboration with content management, helping organisations transform information into knowledge in order to provide the foundation for innovation, compliance and accelerated growth. Open Text acquired Germany`s Ixos Software AG in February this year to become the largest ECM software vendor in Europe and the largest pure-play ECM software vendor in the world, according to Bradley West, an analyst with Southwest Securities Inc.
Lava Systems
The Lava Systems Africa (Pty) Ltd team originated in the late 1990s with the objective of becoming a premier supplier of enterprise systems based around knowledge management, document management, records management, image management, collaboration and workflow solutions. The emerging demands that were identified included government process re-engineering, supply chain co-ordination, customer relationship management, e-government and B2B processing.
In support of these business aims, the technology platforms chosen had to enjoy a proven global track record and adhere to open Internet architecture standards and developments. Lava Systems Africa is a South African-based BEE company dedicated to the sales, marketing, support and consultancy founded upon the Livelink product suite from Open Text, a product that the staff have been involved with since 1998. Lava Systems Africa user base embraces customers from both the private and public sector and includes organisations such as Bateman Projects Limited, Alexander Forbes, the Gauteng Provincial Government and the National Social Security Fund of Uganda.
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