Open Text receives KMWorld 10th Anniversary Readers' Choice Awards

Issued by Global Research Partners for Enterprise Content & Wireless

Johannesburg, 24 Jan 2007

Lava Systems Africa, an affinity partner of Canadian-based Open Text, and one of the companies within the Enterprise Content & Wireless (ECW) Group, today announced that Open Text has received three Readers' Choice Awards from KMWorld Magazine, one of the top US news magazines covering content and knowledge management technology.

Based purely on market awareness, KMWorld readers were surveyed on which companies they immediately thought of as being leading providers in such categories as document management, business process management, collaboration, e-mail management, search, and customer relationship management.

According to reader responses, Open Text was recognised for its leadership in the e-mail management, document management and collaboration categories.

The results of the KMWorld 10th Anniversary Readers' Choice Awards were announced in the January 2007 State-of-the-Industry issue.

"In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of KMWorld Magazine, we asked our readers to select the top five providers in the key knowledge management technology areas for their mission-critical business applications," said Andy Moore, KMWorld publisher. "The results directly reflect the landscape of KMWorld as it appeared in 2006."

Open Text is a leader in providing advanced ECM solutions for large corporations, governments and professional service firms. Open Text's solutions help people work together online, automate processes and manage large volumes of documents, e-mails and other content.

Open Text's comprehensive e-mail management solutions allow customers to manage e-mail as corporate records, providing a centralised foundation of compliant archiving and records management, as well as the ability to address e-discovery requirements.

Open Text's document management solutions provide full lifecycle management for any type of document, providing a single, authoritative repository for storing and organising electronic documents. Open Text also offers high-volume document processing solutions, which include production document management, imaging and BPM capabilities. These solutions allow large companies to manage millions of documents generated by business processes such as invoicing or claims processing.

Open Text's collaborative work environments combine a robust knowledge repository with project workspaces, communities, and other tools to give customers everything they need to collaborate more effectively online.

The complete results of the KMWorld 10th Anniversary Readers' Choice Awards are featured in the January 2007 State-of-the-Industry Issue of KMWorld magazine and are also available on its Web site here

For further information, please contact Ray Dalgarno, Lava Systems Africa: telephone (011) 675 7193, fax (011) 675 4075, e-mail rayd@lavasystems.co.za.

KMWorld Magazine

The leading information provider serving the knowledge management systems market, KMWorld (with a focus on content, document and knowledge management) informs more than 51 000 subscribers about the components and processes - and subsequent success stories - that together offer solutions for improving business performance.

Enterprise Content and Wireless (ECW)

ECW is the merged entity of Lava Systems Africa and Lava Systems Mobile (LSM).

The Lava Systems Africa (LSA) 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. LSA is a South African-based company dedicated to the sale, marketing, support and consultancy founded upon the Livelink product suite from Open Text, a product that the staff have been involved with since 1998. LSA's 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. Lava Systems Mobile, a company focusing on the development of mobile applications and tools, was originally created in 2005 and later that year absorbed KeyTools, a well-established mobile applications software developer with international links.

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