Lava Systems Africa, an affinity partner of Canadian-based Open Text, today announced the latest release of Artesia for Digital Asset Management (DAM), version 6.0, which provides sophisticated new security features built on a service-oriented architecture. The new version continues Artesia for Digital Asset Management`s tradition as the leading solution for managing digital content in large organisations.
The new release addresses such enterprise needs as enabling companies to easily administer a highly scalable, flexible and sophisticated security model across an entire company, not just within a few departments.
The Artesia for DAM 6.0 release also delivers new digital asset management services in a J2EE-based service-oriented architecture, demonstrating Open Text`s commitment to maintaining an advanced architecture for scalability, reliability and ease of delivering new functionality. The new features were added in response to the overwhelming adoption of digital asset management solutions among customers and the need to deploy them broadly in an organisation. "With this new release, Artesia continues to add breadth and depth to its digital asset management solution," commented Frank Gilbane, President, Bluebill Advisors, Editor, Gilbane Report. "As the ECM space continues to grow, it is important to have industrial-strength DAM capabilities that integrate well with a range of content management and collaboration functionality, as the evolution of Artesia for DAM toward the Livelink ECM Services Architecture is headed."
Artesia for DAM 6.0 marks a major new release of the solution following the acquisition of Artesia Technologies by Open Text just a few months ago. "No one understands enterprise content management like Open Text," added David Glazer, Chief Technology Officer at Open Text. "With Artesia in the Open Text family we have the opportunity to offer our customers unparalleled solutions for managing and enhance the DAM-specific features while moving toward an integration strategy that fully meets our customers` needs."
"Leveraging such events as our user group meeting, LinkUp Phoenix, and continuous outreach from our product management team, this release delivers features and functionality based on the needs of our customers and prospects," said Gregg Simpson, Open Text`s Senior Vice-President for Artesia Products. "Our ability to consistently deliver high-quality, on-time and meaningful iterations of our software is a true validation of our product development methodologies."
Key features:
The Artesia for DAM 6.0 Policy-Based Security feature offers customers a highly flexible, decentralised security model, which allows administrators to easily manage security policies and user groups throughout an entire company. This feature is designed to address a key challenge in the adoption of an enterprise-wide repository: the need for individual groups, departments and business units to be able to control access and views into their own universe of digital assets.
In order to minimise the dependency on a centralised administration staff to manage security, Artesia for DAM 6.0 offers `delegated` administration, empowering trusted individuals to manage and define the specific security policies for their user communities, as well as the users that belong to their communities. In addition, as assets advance through the phases of a particular workflow, security policies can easily be applied or removed to enforce the access levels appropriate for the stage in which the asset resides. This approach significantly reduces the security burden on users while providing powerful and efficient tools for administrators.
Artesia for DAM 6.0 begins the evolution to Open Text`s recently announced Livelink ECM Services Architecture, a J2EE-based service-oriented architecture on which all Open Text products will be built. This Artesia release provides asset, metadata, search, user and security services that leverage J2EE`s industry proven messaging and clustering capabilities.
Continuing Artesia`s reputation for sophisticated metadata management, Artesia for DAM 6.0 offers a new feature, Dynamic Enterprise Metadata, a revolutionary new concept in metadata management. With this feature, Artesia dynamically retrieves asset metadata from an external data repository such as SAP, Siebel, or any other custom data application based on the identity of the user. This allows Artesia users to retrieve enterprise metadata from where it resides, in a robust, secure and Web-friendly manner.
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Artesia Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text, is the leader in enterprise digital asset management (DAM) solutions. Artesia builds innovative solutions for the smart management of digital assets, helping information-intensive companies more efficiently manage their digital assets - reducing costs, safeguarding copyrights and developing new revenue streams by re-expressing and reusing existing content. Artesia TEAMS, an award-winning and proven solution, is unique in its ability to offer singular management of all digital content throughout the enterprise via an intuitive, Web-based front-end accessing an enterprise-class back-end. Artesia`s blue-ribbon customers include thought leaders as impressive and diverse as Time Warner, DaimlerChrysler, Discovery Communications, DreamWorks, Electronic Arts, General Motors, HBO, Simon and Schuster, public broadcaster WGBH Boston and many more.
Open Text
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-based 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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