Lava Systems Africa, an affinity partner of Canadian-based Open Text, today announced that the latter will support the emerging Java standard governing content integration called Java Specification Request (JSR) 170. For Open Text customers, support of the standard will mean more options for corporate-wide access to all information, no matter where it resides.
Currently in its final stages of development through the Java Community ProcessSM (JCP) programme, JSR 170 will specify a standard application program interface or API to access content repositories in Java 2, independent of system type.
Users will have an easier time finding and using information from many different systems to make their online work easier and companies gain better enterprise-wide management of information to aid with corporate governance and other regulatory compliance requirements. One of the potential benefits of the JSR 170 standard will be enterprise records management, where uniform, corporate-wide records management rules can be applied to content across many different repositories.
Open Text will support JSR 170 as part of its just announced Livelink ECM Platform, a secure, integrated framework that combines a shared content repository with software `services` in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The software services include content services which offer a single point of access to content, either in an Open Text repository or other systems. The addition of JSR 170 support will extend the reach of the Livelink ECM Platform to all repositories that provide a standard JSR 170 connector, greatly increasing the reach of Open Text`s Livelink ECM Solutions.
David Nuescheler, the Specification Lead of JSR 170 in the JCP programme and the Chief Technology Officer of Basel, Switzerland-based Day Software said: "The benefit of JSR 170 is that it frees information from the confines of separate repositories and systems. We`re pleased that Open Text has decided to support JSR 170 for its ECM solutions and we look forward to working with them in further developing the JSR 170 standard."
Open Text will join the expert group working on future versions of the specification, helping ensure it meets the growing needs for enterprise-wide content control and retention management across a wide variety of data types and locations.
"The vast majority of information in companies today is unmanaged, which is a tremendous compliance risk," added David Glazer, Chief Technology Officer for Open Text. "Our customers want solutions for controlling and accessing all their content, independent of where it lives. We`re pleased that open standards are becoming available to support those solutions, and are excited about helping drive the success of those standards. JSR 170 holds the promise of true and open content integration, so that organisations can gain real value from all their information."
To find out more about JSR 170, including a description of the specification and its current development stage, visit the specification page.
To download the latest proposed final draft, go here.
For further information, please contact Ray Dalgano, Lava Systems Africa: telephone (011) 675 3704, fax (011) 675 1021, e-mail rayd@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-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 USA 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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