According to their press release, the solution will combine "Open Text's specialized legal industry expertise in matter lifecycle management and proactive compliance, with the collaboration and document management capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007".
This seems a relatively strange move for a company that has always touted its own document management products as being best in breed. It would appear from the release that Open Text are abandoning their own back end and instead relying on Sharepoint as the DM repository. The release goes on further to say:
"SharePoint Server 2007 can become the firm's central content repository, and attorneys and staff can continue to work in their familiar SharePoint Server 2007 environments while still leveraging Open Text's matter and practice-centric views of content, virtual file cabinets and seamless integration with firm processes -a "best-of-both-worlds" scenario."Once again, it appears that Sharepoint becomes the document repository, making it unclear as to exactly what Open Text are adding to the product.
Apparently, all will become clear when Microsoft and Open Text showcase the solution and publish a white paper at Open Text's LiveLinkUp 2007 user conference in October, with the solution becoming fully available in early 2008.
Press release here: http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/August2007/20/c8261.html
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