Defines Comprehensive Solutions Roadmap based on Oracle(R) Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware LiveLinkUp 2006 Conference, PHOENIX, AZ, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Text(TM), the largest independent provider of enterprise content management software, and Oracle announced that Open Text is creating an Oracle Solutions Group and developing a suite of solutions based on Oracle(R) Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware. This further extends the partnership between Oracle and Open Text announced earlier this year with the introduction of Oracle Content Database and represents a further deepening of the long-standing relationship between the two companies. The announcement was made here at Open Text's annual user conference LiveLinkUp 2006, which is underway this week in Phoenix, Arizona. Open Text plans to offer customers complete enterprise content management solutions that include licenses for Open Text Livelink ECM software along with Oracle Content Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle BPEL Process Manager. The integrated solutions will also work with Oracle applications including Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle's PeopleSoft and JD Edwards. To meet the growing demands of Oracle customers, Open Text has formed the Oracle Solutions Group to be headed by Vice President and General Manager Ron Vangell. Open Text already offers extensions to Oracle's products for Imaging, IDARS(x), records management, archiving and search. Open Text has also developed a solutions roadmap to integrate its industry-specific content management capabilities with Oracle business applications. "We are already seeing broad market interest and acceptance for our Oracle-based offerings," Vangell said. "By partnering with Oracle, we are significantly lowering the barrier to entry and bringing IT organizations the combined benefit of Oracle's world-class database infrastructure and Open Text's extensive content management expertise." Over the coming year, Open Text plans to deliver solutions that allow customers to access and manage content from Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards applications. Open Text also expects to deliver a new solution, Customer Transaction Console. This can help streamline customer inquiry processing in sales, call centers and service departments, allowing users to access information stored in Oracle applications and content stores in a consolidated view directly from Microsoft Office 2003 applications including Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. "This partnership aggressively advances our strategy for managing unstructured information in the Oracle Database," said Andrew Mendelsohn, Oracle Senior Vice President, Database Server Technologies. "Our complementary products provide customers with a powerful set of solutions to their content management problems." About Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database are options for Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition. Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database are the first content and records management solutions capable of managing the wide range of diverse data and metadata in a single database to enable organizations to more easily control and manage the rapidly growing volume of unstructured content. Built on the industry's most scalable, reliable and secure database, Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database facilitate cost-effective, enterprise-wide deployment of content and records management to help customers increase productivity, meet regulatory compliance mandates, and reduce business risk. Open Text offers additional information about its partnership with Oracle and its ECM solutions for Oracle Content Database on its Web site at http://www.opentext.com/oraclepress. About Open Text Open Text(TM) is the world's largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management software. The company's solutions manage information for all types of business, compliance and industry requirements in the world's largest companies, government agencies and professional service firms. Open Text supports approximately 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries and 12 languages. For more information about Open Text, visit http://www.opentext.com/. About Oracle Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com/. 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