Enigma Announces Integration of INSIGHT e-Publishing with Open Text's Livelink

Business Wire, Oct 18, 1999

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 1999--

Enigma, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent content publishing for the Web and offline media, today announced the release of INSIGHT for Livelink(R), an e-publishing suite. This new suite will enable users to automatically assemble and deliver document collections as e-publications directly from Livelink. Livelink from Open Text(TM) (NASDAQ:OTEX)(TSE:OTC), is an enterprise solution for intranets, extranets and portal applications that delivers true dynamic collaboration between individuals, organizations, and large trading communities. INSIGHT for Livelink is being showcased at LiveLinkUp99, Open Text's Annual User Conference in Orlando, Florida this week.

"INSIGHT for Livelink will allow users to make business-critical information readily available to their customers, and enable them to capitalize on key e-business opportunities that depend upon the delivery of rich content," said Dan Latendre, vice president of product marketing for Open Text Corporation. "The ability to publish online directly from Livelink is an excellent enhancement to Livelink's collaborative knowledge management functionality, and fully leverages our customers' investment in Open Text technology."

"This partnership is strategic for Enigma because it means we can offer our joint customers best-of-breed technologies for comprehensive e-business solutions," noted Randy Clark, vice president of marketing at Enigma. "The seamless integration between Enigma's e-publishing product suite and Open Text's portal platform delivers a highly effective way for customers to enrich, manage, disseminate and access high-value content."

An INSIGHT e-publication is an easy-to-navigate, unified, and searchable application - users can easily find and display the information they need, even in very large, complex collections. INSIGHT is used when information needs to be consumed outside of the organization for product support or maintenance. INSIGHT e-publications can be integrated at the customer site into e-commerce, procurement or ERP systems to create e-business systems.

INSIGHT for Livelink creates unified e-publications from a wide variety of source document formats managed in a Livelink repository, including MS Word/RTF, Adobe(TM) FrameMaker(TM), PDF, as well as virtually any graphics file format. Structured documents such as those tagged with XML, HTML or SGML may also be incorporated into an e-publication. The e-publishing process maps document paragraph tags and Livelink Attributes (author, date, and so forth) to search topics that help the e-publication consumers to quickly find the information they need from a simple menu-driven search dialog. The e-publishing process also automatically creates hyperlinks, a dynamic table of contents, and a custom look and feel for the entire collection.

Once created, INSIGHT e-publications can be delivered and accessed as a vertical portal within a portal on the Livelink platform. INSIGHT also provides alternative offline distribution methods, such as CD-ROM or extranets.

About Enigma

Enigma, Inc. (http://www.enigma.com) is the leading provider of intelligent content publishing solutions to corporate, government and commercial publishers. The company's flagship product, INSIGHT, fully automates the publishing process by turning electronic source documents into intelligent electronic publications for simultaneous distribution on the Internet and CD-ROM. Enigma's knowledge management solution, Xtend, enables the customization of these publications by allowing end-users to seamlessly add their own information to the original data. Typical applications of INSIGHT include technical documentation, reference publications, electronic textbooks, policy and procedure manuals, and catalogs. Enigma's rapidly expanding list of customers includes GE Aircraft Engines, United Technologies, Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce Allison, GaSonics International, SAP and Standard and Poor's. Enigma is a privately held company, headquartered in Boston with offices in London, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Toronto, Tokyo and Tel Aviv.

About OpenText

Open Text has pioneered the development of intranet, extranet and corporate portal solutions that allow organizations to innovate at a consistently faster rate. We call it HyperInnovation(TM) and it is already a major factor in the success of more than 3,600 companies around the world. Open Text has become the largest supplier of collaborative, Web-based solutions for the enterprise with over 3 million users in 31 countries speaking 12 languages throughout the world. Recent studies by International Data Corporation and the Delphi Group found Open Text to be the leader in both installed base growth and market share. Further information about the company and our solutions can be found at http://www.opentext.com.