Open Text partners with Logica to deliver seamless Enterprise Content Management solutions

Open Text Corporation, a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), has formed a partnership with Logica, the leading IT and business services company, to jointly offer innovative state-of-the-art ECM solutions across Europe.

The companies will collaborate on the implementation of joint market offerings, based on Open Text’s ECM software, in conjunction with a range of consulting, systems integration, application management and managed operation services from Logica.

Open Text is a market leader in providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information. Its software combines collaboration with content management, transforming information into knowledge that provides the foundation for innovation, compliance and accelerated growth.

Graham Page, Channel Director EMEA, Open Text, stated: “Many organisations looking to leverage information and manage compliance through ECM are working with leading consultancies such as Logica.  For Open Text, the business relationship is a natural extension, enabling us to offer our market leading solutions to a far broader market.  We’re looking forward to continuing to build on our relationship with Logica.”

Adrian McGrath, Principal ECM Solutions Architect, Logica, added: “Having access to the right information at the right time in today’s competitive marketplace is crucial to making strategic business decisions. With an effective ECM system in place this happens seamlessly, delivering real business value to an organisation. By combining Logica’s ECM expertise with Open Text’s state-of-the-art solutions, we can offer our clients significant added value to their content management initiatives.” 

The implementation of market leading ECM software from Open Text is embedded in a full delivery model, encompassing:

• Business consultancy: identifying the business opportunities and benefits in both the business and industry environments
• Technical consultancy: how to fit Livelink ECM into the existing or planned IT infrastructure, and how it will interact with both modern and legacy enterprise systems
• Evaluation and solution selection
• System development, integration and deployment
• XML integration and document management tools
• Ongoing application management and support

Adrian McGrath added: “Logica offers a wide range of services around ECM, including consulting, architecture, delivery and ongoing management and support that already support Open Text’s technology. We will continue to deliver proven content management methodologies to ensure that Open Text’s technology is implemented effectively for our customers.”  Open Text recently awarded its Innovation Partner of the year to Logica.

About Logica
Logica is a leading IT and business services company, employing 39,000 people across 36 countries. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services. Logica works closely with its customers to release their potential – enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates growth and manages risk. It applies its deep industry knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise to help its customers build leadership positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logica.com.

About Open Text
Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content.  Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries.  Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.  For more information, visit www.opentext.com.

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For more information, please contact:

Open Text
Richard Warner
Account Manager
Spreckley Partners Ltd.

T: +44(0) 20 7388 9988 (switchboard)
E: warner@spreckley.co.uk

Logica
Nadia Boodram
PR Manager, UK
Logica

T: +44 (0)20 7637 9111 (switchboard)
T: +44 (0)20 7446 4152 (direct)
M: +44 (0) 7921 932 363
E: nadia.boodram@logica.com