Positions
- Open Text's Strategy ... David writes about changes in direction at Open Text, and how Open Text is a serious player in the collaboration space. Open Text has partnership agreements with Microsoft and SAP, a win for joint customers, and David writes about a key competitive differentiator ... investing in customer success, not just selling software. Collaboration Loop
Vendor Moves
- PTC Strategy ... Parametric Technology Corp., a provider of engineering product development lifecycle management software, is branching out toward the general information submission-and-retrieval functions of Documentum and others. ProEngineer and Windchill are key products today. PTC recently acquired Arbortext, a provider of document updating software. MSNBC
- BEA Strategy ... BEA is working to integrate content management, collaboration, search and process management capabilities into its infrastructure software. It will integrate WebLogic Portal and Plumtree Corporate Portal over the next 12 months, with interoperable portlets and page elements in 1H2006, and common services for collaboration, search, and more in 2H2006. BEA is hoping to play nice with its specialist content management, search and business process management vendor partners. Intelligent Enterprise
Other Industry Happenings
- RIM Customers Look Elsewhere ... RIM customers are starting to talk to other providers of wireless email, so that they have back-up plans in the situation that the BlackBerry service is turned off in the US. NZ Herald
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