Open Text sees more Middle East firms adopting a collaborative approach to business

'Today's volatile business environment, especially in the Middle East, has pushed companies to re-think their approach on productivity and focus on better exchange and storage of ideas and information,' said Owen Taraniuk, VP of Open Text Corporation for SE Europe, MEA & SW Asia.

Open Text Corporation has seen 25 percent annual growth for its customer base over the past five years, a strong indicator that the Middle East market is taking a serious approach to streamlining and improving their information exchange capabilities and workforce efficiency.

Open Text will be showcasing its integrated collaboration and knowledge management solutions with Arabic support to visitors at its stand in Hall 6 during GITEX 2003, being held in Dubai on 19-23 October 2003. Visitors to the stand will get first-hand knowledge and insight on Open Text Corporation's world-leading enterprise content management solution, LiveLink, that is helping regional business and governmental organisations to continuously capture, share and re-use corporate knowledge and information through a comprehensive and fully collaboration and knowledge management platform.

LiveLink solutions will overviewed during the exhibition and will demonstrate LiveLink's deployment and integration across a number of business areas including document management, collaboration, business process management, content management and knowledge management.

'By effectively leveraging and sharing business information, organisations can better capitalize on market opportunities while creating a more efficient, productive and profitable work force. LiveLink is being deployed by Middle East enterprises to drive corporate knowledge across networks and to dispersed individuals and work groups to help them increase internal efficiency and productivity while helping the organisation to gain quicker returns on its investment through faster market response time and increased profitability,' said Taraniuk.

Open Text Corporation Middle East is headquartered in Dubai since 1998, and maintains an operation in Saudi Arabia. It continues to serve a diversified group of leading organisations across the region including Bahrain National Oil Company, Doha Bank, Etisalat, The International Investor - Kuwait, OmanTel and Shell to name a few.