Bettering the breeds

With its acquisition of Gauss, Open Text has developed what it calls a best-in-class enterprise content management offering that provides a Web publishing solution. The new publishing features, Web site templates and archiving for compliance are being offered as part of Livelink for Web Publishing.

Open Text says that by adding Gauss’ VIP ContentManager, it can offer Gauss customers integrated collaboration and knowledge management capabilities, while offering Livelink customers what it claims are best-of-breed capabilities of VIP ContentManager for high-profile corporate Web sites.

The new templating features of Livelink for Web Publishing Version 1.2 allow customers to create templates of sites that can then be used in different parts of the organization. Further, Open Text reports, new site archiving and rollback features add a records management component to Livelink for Web Publishing. When a site is published, the snapshot of that site can be archived back into Livelink and put under records management control.

Other new features for Livelink for Web Publishing include:

• attribute driven publication, in which Livelink’s metadata can be used to drive the publication of content;

• increased scalability through support for multilevel caching, replications and load balancing; and

• improved workflow integration, including new “publish” and “staging” steps.