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Chicago 2002 Winners' Circle

Congratulations Chicago 2002 Winners!

The LinkUp Awards recognize best-of-class customer solutions and applications based on the Open Text family of products. Congratulations to the winners of the 2002 LinkUp Chicago Awards!

Best Collaborative Solution

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)

NAVSEA's Livelink Enterprise Server solution connects people and information to overcome traditional challenges posed by organizational and geographic boundaries. Facilitating collaboration among its employees, contractors and business partners, NAVSEA's solution connects these people with information related to ships, submarines and weapons systems. One of its business units has created several hundred Livelink Enterprise Server projects to facilitate collaboration of both formal and ad hoc teams.

Honorable Mentions:
Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S), and Booz Allen Hamilton

Best Records Management Solution

Dow Chemical

Livelink Records Server has effectively consolidated Dow's records management activities, replacing three separate systems for managing both box storage of paper documents and indexes to millions of microfilm. Livelink Records Server's hold & freeze functionality, as well as its disposition and retention rules, enable Dow to effectively manage corporate records, legal, financial and tax information.

Honorable Mention:
Greater Toronto Airport Authority

Best Library & Catalog Management Solution

Argonne National Laboratories

Argonne National Laboratory is a multidisciplinary research center. Its Library System provides access to scientific and technical literature in 10 on-site libraries and access to outside resources. Two separate sites, one for internal and another for publicly available services, enhances Argonne's ability to protect and leverage its intellectual assets.

Best Business Application

Siemens Private Limited

Siemens Livelink Enterprise Server application, called Nexus, is a completely Web-based "employee self-service" solution. It automates administrative processes such as travel booking, expense authorizations and vacation authorization, integrating with SAP and a variety of third party systems to create a centralized process management venue for all employees.

Honorable Mention:
Region of Peel

Best Document & Content Management Solution

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)

NAVSEA is using content and document management throughout the entire organization to reduce paper filing systems and manual processes. In conjunction with these efforts, NAVSEA has integrated Livelink Enterprise Server with imaging capabilities to manage and converted millions of pages of hard copy documents into electronic files. Some business units process up to 90 percent of their documents electronically using Livelink Enterprise Server.

Honorable Mentions:
Siemens Financial Services and Vision Service Plan (VSP)

Best Knowledge Management Solution

Siemens Business Services

SBS has built a system based on Livelink Enterprise Server that improves and streamlines the capture and sharing of knowledge assets across organizational and regional boundaries. Called knowledgemotion, the system has consolidated 47 internally isolated islands of information-many of which were built on different tools-to "Connect local knowledge to Siemens Business Services globally".

Honorable Mentions:
Northrop Grumman and Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S)




In addition to the LinkUp Awards, Open Text's Affinity Partner division acknowledged the outstanding contributions of two Open Text partners:

Channel Partner of the Year

Stonebridge Technologies

James Ivy, Stonebridge Technologies' CEO and founder, said, "We are honored that Open Text has selected us as Channel Partner of the Year. We consider our relationship with Open Text a true strategic partnership, with both companies committed to maximizing and leveraging our technical and business development resources to bring world-class knowledge management and business process integration solutions to our mutual clients."

Technology Partner of the Year

Cardiff Software

"Cardiff is proud to have been recognized as Open Text's Technology Partner of the Year," said Dennis Clerke, CEO of Cardiff. "Cardiff has enjoyed working with Open Text and their customers for the past three years to deliver document capture and eForm capability to the Livelink Enterprise Server platform."