FCT Ensures Successful Enterprise Content Management with OpenText

FCT Implements Content Suite to Meet Growing Needs for a Reliable and Scalable Centralized Content Repository

WATERLOO, Ontario, Oct. 14, 2014 /CNW/ -- OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced that FCT, formerly First Canadian Title, has upgraded to the OpenText Content Suite™. Serving as a centralized document repository, OpenText Content Suite helps FCT to ensure all its documents are accessible, secure, reliable and available throughout the organization as well as to federal regulators.

The FCT group of companies includes FCT Insurance Company Ltd., which provides title insurance, and First Canadian Title Company Limited, which provides default solutions and other real-estate related services, and are wholly owned by First American Financial Corporation. An OpenText customer since 2002, FCT had been using Livelink, OpenText's predecessor solution for enterprise content management, as its web-based collaboration and document management system. While storage was secure and reliable, the company's focus on providing employees with the optimal tools to make the best decisions for customers meant upgrading to the OpenText Content Suite, an information governance backbone for the enterprise.

"We were excited with some of the new functionality in Content Server, including archiving, web-based APIs and encryption mechanisms," said Mohsin Khalil, director of Strategy and Enterprise Architecture for FCT. We relied on Livelink for its performance, scalability, availability and security and expect the same from Content Server 10."

Over a period of several months, the team also conducted stress tests to ensure the migration process would not impact other business applications. Using OpenText InfoFusion Integration Center, FCT began to seamlessly migrate more than 42 million documents over from the legacy repository to the OpenText Content Suite.

"We spent a significant amount of time analyzing the documents, test strategies, rollback strategies, as well as our document imaging strategy," Khalil says. "With the help of OpenText we put together a well-defined set of requirements and infrastructure. That gave us confidence in terms of how we can tune the environment to meet FCT needs and the issues we may face when we start the migration."

Following migration to Content Suite, FCT is using new functionality for content archiving, which allows employees to continue accessing archived documents through familiar, existing FCT applications. "We have our own web-based applications with processing and workflow," Khalil says. "Content Server is the centralized mechanism to store documents that lets individual applications access it. In our case, it is hidden behind-the-scenes."

"It was a great team effort," Khalil says. "I would say it's more than collaboration. The right level of partnership was evident with this team. OpenText and FCT teams were both available whenever it was required to move the project forward, above and beyond the typical collaboration you see from a vendor. Long projects reveal vendor commitment to partnership, that's where you really see how your partner and you interact."

OpenText Content Suite is designed to help reduce risk and mitigate the cost of growing volumes of content in the enterprise by providing an enterprise information governance framework. Content Suite is part of OpenText's Enterprise Information Management (EIM) strategy, which enables organizations to discover and manage information to spur growth and innovation across their organization, and reducing time to competitive advantage. Consisting of five comprehensive and integrated product suites, OpenText's EIM strategy delivers a common application development platform, engaging and consistent user experience and deep integration across suites to enable comprehensive information flows across the extended enterprise.

Learn more about OpenText EIM:

• Read Mark Barrenechea's blog: http://www.opentext.com/portal/site/communities/ceo-blog
• Attend Enterprise World 2014: http://www.opentext.com/campaigns/enterprise-world-2014

About OpenText
OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management, helping customers to create a digital-first world by simplifying, transforming, and accelerating their information needs. Over 100,000 customers already use OpenText solutions, either on premises or in our cloud.  For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX; TSX: OTC), please visit: www.opentext.com.

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