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Open Text Buys Spicer's File Format Viewer Division

July 07, 2008

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software provider Open Text Corporation has purchased the file format viewer division of Spicer Corporation for approximately $12 million.
 
The acquisition is not expected to have any impact on the future financial results of Open Text.
 
The acquired division manufactures file format viewer solutions for desktop applications, integrated business process management (BPM) systems, and reprographics. Thirty staff members from this Spicer division will be joining Open Text.
 
Spicer veterans Tim Lehan and Patrick Pidduck will join Open Text and form the heart of Open Text's Content Viewer Solutions Group. This group will promote the development, support, and sale of the Spicer products.
 
"This acquisition will complement and extend Open Text's existing ECM Suite, providing flexible document viewing options and enhanced document security functionality," said John Shackleton, President and CEO of Open Text. "Through this acquisition, Spicer customers benefit from access to an expanded ECM solutions portfolio and our commitment to continued Spicer product availability with enhanced innovation, development and 24x7 customer support."

 
Spicer Corporation deals in scalable, universal view-markup and collaboration software solutions. Organizations employing ECM, CM, PDM, PLM, ERP, and other corporate information systems have tremendously benefited from Spicer’s solutions. In addition, visualization, collaboration, redaction, and scanning products from Spicer find application in Manufacturing, Government, Utilities, Insurance and Financial Services, and Reprographics markets.
 
Open Text boasts a customer base 46,000 companies, government agencies and professional service firms. 40 million users in 114 countries employ the Open Text software in12 languages.
 
Divya Narain is a contributing editor for ContactCenterSolutions. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.
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