Open Text’s Software Selected by Marathon for Enterprise-wide Content and Records Management
07 December 2007
Open Text™ Corporation, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), has announced that Marathon Oil Corporation, the fourth-largest U.S.-based integrated oil and gas company, has selected Open Text as its ECM software provider for its company-wide enterprise content and records management solution. The software, which will be deployed to about 20,000 users around the world, will help Marathon improve business processes and give employees new ways to share business content, including documents, records, email, Web content, and information stored in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
Open Text’s approach of enabling a centralised view of business content across all systems, repositories and geographies, and the company’s ECM integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Exchange, were powerful drivers in the company’s decision to go with Open Text.
“The major objective of the Enterprise Content Records Management (ECRM) program is to make sure that Marathon personnel are accessing relevant, up-to-date and trusted information. This includes the ability to identify, capture, preserve, and classify records from across the Marathon enterprise. Our selection of Open Text as our ECRM standard includes an end-user interface strategy to integrate Microsoft SharePoint with Open Text’s software, so employees can continue to work in Microsoft interfaces, while we implement the lifecycle management capabilities we need from Open Text,” said Doug Couch, ECRM Program Manager for Marathon.
Federated search capabilities will provide the ability to search not only SharePoint Server content across multiple sites, but also content stored in Open Text’s ECM repositories.
To manage email, Marathon will use Open Text’s email management solution for Microsoft Exchange. The solution combines foundational email archiving with records management capabilities.
"Locating, accessing and preserving information across multiple corporate repositories is becoming increasingly important as oil and gas companies focus on productivity and complying with the regulations governing the energy sector,” said Steve Best, Vice President, Energy and Chemical Sales at Open Text. “We are pleased that Marathon Oil has chosen to work with Open Text for its ECRM program."
