Open Text, a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, has acquired Toronto-based Vizible Corporation, a privately held maker of award-winning digital media interface solutions delivered via a publishing platform that enables content syndication and analytics. The addition of Vizible expands Open Text's fast growing set of Digital Media solutions, which help companies manage rich-media content such as video, audio, graphics, and photography. Vizible's solutions provide the ability to create a rich, 3-D navigation experience for traditional media and the ability to deliver content across a range of display devices. The presentation of content is driven by rules that users can personalize so that each viewer's experience can be different. Vizible's solutions tie well with the ever changing world of multi-platform content consumption across the web -- via cell phones, PDAs, and Web browsers. Companies can use the solution to offer easily embeddable, branded rich media content on a wide range of sites, from partner or retailer sites, to Facebooks, to blogs.  As part of the acquisition, Open Text added the Vizible team to the company's Digital Media Group.

 

Open Text has also announced plans to acquire Vignette Corporation, the company that the world's leading brands rely on for innovative and dynamic web experiences. The corporations have entered into a definitive agreement through which Vignette will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Text. Vignette has an enviable customer base, deep expertise in Web Content Management (WCM) and global distribution capabilities. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has approximately 700 employees. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2009 and is subject to customary closing conditions.

 

GxP Partners is an Open Text implementation partner.