brava,  content server,  crm,  ecm,  eim

OpenText Announces the Acquisition of Informative Graphics Corp.

Yesterday, OpenText announced that they have entered into a deal to acquire Informative Graphics Corporation.

Waterloo, ON – 2015-1-5 – OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced that it has acquired Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a leading developer of viewing, annotation, redaction and publishing commercial software. As a valued OpenText partner for more than a decade, IGC technologies will be further integrated into the ECM product portfolio and extended into other OpenText Suites.  

With the acquisition of IGC, OpenText strengthens its capabilities for secure access to any content, on any device, on premises and in the cloud. Having already deployed more than 250 joint customers and more than 300,000 seats of Brava!® for OpenText Content Server, OpenText can now extend the reach of IGC offerings to more OpenText customers globally. 

“With a proven record of success as an OpenText partner, we are excited to welcome the IGC team into our company,” said Mark J. Barrenechea, president and chief executive officer of OpenText. “As customers make the shift to the digital workplace and the cloud, document viewing and mark-up on any device will enable organizations to leverage their information and drive growth and success in their organizations.”

Content Server administrators should be pretty excited about this acquisition.  Brava! is a well known mark-up module for CAD documents stored in Content Server.  I’ve seen and talked to the folks from IGC at past Enterprise World conferences and have always been impressed with their software.  With OpenText’s acquisition, the software should become even more tightly integrated into the Content Suite of software.

You can read the full press release on the OpenText website. CEO Mark Barrenechea also a blog post up about the acquisition.