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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 25 Apr 2012, p. 19

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' 77'7”" 7’“ h mm~mmamzo I. The 98th percentile ‘ Open Text celebrates 20 years by unveiling new innovation centre ‘ 8130-me FaceBookandUnkedlnonlyrque-enmper : ‘ 3 - ,4 4‘ f ‘ ,7 Otrom'cleSIaJ centofdieentirelntemetfsaidlenkins'We 4‘ 123,344; a. 3“? . -" helpmanagetheotherstlpercent' 4;? = ‘ .. . V or" , aterloo's ()penText has arrived on But it's no overnight success in fact. its ' "35',- c Wthe global stage exceeding 5] bll- success is 20 years in the making as the 3*: ' ' " - , Z . r lion in revenue annually as it con- company went from march work done ll 4' 4 _ ’ } tinues its reign as Canada's largest software the University of Waterloo by Professor , company dealing with the 98 per cent of the Frank Ibmpa to it jobs] leader in enterprise '. lntemet most users don't see. content management employing 4.600 peo- "lt's a signal that you've arrived on the pie worldwide and supporting more than ‘ global stage ilyoucan become that big and ISO millionusersofitssoftwarein I” coun- 1 you have that many users.” said Tom lenk- tries ‘ ins. executive chairman and chief strategy 50 how do you celebrate 20 years of suc- ‘4 officer at OpenText. whose company helped cess? How about some flash with that cash create the lnternet's original search engine as the first tenant in the David lohnston with Yahoo and Netscape before deciding to Research and Technology Park showed off its - concentrate strictly on the business market newest five~storey building at the site last All that content has to be managed. with week email alone generating the equivalent infor- The new innovation centre, tied to the _ mation to six (ioogles on a daily basis. And company's headquarters by a skybridge and while Face-Book. linkedln and other social named after fonnet CPD lohn Shackleton. is _ media sites grow bigger so does the demand being seen as a way for Open'l'ext to keep 1 from OpenText‘s clients to help them keep a pace with increasing customer demand 1 handle on all the information generated. while developing new products as it enters } ‘A lot of people don't realize that Google. into its third decade of business And it's everything you v would expect in a high~ ,1. tech idea shop with open . ‘ ‘ concept workrooms that - '1 . 4 allow for “sparking“ _ between OpenText . f ' \ 5'5. employeesastheycome ,‘ i' 3 ‘5 0‘ together in informal set- ,3. ‘ ' tings to come up with .. as. - solutions to some of Workersatthelohn Shackleton innovation Centreworkonseardtsolutlonsfortheenterprise : today’s biggest data man- merit management company that now boasts 31 billion in revenue. agement problems. Those ”mm rooms include white possible solution to a problem that has gymd MPPlohn Millay. provincial minister boardswithcomplex for- vexedalmofsearchengnecompaniea ofcommunityandsodalservicquerioo mulas written out with ‘This would qualify as one of the more Mayor Brenda Halloran and Regina] Chair possible solutions and advanced computing centres in the coun- Ken Seiling were also on hand to ofier their projectors to let research try." said Roman on a tour of the facility that congatulations. teams see the fruits of included the company's new server hub. 80, what’s the challenge for OpenText , theirlabour. '0urcomputingcapadtyisondemand.we overthenextdecade? ‘ - There's even an Area just pour it on them â€" it's like water -â€" ‘Findlng firings.” said Jenkins. 'lt's been , Slmthebuildingwhere becausethemoretheyhavethemorethey ourdiallengesincedteflmdayofdlehiter- themostcomplexprobâ€" puttouae. netandlrwillcontinuetobean'challenge. ' g7 ' lems get handled. said 'Unlocking the genius of the best of our "The future will be about personalized r, 4- » ’% Whomtlncom- “MahopeOpleiswhatthisisdlsbout' computingandpasonalixedlnmmetbased ”W "" party's chief technology local dignitaries and federal and provin- on where we‘re located based on our per- ' ' oflcerJletalkedabouta cialpollticianswereonhandtocelebrate sonaldevice...andalltheinbonadonwill recent project that had a the local company'stremendomgrowdi and come to us. It's hard to imagine but it’s six-day turnaround and leadership in the local high-tech communi- something called the semantic web, where Tomlenkingdisirmansndmidsuategymoiomnm has now been .on the Ky. drewebindfflutresmnwhaeyuuuetlm i holds copies of the book he wrote about the zoyesr Moi street for a month. He They included MP Gary Goodyear. feder- you're hungry and that you want to know ‘ melocsthighvtechpowemousealledaehindtheflrmll. wasalsoexcitedsbouta alminkterofstateforscienoeandtedtmloâ€" dielocationoftheneareatpiznshop.’ ’5" Tate} 39‘ y , W ‘ . » ' ‘ ‘ ’5 - ' o r a tract ' r A r ‘ ‘ “ l ‘ N ‘ l l | i A ,9 in S . a t‘ r ' '3‘; r't‘li1 I i ) .7: , ~ 1 w your" ~ 55‘ ‘mÂ¥.{ “F 4.5. _ . ”autism [J'f Ll as. A :L“; . , r .r .r. r, 4 ,, 1?‘ ' “a? ‘ ‘ Artur tvnr' , s v-' ‘ 0“ ‘ L)" ‘A‘ - 7, l,

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