Press release - Indico Systems Forms Strategic Alliance with Open Text
(London, 8th June 2010) -- Indico Systems today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Open Text to offer combined solutions that help reduce end-to-end cycle-time and improve the quality of the arrest to court process, helping to make the management of evidence a smoother criminal justice process. This partnership will initially focus on serving the criminal justice sector, but aims to offer solutions to other sectors that could benefit from improved security of digital recordings and the consequent management and effective use of digital content.
Indico has more than ten years experience in developing, integrating and testing secure recording solutions. For the criminal justice sector, Indico Systems has helped to improve the performance in suspect, witness and victim interviewing processes over the past decade. More than 100 customers, including police forces, children’s safe houses, courts and the UN today rely on these solutions to save money and time, as well as provide accurate documentation.
Open Text solutions help customers create value from content by empowering people, fostering process agility, and controlling the risk and cost of content. The Open Text ECM Suite helps organizations drive efficiency, capture innovation, and enable compliance through its unique focus on people, process, and content. Moreover, Open Text is ranked as an industry leader in records management by leading independent analyst firms. Open Text’s records management solutions offer enterprises strong physical records management capabilities and retention management support for a wide variety of electronic content types and applications.
Simon Lill, Head of UK Public Sector at Open Text, comments: "We see this partnership as a great opportunity to offer the more secure and comprehensive solution sectors are looking for in moving to revolutionize how they record, manage, and create new value from content that’s now gone and going digital. Indico has worked closely with the world’s leading authorities on investigations and evidence management to develop their technologies, while Open Text is a leading vendor in several industries as well as the public sector. By joining forces, we’ll provide an ideal offering for customers who are looking for a high level of security, compliance, manageability, and reliability for their systems.”
Fredrik Oestereng, CEO of Indico Systems, adds: "Combining our competence in secure digital recording and the deep knowledge of these sectors’ processes, with Open Text’s two decades of helping organizations manage and gain the true value of all their content, caters directly to the needs and challenges of the criminal justice sector. And, subsequently, all sectors (healthcare, securities, etc) that due to regulations or other developments, increasingly needs accurate and secure recording and management of content. Thus, it is also a significant opening for both parties to expand their target markets, both geographically and across categories.”
About Indico Systems
Indico Systems is a leading provider of secure digital recording solutions. Indico Systems’ software and solutions are changing the way industries record and use recordings in their respective processes, globally. For more information, visit www.indicosys.com.
About Open Text
Open Text, the preeminent enterprise content management software solutions company, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 100 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.