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Open Text kicked off its global Content World conference today on Orlando, Florida. The ECM giant expects it to be the largest conference in history with more than 1500 participants registered to attend. Pre- and post-conference workshops, breakouts, training, GlobalStar awards, partner schmoozing, showcasing its ECM solutions, Universal Studios trips... Open Text is going to be busy in the next few days. The event features a conference-within-a-conference program.

Now that the acquisition of Captaris by Open Text is no longer an intention but a fact, what does the Enterprise CMS giant plan to do with this Washington-based provider of document management and delivery solutions?

From the makers of the RightFax Connector for SharePoint -- among other products -- Captaris offers up a new version of Alchemy, their digital document filing system. The biggest enhancement to the product? The Alchemy File Connector -- able to map a Windows drive directly to the Alchemy repository. Managing your documents just got a little bit easier.

Open Text Corporation, a well-known ECM player, announced its intention to acquire Captaris, Inc., a provider of document management and delivery solutions. The price of this deal is approximately US $131 million.