For a taste of what to expect in Orlando, check out the breakouts offered at LiveLinkUp 2003 Paris.

The breakout sessions planned for this year's conference present targeted strategies and solutions to help you strengthen and build your business. The sessions on Wednesday will focus on regulatory compliance issues. On Thursday, a variety of Open Text customers will show you how they are successfully transforming great ideas into revenue.

Visit this page often, as we will be adding session information as it becomes available.

Please note: you do not need to sign up for sessions in advance; the exception is the Ask the Expert sessions. Please sign up for the Ask the Expert sessions at the registration desk when you arrive at the conference.

There are over 130 breakout sessions suitable for a wide range of interests. To help you to decide which breakout sessions to attend and get the most out of the conference, we will classify each session according to the following:

Participant Focus: Recommends the session based on your role within your organization.

Product Line: Designates the Open Text product showcased in the session.

Application Focus: Indicates the horizontal segments and/or technology types featured during the session.

Session Format: Reflects the type of session, i.e., case study, product session, etc. and the level of participation by the audience.

Deployment: Includes sessions that focus on the different aspects of deployment.

Solution: Designates the industry segment specific to the business applications featured in the session.

Recommends the session based on your role within your organization. For example,

Designates the Open Text product showcased in the session. This includes:

Livelink ... Open Text's flagship product and all optional modules.

BASIS/Techlib... A robust document collection and high performance search and retrieval solution that puts all of your corporate knowledge at your fingertips. Extend BASIS With Techlib, an integrated, modular library management solution.

Coreport... Enables you to rapidly deploy a single enterprise portal to serve all stakeholders, employees, customers, investors, partners and others, effectively and securely.

FirstClass... A highly scalable communications solution that combines voice and fax messages to create a unified messaging system that allows users to communicate across a wide range of messaging formats and devices.

At LivelinkUp Orlando, you also have the opportunity to learn about, and meet with product managers and developers of Open Text's other product lines, including iRims, BRS/Search, ODOC, and more.

Indicates the horizontal segments and/or technology types featured during the session. These are divided into five classifications:

Application Integration... Highlight issues of integrating product to exchange data and/or to facilitate deployment, access product capabilities and eliminate data redundancy or re-keying. Customer stories include case studies about portal implementations, ERP integration, custom development and more. Learn more about our portal integration offers, including Livelink UNITE and Coreport, and our new development tools such as Webservices and Java Modules.

Business Process Management... Focus on automation or improvement of business processes using technology such as workflow and forms. Find out how our customers are using Livelink for engineering change management, HR requests processing, and other business processes.

Collaboration... Feature collaboration technologies and collaborative applications. Learn how your peers are using Livelink for project collaboration, such as RFP preparation. Discover MeetingZone 2.0, Open Text's real-time meeting and collaboration tool.

Content Management... Concentrate on managing content, including document management, records management, library applications, and Web content management. The business applications that will be featured include (but are not limited to) standard operating procedure publishing, records management, shared drive replacement and Web site publishing. Don't leave the conference without seeing a demonstration of our new offering: Livelink for Content Management.

Knowledge Management... Discuss issues related to information retrieval, information reuse, training and skills management, communities of practice and best practice sharing. Learn about technology such as search, categorization and e-Learning. Find out more about our new offerings, including Livelink for Communities of Practices, and Livelink Companion.

The session format will help you choose whether to hear from your peers about their personal experience, learn the more technical aspects of Livelink or participate in discussions with the Open Text team. Choose from the following:

Ask the Expert... Bring your technical questions to LiveLinkUp and ask the Open Text team about one of the topics listed. These informal meetings provide you with an opportunity to participate in discussions with one of our technical experts.

Case Studies... Focus on solutions, applications or industry specific topics. Your colleagues and peers will present their "story" and answer the following questions:

Demo Theatre Session... Attend live demonstrations of the latest releases including: Livelink, MeetingZone, Livelink Corporate Governance platform, Livelink Records Management, Livelink Program Management, BASIS/Techlib, and more.

Partner Presentation... Learn from our Affinity Partners how you can enhance your Open Text software with their complementary products.

Round Table Discussion... Meet with other Livelink users from all over the world to share your interests and experiences in a specific industry application area. Provide feedback to Open Text Segment Managers on how Livelink can help solve your industry specific business problems.

Solution Sessions... Discuss how Open Text technologies can be used to solve real business problems. Find out about our new offerings for Corporate Governance, Clinical Studies and many others.

Technical Presentation... Provide an "under the hood" view of several Open Text products and technologies. Typically presented by our software developers, these sessions will appeal to technology- oriented attendees, such as programmers and system administrators.

Establishes the types of deployment highlighted in the session:

Adoption... Describe the challenges and strategies of motivating prospective users of the system to embrace the technology and processes. The topics include change management, executive sponsorship, training, usability etc.

Best Practices... Present a selection of best practices, providing insight into how organizations around the world have solved their business and technical issues using Livelink.

Compliance...Highlight the challenges of maintaining performance while operating in increasingly risky and regulated environments. The business solutions, technologies and strategies to reach and maintain regulatory standards are discussed.

Technology Deployment... Focus on the technology required for successful deployments. Topics include scaling and sizing, maintenance, monitoring, performance and administration. Customer case studies will describe first-hand experience and lessons learned.

Highlights application solutions specific to a particular industry or function, including:

In addition, case study presentations will focus on other industries, such as Education, Insurance, Manufacturing, Services, Telecommunications and more...