Hummingbird Enterprise 5.1 out

Our Convergence Bureau
26 June 2003

The enhanced suite of integrated technologies delivers a complete solution, encompassing all the components of a Smart Enterprise Suite (SES). The SES is defined by Gartner as a single vendor product offering bundling portal, collaborative and content and record management functionalities.

Gartner, a leading technology research and advisory firm, recently listed Hummingbird in the Visionary quadrant in the Smart Enterprise Suite Magic Quadrant. Visionaries are described as "companies that show a strong understanding of the likely evolution of the market." According to Gartner, because this is an emerging market, they have not yet identified any Leaders or Challengers.

The secure, consolidated platform of Hummingbird Enterprise 5.1, the second generation of SES components, provides a single integrated solution for the complete lifecycle management of enterprise content. Hummingbird Enterprise further enhances the SES offering with additional capabilities including full query, analysis and reporting functionalities and data integration tools for managing metadata and integrating enterprise applications.

"Gartner sees content management applications as one of the most practical ways to begin to realise benefits of knowledge management initiatives," says Mark Gilbert, vice-president and research director, Gartner. "By 2004, we predict the smart enterprise suite will emerge as a superset of content and records management, collaboration and portal frameworks. These portfolios of products have a common theme: they allow people to work together more efficiently by enabling greater information sharing."

Many of the enhancements made in Hummingbird Enterprise 5.1 are based on customer feedback and gained through the successful deployment of Hummingbird Enterprise 5.0. With the successful deployments, Hummingbird was able to monitor the environment and optimise the software to further enhance its existing performance and scalability.

Hummingbird Enterprise offers a full spectrum of capabilities allowing organisations to maximise the value of their intellectual content at the lowest cost of ownership. Currently, more than 300 customers, totalling approximately 150,000 seats worldwide, are migrating to Hummingbird Enterprise, collaborating and sharing information and work with employees, partners and customers in real time, from any location. The Hummingbird customer base spans a broad range of industry sectors including legal, professional services, government agencies, manufacturing, financial services, utilities, and many others.