RedDot
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RedDot, founded in 1993, is a business unit of Open Text Corporation
and is referred to as the Web Solutions Group of Open Text.
RedDot's software aims to help companies manage many business challenges that revolve around managing content, as well as help with regulatory compliance and industry specific requirements.
Its core product, RedDot CMS is a windows based server application to allow Web content management in a multi-user environment with many content contributors.
Complementary to the CMS or as a standalone product LiveServer allows to aggregate disparate document resources via connectors and serve them up as Web pages.
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1995 - The development of the content management system under the name InfoOffice started.
2000 - The company expands its activities from Europe to North America. InfoOffice is renamed RedDot Solutions.
2001 - InfoOffice becomes RedDot Solutions.
2005 - Hummingbird Ltd.
bought the, up till then, privately owned RedDot Solutions from its founder Niels Metger.
2006 - Open Text Corporation
from Waterloo, Canada takes over RedDot's parent company Hummingbird Ltd.
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vendors left that continued to develop the content authoring interface in house. Most other WCM vendors had moved to open source alternatives or licensed an Online rich-text editor
from commercial vendors such as Ephox and Ektron. In response to customers' attempts to work around the limitations of the RedDot editor by installing other editors RedDot announced that they had developed an integration layer to allow the use of CKeditor and Ephox EditLive! as alternative editors. In 2009 RedDot (now the OpenText Web Solutions Group) made the Telerik RadEditor available alongside the existing RedDot editor for CMS 9. The integrations for CKeditor and Ephox EditLive! are still available.
Open Text Corporation
OpenText Corporation Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. As Canada's largest software company, it produces and distributes computer software applications designed to enable Enterprise content management solutions for large corporations across all industries....
and is referred to as the Web Solutions Group of Open Text.
RedDot's software aims to help companies manage many business challenges that revolve around managing content, as well as help with regulatory compliance and industry specific requirements.
Its core product, RedDot CMS is a windows based server application to allow Web content management in a multi-user environment with many content contributors.
Complementary to the CMS or as a standalone product LiveServer allows to aggregate disparate document resources via connectors and serve them up as Web pages.
Company history
1993 - Niels Metger and Anke Metger found legal entity under the name INFOTIP in OldenburgOldenburg
Oldenburg is an independent city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the western part of the state between the cities of Bremen and Groningen, Netherlands, at the Hunte river. It has a population of 160,279 which makes it the fourth biggest city in Lower Saxony after Hanover, Braunschweig...
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1995 - The development of the content management system under the name InfoOffice started.
2000 - The company expands its activities from Europe to North America. InfoOffice is renamed RedDot Solutions.
2001 - InfoOffice becomes RedDot Solutions.
2005 - Hummingbird Ltd.
Hummingbird Ltd.
Hummingbird Ltd. is a subsidiary of Open Text and is a provider of enterprise software solutions including Exceed. Initially founded as a consulting business in 1984, Hummingbird evolved into a strong player in the connectivity market...
bought the, up till then, privately owned RedDot Solutions from its founder Niels Metger.
2006 - Open Text Corporation
Open Text Corporation
OpenText Corporation Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. As Canada's largest software company, it produces and distributes computer software applications designed to enable Enterprise content management solutions for large corporations across all industries....
from Waterloo, Canada takes over RedDot's parent company Hummingbird Ltd.
Hummingbird Ltd.
Hummingbird Ltd. is a subsidiary of Open Text and is a provider of enterprise software solutions including Exceed. Initially founded as a consulting business in 1984, Hummingbird evolved into a strong player in the connectivity market...
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Content authoring
The red dots on the authoring interface indicated sections of editable content for each web page, hence the name RedDot for the product. This easy to use feature was popular with customers and won awards in 2001 for its usability. By 2006 RedDot was one of the few WCMWeb content management system
A web content management system is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease...
vendors left that continued to develop the content authoring interface in house. Most other WCM vendors had moved to open source alternatives or licensed an Online rich-text editor
Online rich-text editor
An online rich-text editor is an interface for editing rich text within web browsers, which presents the user with a "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" editing area...
from commercial vendors such as Ephox and Ektron. In response to customers' attempts to work around the limitations of the RedDot editor by installing other editors RedDot announced that they had developed an integration layer to allow the use of CKeditor and Ephox EditLive! as alternative editors. In 2009 RedDot (now the OpenText Web Solutions Group) made the Telerik RadEditor available alongside the existing RedDot editor for CMS 9. The integrations for CKeditor and Ephox EditLive! are still available.