Hummingbird Ltd. is a subsidiary of OpenText and is a provider of enterprise
software solutions including Exceed. Initially founded as a consulting
business in 1984, Hummingbird moved into the connectivity market. Its enterprise
content management solutions focuses on the management of the life cycle of
enterprise content. Hummingbird has 40 offices worldwide.
Customers include IBM, NASA, Morgan Stanley, Boeing, The Walt Disney
Company, and The Government of Canada. History
Acquisition of PCDOCS was one of the most important steps of the company in
the way of formation as an ECM-oriented company. DOCS Open product of PCDOCS
Inc. became Hummingbird DOCSFusion and DM - a part of Hummingbird document
management system. The product still exists in Open Text products after
rebranding with new name as eDOCS DM. In November 2012 OpenText launched the new
v5.3.1 version with full support of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
1984 - Hummingbird founded. 1993 - Completes $45 million CAD IPO of
common shares in Canada, on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
1994 - Completes US$34.5 million additional and secondary offering of
common shares on NASDAQ. 1995 - Acquires Beame & Whiteside
Software Inc., developer of NFS products.
1996 - Purchased naming rights to the O'Keefe Centre, now known as Sony Centre
for the Arts. 1997 - Acquires TN3270 and TN5250
terminal emulation software from McGill University and PolarSoft Inc. in Canada.
1998 Acquires business intelligence solutions
vendor, Andyne Computing Ltd. Acquires Datenrevision of Hamburg,
Germany, a software consulting and distribution company.
1999 Acquires Leonard's Logics SA, of Paris,
France, makers of Genio, a data transformation and exchange tool for
deployment of data marts. Acquires PC DOCS Group International
2000 - Ventured into India, by tying up with Dess Computers as its systems
integrator for Hummingbird products in India.
2000 - Acquires imaging technology from Diamond Head Software Inc.
2001 - Acquires UK company, PeopleDoc. 2003
Acquires legal practice management firms LegalKEY Technologies and Kramer Lee &
Associates. Acquires Valid Information Systems.
Acquires Key Automation Nederland B.V. and its affiliate Dispro B.V.,
distributors and integrators of document management solutions in the Netherlands
and Benelux. 2005 - Hummingbird acquires RedDot
Solutions, rounding out its integrated ECM offering.
2006 - Hummingbird acquired by Open Text for $489 million. Hummingbird informed
Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Company that it had lost a piece of
equipment—albeit password protected—containing the unencrypted
personal data of an estimated 1.3 million Texas student loan recipients.
The company's board of directors agreed to be sold to Symphony Technology Group,
but following a hostile bid from Open Text, the board negotiated a deal with
its rival and accepted an all-cash $489 million USD buy-out from Open Text.
Following the close of the deal in October, Open Text announced a 15%
global workforce reduction. 2008 - Gold Coast City Council rolls
Hummingbird out as document management system to 3000+ employees
Management The following were directors at the time
of the sale to Open Text: Fred Sorkin - Chairman of the Board
Alan Barry Litwin - Corporate Director John T. McLennan - Independent Director
Andrew J. Malik - Managing Director, Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Mark D. Spitzer - Independent Director Inder P.S. Duggal - Corporate Director
Stephen A. Crane - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer AlphaStar Insurance
Group Limited Jack Langer - Independent Director
References External links
Official website Article about the sale of terminal
emulator by McGill