CANADA SPECIAL COMPANY PROFILE Company: Company: MAGNA STEYR India (Pvt) Ltd OpenText Areas of Operation: Areas of Operation: Full vehicle development, Enterprise content manage- from sports cars to off-road ment, from document creation vehicles, flexible assembly to presentation to publishing. of vehicles, fuel tank compo- SOURCE: WWW.OPENTEXT.COM 5 nents, modules and complete 6 fuel systems, among others. SOURCE: WWW.MAGNASTEYR.COM hether you n these times of information explosion, it is said that drive a Porsche, content is king. In the world of enterprise content manage- WMercedes, Audi, Iment (ECM), OpenText is no less than king. or any other vehicle, In this age of all-digital and increasingly all-online content, you can be sure that everything must be sorted, grouped, tagged and stored for Magna Styer has online access, sharing, integration and broadcast—all these played an important are what OpenText does, and so much more. part in ensuring Set up in 1991 in Waterloo in southern Ontario, Canada, your drive is smooth. OpenText has become a global leader in ECM, helping organ- There isn’t an auto- isations in 114 countries manage their business content. Last mobile company, year, it earned a little less than a billion dollars in revenue. anywhere in the Through nearly 4450 employees, the company captures and world, that doesn’t preserves corporate memory, increases brand equity, auto- use parts, systems and mates processes, mitigates risk, manages compliance and assemblies designed, improves competitiveness. manufactured and inte- Its flagship product OpenText ECM has committed users grated by Magna Steyr. Its list across the globe, from car manufacturers to banks to the of customers is the virtual who’s media to real estate giants to law firms. It helps companies who of the global automobile indus- deliver improved services, programmes and outcomes. try—from Mercedes to Mahindra, from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport is Toyota to Tata. It can make parts to complete vehicles, and India’s busiest—it not only handles thousands of flights but from just a few cars to hundreds on the assembly line. also hundreds of faxes each month. As a result, there weren’t Magna Styer’s customers include Aston Martin, Audi, queues just for taxiing planes, but even for sending and BMW, Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Volk- receiving faxes. But ever since the airport has implemented swagen, Volvo, Tata, Mahindra and Mahindra, Ashok Leyland OpenText’s RightFax paperless fax solution, “I don’t see and the TVS group. Part of the Toronto-based 24 billion dol- anyone standing around fax machines anymore,” said Pankaj lar global automotive parts giant Magna International Inc., Srivastava, the airport’s Information Technology manager, Magna Steyr was formed in 2001. in an OpenText customer case study. Documents are now Magna Steyr has established itself firmly in not just sup- delivered directly to authorised users and fax machines and plying automobile systems and sub-systems like body and fax-related expenses have been eliminated. trim, electronics, chassis and powertrain, door modules, fuel systems and roof systems, but also in manufacturing complete vehicles on contract. The company’s services range from development to production, from the concept to the assembled vehicle. In India, Magna is developing emission-compliant power train engineering, engine areas, rear axles and gear boxes. It has signed a business development and technical assistance agreement with Hindustan Motors Limited for developing drive train assemblies for the global recreation market. 50 AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2011 www.ibef.org.