Hummingbird, Ltd. provides enterprise software solutions worldwide. The company principally offers enterprise content management (ECM) solutions and network connectivity solutions. Hummingbird Enterprise, an integrated ECM suite, enables users to capture, create, access, manage, share, find, extract, analyze, protect, publish, and archive business content throughout an enterprise from various parts of the world. Its ECM solutions enable organizations to manage the lifecycle of enterprise content from creation to disposition, thereby enabling organizations to address business needs, such as information management, business continuity, compliance, and risk mitigation. Hummingbird Connectivity, a host access product suite, includes software applications for accessing back office applications and related data from various systems, including mainframe, AS/400, Linux, and UNIX platform environments. The network connectivity solutions provide a set of network technologies that enables the enterprise to connect to various legacy systems. Hummingbird also offers a range of customer services, including mix-and match programming services, building data models and reports, and analyzing data and building data sources using its analysis tools. It sells its products through direct sales force, and a network of distributors and resellers to various industries primarily comprising law firms and corporate legal departments, government, financial services, energy, utilities, and manufacturing. The company was co-founded by Fred Efim Sorkin and Alan Barry Litwin in September 1984. It was formerly known as 135748 Canada, Inc. and changed its name to Voiceterm, Inc. in December 1984. Further, the name was changed to Hummingbird Communications, Ltd. in 1985 and to Hummingbird, Ltd. in 2000. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. As of October 2, 2006, Hummingbird Ltd. is a subsidiary of Open Text Corp.