Open Text Deepens Integration with SAP(R) Solutions across ECM Suite with Content-Enriched Business Processes

New Features and Enhancements Boost User Productivity, Increase Customer Value 


WATERLOO, ON, Nov. 18  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Text(TM) Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEXNASDAQ:TSX:NASDAQ:OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today announced upgrades across its solutions portfolio in support of SAP(R) applications. The upgrades increase customer value and boost user productivity by enriching business processes through deeper integration with all types of content.

The integration of business processes with content increases productivity by reducing the need for users to stop in the middle of a transaction to look for documents and other supporting information. This new level of integration ensures that information is available when and where it is needed, helping the Open Text ECM Suite contribute to overall business performance, increase operations excellence, enhance compliance and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Over the past decade, Open Text has emerged as the leading ECM supplier among SAP customers with both the largest installed base and the most complete product offerings. Last month, SAP AG and Open Text announced another expansion of their successful strategic relationship, with SAP selecting Open Text Extended ECM for use with SAP solutions for resale under the name the SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management (SAP Extended ECM) application by Open Text. http://www.opentext.com/2/global/press-release-details.html?id=2264

"Aggressive development and steady innovation have been critical factors in our success with SAP customers globally," said Patrick Barnert, Vice President of SAP Solutions at Open Text. "SAP's recent decision to expand the reseller agreement is testimony to Open Text's leadership in the ECM market, and we are continuing to strengthen our industry-leading ECM offerings in support of SAP applications."

Open Text Extended ECM delivers native integration of content into SAP business processes. Procurement, asset management, professional services, quality management, plant maintenance and many others processes that rely heavily on documents or scanned images benefit significantly from Extended ECM. Enhancements to the Open Text ECM Suite for use with SAP solutions encompass the following areas:

  -   Globalization and Shared Services in Accounts Payable - Open Text
      Vendor Invoice Management adds a number of features to help customers
      set up global shared services centers for accounts payable. For
      example, customers can virtually integrate multiple back-end systems
      into one federated SAP solution-based deployment. A highlight is the
      integration of optical character recognition (OCR) with the SAP ERP
      application as an integral component. This enables a secure and
      seamless procure-to-pay process. A dashboard showing key process
      analytics gives managers insight into user productivity and process
      efficiency.

  -   Digital Personnel File Compliance, Retention Management - Automatic
      retention management is a major addition in the new release to help
      organizations more easily comply with internal and external
      regulations such as BDSG in Germany, the Data Protection Act 1998 in
      the United Kingdom and Chapter 357-22 WAC in the United States.
      Another highlight is integration with employee self-service and
      manager self-service as standard functionality. These self-service
      capabilities help to increase process efficiency by giving
      stakeholders direct access to information.

  -   Service and Call-Center-like Capabilities in SAP CRM - The latest
      release of Open Text Customer Information Management increases
      integration with the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM)
      application with emphasis on the customer interaction center. For
      example, new document thumbnail and preview pane functions let
      service agents in a call center quickly locate and access relevant
      documents, review relevant information, and then consult, support and
      sell to customers.

  -   Enterprise Information Governance - Integrated information lifecycle
      management (ILM) is vital to successful implementation and execution
      of an organization's information governance strategy. For customers
      using SAP solutions, an effective ILM strategy covers structured
      data, as well as documents and other content, whether it originates
      within or outside of the SAP solution. Open Text complements SAP
      NetWeaver(R) Information Lifecycle Management and bridges the worlds
      of SAP and non-SAP content. Open Text Document Access 9.6.2 recently
      received SAP certification for integration with SAP NetWeaver
      Information Lifecycle Management 2.0.



Open Text's ECM solutions for use with SAP applications leverage two decades of partnership and co-development, and expertise gained from delivering solutions to more than 3,000 SAP customer sites around the world. Open Text is an SAP software solution partner with multiple products that have achieved SAP certified integration status. Open Text is also currently the only ECM vendor with a number of ECM solutions resold by SAP.

For more information on Open Text's ECM solutions for use with SAP solutions, go to: http://www.opentext.com/2/global/sol-products/sol-pro-extensions-sap.htm

About Open Text

Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts(TM) to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit http://www.opentext.com/.

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