Open Text to Showcase Leading ECM Solutions for Use With SAP at SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando Conference

Open Text Experts Lead Educational Sessions: Helping Customers Unlock the ECM Potential of SAP® Solutions

Orlando, Fla., SAPPHIRE® 2008 - 2008-05-05 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), said today it will be working with SAP customers to demonstrate how to unlock the ECM potential of their SAP® solutions during the SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando conference and the 2008 ASUG Annual Conference. Both events are being held simultaneously this week at the Orange County Convention Center.

Connecting transactional data from SAP solutions with business content is mission-critical. During the event, Open Text experts will be demonstrating solutions that combine the transactional process management functionality of SAP Business Suite applications with comprehensive ECM capabilities from Open Text. Integrating content from multiple sources with transactions in SAP solutions helps organizations accelerate processes, manage content growth and reduce risk.

As a result of its long-standing partnership with SAP since 1992, Open Text delivers ECM extensions that are designed to integrate with and complement SAP solutions, helping organizations reduce risk, increase operational efficiency and drive IT consolidation. Solutions being demonstrated at the Open Text booth include:

  • Document Access, Document and Data Archiving for use with SAP applications
  • Open Text Extended ECM, an SAP endorsed business solution
  • Accounts Payable Automation
  • Customer Information Management
  • Employee Information Management
  • Supplier Information Management
  • DoD 5015.2-certified Records Management for content in SAP applications
  • Web Content Management extensions for use with SAP NetWeaver® Portal
  • Digital Asset Management
Open Text customers and content experts will also lead a series of sessions during the event to give attendees hands-on strategies and best-practice examples for optimizing the use of ECM solutions in SAP application environments. These sessions include:

In these challenging economic times, customers in both commercial and public-sector environments are looking for ways to do more with less, improve productivity and enhance customer service, said Patrick Barnert, Vice President, SAP Solutions Group at Open Text. Our solutions help enterprises bring together all the content related to a particular customer or vendor, including email and Microsoft Office documents, and put it in the context of SAP solutions. This enables accounts payable analysts, for instance, to focus on strategic initiatives rather than tracking down missing documentation.

This year at SAPPHIRE, Open Text is a Pinnacle Awards 2008 Finalist in the award category Software Solutions: Field Engagement. The company is an industry leader in ECM solutions for SAP, leveraging two decades of partnership and co-development, and expertise gained from delivering solutions to more than 2,700 SAP customer sites around the world. Open Text s well-established ECM solutions for use with SAP solutions offers a complete range of capabilities for managing and archiving business documents -- incoming/outgoing invoices, orders, delivery notes, quality certificates, human resources documents that originate from customers SAP applications. Open Text s solutions help customers improve the way they manage content from SAP applications to improve efficiency in key processes, manage compliance, consolidate IT systems and reduce costs. Open Text is an SAP software solution partner with solutions that have achieved SAP Certified Integration status. It is the only ECM vendor with solutions that are resold by SAP.

For more information on Open Text s ECM solutions for use with SAP solutions, go to: www.opentext.com/products/sap.

Open Text at SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando
Open Text will be exhibiting in booth #1472 at SAPPHIRE 2008 Orlando and the 2008 ASUG Annual Conference. For more information on Open Text s participation, go to: www.opentext.com/events/event.html?id=6712663

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 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts 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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For more information, please contact

Richard Maganini
Open Text Corporation
+1-847-267-9330 ext.4266
rmaganin@opentext.com

Stephanie Dodge
Open Text Corporation
519-888-7111 ext.2429
sdodge@opentext.com

Brian Edwards
McKenzie Worldwide
+1-503-577-4583
briane@mckenzieworldwide.com