Open Text Enhances the Value of SAP NetWeaver Portal with Market Leading Web Content Management Capabilities
Adds to Offering with RedDot Web Solutions for Use With SAP NetWeaver; Customers Further Optimize Portal Implementations with RedDot Web Solutions
Orlando, Fla., SAPPHIRE® 2008 - 2008-05-06 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), said today that it will showcase its RedDot Web Solutions for use with SAP® solutions this week at the SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando conference. With RedDot Web Solutions, organizations can further enrich the user experience by expanding the portal s use to a one-stop, aggregated online resource for documents, information and other forms of unstructured content that inform their users of essential aspects of the business.
In many organizations today, the SAP NetWeaver® platform is a major element in providing a secure, single point of access to business information for all knowledge workers throughout an organization. These portals unify the user experience amongst all integrated applications by providing permission-based access enhanced with single sign-on.
RedDot Web Solutions complement the content management capabilities of the SAP NetWeaver Portal, helping organizations to easily administer and deliver personalized content within the portal environment. The Open Text solution helps content owners apply business rules to their content, further allowing them to choose their audience and helping to ensure that the right person gets the right content at the right time. Organizations around the world are leveraging RedDot Web Solutions to enhance their portal environments in key ways:
- iView for easy creation of personalized portal pages
- Integration TREX a structured and unstructured data processing component of SAP NetWeaver provides secure and personalized federated search for all portal and Web content
- Portal Navigation Manager offers easy management of the entire navigation structure of SAP NetWeaver Portal, allowing synchronization of content across multiple Web properties
A unified access to both applications and content is key to many portal initiatives. Users require a compelling personalized user experience while having full access to all of their SAP applications, said Daniel Kraft, President of RedDot, the Open Text Web Solutions Group. RedDot Web Solutions for use with SAP boosts productivity and overall effectiveness for organizations that have made significant investments in SAP NetWeaver.
Open Text s well-established solutions portfolio for use with SAP solutions is built on two decades of partnership and co-development, and expertise gained from delivering solutions at more than 2,700 SAP customer sites around the world.
Open Text s Leadership in Web Solutions
Open Text s RedDot Web Solutions Group, with more than a decade of experience in leading Web Content Management (WCM) software, provides Web-Centric ECM solutions to create, manage and deliver the content that drives business. RedDot content management and delivery solutions are recognized throughout the industry for their legendary ease of use and feature leading multilingual support; enterprise Web 2.0 capabilities; content integration; and contextualized delivery. From mid-market to enterprise, more than 2,600 clients around the world rely on RedDot Web Solutions to create, manage and deliver personalized Web experiences for their Intranets, Extranets and Web sites.
Open Text at SAPPHIRE 2008 Orlando
Open Text will be exhibiting RedDot Web Solutions 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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Open Text Corporation
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Stephanie Dodge
Open Text Corporation
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