Open Text to Show ECM Suite for Use With SAP® Solutions at SAPPHIRE® 2009 Orlando Conference

Open Text to Lead Educational Sessions with Customers Discussing How Transparent Access to Enterprise Content Drives Down Business Cost

Orlando, Fla. - 2009-05-11 - Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), said today it will be working with SAP customers to demonstrate the Open Text ECM Suite for use with SAP® solutions during the SAPPHIRE® 2009 Orlando and the 2009 ASUG Annual conferences. Both events are being held simultaneously this week at the Orange County Convention Center.

Connecting business content with SAP applications continues to present a significant opportunity to lower costs and boost information worker productivity. According to a recent IDC whitepaper sponsored by Open Text and SAP [1], over half of respondents from large organizations (companies with 2,000 or more employees) say they need to integrate unstructured information with their ERP and CRM systems. The leading industry research firm estimates that improving information findability alone would save large enterprises more than $10 million per year [2].

During SAPPHIRE 2009, customers will have the opportunity to learn firsthand how the Open Text ECM Suite for use with SAP solutions provides transparent access to enterprise content of all kinds whether customer correspondence, scanned images of invoices, contracts, or word processing documents and spreadsheets from within users' familiar SAP applications. This significantly boosts productivity because the content they need is automatically available in the context of their work.

Open Text delivers ECM extensions that integrate with and complement SAP solutions, helping organizations reduce risk, increase operational efficiency and drive IT consolidation. Among the savings being highlighted at the Open Text booth (#336) this week include:

  • Lowered AP processing costs as well as cost of goods, with the SAP Invoice Management application by Open Text
  • Elimination of legacy system cost (maintenance, servers, consulting, etc) with Legacy Decommissioning
  • Reduction of 50 percent or more in consulting and services costs to upgrade to current versions of SAP solutions with Upgrade Solutions
  • Up to a 90 percent reduction in storage and data center costs with the SAP Archiving application by Open Text
  • Savings of 60 percent in physical document workflow costs in core modules: Customer Information Management, Employee Information Management and Supplier Information Management from Open Text
The sessions Open Text will host with customers will give attendees hands-on strategies and best-practice examples for optimizing the use of ECM solutions in SAP application environments. These sessions include:

"Bringing enterprise content into enterprise business processes represents a significant opportunity for companies to cut costs and gain a business advantage," said Patrick Barnert, Vice President, SAP Solutions at Open Text. "More and more we are seeing customers looking for the tight integration between content and enterprise applications only available from Open Text and SAP. CIOs and business managers alike are looking to get more from their IT assets today."

Supporting that view in a recent white paper [1] is IDC analyst Melissa Webster who writes: "We believe SAP users will see tremendous benefit in the ability to transparently leverage ECM in conjunction with their portfolio of SAP applications, without needing to change their existing processes, re-implement their applications, or retrain their users Rarely does IT have such a good opportunity to enhance the organization's controls over information management without impacting existing users and applications."

Open Text is an industry leader in ECM solutions for use with SAP applications, leveraging two decades of partnership and co-development, and expertise gained from delivering solutions to more than 3,000 SAP customer sites around the world. For more information on the Open Text ECM Suite for use with SAP solutions, go to: www.opentext.com/sap

Open Text's solutions for use with SAP are offered as part of the Open Text ECM Suite, which brings together the broad range of content management capabilities organizations need to securely and safely manage all types of enterprise information documents, vital records, Web content, video, images, email, forms and reports across many different enterprise systems and applications.

SAPPHIRE & ASUG
For more information on SAPPHIRE 2009 and the 2009 ASUG Annual Conference, go to: http://www.opentext.com/2/ex_event.html?evtype=events&id=70120000000B2rsAAC

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 to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.

[1] IDC White Paper sponsored by Open Text and SAP, Enterprise Content Meets Enterprise Business Processes: Open Text and SAP's Joint Solution, Doc # IDCWPT02R, February 2009: http://www.opentext.com/download/livelinkdownload.html?path=product/sap/idc-whitepaper-enterprise-content-ot-sap.pdf
[2] The Hidden Costs of Information Work, IDC #201334, April 2006.

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Open Text Corporation
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Stephanie Fazio
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