OpenText ECM Suite for SAP® Solutions

Extend the functionality and performance of your SAP applications

By adding content to your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) context, you can improve business processes, reduce IT costs and address compliance.

As a global provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, we are the market leader in SAP document and data archiving and management, as well as in providing ECM extensions for SAP applications. The OpenText ECM Suite for SAP Solutions provides targeted solutions that enable you to create, access, manage, and securely archive all SAP content-both data and documents to address stringent requirements for risk reduction, operational efficiency and IT consolidation.

More than 2,000,000 users—over 2,700 installations—worldwide have achieved exceptional value of ownership by improving their critical business processes with the OpenText ECM Suite for SAP Solutions.

Foundation

The OpenText ECM Suite for SAP Solutions provides you with the flexibility to choose your starting point for extending your SAP environment with an integrated ECM solution. The following foundational offerings range from OpenText Data Archiving for SAP Solutions to the comprehensive OpenText ECM Suite for SAP Solutions:

• OpenText Data Archiving for SAP® Solutions provides secure, long-term archiving of data from SAP applications, offloading aged data to reduce storage costs and improve performance, while providing seamless access to archived data.

• OpenText Archiving for SAP® Solutions builds on the capabilities of OpenText Data Archiving for SAP Solutions and extends it with secure, long-term archiving of documents from SAP applications while providing seamless access to archived documents.

• OpenText Document Access for SAP® Solutions builds on the capabilities of OpenText Archiving for SAP Solutions and extends it with consolidated views of related content from multiple SAP and non-SAP applications, integrating content into the context of business processes.

• OpenText Extended ECM for SAP® Solutions extends the transactional process management capabilities of SAP ERP with comprehensive enterprise content management capabilities.

Extensions

The following offerings in the OpenText ECM Suite for SAP Solutions are designed to extend the value of your original investments in OpenText Document Access for SAP Solutions or OpenText Extended ECM for SAP Solutions with solutions to specific business problems:

• OpenText Accounts Payable for SAP® Solutions automates the invoice process to ensure minimum process time, maximum efficiency, and optimal allocation of resources.

• OpenText Customer Information Management for SAP® Solutions extends SAP® CRM by improving customer relations and streamlining customer service and sales processes through easy access to consolidated customer information from SAP and non-SAP sources directly in SAP CRM, SAP Interaction Center, and SAP NetWeaver® Portal.

• OpenText Employee File Management for SAP® Solutions provides HR departments with a complete solution based on ECM: all printed documents from employees and job applicants, master data and internal personnel documents are immediately available from the electronic personnel file.

• OpenText Shared Document Access for SAP® Solutions integrates SAP applications with a Transactional Content Processing application that enables you to manages content-centric business processes that must interact with non-SAP applications in addition to SAP applications. It enables the development of purpose-built solutions, such as customer and vendor self-service portals that integrate information managed in SAP systems without compromising the security of those systems.

• OpenText Supplier Information Management for SAP® Solutions provides a 360° view of supplier and purchasing data and documents, whether they are managed in SAP ERP or SAP SRM. It enhances the information in SAP systems with documents and makes it easy to implement an order approval workflow.

• OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for SAP® Solutions is an add-on for SAP ERP that is built with SAP's Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) programming language. It works with SAP ERP to streamline Accounts Payable (AP) operations, by optimizing and simplifying the process of creating, managing, monitoring and routing purchase orders and invoices for AP personnel and vendors.

Certified Quality

The products that comprise the OpenText ECM Suite for SAP Solutions are certified by SAP in many categories, most notably as "Certified for SAP NetWeaver" and "Powered by SAP NetWeaver." Certifications include the ArchiveLink certification, SAP NetWeaver Portal certification, and the WebDAV XML certification.

• OpenText Document Access for SAP Solutions: Powered by SAP NetWeaver

  This accredited certification assures SAP customers that the proven OpenText Document Access for SAP Solutions is seamlessly integrated into the SAP NetWeaver architecture right out of the box.

• OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for SAP Solutions: Powered by SAP NetWeaver

  This accredited certification assures SAP customers that the proven OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for SAP Solutions is seamlessly integrated into the SAP NetWeaver architecture right out of the box.

• ArchiveLink Certification Guarantees Full Compatibility

  Document Management for SAP Solutions has acquired certifications for the most recent SAP ArchiveLink versions: 4.5 and HTTP Content Server. This guarantees full compatibility with the most current versions of SAP Business Applications and Industry Applications.

• WebDAV XML Data Archiving Certification

  WebDAV XML is an SAP standard for data archiving of Java-based SAP applications. With this certification, OpenText customers are ready for the data archiving requirements of future SAP applications.

• Portal Integration Kit: Powered by SAP NetWeaver

  Portal Integration Kit received the Powered by SAP NetWeaver and Certified for SAP NetWeaver qualifications in the certification category "Business Packages, Enterprise Portal iViews, J2EE Engine, Java" under the scenarios EP-BP 6.0 and J2EE DEP-6.40.

Consulting

Global organizations rely on our worldwide SAP consulting specialists to help them implement successful integrated Enterprise Content Management initiatives. Using proven Fast Production methodology, our SAP specialists have successfully implemented thousands of projects around the world, significantly reducing the cost and time required to deploy complex, customized solutions.

• Consulting Services for SAP Imaging

  Our Global Services team has many years of SAP experience. Whether it's process consulting, implementing standard document scenarios, or a customer-specific project, our SAP consultants know the best way to fulfill your requirements.
  - Expertise gained through many years of project experience in SAP environments
  - Customized SAP document solutions from a single source
  - Fast implementation of SAP standard scenarios

• Consulting Services for SAP Data Archiving

  Our experienced service employees have successfully completed hundreds of data archiving projects around the world. Our many years of experience in document and data archiving for SAP, combined with our close partnership with SAP AG, assures you of the successful optimization of your SAP database.
  - Risk-free project procedures with defined cost ranges and results
  - Optimal, individualized plan
  - Consulting and support from concept to going live

• Consulting Services for SAP Business Workflow

  Our experienced workflow specialists in the Professional Services team help you optimize your business processes. Our expertise covers not only analysis and planning, but also its implementation in specific IT projects all the way to global rollout.
  - Increased return on investment for your IT infrastructure
  - Expedited business processes through elimination of the distribution times for documents, and maximized efficiency of your business - resulting in cost savings through optimized processes (for example, Accounts Payable, cash discount savings)
  - Improved process controls (deadline monitoring, process history, transparent processes)
  - Expansion of the business processes (for example, beyond the boundaries of SAP)