Johannesburg, 04 May 2016
OpenText a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced that the Johannesburg leg of its Innovation Tour 2016 will take place on 19 May 2016 in Bryanston. The global series of events started in Sydney, Australia on February 23rd, and drew to a close in Johannesburg.
Thousands of attendees will have the opportunity to take advantage of keynotes, CIO presentations, breakout sessions, roundtable discussions, executive tracks, and networking opportunities to explore the latest trends in digital business and prepare attendees for success in the digital world.
At the Johannesburg event, delegates can look forward to an informative lineup of speakers. Including Simon Harrison SVP Enterprise Sales at OpenText who will share his thoughts on Enabling the Digital First World while Nic Carter, Senior Director, IP and Product Management at Open Text will speak on OpenText Innovation Strategy and Roadmap. Other topics to be covered include cyber security, the digital economy and much more.
"Every company is an information company in the digital age," said OpenText CEO and CTO, Mark J Barrenechea. "Every company must fully digitise. It is the key enabling platform for competitiveness and efficiency over the next decade. The Innovation Tour 2016 events are an opportunity for OpenText to share our vision of a digital world, and the solutions that will enable it, with thousands of customers around the world."
Attendees at all Innovation Tour events will experience first-hand OpenText's latest generation of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions - OpenText Release 16 - developed to address the key business goals that drive digital transformation.
Barrenechea continued, "OpenText Release 16 is the world's first digital platform. It is designed to run in the OpenText Cloud, third-party clouds, or on-premises, completing customer needs on where they need to place their workloads. Release 16 is one platform to manage and secure your enterprise information, to exchange that information cloud-to-cloud and to provide information analytics and predictions. Release 16 will increase customer competitiveness, operational efficiency, increase security, help transition to millennial workforces and ultimately create a better way to work."
In addition to executive and customer keynotes, each event will showcase leading OpenText technology and solutions in dedicated breakout sessions.
For more information, and to register for the OpenText Innovation Tour's Johannesburg event, please visit its Web site.