Open Text Corporation, the preeminent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today announced full support across the Open Text ECM Suite for Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, allowing customers to confidently migrate to the latest platform and take full advantage of Open Text's rich content management expertise.
Today's announcement extends Open Text's ongoing corporate strategy to embrace Microsoft Office and SharePoint as a familiar user interface to access and use the Open Text core infrastructure and platform for advanced ECM solutions.
Open Text and Microsoft have been working closely together on this strategy since 2005 as evidenced by the partner of the year awards Open Text has received, inclusion of Open Text in Microsoft Technology Centres worldwide as a featured provider of governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) solutions.
"With Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has continued to boost user productivity, further ensuring that companies will want to centre their business applications on the Microsoft user interface, allowing easy ways to access Open Text s advanced ECM platform," commented Brian Donaldson, Vice-President, Microsoft Solutions and Ecosystem at Open Text. "We help make that possible by allowing decision-makers and information workers to work in their comfortable Microsoft environment while giving them access to all enterprise content from all sources including social networking, Web and digital media."
Open Text products for Microsoft help companies address the complexity of the ever-growing volume of electronic information, increase productivity, stimulate innovation, enable business agility, and ensure compliance and content security. Open Text offers one of the industry's widest range of solutions that extend Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010, including: integrated records management and archiving, content lifecycle management, email management, e-discovery and litigation readiness, enhanced web content management for SharePoint 2010, SAP integration, document capture and fax solutions, a development framework for case management applications and specialised vertical-market solutions.
"The combination of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and the Open Text ECM Suite provide new ways for people to work better together, meet regulatory requirements and manage content enterprise wide," added Ryan Duguid, senior product manager on the Enterprise Content Management Team at Microsoft Corp. "Open Text complements SharePoint Server 2010, extending the out of box ECM capabilities with ECM solutions targeting a range of vertical industries and specialised requirements such as DoD certification."
Platform support
The releases of Open Text products with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 support will leverage the latest capabilities and user interface refinements in the Microsoft platform. Here are some highlights:
* The Open Text Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) Services and Case Management Framework for SharePoint Server 2010. Using CLM Services customers can centralise control over enterprise content and across multiple SharePoint repositories. The Case Management Framework enables customers to control and structure the rollout of SharePoint sites. Thanks to the extensibility of SharePoint Server 2010, developers will be able to leverage the foundation of Case Management Framework to implement business solutions that build on Open Text's long experience with compliance and records management.
* Open Text's document management offering eDOCS DM taps Microsoft Office 2010 developer tools to boost security, improve overall robustness of the solution and implement functions directly into Office 2010 menus, ribbons and the new Backstage Views interface.
* The latest release of Open Text Email Archiving for Microsoft Exchange will take full advantage of the new Outlook 2010 interface, for example exposing message classification capabilities directly within the ribbon in Outlook 2010. It will also provide the ability to harvest and archive email out of the archive mailbox, a new capability introduced in Exchange 2010 that allows IT managers to provide each user with an archive mailbox alongside their active mailbox. Open Text can now extract content out of that archive mailbox and manage it in ECM libraries.
Open Text, Microsoft better together
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Open Text and Microsoft have been working together for several years. In 2006, Open Text won the prestigious Microsoft Global ISV of the Year award. The company was named a 2009 Global ISV Line of Business Partner of the Year finalist at Microsoft's 2009 Partner Conference.
For further information, please contact Rob Shaw: tel +27 83 626-3811, fax +27 86 646-4178, e-mail rshaw@opentext.com.
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