Open Text awarded 2009 SAP Pinnacle Award

Issued by Global Research Partners for Open Text

Johannesburg, 19 May 2009

Open Text Corporation, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today announced it has been awarded a 2009 SAP Pinnacle Award as the Regional Software Solutions Partner of the Year, EMEA.

SAP Pinnacle Awards were granted to leading SAP partners that have excelled in enhancing the customer experience, addressing critical issues such as accelerating co-innovation and improving return on investment.

Winners were selected based on over 300 nominations received from partners and SAP employees.

"The SAP Pinnacle Awards reflect the continued success we are seeing both in EMEA and around the world helping customers connect their enterprise content with SAP solutions," commented Patrick Barnert, Vice-President, SAP Solutions at Open Text.

"We are especially pleased to have won an SAP Pinnacle Award two years running and look forward to even greater success in the coming year. By working closely with SAP, we are helping our joint customers lower costs, boost productivity and increase compliance."

Open Text is an industry leader in ECM solutions for use with SAP applications, building on two decades of partnership and co-development, and expertise gained from delivering solutions to more than 3 000 SAP customer sites around the world. SAP also sells Open Text solutions under the names SAP Archiving by Open Text, SAP Document Access by Open Text and SAP Invoice Management by Open Text.

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

"SAP is committed to fostering an ecosystem that is driven by co-innovation and which uniquely provides solutions and services that help customers meet their most pressing challenges," added Zia Yusuf, Executive Vice-President, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP. "SAP Pinnacle Awards recognise those partners that have consistently demonstrated excellence in delivering value-focused and cost-effective solutions and services which help customers address their industry and business process needs. We thank Open Text for their dedication and passion to teaming with SAP to help extend the value of a customer-focused ecosystem."

In a simultaneous announcement Open Text also confirmed that its Enterprise Library Services (ILS), a foundation of the Open Text ECM Suite, has successfully passed the SAP certification requirements for integration with the WebDAV Storage interface of the SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management (SAP NetWeaver ILM) component and SAP ArchiveLink software. Through this certified integration, customers can use SAP solutions and the Open Text ECM Suite as the basis for an enterprise-wide information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy that can help lower costs and reduce risk, while ensuring compliance with information retention regulations and supporting eDiscovery orders.

The ILM WebDAV Storage interface, known as BC-ILM 2.0, verifies that ILM-aware storage systems fully support SAP NetWeaver ILM for secure storage of data, retention enforcement and final destruction. With this certification, Open Text ELS provides customers with a hardware-agnostic ILM platform and the freedom to choose their preferred storage platform. Open Text ELS has also achieved certified integration with SAP ArchiveLink. This certification verifies that the Open Text solution performs data and document storage for SAP systems and safeguards that Open Text s solutions continue to be compatible with most current versions of SAP business and industry applications.

Open Text ILM working alongside SAP NetWeaver ILM technology bridges the worlds of SAP and non-SAP content, continued Barnert. Used together, these solutions are complete and integrated, and can handle the toughest enterprise-wide ILM demands, reducing total cost of ownership through efficient content storage, increasing productivity through easy access to archived data and documents, and improving compliance."

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 organisations need to securely and safely manage all types of enterprise information documents, vital records, Web content, video, images, e-mail, forms and reports across many different enterprise systems and applications.

For further information, please contact Rob Shaw: tel 083 626-3811, fax 086 646-4178, e-mail rshaw@opentext.co.za

Open Text

Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organisations 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 and trade to help organisations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.

In Southern Africa, Open Text's business partners are Accenture, Business Connexion, Datacentrix, Lava Systems, IA Systems and SAP Africa; and, its customer base includes organisations from across both the private and public sectors such as Alexander Forbes, Anglo Platinum, BMW, Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Distell, Engen, Exxaro Resources, Mittal Steel, Office of the President, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, SABMiller, Sasol, Telkom SA and Toyota.

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