Open Text extends its eDiscovery offering

Issued by Global Research Partners for Open Text

Johannesburg, 13 Mar 2009

Open Text Corporation, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today announced it has extended its new eDiscovery solution to its Open Text eDOCS customers. Now organisations, particularly corporate legal departments, will be able to significantly minimise the need for third-party processing and control the high costs of legal reviews by culling irrelevant information.

Launched in December 2008, Open Text eDiscovery Early Case Assessment is being offered through a strategic relationship with Recommind, the leader in search-powered information risk management (IRM).

The solution combines Recommind's Insite Legal Hold application with the Open Text ECM Suite. The combination not only addresses the critical need for eDiscovery in an age of growing regulatory and legal challenges, it also lets customers tightly integrate eDiscovery within their broader ECM initiatives. Open Text eDOCS customers will gain expanded eDiscovery capabilities woven into their overall content, records and e-mail management practises.

This announcement furthers our commitment to Open Text eDOCS customers and expands on our leadership within the legal industry, commented Kirk Roberts, EVP and President of Integrated ECM Group at Open Text. Additional eDiscovery support meets a critical need for law firms and corporate legal departments to be able to assess, collect, preserve and process electronically stored information that resides in Open Text eDOCS, which is often an organisation's system of record.

Extending the functionality of the Early Case Assessment solution to include Open Text eDOCS is a key development in addressing the need to minimise information risk and increase litigation and investigatory efficiency for many companies, added Robert Tennant, CEO of Recommind. This is a natural extension of the Open Text eDOCS search capabilities we developed for our MindServer Search customers, and an important next step in our Open Text partnership to deliver the Early Case Assessment solution to a wider range of enterprises and offer our current and prospective customers new levels of speed and accuracy for their data management and eDiscovery initiatives.

Open Text is a leading global provider of ECM solutions for law firms. The company offers a full range of applications and legal industry expertise to support law firms' business practices and proactive compliance needs throughout the matter life cycle, from client intake through to final disposition. Currently, 70% of the AmLaw 100 firms are using Open Text's content management solutions.

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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