Open Text Corporation, the pre-eminent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, recently showcased a new release of Open Text Everywhere with native client applications for Apple iPhone and iPad.
With a growing library of business applications, Apple's popular smartphones and tablets are quickly gaining momentum as an enterprise client platform. With client applications from Open Text, business users gain access to critical content and processes from their iPhones and iPads.
The new applications were revealed for the first time at Open Text's annual Content World user conference, where attendees were able to experience Open Text Everywhere in action on iPads and iPhones.
"By themselves, the iPhone and iPad are fantastic devices. But it's not until you add content that they become truly transformative," commented Eugene Roman, Chief Technology Officer, Open Text. "With Open Text Everywhere, we are putting the content and business applications on these devices that will absolutely change the way people work, and result in big gains in productivity across the board."
In today's fast moving, globally connected work environment, business doesn't stop when users walk away from their desks. According to a recent Forrester Research survey, workers are much more likely to use their smartphone - or instant-on tablets like iPads - while travelling, commuting, in coffee shops or even in different buildings than laptops. While the productivity benefits of delivering enterprise content to smartphones can be substantial, information technology managers face steep challenges to maintain security, control costs and deliver sophisticated applications.
Open Text Everywhere lets users natively and securely access a full set of Open Text ECM Suite 2010 capabilities from both RIM BlackBerry and Apple iPhone and iPad devices. It provides secure end-to-end communication between the ECM Suite and mobile devices, and pushes the permission model and audit capabilities of the ECM Suite right to the device.
Open Text Everywhere provides a comprehensive view of business processes, content and social collaboration tools. On the device side, it gives users a native application that delivers a rich, intuitive and fast user experience. On the server side, Open Text Everywhere is fully integrated with Open Text Content Server, the heart of the ECM Suite, for rapid deployment and minimal impact on IT, with low ongoing maintenance and support requirements.
By marrying mobility to content management, Open Text makes it possible for employees to access and act on the information they need in a variety of scenarios. It provides them not only with core content, but provides search and workflow that enables them to complete tasks using only their smartphones.
In the coming months, Open Text will be adding more features, capabilities and mobile platform support to the Open Text Everywhere offering. This will include:
* A mobile e-mail management application that lets customers manage e-mail for legal, regulatory or corporate governance rules.
* A new social interface for smartphone devices that incorporates access controls, auditing, and other ECM Suite capabilities while enabling new levels of collaboration.
* Integration with Web Experience Management (formerly Vignette) that will provide an on-demand mobile application platform enabling organisations to deliver fast and reliable mobile solutions that are as rich and interactive as advanced Web solutions found on the fixed Internet.
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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