Open Text helps to reduce infrastructure costs, improve remote user experience with release of Exceed onDemand 7

Issued by Global Research Partners for Open Text

Johannesburg, 21 Apr 2009

Open Text Corporation, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today announced the immediate availability of Exceed onDemand 7, an application delivery platform that allows organisations to centrally distribute Unix applications to local or remote Windows and Linux workstations.

Open Text's newest connectivity solution, Exceed onDemand 7, is built on the company's innovative Thin X Protocol, and helps to provide up to 90% reduction in network traffic. It enables the deployment of graphically complex applications to users who reside thousands of miles away from the data centre.

The new version of Exceed onDemand features a number of major improvements that further empower customers to consolidate their IT infrastructure and reduce the operational cost of their Unix applications.

Some of these new features include:

* Ability to distribute high-end 3D applications through the support for server-side rendering.
* New compression algorithms help to improve application responsiveness and user experience.
* Helps to reduce administrative overhead through integration with Microsoft Active Directory.
* Agile enterprise licence management via dynamic distribution of licences.

Exceed onDemand is currently being used by more than 100 000 people around the world for a variety of applications such as CAD/CAM engineering, electronic design automation (EDA), aeronautical engineering, financial and statistical applications, geological exploration and scientific research.

"In these times of economic uncertainty, Exceed onDemand can offer a quick return on investment to companies that rely on Unix applications," commented Eugene Cherny, General Manager for Open Text's connectivity solutions. "It helps customers to reduce the number of application centres and replace expensive proprietary workstations, while enabling real-time team collaboration."

Open Text's leading connectivity solutions connect people, data and applications in mission-critical environments through a complete line of remote application access and data integration solutions. With 90% of Global 2000 companies relying on its award-winning solutions for over 20 years, Open Text understands the financial and operational challenges that most organisations face, whether it is multiple systems, disparate data sources or geographically dispersed teams.

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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