OpenText announces Application Governance & Archiving for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Issued by Global Research Partners for Open Text

Johannesburg, 24 Mar 2011

OpenText Corporation, the pre-eminent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today announced the immediate availability of OpenText Application Governance & Archiving for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, a new offering that provides integrated end-to-end management of SharePoint 2010 sites and documents across an entire enterprise.

Using this solution, enterprises can take control over SharePoint sites to enforce broader compliance and archiving policies and help lower ongoing administration and storage costs.

It also helps to improve user productivity by opening access to all enterprise content from within SharePoint, ultimately increasing the value of content by giving corporations a robust, well-managed long-term corporate memory.

"Much of enterprise content management comes down to walking a fine line between corporate policy and user productivity," commented Brian Donaldson, Vice-President, Microsoft Solutions and Ecosystem, OpenText.

"With our Application Governance & Archiving solution, we're making it much easier for customers to determine the ideal SharePoint user experience while keeping the peace of mind that comes from knowing they have a central retention and records management, and long-term archival system in place."

As detailed in a new online resource centre at www.Better-Together-Central.com, Microsoft and OpenText have joined forces to help companies enable an effective ECM-driven compliance framework, aggregate content within business context, and more easily deploy SharePoint-based business applications with built-in compliance. Companies can also reduce the size of content repositories and eliminate silos, lowering storage and other maintenance costs.

"One of the key strengths of SharePoint 2010 is that it helps companies quickly respond to changing business needs," added Kim Akers, General Manager for Global Partners at Microsoft Corp. "Using OpenText Application Governance & Archiving with SharePoint, companies can establish rigorous, holistic content governance programs that reduce risk and infrastructure costs while staying nimble and agile."

Application Governance & Archiving consolidates the functionality in Open Text CLM Services for Microsoft SharePoint and OpenText Case Management Framework for Microsoft SharePoint and adds new site management capabilities. From a Web-based site management console, administrators can manage SharePoint success metrics, collect metadata about sites, control approval processes and manage new site deployments using simple scripts.

Other capabilities in the solution include:

* Rule-based archiving that requires no user interaction to archive content, while still giving users transparent access to archived content. It also provides the ability to archive and restore complete SharePoint sites and SharePoint administrators can manage the full life cycle of SharePoint sites beyond just site creation.

* Support for new business application development on SharePoint using a DOD 5015.02-STD-certified records management infrastructure, open interfaces and reusable components.

* Storage services for SharePoint that help to reduce the size of SharePoint databases and unload BLOBs from SQL Server.

* Support for managing physical records in SharePoint.

* Integration with OpenText Extended ECM for SAP, allowing SharePoint users to access SAP Business Objects within SharePoint.

* Integration with OpenText ECM Suite 2010 Shared Services that gives SharePoint users access to content from across the enterprise.

OpenText and Microsoft

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, OpenText has a close working relationship with Microsoft. OpenText was named a 2009 Global ISV Line of Business Partner of the Year finalist at Microsoft's 2009 Partner Conference.

OpenText's solutions for Microsoft are offered as part of OpenText ECM Suite 2010. This integrated suite brings together the content management capabilities needed to manage all types of enterprise content, including business documents, vital records, Web content, digital media such as images, audio and video, e-mail, forms, reports and more.

Using OpenText Everywhere, customers can access and work with enterprise content securely from smartphones.

For further information, please contact Rob Shaw: tel +27 83 626-3811, fax +27 86 646-4178, e-mail rshaw@opentext.com.

OpenText

OpenText, the pre-eminent enterprise content management software, helps organisations manage and gain the true value of their business content. OpenText brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts to help organisations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.

In southern Africa, OpenText's business partners are Accenture, Business Connexion, Datacentrix, 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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