OpenText awarded two 2011 SAP Pinnacle Awards and its ECM solutions to gain wide exposure at SAPPHIRE NOW

Issued by Global Research Partners for Open Text
Johannesburg, 23 May 2011

OpenText Corporation, the pre-eminent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today announced it has been awarded two 2011 SAP Pinnacle awards: Global Software Solution Partner of the Year and Global Enterprise Support Partner of the Year.

SAP Pinnacle awards are presented annually to leading SAP partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP and driving customer success. The winners were selected based on over 150 nominations in 18 categories received from SAP partners and SAP employees.

OpenText formally received the awards at SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP's international customer conference that was held in Orlando, Florida from 15 to 18 May. The company's solutions were featured in more than 20 sessions throughout SAPPHIRE NOW and the 2011 ASUG Annual Conference.

“This year's SAP Pinnacle awards and our growing presence at SAPPHIRE NOW truly reflect the strong and productive partnership OpenText and SAP enjoy together,” commented Patrick Barnert, vice-president, SAP Solutions at OpenText. “Not only have we won a Pinnacle award for the fourth straight year, but this year we have the honour of winning two in the same year, which is an impressive achievement. This is a true reflection of our teams' dedication and hard work in delivering world-class ECM solutions, tightly integrated with SAP solutions, to our mutual customers.”

OpenText is the 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 4 000 SAP customer sites around the world. SAP has had great success reselling a number of OpenText solutions for document access, presentment, archiving and invoice management, and digital asset management. The companies recently announced an expansion of the agreement that enables SAP to resell OpenText Employee File Management, thus continuing the strategy of long-term investment protection for customers.

OpenText's solutions for use with SAP applications are offered as part of the OpenText ECM Suite, which brings together the broad range of enterprise 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 and to make content available on mobile devices. The key benefit to customers is the transparent combination of content, collaboration and integrated business processes that further ensures users can easily access relevant content.

“SAP is more committed than ever to a sound ecosystem strategy, which is key to delivering unmatched value to our customers and enabling SAP to reach its aggressive business goals,” added Eric Duffaut, president, Global Ecosystem and Channels, SAP. “We understand the power of our partnerships, through which we continue to drive game-changing co-innovation and expand our market reach and customer touch points, leveraging our partners' local and industry expertise as an extension of our sales and services efforts, to satisfy the needs of customers of all sizes. As a recipient of two 2011 SAP Pinnacle awards, we recognise OpenText's outstanding commitment and efforts in developing and growing its partnership with SAP and driving customer success.”

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 Business Connexion, Datacentrix, iFuture Consulting, NokusaEI 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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