OpenText receives SAP Pinnacle award for seventh consecutive year

By Phumeza Tontsi for Open Text
Johannesburg, 12 Jun 2014

OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the global leader in enterprise information management (EIM), today announced it is a recipient of a 2014 SAP Pinnacle award. The company was recognised as the Solution Extension Partner of the Year in the "Run Together" category. This marks the seventh consecutive year that OpenText has been recognised as one of the top SAP partners for excelling in developing and growing its partnership and driving customer success.

A SAP partner since 1992, OpenText continues to lead the enterprise information management industry across all major functional areas. With SAP and OpenText solutions, customers have made dramatic improvements across a wide range of areas that positively impact relationships with customers, employees, partners, suppliers, and regulatory agencies. Thousands of customers of all sizes deploy solutions from OpenText to seamlessly connect unstructured information to SAP business processes.

"We are thrilled to be recognised in 2014 as SAP's Solution Extension Partner of the Year," said Patricia Nagle, vice-president global strategic alliance ecosystem at OpenText. "Receiving a SAP Pinnacle award showcases our commitment to a partner strategy that delivers outstanding value to customers. For seven years, we have continued to be among the top SAP partners for our contributions to the SAP ecosystem and our co-innovation efforts with SAP. We will continue to make strategic investments to deliver exceptional customer impact in co-operation with SAP."

OpenText's integrated solutions for SAP software further enable customers to realise the full value of digital data, as information is easily discovered, captured, managed, governed, secured, and leveraged. These solutions enable business transformation by digitising processes that leverage SAP technology innovations such as the SAP HANA platform, as well as cloud and mobile offerings. OpenText's integrated approach to EIM helps customers automate, optimise and re-innovate their business process at a higher level by taking advantage of both the structured and unstructured data within the enterprise.

"Together with our partners - who are co-innovating with us, reselling and implementing our solutions - we offer choice and deliver transformational value to our joint customers of all sizes," said Mark Ferrer, chief operating officer, Global Customer Operations and executive vice-president, Ecosystem and Channels, SAP. "Partners like OpenText are our force multipliers, and today, more than ever, they are essential to our customers' success. We congratulate OpenText for its outstanding partnership with SAP and well-deserved 2014 SAP Pinnacle award."

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The SAP Pinnacle awards shine a spotlight on SAP's partners' remarkable work, recognising their intelligence and their capacity to challenge what is possible to help customers run better. Finalists and winners in 21 categories were based on field recommendations, customer feedback and performance indicators in the following five umbrella categories: Run Together (for co-innovation), Run Further (for market expansion), Run Clever (for service delivery), Run Sustainably (for sustainability) and new for 2014 Customers' Choice.

OpenText

OpenText provides enterprise information management software that helps companies of all sizes and industries to manage, secure and leverage their unstructured business information, either in their data centre or in the cloud. Over 50 000 companies already use OpenText solutions to unleash the power of their information. To learn more about OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX; TSX: OTC), please visit: www.opentext.com.

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