OpenText Corporation, the pre-eminent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today unveiled OpenText InfoFusion, information access software specifically designed for enterprise information management (EIM) that offers businesses a new and dramatically improved approach to discovering, analysing and managing unstructured information across their enterprises.
According to recent industry estimates, unstructured information accounts for more than 80% of an enterprise's total information and represents the largest and fastest growing source of knowledge, innovation and efficiency available to organisations. Businesses are increasingly looking at EIM to unlock the strategic value of this often siloed, largely untapped information to help them cut costs, ensure compliance, increase competitive advantage and make better decisions about their business.
OpenText InfoFusion is designed to break down corporate information silos and aggregate that information to capitalise on the benefits of EIM. InfoFusion provides powerful data integration, content migration, data archiving and legacy decommissioning tools that allow organisations to discover, analyse and act on information throughout their enterprises while also helping them identify and address critical business issues.
Karen Shegda, Gartner research vice-president, recently stated: "Enterprises seek to capitalise on a growing number of information-fuelled opportunities that require a combination of analytical capabilities and diverse data types. Those that blend analytics and content, supported by a well-organised information infrastructure, will reap the benefits."
Solving today's EIM problems requires a highly scalable solution that can help organisations easily access the information they need from across their enterprise, analyse it and take action based on it. Through the use of OpenText InfoFusion's powerful search and analysis capabilities and a wide array of connectors, users can now better assess huge volumes of enterprise content, extract its full value and make important decisions that can positively impact their business.
OpenText InfoFusion uniquely enables organisations to move, copy, delete and change permissions on content to support information governance practices. And, since InfoFusion is connected to OpenText's industry-leading EIM applications, it can extend the reach of OpenText Enterprise Content Management and OpenText Records Management to provide a single source of policy for the organisation.
"CIOs are increasingly faced with large data sets that are too disparate, too complex and too poorly organised for analysis with conventional tools. As companies adapt their businesses to the imperatives of cloud, social, mobile and ever-present compliance, new methods are needed to access and aggregate this information," commented Marten den Haring, vice-president, Information Discovery and Analytics at OpenText. "OpenText InfoFusion is modular, standards-based information access software that integrates seamlessly with OpenText's leading EIM solutions to solve these problems, enabling better information governance and a smarter enterprise."
OpenText InfoFusion also includes Integration Center with connectors that help orchestrate data and provide authorised access to enterprise repositories, including IBM FileNet, EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint. Because many different enterprise information management solutions share common requirements, a rich set of APIs and reusable widgets are offered, enabling customers and partners to develop applications for specific use cases and user roles.
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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