OpenText Corporation, the pre-eminent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today unveiled the industry's first cloud designed specifically to address enterprise information management (EIM). OpenText Cloud aims to provide all OpenText software as cloud-based offerings, in addition to the existing on-premises products. Today, OpenText Cloud provides customers with anytime, anywhere access to OpenText's EIM solution portfolio in the cloud, including more than 20 ready-to-use applications and services.
Unlike most cloud vendors who focus primarily on providing infrastructure and applications in the cloud, OpenText provides a complete stack that includes the specific knowledge and contextual support for deployment and maintenance, management, monitoring, security, optimisation, upgrade and application management, including service-level agreement on application availability.
"The OpenText Cloud is purpose-built for EIM," commented Mark J Barrenechea, CEO of OpenText. "Over the next two years, all OpenText software will be available both on-premises and in our cloud. With over two million end-users and 21 000 customers already in our cloud, we are making great progress."
Today, users around the world rely on OpenText Cloud to conduct billions of transactions per year. OpenText Cloud, the only purpose-built cloud environment for EIM that delivers EIM-specific services and applications, consists of the following four key areas:
* Infrastructure Services: OpenText Infrastructure Services provide the infrastructure that runs the OpenText Cloud with its 10 data centres around the world and the core infrastructure technologies such as storage, networking, security, backup, high availability, virtualisation, monitoring and the elastic computing power. The data centre locations include: Ashburn (Virginia), Austin (Texas), Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Paris, Slough (UK), Sydney, Tinton Falls (New Jersey), Tokyo and Toronto.
* Hosting Services: OpenText Hosting Services comprise global data centres that provide fully managed, end-to-end IT services, from deployment to disaster recovery. Using these services, organisations can reduce their IT infrastructure costs and expedite their time to market by deploying features and capabilities more quickly. Backed by world-class service levels, OpenText hosting services remove the burden from IT, freeing up valuable resources to focus on more strategic projects. Current hosted offerings include: Tempo Social, Tempo Box, Content Server, Records Management, Content Lifecycle Management (CLM), Business Process Management (BPM), Web Content Management (WCM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM).
* Information Services: OpenText's Information Services are providing any-to-any information exchange across people, processes and trading partners with seamless business process integration across its global infrastructure for any data format: structured (such as SMS, EDI, telex) and unstructured (via fax, and document capture). The OpenText Cloud Information Services are secure, reliable and scalable. Current services include: fax, message archive, EDI VAN, capture and recognition, notifications and telex.
* Social Collaboration Services: OpenText Social Collaboration Services provide a pervasive layer of collaboration, social marketing, syncing and sharing capabilities across all applications delivered through the OpenText Cloud. OpenText Cloud Social Collaboration Services are built on top of the security and compliance platform provided by the OpenText Cloud. OpenText Tempo Social and Tempo Box represent OpenText's newest Social Collaboration Services offerings in the cloud. This comprehensive set of EIM services offered by OpenText Cloud combines the economic benefits of a cloud deployment (lower overhead, no infrastructure or maintenance costs), with enterprise-grade security, compliance, social collaboration services and a wealth of complementary capabilities that help customers unleash the power of information.
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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OpenText, a global ECM leader, helps organisations manage and gain the true value of their business content. OpenText brings two decades' of expertise supporting 100 million users in 114 countries. Working with its customers and partners, it brings together leading content experts to help organisations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.
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In southern Africa, OpenText's business partners are Business Connexion, Datacentrix, EOH, eTechnologies, iFuture Consulting, NokusaEI and SAP Africa, and its customer base includes organisations from across both the private and public sectors, such as Absa, Anglo Platinum, BMW, Department of Environmental Affairs, Department of Tourism, Distell, Engen, Exxaro Resources, Mittal Steel, Nedbank, Office of the President, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, SABMiller, Sasol, Standard Bank, Telkom SA and Toyota.
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