OpenText acquires Resonate Knowledge Technologies

Issued by Global Research Partners for Open Text
Johannesburg, 08 Mar 2013

OpenText Corporation, the pre-eminent provider of enterprise information management (EIM) software, today announced it has acquired Resonate Knowledge Technologies, a leading provider of software that enables organisations to visualise unstructured data, create new user experiences for enterprise content management (ECM) and xECM for SAP, as well as build industry based applications that maximise unstructured data residing within Content Server, a key component of the OpenText ECM suite.

OpenText ECM customers can gain a simple, flexible user experience, a powerful reporting engine, and a development platform that provides a competitive advantage over other ECM vendors and platform technologies. Resonate KT products are used by more than 500 OpenText customers in 20 countries. Key products from Resonate KT include WebReports, WebReports Extensions for Workflow, ActiveView, and ActiveView Mobile. Resonate KT products will remain part of the rich suite of extensions available to enhance ECM and xECM for SAP.

Resonate KT's software makes ECM easy by providing a superior out-of-the-box OpenText ECM user experience and a developer platform for customers to build their own applications. Customers using ECM solutions from OpenText will benefit from reduced time and complexity of their deployments, accelerated user adoption, and powerful reporting and content visualisation on desktop, Web and mobile devices.

"OpenText customers will be able to easily visualise their information, build applications, extract information and drive faster adoption of EIM through the use of Resonate KT software," commented OpenText CEO Mark J Barrenechea. "I was impressed with Resonate KT's software the first time I saw it. Resonate KT's products are deeply integrated into OpenText Content Server, which will help customers gain great value. We welcome Resonate KT's staff and customers to OpenText."

"While organisations rely on their data and business content to make the right decisions in a timely manner, access is often difficult. As a long-standing partner of OpenText, we are passionate about providing global clients the ability to bring together their data and business content, within the context of their business processes," added Greg Petti, senior director of product technology, Resonate Knowledge Technologies. "By becoming an integral part of OpenText, we will offer a wider scope of customers the ability to bring together structured data, documents, forms, e-mails, workflows within contextual, real-time views and dashboards that are simply not available elsewhere. We are thrilled by becoming a part of the world's leading provider of EIM solutions."

OpenText ECM software, one of the five foundational pillars of OpenText's EIM strategy, unites records management, archiving, search and eDiscovery to minimise organisational risk and cost, and maximise business insight and efficiency. From information capture, to classification, management, storage, distribution, archiving and disposition, ECM software manages the flow of information across the organisation. Fast and seamless access from multiple environments such as Web, desktop and mobile within business processes and applications improves user productivity and organisational efficiency while addressing the organisational requirements for information governance and security.

For further information, please contact Lenore Kerrigan: tel (+27) 11 575 4666, fax (+27) 11 576 6000, e-mail lenorek@opentext.com.

Resonate Knowledge Technologies

Resonate KT is the developer behind the leading WebReport and ActiveView frameworks for OpenText Content Server. These solutions uniquely streamline business processes, providing role-based information in the form of management dashboards, integrated reports and process-driven applications that aid user adoption and deliver business value.

OpenText

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

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