ASEAN Adopts OpenText Enterprise Information Management Platform to Strengthen Information Management Systems

OpenText Content Suite Platform allows ASEAN to improve decision making, effectiveness and business impact

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May 19, 2014, 09:00 ET

SINGAPORE, May 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has selected OpenText's Content Suite Platform to manage its new technology initiative, ASEAN Online, aimed at strengthening its information management systems through enhanced efficiency.

ASEANonline.org web portal is built on OpenText's Content Suite Platform and cutting-edge applications, which will enable ASEAN Member States and the ASEAN Secretariat to support the internal sharing of business critical data and information in a more secure environment on-the-go. To provide ASEAN with a solution tailored to specifically address these requirements, OpenText's Content Suite was implemented to deliver a flexible interface and easy access to content directly from a user's office productivity applications.

"The ASEAN Secretariat is focusing on strengthening our capabilities in information technology and management systems to provide effective support for our ASEAN Member States, in our effort to realize the ASEAN community objective and goals. OpenText has been working closely with our IT team in tailoring the ASEAN Online web portal to enhance the Secretariat's technology know-how as a critical priority area," explained H.E. Dr. AKP Mochtan, Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for Community and Corporate Affairs.

"We look forward to the exciting new features that the ASEAN Online web portal offers. This includes accessing data stored in the cloud via traditional web browser and mobile platforms, an important feature as it will enable our employees to access important documents on-the-go in a secure environment," he added.

"We are immensely pleased to be partnering with ASEAN on their new initiative. Organizations today face an unprecedented explosion of content, and must find efficient ways to manage, control and secure their data. The ASEAN Online initiative reflects ASEAN's commitment to its Member States and Secretariat in enhancing efficiency and productivity through secure access to business critical data," said Mao Gen Foo, Vice President, Asia, OpenText

OpenText Content Suite is a comprehensive enterprise content management (ECM) system designed to manage the flow of information, from capture through achieving and disposition. The Content Suite Platform ensures agile information governance to address increasingly complex, dynamic regulatory landscape and the rapid growth of business information; whilst concurrently reducing risk and allowing organizations to focus on using information to drive strategic growth and innovation.

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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 center 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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