New OpenText Content Management Services to be Delivered through SAP® Cloud Platform

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May 08, 2019, 09:00 ET

New OpenText cloud services will work with SAP Cloud Platform to harmonize data and content services

WATERLOO, Ontario, May 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced new OpenText content services will be delivered through SAP Cloud Platform and other SAP solutions. Planned for availability in Q4 2019 and developed on OpenText OT2, the new services will aim to address the need to manage structured data and unstructured content across applications and intelligent business processes. Delivered through SAP Cloud Platform, OpenText content services are planned to become available for applications such as SAP S/4HANA^® Cloud, SAP^®C/4HANA Cloud and SAP^® SuccessFactors^®.

"OpenText and SAP share a vision of an integrated information management platform for the intelligent and connected enterprise," said OpenText CEO & CTO Mark J. Barrenechea. "We bring together structured and unstructured information to deliver content in context of key business processes. With the new generation of cloud-based content services, we are expanding our successful partnership and providing a harmonized information service offering for businesses that use SAP solutions."

Content services manage unstructured digital content and are essential to building an intelligent and connected enterprise. OpenText content services for SAP Cloud Platform will provide a centralized content repository and advanced content capabilities across SAP applications, making it a powerful combination to reduce information sprawl and content management costs.

OpenText content services for SAP solutions will include standard and premium services:

Standard services include: document management, such as folder, file and meta data management, versioning and viewing capabilities and attachment lists.
Premium services include: enhanced solutions, such as extended content management, Office 365 integration, capture and document generation services.

"SAP and OpenText are strengthening our partnership to extend SAP's unified business data platform with unstructured content for the Intelligent Enterprise on SAP Cloud Platform," said Tom Roberts, Global Vice President Third Party Solutions, SAP. "These services and automatic document processing capabilities will help customers improve information flow and aid collaboration along the entire business process. Additionally, it will help them meet compliance requirements and increase productivity."

For more information on the SAP and OpenText partnership, click here or visit us at booth 642 during the SAPPHIRE NOW® and ASUG Annual Conference.

SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference are the world's premier business technology event and largest SAP customer-run conference, offering attendees the opportunity to learn and network with customers, SAP executives, partners, and experts across the entire SAP ecosystem.

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OpenText, The Information Company™, enables organizations to gain insight through market leading information management solutions, on premises or in the cloud. For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX) visit opentext.com.

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