New Cloud Offering Delivers Flexible and Scalable Access to Market-Leading Content Services Platform

OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX), the global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced the immediate availability of two new cloud solutions: OpenText Extended ECM for SAP® Solutions, Cloud Edition and OpenText Archive Center for SAP Solutions, Cloud Edition.

These new solutions help simplify the digital transformation process for companies by integrating digital content into the OpenText cloud.

OpenText Extended ECM for SAP Solutions, Cloud Edition (offered by SAP as SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText, cloud edition) helps businesses to unlock the value of information and improve business processes by extending content services to SAP solutions and other leading business applications. The new cloud-based offering enables a frictionless exchange of information between internal and external users, helping ensure compliance with enterprise, national and international regulations. OpenText Extended ECM for SAP Solutions, Cloud Edition is the first solution to provide digital content management as a service across SAP applications.

OpenText Archive Center for SAP Solutions, Cloud Edition (sold by SAP as SAP Archiving and Document Access by OpenText, cloud edition) is a new public cloud platform to address the exponential growth of content and data related to core processes running in SAP software. The solution helps accelerate the conversion to SAP S/4HANA® by reducing data volumes and streamlining data and content related processes.

“As the pace of innovation has increased, organizations running traditional on-premises applications have needed to address numerous issues around complexity, data and information management, collaboration and regulatory compliance,” said Mark J. Barrenechea Vice Chair, CEO and CTO, OpenText. “These new offerings simplify the process for organizations looking to re-platform their SAP solutions and move to the cloud, creating a scalable foundation to manage, and gain insight from, the exponential growth of content and data.”

Customers will benefit from:

• Data sovereignty with tenant segregation, encryption and storage in regional data centers
• Reduced IT infrastructure complexity, resource consumption and costs
• Reduced operational and legal risk with information governance and compliance
• Higher process efficiency with digital-content-driven business processes
• Fast and simplified transition to new SAP cloud platforms allowing cloud-to-cloud connectivity

“These latest solutions join other cloud-enabled offerings – including SAP Hybris® Digital Asset Management Cloud by OpenText and SAP SuccessFactors® Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText – to support our customers in their digital transformation efforts,” said Barrenechea. “The OpenText Cloud Suite for SAP solutions helps assure that organizations can get securely manage data and documents in the cloud, whilst integrating with transactions and processes running in SAP software.”

OpenText’s cloud-enabled suite of solutions provide controlled and automated content management capabilities allowing organizations to reduce manual processes, simplify compliance with data protection regulations, and provide meaningful business insight. All elements of an organization’s enterprise information – unstructured content and structured SAP data – is available in the context of key business processes, at any point in time, on any device.

OpenText Suite for SAP solutions is designed to enable end-to-end business value. The solutions easily integrate with the existing business architecture running SAP software.

For more information on the SAP and OpenText partnership, click here.