New release of OpenText Integration Centre lets customers unify information across the enterprise

Issued by Global Research Partners for Open Text
Johannesburg, 17 Jun 2011

OpenText Corporation, the pre-eminent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today announced the release of a new version of OpenText Integration Centre featuring an enhanced, native connector to OpenText ECM Suite 2010, where customers can help better leverage their structured and unstructured content to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

OpenText Integration Centre unifies access to multiple sources of disparate information from OpenText ECM Suite for applications such as business systems integration, legacy decommissioning, in-place content management and content migration.

Most integration technologies focus on either structured data in databases or content in document repositories, but not both. With OpenText Integration Centre, which inherently understands both structured data and unstructured content, customers can give business decision-makers easy access to corporate information assets through ECM Suite 2010. This allows them to take advantage of powerful analytics, semantic search and rich interactive user interfaces that boost productivity and improve decision-making.

“The current economic conditions are forcing organisations to reduce the number of information sources by bringing structured and unstructured content together under the roof of a single business process and repository,” commented Eugene Cherny, General Manager for OpenText's Connectivity Solutions. “By combining these worlds in the OpenText ECM Suite, we give customers a powerful solution that helps them reduce costs during a tough economy, while enabling them to do more with their information.”

The latest release of OpenText Integration Centre, together with OpenText ECM Suite 2010, provides enhanced, integrated ECM support making it easier to design, integrate, and implement content integration projects. Typical applications include:

Content Migration - OpenText Integration Centre offers complete migration features to move content from one or many repositories to any new destination with all its metadata and context. It helps to automate the movement of content while delivering content integrity and operational efficiency.

Legacy System Decommissioning - Finally turning the off switch on old systems can lead to substantial cost reduction. Customers can archive data from any application and automatically apply life cycle management rules, such as records management classifications, retention rules, and schedules through ECM Suite 2010.

Data Archiving - With a global policy to integrate retention of structured and unstructured content into one archiving system, customers can be assured of speedy and accurate collection of historical information with a full audit history.

Systems Integration - OpenText Integration Centre represents a new generation of integration solutions that transforms, cleanses, enriches and directs information across the entire spectrum of decision support systems and corporate applications, for integrations that include data warehouses, data marts, mainframe systems, ERP systems, CRM systems, and content management platforms.

Less seeking, more finding

Leading industry analysts such as Susan Feldman, IDC's Research Vice-President for Search and Discovery Technologies, have identified unified information platforms as a new and fast-growing segment in enterprise software. Facilities like OpenText Integration Centre will support enterprise strategies to implement such platforms.

"Businesses of all sizes are wallowing in too much information, without being able to make sense of it. Our survey of IT buyers demonstrates that they are eager to fix the information quandary by investing in software that gives them a single access point to all their information silos. We expect this demand to fuel a new wave of growth in information access software," writes Feldman in a report published in April 2011 entitled 'Unified Access to Information: Less Seeking, More Finding'.

For further information, please contact Rob Shaw: tel +27 83 626-3811, fax +27 86 646 4178, e-mail rshaw@opentext.com.

OpenText

OpenText, the pre-eminent enterprise content management software provider, helps organisations manage and gain the true value of their business content. OpenText brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts to help organisations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.

In southern Africa, OpenText's business partners are Business Connexion, Datacentrix, 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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