Ontario government selects Open Text as exclusive single vendor of record for enterprise information management

Issued by Global Research Partners for Open Text
Johannesburg, 03 Jun 2009

Open Text Corporation, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today announced that the Ministry of Government Services, representing the government of Ontario, has established a 10-year contract for ECM solutions from Open Text, Canada s largest software company.

Under the terms of the contract, Open Text's solutions will provide the foundation for the government's enterprise information management strategy across all provincial government ministries, agencies and crown corporations. The solutions will include records and document management software, workflow management, collaboration software, Web content management and document imaging solutions. Ontario s information management strategy will help improve efficiency, transparency and responsiveness to citizens.

Open Text's solutions will also help the Ontario government incorporate the latest social media software designed for enterprises. The solutions will use applications such as wikis, blogs, forums and communities to improve worker productivity and collaboration, and provide innovative ways for government agencies to engage constituents and interest groups.

Governments have some of the most complex information management challenges, given their size, multiple agencies and responsibility to serve the public, commented John Shackleton, President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Text. The Ontario government is getting out in front of these challenges by taking a strategic view of the way they manage information, finding the important connections between content, processes and the productivity of employees across the organisation.

Mark Vale, Chief Information and Privacy Officer for the government of Ontario, will be hosting an enterprise information management session entitled: 'Working smarter, delivering value: transforming information work to support effective service delivery' at the upcoming Canada 3.0: Defining Canada's Digital Future forum, to be held 8-9 June 2009 at The Stratford Institute in Stratford Ontario.

The Canada 3.0 forum is organised by the Canadian Digital Media Network and the University of Waterloo's Stratford Institute. The network was established earlier this year through funding from the federal government, among others, to link Canada's digital media clusters from coast-to-coast, creating a digital convergence corridor and enabling collaboration between researchers, implementers and entrepreneurs. UW's Stratford Institute is a think-tank, integrator and training institute devoted to collaboration between digital media, international commerce and culture. The Stratford Institute was established through funding from the government of Ontario and the city of Stratford.

Open Text's broad government product portfolio and domain expertise is the leading choice of public sector institutions worldwide. These products are fully compliant with international records management standards, and help agencies better manage records and other knowledge assets, maximise productivity, and improve information access.

Open Text's solutions are offered as part of the Open Text ECM Suite, the company's flagship offering. The Open Text ECM Suite brings together the broad range of content management capabilities organisations need to securely and safely manage all types of enterprise information documents, vital records, Web content, video, images, e-mail, forms and reports across many different enterprise systems and applications.

For further information, please contact Rob Shaw: tel 083 626-3811, fax 086 646-4178, e-mail rshaw@opentext.com

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Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organisations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading content experts and trade to help organisations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness.

In southern Africa, Open Text's business partners are Accenture, Business Connexion, Datacentrix, Lava Systems, IA Systems and SAP Africa; and, its customer base includes organisations from across both the private and public sectors such as Alexander Forbes, Anglo Platinum, BMW, Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Distell, Engen, Exxaro Resources, Mittal Steel, Office of the President, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, SABMiller, Sasol, Telkom SA and Toyota.

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