OpenText acquires Operitel

Issued by Global Research Partners for Open Text
Johannesburg, 08 Sep 2011

OpenText Corporation, the pre-eminent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, today announced it has acquired Operitel Corporation, a company specialising in Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Enterprise Learning Portals.

The acquisition adds powerful e-learning capabilities to OpenText's solutions. Operitel's solutions include social and mobile learning management and capabilities that integrate with Microsoft SharePoint.

"Given the scale of content and process management solutions we're providing to global organisations today, integrated e-learning is becoming an integral part of the high value solution we provide," commented John Shackleton, President and Chief Executive Officer of OpenText. "This acquisition will complement and extend OpenText's solutions, providing award-winning LMS functionality to our global customer base. Operitel customers benefit from access to the resources and stability of Canada's largest software company."

With Operitel s flagship product, LearnFlex Learning Management System, customers can offer efficient learning services to their employees and customers. With additional strong mobile and social offerings, Operitel's LMS technology further enhances and broadens functionality available to customers of OpenText s ECM Suite.

Customers can utilise Operitel's solutions to deliver, track, and validate internal learning across their organisations. These learning services are especially critical for ensuring timely compliance with organisational and industry-specific regulatory requirements capabilities that complement OpenText's traditional strengths in compliance, information governance, and records management.

LearnFlex, which has received multiple awards, is built on Microsoft's .NET platform and is both a Microsoft Partner and a tier one Microsoft Official E-Learning reseller.

Operitel builds solutions that support and extend Microsoft SharePoint. OpenText is a leader in providing solutions that integrate with SharePoint and Microsoft Office. For SharePoint, OpenText offers BPM, application governance and archiving solutions. With Operitel, OpenText continues to add to its position as a leading Microsoft partner and a key provider of solutions that support and extend SharePoint.

"Operitel was built with the basic principle of putting the client first and concentrating on innovative solutions that are leading-edge and enterprise scalable," added Michael Skinner, Chief Executive Officer of Operitel. "I believe the acquisition of Operitel by OpenText is an excellent opportunity to provide our customers and partners assurance that we will continue to respond to their needs, while at the same time leveraging the extended resources of a larger enterprise."

Operitel is headquartered in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Skinner will continue to lead the Operitel team within OpenText.

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

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OpenText, the pre-eminent enterprise content management software, 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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