OpenText InfoFusion now available

Issued by Global Research Partners for Open Text
Johannesburg, 19 Mar 2013

OpenText Corporation, the pre-eminent provider of enterprise information management (ECM) software, today announced the availability of OpenText InfoFusion, a powerful information access platform that reinvents the way organisations discover, analyse and act on unstructured information across the enterprise.

Almost every large organisation has information locked in ageing and uncontrolled systems. These information silos reduce productivity, cause problems for IT, and, due to their lack of retention control and discoverability, represent significant risk when investigations require e-discovery. OpenText InfoFusion provides immediate, unified access to critical content sources, improving end-user productivity and satisfaction. At the same time, InfoFusion can migrate content from non-strategic enterprise content management (ECM) systems to reduce support costs and manage the life cycle of content.

"While there has been a lot of attention given to the potential value locked in unstructured content, most organisations are actually just trying to come to grips with the volume and the velocity of growth of unstructured information," commented OpenText CEO Mark J Barrenechea. "IT is struggling to protect the organisation from risks associated with data loss, investigations and e-discovery, as well as productivity impediments such as duplication, lost information and basic access. OpenText InfoFusion unifies information for improved governance and a smarter enterprise. With this modular, standards-based platform, OpenText is making good on its promise to deliver an integrated enterprise information architecture."

Organisations are using OpenText InfoFusion to accelerate their move to OpenText ECM for day-forward information governance and retention control. InfoFusion allows organisations to address legacy systems and to migrate legacy content into the only ECM system with tightly integrated archiving and records management.

OpenText InfoFusion is an integral part of many organisations' adoption strategies for OpenText Content Server. OpenText InfoFusion can be used to migrate and centralise content, put it under life cycle control, increase efficiency, and create a single source of the truth. Most organisations also realise significant cost-savings by de-commissioning old systems, and reducing support and infrastructure costs, while increasing IT agility.

InfoFusion includes migration, aggregation and integration capabilities to enable organisations to:

* Reduce IT complexity and support costs while maximising storage savings as they consolidate disparate content management and archive systems;

* Minimise litigation risk as well as storage and e-discovery costs by moving content to a retention controlled repository;

* Decommission legacy systems that are being maintained solely due to the requirement to maintain access to the content they contain for regulatory or reference purposes; and

* Rapidly develop applications that extract value from unstructured content and ageing systems while improving end-user experience and productivity.

For further information, please contact Lenore Kerrigan: tel (+27) 11 575 4666, fax (+27) 11 576 6000, e-mail lenorek@opentext.com.

OpenText

OpenText provides enterprise information management software that enables companies of all sizes and industries to manage, secure and leverage their unstructured business information, either in their data centres or in the cloud. Over 50 000 companies already use OpenText solutions to unleash the power of their information. To learn more about OpenText, please visit: www.opentext.com.

Certain statements in this press release may contain words considered forward-looking statements or information under applicable securities laws. These statements are based on OpenText's current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the operating environment, economies and markets in which the company operates. These statements are subject to important assumptions, risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict, and the actual outcome may be materially different. OpenText's assumptions, although considered reasonable by the company at the date of this press release, may prove to be inaccurate, and consequently, its actual results could differ materially from the expectations set out herein. For additional information with respect to risks and other factors that could occur, see OpenText's Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and other securities filings with the SEC and other securities regulators. Unless otherwise required by applicable securities laws, OpenText disclaims any intention or obligations to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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