CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
6 May 2008
Product News
Open Text Enhances the Value of SAP NetWeaver Portal with Market Leading Web Content Management Capabilities
Open Text™ Corporation said that it will showcase its RedDot Web Solutions for use with SAP® solutions this week at the SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando conference. With RedDot Web Solutions, organizations can further enrich the user experience by expanding the portal's use to a one-stop, aggregated online resource for documents, information and other forms of unstructured content that inform their users of essential aspects of the business.
In many organizations today, the SAP NetWeaver® platform is a major element in providing a secure, single point of access to business information for all knowledge workers throughout an organization. These portals unify the user experience amongst all integrated applications by providing permission-based access enhanced with single sign-on.
RedDot Web Solutions complement the content management capabilities of the SAP NetWeaver Portal, helping organizations to administer and deliver personalized content within the portal environment. The Open Text solution helps content owners apply business rules to their content, further allowing them to choose their audience and helping to ensure that the right person gets the right content at the right time. Organizations around the world are leveraging RedDot Web Solutions to enhance their portal environments in key ways:
iView for easy creation of personalized portal pages
Integration TREX - a structured and unstructured data processing component of SAP NetWeaver - provides secure and personalized federated search for all portal and Web content
Portal Navigation Manager offers easy management of the entire navigation structure of SAP NetWeaver Portal, allowing synchronization of content across multiple Web properties
"RedDot Web Solutions for use with SAP applications enables us to provide our international staff with individual access to company knowledge," said Vera Schormann, Head of the Knowledge Management Department at B. Braun Melsungen AG. "We can provide content as well as applications in accordance with authorizations, depending on the hierarchy level, the location, field and other factors. It is evident that the B. Braun Knowledge Center has a lot of potential for optimizing internal information and communication processes."
"A unified access to both applications and content is key to many portal initiatives. Users require a compelling personalized user experience while having full access to all of their SAP applications," said Daniel Kraft, President of RedDot, the Open Text Web Solutions Group. "RedDot Web Solutions for use with SAP boosts productivity and overall effectiveness for organizations that have made significant investments in SAP NetWeaver."
Open Text's solutions portfolio for use with SAP solutions is built on two decades of partnership and co-development, and expertise gained from delivering solutions at more than 2,700 SAP customer sites around the world.
Open Text at SAPPHIRE 2008 Orlando
Open Text will be exhibiting RedDot Web Solutions in booth No. 1472 at SAPPHIRE 2008 Orlando and the 2008 ASUG Annual Conference. For more information on Open Text's participation, go to: http://www.opentext.com/events/event.html?id=6712663
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