CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 May 2009
Company News
Open Text Enterprise Library Services Achieves SAP Certified Integrations
Open Text announced that Open TextEnterprise Library Services has successfully passed the SAP certification requirements for integration with the WebDAV Storage interface of the SAPNetWeaver(R) Information Lifecycle Management (SAP NetWeaver ILM) component and SAP(R) ArchiveLink software. Through this certified integration, customers can use SAP solutions and the Open Text ECM Suite as the basis for an enterprise-wide information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy that can help lower costs and reduce risk.
In the current economy, companies are looking for ways to take costs out of their business, to maintain profit margins in the face of declining revenues and to lower risk. An effective ILM strategy can help organization meet these goals by reducing the costs of managing corporate information, ensuring compliance with information retention regulations and supporting eDiscovery orders.
The ILM WebDAV Storage interface, known as BC-ILM 2.0, verifies that ILM-aware storage systems fully support SAP NetWeaver ILM for secure storage of data, retention enforcement and final destruction. With this certification Open Text Enterprise Library Services provides customers with a hardware-agnostic ILM platform and the freedom to choose their preferred storage platform. Open Text Enterprise Library Services has also achieved certified integration with SAP ArchiveLink. This certification verifies that the Open Text solution performs data and document storage for SAP systems and safeguards that Open Text's solutions continue to be compatible with most current versions of SAP business and industry applications.
Open Text Enterprise Library Services is the foundation of the Open TextECM Suite. The solution combines U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)5015.2-certified records management, content archiving, search and meta data management to support a comprehensive ECM strategy customer's can extend across departments and systems.
Open Text has been providing services in support of SAP content since1993, with the release of its archiving solution for use with the SAP ArchiveLink interface. Now, SAP resells Open Text archiving products under the names SAP Archiving by Open Text and SAP Document Access by Open Text. To provide ILM services covering non-SAP content, Open Text offers a set of integrated components that address the management of different types of unstructured content inside and outside of SAP solutions.
"Open Text ILM working alongside SAP NetWeaver ILM technology bridges the worlds of SAP and non-SAP content," said Patrick Barnert, Vice President, SAPSolutions at Open Text. "Used together, these solutions are complete and integrated, and can handle the toughest enterprise-wide ILM demands, reducing total cost of ownership through efficient content storage, increasing productivity through easy access to archived data and documents, and improving compliance." Open Text is an industry leader in ECM solutions for use with SAP applications, leveraging two decades of partnership and co-development, and expertise gained from delivering solutions to more than 3,000 SAP customer sites around the world. Open Text's ECM Suite for use with SAP solutions offers a complete range of capabilities for managing and archiving business documents - incoming/outgoing invoices, orders, delivery notes, quality certificates, human resources documents - that originate from customers' SAP applications. Open Text is an SAP software solution partner with products that have achieved SAP certified integration status. Open Text is also currently the only ECM vendor with solutions that are resold by SAP. For more information, go to: http://www.opentext.com/sap.
Open Text's solutions for use with SAP are offered as part of the Open Text ECM Suite, which brings together the broad range of content management capabilities organizations need to securely and safely manage all types of enterprise information documents, vital records, Web content, video, images, email, forms and reports across many different enterprise systems and applications.
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