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21 April 2010

Company News

Open Text Featured in Microsoft Technology Centers for Governance, Risk and Compliance Solutions

Open Text ™ Corporation has been working with Microsoft to showcase its ECM solutions for governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010 platforms at select Microsoft Technology Centers globally. Open Text and Microsoft experts help enterprise customers plan, build and test regulatory compliance solutions to meet a shifting regulatory landscape that increases enforcement requirements, and grows litigation risks and costs.

The Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) are collaborative environments in 20 major cities around the world that provide access to innovative technologies and expertise, enabling customers to envision, design, and deploy solutions to meet their needs. These centers offer a complete collection of resources in one place - software, hardware and services, plus Microsoft and partner expertise - and a testing environment where customers can see their desired solutions before deploying them in the enterprise. The goal of the MTCs is to help customers gain maximum value from Microsoft and partner technologies, visualize the fully integrated solution, reduce development time and cut the costs of putting a solution to work.

Currently, Open Text solutions are installed at MTCs in Munich, New York and London (Reading), and will be rolled out in other select centers worldwide in the coming year. As a strategic partner to Microsoft, Open Text has a highly visible presence at MTCs, showing five regulatory compliance related business scenarios that extend Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/2010. Scenarios include:

  -   eDiscovery and Litigation Readiness

  -   Information Lifecycle Management

  -   Electronic Document and Records Management System

  -   Case Management Solutions for SharePoint

  -   SAP Interoperability with SharePoint (later in 2010)

In addition to the five business scenarios, resources are on hand at the MTCs to help customers in specific industry segments to tailor solutions for their content management and compliance needs. These industry segments include financial services, public sector, energy and utilities, and oil and gas.

"Governance, risk management and regulatory compliance are big focus areas for us at Microsoft, as companies face a growing challenge to categorize and manage huge volumes of business-critical information and content," said Sai Sireesh, Director, Governance, Risk Management & Compliance, Microsoft. "Our joint customer engagements with Open Text at MTC comprise strategy briefings, architecture design sessions and proof-of-concept (POC) workshops. Customers really appreciate this joint 'better together' integrated approach to industry compliance scenarios and blueprints."

In addition to the five solutions Open Text is showcasing at Microsoft's MTCs, the company also offers enhanced web content management for SharePoint, document capture and fax solutions and specialized vertical-market solutions.

For more information on Open Text solutions for Microsoft, go to: http://www.better-together-central.com/ or http://www.opentext.com/2/global/sol-products/sol-pro-extensions-microsoft.htm and www.microsoft.com/opentext

Open Text's solutions for Microsoft are offered as part of the Open Text ECM Suite. The ECM Suite brings together the content management capabilities needed to manage all types of enterprise information, including business documents, vital records, Web content, digital media such as images, audio and video, email, forms, reports and more. Using Open Text Everywhere, customers can access and work with enterprise content securely from smartphones.

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