SAP and OpenText Snuggle Up

May 4, 2007: SAP has announced a new joint deal that will see it expand its document management solution with archiving and document access technology from Open Text.

The companies will be working together to resell Open Text's Livelink ECM, adding capabilities for secure, long-term archiving to SAP’s applications.

SAP will resell applications marketed under the straightforward names "SAP Archiving by Open Text" and "SAP Document Access by Open Text", targeting the solutions at the financial services industry as well as public sector organisations, healthcare companies and other service organisations.

The companies say that these two components address data and document archiving and document access, with SAP Archiving incorporating the imaging, SAP data and document archiving components of Livelink ECM, and SAP Document Access extending the archiving solution to provide SAP applications with a process-oriented, application-spanning view of business documents and data.

“The ease of use for data and documents is a key pillar in any document management initiative, and, in particular, in the services industries,” said Tom Shirk, president, SAP Global Public Services. “Our enhanced relationship with Open Text underscores our commitment to empower customers to take a holistic approach to Enterprise Content Management.”

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