OpenText has announced it will launch later this month a hosted cloud solution for sharing and syncing content via the Web, an Express edition of its Tempo platform developed for OpenText Content Server.

Both editions promise all the ease-of-use of consumer-oriented document sharing cloud services such as DropBox coupled with the rigorous records management and security required to meet internal policies and industry regulations.

"Secure publishing, sharing and syncing information across multiple devices is clearly resonating with users, hence the emergence of cloud-based services on the consumer side. For enterprises, however, the consumer cloud is just another way for information to get lost or into the wrong hands," said Eugene Roman, Chief Technology Officer of OpenText.

"Tempo combines consumer-level usability with enterprise-level reliability and security. It will fundamentally change the tempo of how information is used, shared and stored by enterprise users."

Content shared on Tempo Express Edition is hosted globally by OpenText, and it can be used alone or alongside other content repositories.

Features shared by OpenText Tempo and the Express Edition include:

* transparent integration into user desktops, including sharing with internal and external users;
* ability to synchronise content across any number of computers, tablets, and other devices, ensuring that users always have the latest copy of documents;
* a simple Web interface for managing file information, setting permissions or sharing files;
* a flexible deployment model that allows organisations to manage OpenText Tempo entirely on-premises or, drawing from patent-pending technology and cloud-based hosting, choose a hybrid model that allows organizations to maintain control of the information but offload the effort of maintaining the service to OpenText.

OpenText Tempo was announced on a preview basis in November 2011 at the OpenText Content World customer event and initially made available to customers on a trial basis.