OpenText has moved quickly to capitalise on the momentum behind SAP's HANA database platform, announcing the OpenText ECM Suite will support the erp vendor's new offering which is shaking up the enterprise market traditionally dominated by Oracle, Microsoft and IBM.

SAP HANA is an in-memory computing appliance that combines SAP database software with pre-tuned server, storage, and networking hardware from one of several SAP hardware partners. It is designed to support real-time analytic and transactional processing.

SAP ANZ reports that uptake of the in-house developed database technology is accelerating, with 24 HANA customers already in Australia. These are mainly using the in-memory database platform to speed up business analytics, although there are a number that have migrated SAP's Business Suite to HANA, following SAP's announcement of this capability in January.

OpenText says its ECM Suite for SAP Solutions is designed to enable SAP customers to use common enterprise architecture to organise and control all of their digital information,
Lee Gale, SAP Solutions Director, APJ for OpenText, said "HANA is a disruptive innovation.

"The integration we are announcing is part of a roadmap that aims to deliver faster dynamic searches of unstructured data and provide the ability for ECM users to customise the user interface to provide more granular views."

OpenText has been working with SAP to conform its ECM solutions are fully integrated with SAP Business Suite running on HANA.

It is yet to migrate OpenText ECM to the HANA database platform. Currently OpenText ECM supports Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, although it is believed to be working on a HANA-based offering.

In other SAP developments, OpenText has also announced a new collaborative Invoice-to-Pay solution with SAP as a hybrid on-premises and cloud solution leveraging the SAP-owned Ariba B2 payment network.

Also SAP's Cloud for Travel solution (formerly known as SAP Travel OnDemand) will now utilise OpenText’s capture and optical character recognition (OCR) services to allow business travelers to file expense reports using information scanned from receipts using scanners or mobile devices.

OpenText’s Employee File Management 4.0 now integrates with solutions from SuccessFactors, an SAP company, via a cloud connector interface feature. The connector can quickly import forms from various cloud-based processes, helping to enable users to easily store cloud-based documents within a central content repository.