Alliance Organization:
Open Text Corporation
On the Web:
www.opentext.com Overview:
Open Text is an Accenture Portal & Content Management (PCM) alliance in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space. Open Text enables customers to rapidly deploy line-of-business applications as well as content management solutions for enterprise initiatives such as enterprise portals and business commerce applications. Open Text has a global alliance with Accenture and is managed by the Accenture Information Management Services organization. Open Text is the world's largest independent software company exclusively focused on delivering ECM applications that help organizations create, store, organize, control, publish, access, and search vital business documents and information, resulting in increased business agility and reduced exposure to risk associated with regulatory compliance. Open Text puts the ‘Enterprise’ into Enterprise Content Management because their offerings are truly enterprise class and IT architecture neutral. This means that organizations can use Open Text products to build an enterprise-scale ECM application infrastructure within their existing IT infrastructure, thereby extending those strategic investments while maximizing the use and value of business content. Founded in 1991, Open Text™ is the world's largest independent provider of ECM software, with more than 46000 customers in 114 countries. Open Text’s solutions manage information for all types of business, compliance and industry requirements in the world's largest companies, government agencies and professional service firms. Open Text is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and an extensive array of technology and services partners that spans the globe. Together, Accenture and Open Text provide strategic, high-value ECM solutions that optimize the critical relationship between people, content, and business process. Accenture's extensive experience with enterprise-rollout, planning and design, combined with Open Text’s industry-leading ECM technology provides the solution necessary to meet any organization’s ECM requirements. Working together, Open Text and Accenture are able to help customers:
- Streamline the flow of information across their enterprise applications to enhance operational efficiencies, reduce costs and improve business performance.
- Ensure regulatory compliance by defining, securing, and controlling the process by which all content can be managed as business records under appropriate policies for retention and destruction.
- Maximize return on investment by leveraging their current investment in technology platforms - especially investments in Microsoft, SAP and Oracle IT infrastructure.
“For large companies and governments today, managing information is a strategic imperative, having an enormous impact on productivity, critical processes and legal and compliance risks”
—John Wilkerson, Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Services and Support at Open Text. Read how Open Text was used in the data archiving portion of a business systems modernization project for a U.S. Federal agency client of Accenture. Back to the Alliance Home Page |