Oracle and Open Text to Offer Next-Generation Content Management Solutions
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. - 2006-06-14 - Oracle and Open Text today announced that Open Text, a global market leader in enterprise content management (ECM) software, will offer content management solutions on the Oracle Content Database infrastructure software. This partnership extends Open Texts recently launched enterprise solutions framework and builds on the decade long database integration that Open Text has had with Oracle.
Open Text already offers the industrys most scalable and comprehensive document and email management solutions as well as a range of solutions for regulatory requirements, such as Sarbanes Oxley (SOX). Open Text also plans to offer its content-enabled industry applications, such as accounts payable and loan origination on Oracle Content Database. Finally, Open Text will extend Oracles products with existing technology for imaging, IDARS*, records management, archiving and search. With these solutions, users are expected to access and manage content from Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards applications, as well as future Oracle Fusion Applications. This integrated solutions environment is further expected to provide all Oracle users with a unified approach to solving their basic content management, ECM, and compliance needs while putting them on the road to Oracle Fusion.
The decision by Open Text to utilize Oracle Content Database marks a watershed event in the evolution of content management, said Connie Moore, vice president and research director of Forresters Information Delivery research group. This announcement is a realization of our long-held belief that basic, enterprise-wide content management capabilities would become the domain of infrastructure providers like Oracle, while more complex, industry-specific content management would be delivered by ECM vendors, such as Open Text.
The increasingly complex demands of regulatory compliance require consistent, enterprise-wide content management policies and technology. At the same time, the need to improve productivity and provide rapid access to information requires industry-specific content management capabilities to be completely integrated with business applications. By using Oracle Content Database as an underlying infrastructure, Open Text can quickly meet its customers needs on both fronts.
Open Text has been using Oracle Database technology for more than a decade to deliver ECM solutions, said Ron Vangell, vice president and general manager of Open Texts Oracle Solutions Group. Now, we are extending this partnership to include Oracles world-class Content Database information management infrastructure in our next generation ECM architecture. Working with Oracle allows us to focus on what we do best -- building content-enabled solutions to solve innovative, industry-specific problems.
Open Texts decision to offer content-based solutions on top of the Oracle Content Database platform fully validates our strategy for managing unstructured information in the Oracle Database, said Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies, Oracle. Our complementary products should provide customers with a powerful and complete set of solutions to their content management problems.
About Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database
Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database are options for Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition. Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database are the first content and records management solutions capable of managing the wide range of diverse data and metadata in a single database to enable organizations to more easily control and manage the rapidly growing volume of unstructured content. Built on the industrys most scalable, reliable and secure database, Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Content Database and Oracle Records Database facilitate cost-effective, enterprise-wide deployment of content and records management to help customers increase productivity, meet regulatory compliance mandates, and reduce business risk.
About Open Text
Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC) is a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Today, the company supports 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide. For more information on Open Text, go to: www.opentext.com
Open Text offers additional information about its partnership with Oracle and its ECM solutions for Oracle Content Database on its Web site at http://www.opentext.com/oraclepress
About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the worlds largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com
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