Independent Analyst Firm Cites Open Text for Establishing
Business-Content-Centric
Application Leadership
Open Text Achieves Top Ranking in the Current Offering Category
for Business-Content- Centric Applications
Chicago, IL - 2006-03-30 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX,
TSX: OTC), a leading provider of
Enterprise Content Management
(ECM) software, announced today that analyst firm Forrester
Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) has positioned Open Text in the
Leaders portion of the Forrester Wave: Business-Content-Centric
Applications, Q1 06 report, published on March 29, 2006.
Business-content-centric applications are software solutions that
support the management of information originating from within an
organization, and help employees capture information, manage
day-to-day tasks, and make better decisions. Open Texts strong ECM
assets make it a business-content-centric app leader, write
Forrester analysts Kyle McNabb, Connie Moore and Eric Kim in the
new report. Once almost purely focused on providing enterprises
with a broad ECM portfolio, Open Text now has refined its strategy
to focus on ECM solutions. This refined strategy puts Open Text in
a much better position to leverage its comprehensive ECM portfolio
and to meet the transactional and business-content-centric needs of
enterprises.
Laptop Battery Open Text is also positioned as a Strong Performer in another
area of study called Forrester Wave: Transactional-Content-Centric
Applications, Q1 06. Transactional-content-centric applications are
software solutions that mange content originating from outside the
organization, and drive an internal process. This involves
processes such as accounts payable in financial services, or claims
processing and underwriting in the insurance field.
"Computer industry analysts estimate that some 60 percent of all corporate data exists only on desktop and laptop computers, " said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis. "Incorporating Acronis True Image with New Mexico Software backup server is the ideal solution to capture that corporate data and ensure that it is not lost. While traditional server backups are effective for protecting server data, every company should have a combination of server and workstation backup plans."
Thinkpad Open Text ranked again as a Strong Performer in the section,
Forrester Wave: Persuasive-Content-Centric Applications, Q1 06.
Persuasive-content-centre applications are software solutions that
drive the delivery of customer information across multiple channels
such as Web sites, retail kiosks and call centers resulting in a
more consistent and persuasive customer experience.
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Microsoft We are very proud to be named a leader by Forrester; it is a
strong validation of our ECM solutions strategy, said Kirk Roberts,
Executive Vice-President, Products, Solutions and Marketing at Open
Text. We continue to emphasize close and long-standing
relationships with our
customers. It is through these relationships that we develop a
deep understanding of how to apply ECM technology to solve
specific industry and business problems. We will continue to
lead the way in meeting the increasingly complex and
compliance-driven needs of our customers, by providing powerful
ECM solutions that support effective decision making and overall
business efficiency.
laptop computers is driving strong sales for notebook computers, according to the latest quarterly sales figures from the research firm IDC, which reported a 37% computer sales for the second quarter, compared with a year earlier. In the U.S., laptop sales grew 17.7%, while sales of desktop computers and servers fell 4%. The New York Times ( 10), CNET ( 10)
Laptop Computers To assess the state of the content-centric applications market,
Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of nine leading
ECM vendors and four best-of-breed ECM component vendors using the
Forrester Wave methodology. After reviewing past research,
assessments of user needs, and interviews with vendors and experts,
Forrester set the evaluation criteria under: Current Offering,
Strategy, and Market Presence. Based on their ranking against the
criteria, vendors are placed on the Wave as Leaders, Strong
Performers, Contenders, or Risky Bets.
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Laptop Computer The full study, titled Forrester Wave: Content Centric
Applications, Q1 2006, is available at
http://www.opentext.com/forrester_wave_vendor_summary.html.
Content-centric applications are the alignment of ECM suites with
business requirements, placing content in context within business
processes, and in a manner that ensures compliance.
"With more than 4, 000 customers in four years, growing integration server on the market, " says Eric Swift, director of product management for Microsofts Business Process and Integration Division, citing a separate study by analyst firm Gartner Group. "What differentiates BizTalk Server from competing products is that it can scale up to an enterprise implementation, yet we also have a number of case studies where it has shown positive return on investment (ROI) on very small implementations, because of its rapid setup, flexibility and manageability."
Desktop Computer Forrester has also named Open Text a Strong Performer in
Forrester Wave: Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q3 05, by
Kyle McNabb published on October 7, 2005.
About Open Text
Open Text 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.
Notebooks [1] The Forrester Wave: Content-Centric Applications, Q1 2006,
Forrester Research Inc. March 2006
[2] The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Content Management Suites, Q3
2005, Forrester Research Inc. October 7, 2005
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