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日本Partnership Explained
Open Text is a SAP Software Partner. Open Text and SAP have shared a partnership and co-development relationship since 1992. As a result of this cooperative relationship, Open Text is the market leader in document management, document archiving, data archiving, accounts payable optimization and enterprise content management for SAP solutions. Our targeted solutions let you create, access, manage and securely archive all content for SAP systems—both data and documents—so you can address stringent requirements for risk reduction, operational efficiency and IT consolidation.
Size/significance of partnership
More than 2,000,000 users—over 3,000 installations—worldwide have achieved exceptional value of ownership by improving their critical business processes with Open Text's extensions for SAP solutions.
Open Text products resold by SAP
Open Text is SAP's premier partner for Enterprise Content Management (ECM). SAP resells the following Open Text products to meet the ECM needs of its customers:
Open Text Archiving for SAP® Solutions (sold by SAP as SAP Archiving by Open Text) builds on the capabilities of Open Text Data Archiving for SAP Solutions and extends it with secure, long-term archiving of documents from SAP applications while providing seamless access to archived documents.
Open Text Document Access for SAP® Solutions (sold by SAP as SAP Document Access by Open Text) builds on the capabilities of Open Text Archiving for SAP Solutions and extends it with consolidated views of related content from multiple SAP and non-SAP applications, integrating content into the context of business processes.
Open Text Digital Asset Management for SAP® Solutions (sold by SAP as SAP Digital Asset Management by Open Text) enables you to find, manage, and distribute your digital assets, make your content supply chain transparent, and maintain control of your digital assets—all in context of your business processes in SAP Business Suite applications.
Open Text Extended ECM for SAP® Solutions (sold by SAP as SAP Extended ECM by Open Text) builds on the capabilities of Open Text Document Access for SAP Solutions with a complete ECM application that is tightly integrated with your SAP environment and which allows you to apply records management rules to content directly in your SAP applications.
Open Text Vendor Invoice Management for SAP® Solutions (sold by SAP as SAP Invoice Management by Open Text) is an add-on for SAP ERP that is built with SAP's Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) programming language. It works with SAP ERP to streamline Accounts Payable (AP) operations, by optimizing and simplifying the process of creating, managing, monitoring and routing purchase orders and invoices for AP personnel and vendors.
Open Text Employee File Management for SAP Solutions (sold by SAP as SAP Employee File Management by Open Text) is an add-on for SAP ERP Human Resources Management (SAP ERP HCM) that simplifies management of worker-related documents—both print and electronic—by helping you create complete digital personnel records that combine HR master data and statements with worker-related documents for contractors or full-time staff in a centralized view in SAP ERP HCM.
History/Background
IXOS Software AG—now a part of Open Text Corporation—has worked closely with SAP since 1992 in the document imaging and document archiving area. As an innovator in SAP archiving, IXOS partnered with SAP to develop the SAP archiving strategy. As a result, in 1993 SAP released the ArchiveLink interface, which is now the basic technology for integration of external content repositories with SAP. Since the early days of archiving, our document management and document archiving solutions have evolved from an ordinary document repository for SAP applications to a powerful, enterprise-wide ECM framework with the ability to manage terabytes of SAP documents and to integrate these documents in SAP and non-SAP business processes.
Shared vision
Open Text is the first of the major ECM solutions providers to join SAP AG’s new Enterprise Services (ES) Community, a major industry initiative recently launched by SAP. The ES Community is composed of technology companies and customers dedicated to defining enterprise services -- services make it easier for companies to combine software capabilities, and to create and deploy applications that solve complex business problems.
The ES Community facilitates the adoption of the enterprise services-oriented architecture (ESOA), SAP’s blueprint for a business process-driven approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA). Enterprise services provide the common business language enabling software applications and infrastructure products running on disparate systems to communicate within ESOA.
The ES Community gives technology vendors and customers an open forum to collaborate on the creation and use of enterprise services and helps guarantee the utilization quality of enterprise services through a certification program. Community members can join a variety of definition and advisory groups to identify specific business challenges facing companies today and define enterprise services and best practices needed to address those business requirements.
“The Enterprise Services Community offers a unique forum bringing together partners with customers to share ideas and influence the development of enterprise services — all aimed at helping companies achieve business profitability," said Zia Yusuf, Executive Vice President for SAP’s Platform Ecosystem. "As a charter member and a contributor to the ES Community, Open Text will play a key role in helping to define enterprise services that bridge the worlds of structured and unstructured data.”
Open Text actively supports SAP's strategy for the SAP NetWeaver® platform and SAP's approach to packaged, composite applications. For example, Open Text Contract Management is a composite application that has received the "SAP Certified Integration with SAP Applications" qualification, the highest level of certification possible.
SAP's Tom Roberts Comments on Open Text Partnership
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