Open Text Web Solutions 10 Debuts, Makes Delivering Content-Rich, Personalized Websites Easier Than Ever
08 Juillet 2009 - 3:15PM
PR Newswire (US)
Major New Release of Open Text Web Solutions Offers Intelligent
Content Management, Deep ECM and SAP Integration WATERLOO, ON, July
8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Text(TM) (NASDAQ:OTEXNASDAQ:
TSX:NASDAQ:OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management
(ECM), today announced the immediate availability of Open Text Web
Solutions 10, the latest release of Open Text's industry-leading
Web Content Management (WCM) software. The new release allows
organizations to intelligently manage and deliver a broad set of
corporate information to users over the Web, and features extensive
usability upgrades, a new technology foundation, and deeper and
more comprehensive integration with the Open Text ECM Suite and the
SAP NetWeaver(R) Portal component. The role of WCM has
significantly expanded from a place to store and publish
external-facing content to a vital tool in helping to support
organizational business goals in such areas as sales and customer
support. This means that WCM must deliver a highly personal
customer experience and be able to tap into content housed in many
different enterprise systems. And as digital assets have become
less expensive to create, companies need better ways to manage rich
media such as audio and video. "Sites like iGoogle, Twitter and the
many social Web offerings have raised the bar on the type of
intuitive, flexible and personal experience users expect when
visiting Web sites," said Jens Rabe, Vice President of Web
Solutions at Open Text. "With Web Solutions 10, we are bringing the
full Web 2.0 user interface to both the people editing content
within the company and to the consumers of this content. The many
enhancements and deep ECM and digital asset management integrations
in this release will help customers save costs and produce more
compelling and effective websites." Enterprise Integration - A
Unique Strength The integration of Open Text Web Solutions 10 with
enterprise systems was cited as a particular strength by Forrester
analysts Stephen Powers and Tim Walters, Ph.D. in the June 1 report
"Forrester Wave(TM): Web Content Management For External Sites."
The authors write: "...Open Text has a strong WCM offering and has
made an increasing effort to integrate with its other ECM products,
such as document output for customer communications management and
digital asset management...Open Text's strength lies in its ability
to leverage integrations with other ECM offerings (records
management, document output for customer communications management,
and digital asset management)...Open Text's partnership with SAP
has also proven strong, with customers using SAP's portal and Open
Text's WCM in tandem." The integration is critical to many
organizations because users visiting a website don't care about
applications or where content comes from. Users expect seamless,
cross-system access to all relevant information. Optimized
integrations in the latest release let content editors seamlessly
combine dynamic content from social media, the Open Text ECM Suite
and rich media applications and reuse it across many target
systems, including the SAP NetWeaver Portal. Within the SAP
NetWeaver Portal the new Open Text Portal Manager strengthens the
integration and enables business and casual users to better edit
content and navigation in an intuitive workspace. Next Generation
Web Editing Managing content has never been easier and faster. With
the new Web Solutions 10, user productivity is boosted by the new
generation of Open Text SmartEdit now powered by rich Internet
application (RIA) technology. This means minimal pop-up windows or
browser refreshes along with helpful context menus throughout, zero
click content and task editing, individual saved searches for a
personal dashboard, plus drag and drop page creation and editing.
Based on an improved technological foundation, Web Solutions 10
offers a high-performance editing environment that fully leverages
enterprise IT investments. This new technological foundation
provides significant performance improvements when working with
large projects. Based on the latest Microsoft .Net technology, Web
Solutions 10 delivers performance gains in part through optimized
memory management, upgraded multi-processor and multi-threading,
and support for Microsoft SQL 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server
2008. Videos, music and other rich media greatly enhance the Web
experience for Web visitors. Organizations can now benefit from
tighter integration between Web Solutions 10 and Open Text Digital
Asset Management, an enterprise-class offering for managing rich
media files. Using a new repository connector, organizations can
display and deliver content from Open Text's digital media
management solution dynamically. Other enhancements in Open Text
Web Solutions 10 include a new search integration API, extended
tagging support, full control over creation of memorable URLs,
extended password validation, and dynamic aggregation of personal
content in newsfeeds. Open Text Web Solutions 10 is available for
download now. For more information about Open Text's Web Solutions,
go to: http://www.opentext.com/web-solutions About Open Text Open
Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise
content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true
value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of
expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working
with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content
Experts(TM) to help organizations capture and preserve corporate
memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk,
manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more
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