OpenText Solutions Named KMWorld 2011 Trend-Setting Products

Award recognizes OpenText's Continued Innovation in Helping Enterprises Take Control of Content and Improve Business Processes

WATERLOO, ON, Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTC) announced that KMWorld Magazine has named the OpenText ECM Suite 2010 a "Trend-Setting Product of 2011" along with business process management (BPM) offerings from OpenText Metastorm and OpenText Global 360. Multiple OpenText products have been named to the KMWorld list of trend-setting products over the years, and in recognition of the company's ongoing innovation KMWorld last year inducted OpenText into its Hall of Fame.

KMWorld's Trend-Setting Product awards were first launched in 2003. This year, more than 800 products were assessed by KMWorld's judging panel, which consisted of editorial colleagues, analysts, system integrators, vendors, line-of-business managers and users. All products selected demonstrate identifiable technology breakthroughs that serve the vendors' full spectrum of constituencies, especially their customers.

"We're consistently impressed by the level of innovation and product excellence OpenText has demonstrated year after year," said KMWorld Editor-in-chief Hugh McKellar. "That said, we take a fresh look at every product in compiling this list, and once again OpenText's ECM and BPM offerings stood out as true trend-setters in knowledge management."

OpenText products named to the KMWorld list included:

OpenText ECM Suite 2010 - Representing the largest innovation effort in the company's history, the latest release of the OpenText ECM Suite is the industry's most comprehensive, fully integrated ECM solution suite. It adds wide-ranging new functionality linked through numerous integration points covering 90 products and modules, and spanning compliance, portals, enterprise information archiving and mobility.

OpenText Metastorm - The latest OpenText Metastorm software, enhanced by extensive Social BPM capabilities, delivers a complete business transformation platform for enterprise and business architecture, business process analysis, and business process management to help companies outperform their business goals. It helps organizations close the gap between strategy and execution and includes support for requirements gathering, design, deployment and optimization of complex business processes.

OpenText Global 360 - By tapping into all the advantages of the cloud, OpenText Global 360 introduces enterprises to collaborative process discovery driven by friendly wizard-based guides based on BPM best practices and extensive research. Using Global 360, organizations can design Microsoft Visio® process models and simulations, develop a reusable knowledge base, inform stakeholders of the latest discovery efforts, and track projects milestones and deadlines.

"If there's one thing you can count on in the knowledge management market it is rapid change, and to stay relevant as a vendor continual innovation is a must," said Lubor Ptacek, Vice President, Strategic Marketing and General Manager for the Microsoft Solutions Group at OpenText. "Therefore, it is important for us to always be pushing forward with new product capabilities and driving innovation that helps our customers, and this award reflects that commitment."

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About OpenText

OpenText, a global ECM leader, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. OpenText brings two decades of expertise supporting 100 million users in 114 countries.  Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.

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