OpenText Announces SAP® Solution Extensions Portfolio Designed Specifically for SAP S/4HANA

New Portfolio of Solutions Designed for SAP S/4HANA Providing Ubiquitous Digital Content Management and Seamless User Experiences to Enable Digital Transformation

WATERLOO, Ontario, May 17, 2016 /CNW/ -- OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced the availability of OpenText Solutions for SAP® Business Suite 4 SAP HANA® (SAP S/4HANA), specifically designed to support SAP's next-generation business suite for a digital world. The new OpenText portfolio of solutions designed for SAP S/4HANA includes support for digitizing and simplifying the entire value chain for user experiences with the SAP Fiori® user experience for intuitive information access everywhere and anywhere, and extends SAP HANA database support across the portfolio.

SAP solution extensions from OpenText further enable customers to realize the full value of digital data and content, dramatically simplifying business processes of organizations as information is easily discovered, captured, managed, governed, secured and leveraged. These solution extensions provide simplified deployment on premises, in the cloud or as a hybrid solution. With OpenText solutions for SAP S/4HANA, customers can take advantage of all relevant enterprise content in context, while leveraging SAP Fiori native UIs. OpenText offers a robust content strategy for companies' digital transformations by providing capabilities to:

• Decommission legacy applications
• Archive data and documents
• Establish a digital content strategy for the digital core, aligned with SAP HANA, SAP Fiori and SAP S/4HANA
• Embed digital content enabled workflows into mobile UIs

"OpenText is the only ISV to provide a complete SAP premium qualified content management portfolio designed for and ready to run on SAP S/4HANA, which is fully supported and sold by SAP," said Muhi Majzoub, executive vice president, Engineering and Information Technology at OpenText. "As one of the first SAP partners qualified for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, OpenText continues to align technically, developing market-leading capabilities for our mutual customers that fully embrace and leverage SAP S/4HANA. As companies undergo their digital transformation, we are committed to simplifying business processes and mitigating risk as companies transition to a digital business foundation."

Through the OpenText and SAP partnership, customers have made dramatic improvements across a wide range of areas that positively impact relationships with their customers, employees, partners, suppliers and regulatory agencies. Tested by SAP for compatibility for low-risk and rapid deployment into new applications based on SAP HANA, OpenText solution extensions address both data and content in one platform, fully integrated with SAP S/4HANA.

SAP solution extensions from OpenText are part of the OpenText EIM strategy, enabling organizations to discover and manage information to spur growth and innovation and decrease time to competitive advantage. The OpenText EIM strategy consists of comprehensive and integrated product suites including Content Suite, Process Suite, Experience Suite, Discovery Suite, Business Network and Analytics.

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OpenText enables the digital world, creating a better way for organizations to work with information, on premises or in the cloud. For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC) visit opentext.com.

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