SAP AG and Open Text, a provider in enterprise content management (ECM), recently announced another expansion of their successful strategic relationship. SAP has selected Open Text Extended ECM for SAP for resale under the name the SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management (SAP Extended ECM) application by Open Text.

The announcement represents the second major expansion of the original reseller agreement between the two companies. SAP is already reselling Open Text's Document Access and Archiving and Invoice Management solutions (see "Open Text and SAP Announce Expanded Reseller Agreement" and "SAP Expands Document Management Capabilities with Archiving and Document Access Solutions from Open Text"). Today's expansion allows SAP to resell the industry's leading enterprise content management solution. SAP customers will now be able to leverage all forms of unstructured content from within their optimized business processes driven by SAP applications.

As the volume of unstructured content such as e-mail, documents and presentations continues to explode within organizations, there is a growing need to connect this content with the underlying business processes being managed by SAP applications. No longer are companies satisfied with simply locking content away in content silos for safekeeping. Instead, they are finding that they can achieve significant productivity gains by enriching business processes with content such as contracts, images or videos, and high value electronic correspondence.

One such example is the contract management solution in place at Molex Incorporated, a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components based in suburban Chicago. This solution uses SAP Extended ECM by Open Text to manage executed contracts and make them available enterprise-wide from within SAP Business Suite software.

"By integrating contract information into SAP business processes, we have improved our ability to stay in compliance with contract terms, which enables Molex to better manage our customer interactions and commitments," said Gary Matula, Vice President of Information Systems, Molex. "As we continue to rollout the Open Text solution within our global system architecture, another key benefit expected is improved management of all unstructured data, which we will be able to link to our SAP transactional and master data. This will not only help us leverage our growth in unstructured data, but will enable improved record management practices throughout our global organization."

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