B. Braun Melsungen AG Selects Open Text's Livelink ECM for 11,000 Users of SAP(R) Applications
14 August 2007 - 11:15PM
PR Newswire (US)
Major International Medical Equipment Supplier Plans Large-Scale
Deployment of Open Text for Compliant Archiving of SAP Data and
Documents MUNICH, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Text(TM)
Corp. (NASDAQ: OTEXNASDAQ:TSX:NASDAQ:OTC), the largest independent
provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software and
solutions, announced today that international medical equipment and
services provider B. Braun Melsungen AG has selected Open Text to
help it meet compliance and governance requirements and will
implement Livelink ECM - Document Management for use with SAP(R)
solutions company-wide. The large scale deployment will span the
company's 11,000 users of SAP applications and help provide legally
compliant archiving of SAP data and documents. B. Braun chose Open
Text for the proven scalability and efficiency of Livelink ECM,
Open Text's strategic relationship with SAP AG and the positive
experience as an existing Open Text customer. B. Braun has been
using Web content management solutions from RedDot, Open Text's Web
Solutions Group, since 2005. "During the course of expanding our
implementation of SAP applications worldwide, we identified a need
for an archiving solution. We also wanted to ensure that the
archiving solution we implemented would be a seamless extension to
our future, group-wide enterprise content management
infrastructure," said Karl-Heinz Low, CIO of B. Braun Melsungen.
"We have selected Open Text as our strategic supplier for expanding
our ECM platform group-wide because of its comprehensive product
offering." B. Braun provides products worldwide for anesthesiology,
internal medicine, cardiology, extracorporeal blood treatment and
surgery, as well as services for hospitals, medical practices and
the homecare industry. B. Braun's products and services generate
ongoing information exchanges resulting in findings that aid in
product development. Its innovative products and services help to
optimize workflows at hospitals and medical practices and improve
safety for patients, doctors and healthcare providers. For the 2006
fiscal year, B. Braun Melsungen recorded earnings of more than
(euro)3.3 billion and has 32,000 employees worldwide. "B. Braun
Melsungen demonstrates what we are seeing from many of our
customers: A desire to integrate their critical SAP
application-based systems with a larger ECM strategy to better
manage increasingly complex information and compliance demands,"
said John Wilkerson, Executive Vice President of Global Sales,
Services and Support at Open Text. "This drive among customers has
been the foundation of our strategic relationship with SAP. For
organizations with SAP applications, Open Text combines both the
expertise and solutions to make us the vendor of choice to bridge
structured and unstructured information." Open Text is an SAP
Software Partner with solutions that have achieved SAP Certified
Integration. The companies have shared two decades of partnership
and co-development. As a result of this cooperative relationship,
Open Text, which acquired IXOS in 2003, is the market leader in
document management, document archiving and data archiving for SAP
solutions. Broad-based and industry solutions let enterprises
create, access, manage and securely archive all content for SAP
solutions - both data and documents - to address stringent
requirements for risk reduction, operational efficiency and IT
consolidation. In May, SAP and Open Text announced that SAP would
resell archiving and complementary document management solutions
from Open Text (http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1879). Open
Text also recently introduced Livelink ECM(TM) - Records Management
for use with SAP applications
(http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1872). For more
information about Open Text's relationship with SAP and the
company's solutions for use with SAP applications, go to:
http://www.opentext.com/sap-partner. About Open Text Open Text(TM)
is the world's largest independent provider of Enterprise Content
Management software. The company's solutions manage information for
all types of business, compliance and industry requirements in the
world's largest companies, government agencies and professional
service firms. Open Text supports approximately 46,000 customers
and millions of users in 114 countries and 12 languages. For more
information about Open Text, visit http://www.opentext.com/. Safe
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