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SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference 2012 get underway today, Monday, May 14th, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. It’s sure to be a busy event with multiple Customer Reference Roundtables, microforums, and ASUG education sessions. We’ll be at booth #1071 – stop by to chat and get information on our ECM Suite for SAP Solutions! Orange County Convention Center

Also on today’s agenda, is the Institute of Financial Operations - Fusion Conference 2012 in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit OpenText at boot...

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News of the Week

On Thursday, May 10th OpenText shared news of an unprecedented double-win after achieving two 2012 Pinnacle Awards in the "Global Software Solution Partner of the Year" and "SAP Enterprise Support Integrated Award" categories.

"OpenText's long-standing, strategic partnership with SAP is benefiting thousands of businesses around the world," said Patrick Barnert, vice president, SAP Solutions at OpenText. "Not only have we won a Pinnacle Award for the fifth straight year, but we have won a...

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Name: Tanya

Occupation: User Experience Designer for OpenText

Number of years at OpenText: It’s a bit of a long story, but let’s just say I began working with the company as a contractor in 1999 and became a full-time employee in 2011.

Office location: Austin, TX

Tell us a bit about what you do at OpenText: 

I lead the user research initiatives for the User Experience Team which include doing usability testing of software, conducting customer interviews, writing surveys and helping design the us...

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As business is going global, so are OpenText Events! We have recently released a new application that will help you navigate all the OpenText events: Content Days, Webinars, local tradeshows… The application was developed using the OpenText Mobile Wave platform, which allowed us to release the application simultaneously on iOS, Android and Blackberry.

Within the app, you can browse the list of upcoming OpenText Events, get instant access to the agendas, sessions, speakers and sponsors’ information....

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Great parents, teachers, leaders and teammates have some surprising similarities. They get into other people’s heads. David Brooks' editorial last year on the new business skills of attunement, sympathy and metis — proposed they lead to the condition of “limerence.” This term, in addition to being poetic and highly unusual in a business context, may in fact, be the common link. And, I submit, that it is limerence at scale that is the true brand aspiration.

Brooks has very specific definitions of th...

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The Case for ECM Mobile Apps

Despite the popularity of mobile devices and apps, mobile access to ECM is not prevalent in the enterprise today. In a study completed with AIIM, only 15% of organizations that participated had a dedicated app for ECM. As we can see in the following chart, email is still the number one mobile app. Dedicated apps are also popular for accessing social media or social business content.


                              Email has driven the enterprise adoption of the mobile device
 
In fact, 35% of organizat...

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Events

The National Conference on Managing Electronic Records (MER) 2012 kicks off today, Monday May 7th, at the Westin Hotel in downtown Chicago. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, MER continues to offer great speakers, sessions, and networking opportunities. Look for us at the OpenText table! Westin Chicago  

Henry Stewart DAM New York will be held at the Hilton New York from Thursday, May 10th-Friday May 11th. The two day conference is dedicated to digital asset management – all from the user’s perspective. Don’t m...

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News of the Week

On Thursday, May 3rd OpenText announced Exceed onDemand for Apple iPad.

"As a new generation of enterprise workers usher into the post-PC world, organizations need to bridge the gap between their critical line-of-business applications and these new devices." said Eugene Cherny, General Manager for Connectivity at OpenText. "Exceed onDemand for iPad allows them to offer a mobile, touch-friendly, collaborative solution to access UNIX applications, without sacrificing security or compli...

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One of the joys of apps is instant gratification. An app downloads within seconds, and if it doesn’t work to your satisfaction, you can just delete it and find another one that does the job better. It’s perfect for the majority of people that refuse to read manuals or spend time learning the intricacies of complex software packages. 

Compare installing an app on a mobile device to installing software on a PC which can take up to an hour, even though the processor is faster and there is more RAM avai...

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As we all know, marketing to a global audience presents many challenges. While you may know everything about your market in, say, North America, what do you know about other regions? What type of cultural issues may drive their activities in APAC? How do they conduct business in EMEA? What is their adoption of social media technologies?

Take a look at an article that James Latham, Chief Marketing Officer at OpenText wrote that appeared in Document Magazine. The article discusses the importance o...

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