OpenText Extended ECM for SAP Solutions
Unprecedented business efficiency, enhancing informed decision making across business processes and SAP Solutions

Extended ECM for SAP Solutions overview

Create a better way to work, connecting the world of your enterprise content and enterprise applications and benefit from a comprehensive digital content management platform that integrates seamlessly and in a productized fashion into any SAP business application, whether on-premises or in the cloud.
Extended ECM for SAP Solutions adds document management, collaboration, archiving and certified Records Management, along with application-spanning virtual views of related information to your business processes, providing a unique competitive advantage to organizations on the path to digital transformation.
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What is Extended ECM for SAP Solutions for information-driven business processes?
Business processes in research and development, sourcing, production, sales, marketing or services deal with large volumes of content, such as correspondence, documentation, contracts and production or service records, driven by a number of SAP and non-SAP business applications.
Extended ECM for SAP is a proven asset for any business transformation program driven by the upgrade to SAP S/4HANA®. It offers simple, secure and cost-effective information management that simplifies transformations, decreases TCO and provides the agility to innovate.
OpenText Extended ECM for SAP Solutions features
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Seamless content retrieval
Allows direct access to content associated with an SAP Business Object, in- and outside the SAP Business Application landscape, leveraging the SAP business logic.
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Collaboration for internal and external teams
Offers end-to-end collaboration across business process using a unique Business Workspace concept.
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Best in class document management
Eliminates versioning issues, enables access rights control and content classification as well as advanced metadata management in sync with business apps.
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Certified records management
Applies governance to SAP and non-SAP documents in accordance with data privacy, retention and documentation requirements through the DoD5015.2 certified RM function.
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Data and document archiving
Archives SAP data and unstructured content to reduce costs while preserving access to all records for subsequent business requirements.
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Mobile access to business related information
Provides secure and reliable access to all structured and unstructured information related to your end-to-end business processes, anytime and anywhere.
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Cloud-readiness
Leverages a cloud native architecture for faster deployments, on-premises or on hyperscaler platform, and reduced upgrade efforts.
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OpenText™ Core Share for SAP® Solutions Integration
Integrates with Core Share for SAP® for secure collaboration with customers, vendors and partners within and outside the firewall.
Customer success stories
OpenText solutions integrated with SAP supports our core business and administrative processes—it is everywhere in our organization and helps us deliver on our mission. With OpenText Extended ECM for SAP Solutions, it’s now faster and easier for our people to find the files and information they are looking for.
With OpenText Extended ECM for SAP, Golden Omega is now ready to comply with the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical regulations in the countries we operate in. This is an important step that will enable us to compete in the markets where our products are in high demand.
OpenText Extended ECM for Engineering and OpenText Extended ECM for SAP Solutions ensure that our operations and maintenance teams can rely on the accuracy of all of the data in our systems and that they can find it in a timely manner, which has greatly reduced the risk of safety issues and improved productivity.
OpenText makes it easier and quicker to retrieve the information we need, improving and accelerating our decision-making processes.
OpenText Extended ECM for SAP Solutions benefits
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Redefine employee engagement
Accelerate cycle times by automating manual tasks, simplifying access and improving content-centered collaboration.
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Increase business efficiency
Equip the digital workplace with a 360-degree view and access to both structured and unstructured business content in context.
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Streamline innovation
Transform business models and digitize value chains based on an integrated EIM suite.
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Get deep business insights
Deliver deeper insight into product, customer, supplier or asset performance with integrated data and content analytics.
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Better control
Mitigate operational and regulatory risks by controlling the entire content lifecycle and maintaining content integrity.
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Reduce TCO
Reduce costs by digitizing paper files and making content available to all users directly within business processes to which they contribute.
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