Open Text Adds Social Media Capabilities to ECM Suite

Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX) (NASDAQ:TSX:) (NASDAQ:OTC) announced another part of its Enterprise 2.0 strategy with a new software offering, Open Text Social Media, the latest addition to the Open Text ECM Suite. The solution offers a social media application that gives people ways of working productively together through the Web and mobile devices, while also meeting security and compliance demands by being integrated with a company's wider ECM system. Open Text Social Media gives organizations a way to marry social media technology to an enterprise-ready content management infrastructure. The new solution adds to Open Text's collaboration products offered in the Open Text ECM Suite, providing a combination of document centric collaboration solutions and a new solution that connects people to people to content in social networks designed for the enterprise. Open Text Social Media also helps meet the demands of mobile knowledge workers who demand mobile solutions that enable them to access key corporate systems. Open Text Social Media provides native mobile applications for Apple iPhone and RIM BlackBerry devices initially, with additional device support planned. Open Text Social Media will be generally available in July, 2009. http://www.opentext.com