October 13, 2008 -
Open Text Employee Information Management (EIM) solution v2.0 is integrated with SAP® ERP Human Capital Management software, enabling users to access data directly and execute SAP transactions without having to switch between applications. It manages lifecycle of employee information and helps meet legal data protection guidelines and provisions for document storage and deletion. Guest Access feature enables guest users to temporarily access content in personnel folders.
Open Text Announces Major Upgrade to Employee Information Management Solution, Adds New Guest Access Capabilities
EIM 2.0 Solution Offers Integration with SAP ERP Human Capital Management, Optimizes Workflow, and Meets Legal Requirements for Personnel Document Storage
CHICAGO, IL, Oct. 1 / / - Open Text(TM) Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (TSX:OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today announced the release of Version 2.0 of its Open Text Employee Information Management (EIM) solution. Highlights of the new version include improved user navigation, tighter integration with the SAP® ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) solution, as well as a new feature that allows guest users to temporarily access content in personnel folders, subject to security policies.
Human Resources (HR) departments are increasingly measured by their contribution to corporate strategic goals. However, as much as 70 percent of the HR department's budget is devoted to document-intensive administrative tasks. HR administrators and managers spend too much time looking for information in paper folders and in various systems such as email or Microsoft Office just to get the answers to simple inquiries from employees or managers. In turn, strategic tasks, such as personnel development, often are postponed or never get done.
Strategic Personnel Management
Open Text EIM 2.0 brings new ECM capabilities to automate document-intensive HR processes, so that HR departments can redirect their focus from administrative tasks to strategic tasks. The solution manages the entire lifecycle of employee information and helps meet legal data protection guidelines and provisions concerning document storage and deletion.
"With Open Text EIM, shuffling paper and making multiple photocopies of HR files are now things of the past," said Patrick Barnert, Vice President, SAP Solutions Group at Open Text. "By using a document management solution that's integrated with SAP solutions, HR can perform standard processes more efficiently, freeing up time for more value-added activities, and thus becoming a strategic partner in the business."
With Open Text EIM 2.0, users can access SAP ERP HCM data directly from the Open Text solution and execute SAP transactions without having to switch between applications. In reverse, relevant employee folders in EIM can be directly called up from SAP ERP HCM. All documents in a personnel folder are made available via a transparent and flexible folder structure with categories and sub-categories. Using thumbnail images of documents, users can quickly find desired documents. Microsoft Office documents or emails can be inserted using convenient drag and drop. In addition to aggregating access to employee information that may be distributed across multiple SAP solutions and non-SAP systems, EIM 2.0 includes scanning software to support the conversion of paper to electronic files that can be uploaded to the system.
Self-Service and Shared-Service Scenarios
HR department employees can use EIM in the familiar SAP GUI, while other staff can access files they are authorized to view via the SAP Employee Self-Service and SAP Manager Self-Service applications. Using the new guest access feature in EIM 2.0, each employee can simply access his or her folder for a limited time period via the Web. The system ensures that only the contents of a particular employee's folder can be called up, and that the respective employee has a legal right to see the documents. EIM 2.0 is ideal for self-service scenarios, so that the employees in the HR department are relieved of time-wasting routine inquiries both from their colleagues as well as from management.
EIM 2.0 is available now. For more information on employee information solutions from Open Text, go to www.opentext.com/eim.
Open Text is a leader in developing new ECM applications that extend SAP solutions. Open Text's relationship with SAP leverages two decades of partnership and co-development, and expertise gained from delivering solutions to more than 2,700 SAP customer sites around the world. Open Text's well-established products offer a complete range of capabilities for managing and archiving business documents - incoming/outgoing invoices, orders, delivery notes, quality certificates, human resources documents - that originate from customers' SAP applications. These solutions help customers improve efficiency in key processes, manage compliance, consolidate IT systems and reduce costs. Open Text is an SAP software solution partner with products that have achieved SAP Certified Integration status. Because of the strategic relationship between Open Text and SAP in the ECM market, SAP also resells Open Text solutions. For more information on Open Text's ECM products for use with SAP solutions, go to: http://www.opentext.com/sap
Open Text Content World
Open Text will host its Content World 2008 conference in Orlando, Florida, November 18-20. The event will bring together leading ECM experts from across the industry to network with peers, discuss the latest developments and trends in ECM and Enterprise 2.0, and to gain a first-hand account of the company's long-term strategy and product roadmap. For more information, go to: http://www.opentext.com/contentworld/2008/
About Open Text
Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts(TM) to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.
Copyright (C) 2008 by Open Text Corporation. LIVELINK ECM and OPEN TEXT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation in the United States of America, Canada, the European Union and/or other countries. This list of trademarks is not exhaustive. Other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names, company names, brands and service names mentioned herein are property of Open Text Corporation or other respective owners.
Source: Open Text Corporation
CONTACT: Richard Maganini, Open Text Corporation, (847) 267-9330 ext.
4266, rmaganin@opentext.com; Stephanie Dodge, Open Text Corporation, (519) 888-7111 ext. 2429, sdodge@opentext.com
Contacts:
Public Relations:
McKenzie Worldwide
Brian Edwards
USA
Phone: 503-577-4583 E-mail this person
General Information:
Richard Maganini
USA
Phone: 847-267-9330 ext 4266 E-mail this person Company Information: Name: Open Text Corp. Address: 2201 S. Waukegan Rd., Suite S300 City: Bannockburn State: IL ZIP: 60015 Country: USA Phone: 847-267-9330 http://www.opentext.com
News provided by ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom® (TIN). TIN is a comprehensive source
of new and timely product information in the industrial marketplace. TIN supplies new product
information to the web sites, e-marketplaces and print publications that serve the
industrial marketplace. For press release submissions please go to
http://news.thomasnet.com/submitpr.html.
BY ACCESSING, BROWSING AND/OR USING THIS WEB SITE AND/OR ANY WEB SITES PROVIDED BY
ProductNews.com, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF USE
AGREEMENT.
del.icio.us
DIGG
Facebook
Reddit
StumbleUpon
![[Get Copyright Permissions]](http://license.icopyright.net/images/icopy-w.gif){kind=small}
