New OpenText eDOCS Version Improves User Experience, Boosts Scalability

Continued Investments in eDOCS Product Line Drives Strategic Roadmap for Document and Legal Content Management

WATERLOO, ON, Dec. 15 /CNW/ - OpenText Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC) today announced availability of OpenText eDOCS DM 5.3, a significant upgrade to the eDOCS product portfolio designed to help lower total cost of ownership and deliver a more individualized user experience. The new version of eDOCS also features tight integration with OpenText ECM Suite 2010 for customers requiring scalability across large enterprise deployments.

eDOCS complements the OpenText product portfolio and is widely used by law firms, public sector agencies and across other industries to help reduce the time and complexity associated with storing, organizing and locating information.  Extensive platform and structural updates in the new eDOCS DM lay the foundation for the next major release slated for 2012.

"As this latest release illustrates, OpenText is continuing to respond to eDOCS customer requirements, giving firms a rich set of upgrades and enhancements that will deliver immediate benefits such as lower support costs and enhanced user productivity," said Todd Partridge, Vice President and General Manager for eDOCS and Legal Solutions at OpenText. "We are continuing to see strong momentum around eDOCS with customers adopting it as their strategic hub for document and legal content management, and with this release are moving to capitalize on this momentum now and going forward."

To help lower costs, eDOCS DM 5.3 adds support for remote deployment tools that significantly reduce the work required to deploy eDOCS to user communities.  Rapid system deployments are achieved without visiting workstations, and maintenance is simplified with Web and Microsoft Windows utilities that support centralized as well as delegated system management.

Now with support for Microsoft Office 2010, eDOCS provides a rich user experience that minimizes time spent learning the document and records management system and boosts productivity. To accommodate a variety of work styles, eDOCS DM gives users the ability to easily create their own eDOCS ribbons from within Microsoft Office 2010 applications. 

For very large enterprise-wide deployments, eDOCS incorporates updates and integrations that allow customers to tap the OpenText ECM Suite 2010 for comprehensive library and archiving capabilities, helping to eliminate islands of information, improve information discovery, and reduce storage and infrastructure costs. In 2011, eDOCS customers will also be able to take advantage of OpenText social media applications to boost organizational effectiveness.

"Document management with OpenText eDOCS is becoming more and more important to our organization and gives us a consistent, reliable, traceable, and secure knowledge repository," said Brook Lee, Chief Information Officer at Fox Rothschild LLP, a full-service law firm with more than 500 lawyers and 16 offices across the U.S. "We are extremely pleased with the performance of eDOCS within our firm and look forward to upgrading to the new version in the near future. We're confident in OpenText's continuing commitment to bring state-of-the-art content management solutions to the legal industry."

eDOCS DM 5.3 is available now. For more information, go to http://www.opentext.com/go-edocs-dm.

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