CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
14 August 2007
Implementation Investments
B. Braun Melsungen AG Selects Open Text's Livelink ECM for 11,000 Users of SAP® Applications
Open TextT Corp. announced that international medical equipment and services provider B. Braun Melsungen AG has selected Open Text to help it meet compliance and governance requirements and will implement Livelink ECM - Document Management for use with SAP® solutions company-wide. The large scale deployment will span the company's 11,000 users of SAP applications and help provide legally compliant archiving of SAP data and documents.
B. Braun chose Open Text for the proven scalability and efficiency of Livelink ECM, Open Text's strategic relationship with SAP AG and the positive experience as an existing Open Text customer. B. Braun has been using Web content management solutions from RedDot, Open Text's Web Solutions Group, since 2005.
"During the course of expanding our implementation of SAP applications worldwide, we identified a need for an archiving solution. We also wanted to ensure that the archiving solution we implemented would be a seamless extension to our future, group-wide enterprise content management infrastructure," said Karl-Heinz Low, CIO of B. Braun Melsungen. "We have selected Open Text as our strategic supplier for expanding our ECM platform group-wide because of its comprehensive product offering."
B. Braun provides products worldwide for anesthesiology, internal medicine, cardiology, extracorporeal blood treatment and surgery, as well as services for hospitals, medical practices and the homecare industry. B. Braun's products and services generate ongoing information exchanges resulting in findings that aid in product development. Its innovative products and services help to optimize workflows at hospitals and medical practices and improve safety for patients, doctors and healthcare providers. For the 2006 fiscal year, B. Braun Melsungen recorded earnings of more than (euro)3.3 billion and has 32,000 employees worldwide.
"B. Braun Melsungen demonstrates what we are seeing from many of our customers: A desire to integrate their critical SAP application-based systems with a larger ECM strategy to better manage increasingly complex information and compliance demands," said John Wilkerson, Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Services and Support at Open Text. "This drive among customers has been the foundation of our strategic relationship with SAP. For organizations with SAP applications, Open Text combines both the expertise and solutions to make us the vendor of choice to bridge structured and unstructured information."
Open Text is an SAP Software Partner with solutions that have achieved SAP Certified Integration. The companies have shared two decades of partnership and co-development. As a result of this cooperative relationship, Open Text, which acquired IXOS in 2003, is the market leader in document management, document archiving and data archiving for SAP solutions. Broad-based and industry solutions let enterprises create, access, manage and securely archive all content for SAP solutions - both data and documents - to address stringent requirements for risk reduction, operational efficiency and IT consolidation.
In May, SAP and Open Text announced that SAP would resell archiving and complementary document management solutions from Open Text ( http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1879 ). Open Text also recently introduced Livelink ECMT - Records Management for use with SAP applications ( http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1872 ). For more information about Open Text's relationship with SAP and the company's solutions for use with SAP applications, go to: http://www.opentext.com/sap-partner .
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