PRODUCT OVERVIEW

OpenText™ Extended ECM
Seamlessly connect people with the information and business processes
they need to master modern work

Simplify information
access withpowerful content
management

As organizations try to control ever-growing amounts ofcontent, it becomes more difficult for employees to find theright information when and where they need it. Without rapid
access and context, value and insight remains untapped. To
reach peak performance, organizations must find new ways toDrive productivity
using intelligent
automation
Ensurecomprehensive,
trusted governance;
privacy; and securityof enterprise
information
Drive agility with ahighly configurable
and flexible platform

manage structured and unstructured information and inject it
into their business processes while ensuring its confidentiality
and security.
Connecting information with business processes is at the heart of OpenText™
Extended ECM. Extended ECM integrates into the widest range of enterpriseapplications and systems to eliminate content silos and ensure information is visible
and available to all people, processes and systems that need it. Behind the scenes,
automated governance protects and secures content throughout its lifecycle.
Information is current, quickly found, easy to act upon and adds fuel to processes.

Simplify information access with powerfulcontent management
The modern worker wants increased autonomy, greater flexibility and easier accessto information. They expect the same intuitive and flexible digital experiences
they have grown accustomed to in their personal lives. Extended ECM allows
organizations to meet these demands, enabling efficient digital workplaces with aflexible content services platform. Users can intelligently capture, index, organize,
store, search, share, secure, track and dispose of content from a unified repository.
They can be confident they are working with the most current and relevant
documents wherever they are—whether inside or outside of the office’s four walls.

Drive productivity using intelligent automation

Integrations formastering modern work
OpenText™ Extended ECM integrates
business content with leading
enterprise applications (ERP, CRM,HCM, etc.), seamlessly connecting
people with information andaccelerating end-to-end business.
• SAP® Solutions• SAP® SuccessFactors®

Extended ECM builds a foundation for the modern workplace with improved
process flows, realtime insights and integrated enterprise applications. It addresses
the most complex industry or line-of-business needs, such as hire-to-retire
and procure-to-pay, by orchestrating business processes spanning multiple
applications, departments or organizations with out-of-the-box integrations andflexible APIs. It further automates low-value repetitive tasks, such as document
creation and report generation.

Ensure enterprise-grade information governance• Salesforce®
• Microsoft® Office 365®
• Microsoft® Dynamics 365
Customer Engagement• Microsoft® Dynamics 365 Finance• OpenText™ Extended ECMfor Government• OpenText™ Extended ECMfor Engineering

The explosion of content and a rapid increase in the number of connected
applications require constant governance, oversight and security. Extended ECM
offers built-in, end-to-end certified governance capabilities to manage thelifecycle of information. Organizations can govern information spread acrossmultiple repositories with application integration, policy inheritance andadvanced safety features, tackling content sprawl and providing oversight toad-hoc practices. Automatic application of appropriate policy controls, privacy
management and encryption to documents means users can confidently sharecontent internally or externally.

Drive agility with a highly flexible platform• IBM Maximo®
• ServiceNowLarge, global organizations, and those in regulated industries are mired in inefficient
processes and single-purpose, siloed applications. To stay modern and efficient,however, organizations must ensure no single process operates in a vacuum.

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• Product Lifecycle Management(PLM) applications• OpenText™ AppWorks™

Traditional work models do not provide the agility, scalability and resilience requiredby the future enterprise.1 Organizations must be flexible to succeed in this rapidlychanging, ambiguous and tumultuous environment. Extended ECM provides a highly
flexible platform that quickly adapts to evolving business requirements without
overburdening IT resources. Organizations can deploy on premises, in a hybrid
environment or in the private cloud and extend with multi-tenant Software as aService (SaaS) applications, capitalizing on the knowledge and solutions offered byOpenText™ Services and the expansive OpenText partner community.
1 IDC, Organizations Are Forecast to Spend Nearly $656 Billion on Future of Work Technologies in 2021,
According to New IDC Spending Guide. (2021)

Master modern work with Extended ECM X-Plans
Find out more about Extended ECM X-Plans.

X1

X2

X3Plan

Plan

Plan

Achieve compliant
team productivity

Drive operational excellence
via deep integration
with business processes

Share information outside
enterprise boundaries withpartners and customers

All the capabilities of X1 plus
integration with SAP® Solutions,
SAP® SuccessFactors®,
Salesforce®, document generationand premium viewing

All the strength of X1 and X2 plus
OpenText™ Core Capture,
OpenText™ Core Share andOpenText™ Core Signature Service

Best-in-class contentmanagement with integration
into Microsoft 365®

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Consulting services• Strategy and advisory services• Consulting services• Managed services• Customer success services

Extended ECM has supported the digital transformation journey of thousands ofpublic and private organizations globally. It rises above the rest with its
end-to-end content management capabilities and deep integrations into enterpriseapplications, such as SAP, Salesforce and Microsoft. With more than 25 years as aleader in information management, OpenText has built a vast ecosystem of trustedpartners and houses thousands of veterans in the information management industry
who can solve any information challenge. Organizations can leverage OpenText’s
long-standing relationships as a trusted partner and co-developer with the largest
enterprise software providers to get unparalleled value and dependable innovation.

Learning services• Learning path
• Self-paced online training

Public CloudMarketplaces
Extended ECM can be bought
and financed through the following
public cloud marketplaces:• Google Workspace Marketplace• Microsoft Azure Marketplace• AWS Marketplace
Customize landing pages with a selection of tiles tailored for the users’ job roles

Use preconfigured Business Scenarios to keep an eye on the overall healthof a project

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Create a unified user experience for employees by integrating an Extended ECM
Workspace into SAP® SuccessFactors®

Connect Microsoft Teams® with a Business Workspace and seamlessly embedcollaboration in business processes

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Capabilities chart
Product capabilities

Description

Capture:Transform documents and data into usable formats for systems and businessprocesses. With the Core Capture integration, leverage optical character
recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), validation and othercapture techniques to automate information extraction, document classification
and workflows.

Document management:

Capture content from any source and route it automatically to a destination folder
or a Business Workspace.
Use built-in features to auto-classify and add metadata.
Enable enterprise-wide full-text or natural language querying with a sharable
search results overview and preconfigured search forms designed for roles
and teams.

Business workspaces:

Quickly access pertinent information in a simple-to-digest view.
Leverage pre-built templates to organize content, data, people and tasks
related to a project, case or business activity with appropriate content folders,
metadata related to content or process from integrated applications, tasks,workflows and more.

Integration with Microsoft 365:

Leverage deep integration to create and edit content in Microsoft 365
applications, including Word, PowerPoint , Excel and Outlook .
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Manage the entire Microsoft Teams lifecycle, from the creation of a Teamto its archiving and disposition. Enhance access and collaboration of content
with bi-directional sync of files, folders and sub-folders between a Business
Workspace and its connected Microsoft Team.
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External sharing and collaboration:

Effortlessly share business-critical information with vendors, partners andcustomers to improve efficiency and strengthen relationships.
Bi-directionally sync files, folders and metadata between Extended ECM and  Core Share. Create, co-author and save documents from Extended ECM orTeams and then surface that content in the context of processes managed inenterprise applications.  

Viewing and transformation:

Provide users with robust document viewing, annotation, redaction, comparison,transformation and publishing features.
Allow easy document editing for distributed employees, so they can collaborate
on any file type, including Microsoft documents, PDFs and CAD drawings, such as
multi-files, Xrefs and images.

Workflow and automation:

Build complex workflows using a graphical workflow designer with drag-and-drop
functionality, step-by-step forms and custom or pre-configured scripts.
Address the broadest range of use cases, from automating routine content-centrictasks, such as document creation and report generation to complex processes,
such as idea-to-market and risk-to-resolution spanning multiple applications,departments and organizations.

Digital signatures:

Implement secure document approvals in any business process throughintegration with Core Signature Service.
Allow multiple recipients to sign the document in a specific order or for all users
to sign at their convenience. Maintain a complete audit trail and validate every
signing action with stored digital certificates for e-Signature compliance.

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Product capabilities

Description

Business process library:

Use pre-configured, ready-to-use applications to manage contracts, businessagreements, projects or complex processes, such as managing physical inventory
through the SAP ERP integration. These packaged applications come withprocess-specific configuration, Business Workspace types and templates, Smart
View configuration, workflows, roles, permissions and more.
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Enterprise application integration:

Connect all relevant content and data by Integrating Extended ECM out-of-thebox with enterprise applications such as SAP S/4HANA , SAP SuccessFactors ,Salesforce and Microsoft 365, as well as vertical applications for Engineeringand Government.
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Integrate seamlessly with any enterprise business applications with simple-to-use
Extended ECM developer tools and powerful APIs.
Document generation:

Quickly create a personalized, branded document with metadata populating
ready-to-use templates for timely, relevant correspondence.
Track all template versions, maintaining tight control over document creation.
With just a few clicks, generate commonly requested documents, such as
employment confirmation letters, with proper rules and oversight built
into the process.

Information governance:

Protect electronic and physical content with elevated security clearance levels,
supplemental markings, Azure Information Protection integration and ninepermission levels. Regulatory compliance is ensured with legal holds, disposition
review/approval workflows, extensive audit events and product certifications,such as US DOD 5015.02, SEC 17a-4 and ISO 15489.
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Extensibility and APIs:

Enable scalable repository integration with well-documented REST APIs andContent Management Integration interfaces (CMIS) with support for programming
languages, including ABAP, Java , JavaScript, TypeScript, Python , C and Microsoft
Visual Studio . Supports user experience customization with enhancements
such as dashboards, role-based views and custom branding, which maximize easeof use and provide a widget-based model to integrate select UI elements intoother applications.
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