OpenText Honored as 2013 SAP Pinnacle Award Recipient

^[1]Enterprise Information Management developer OpenText ^[1]™ announced earlier today that it has received a 2013 SAP® Pinnacle award as a Solution Extension Partner of the Year. SAP Pinnacle awards are presented annually to the top SAP partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP and driving customer success. Finalists and winners in 19 categories were based on field recommendations, customer feedback and performance indicators in the following four categories: co-innovation, market expansion, service delivery and sustainability.

“With a partnership spanning over two decades, OpenText’s industry alliance ^[2] with SAP has been a driving force in creating and delivering innovative and integrated solutions to the global market,” said Patrick Barnert, senior vice president, Partners and Alliances at OpenText. “As our sixth consecutive win, this honor represents more than a shared vision for success; it signifies an unwavering dedication to providing our mutual customers with a competitive edge in the business world. We look forward to future achievements with SAP and eagerly await this year’s SAPPHIRE^® NOW ^[3] conference, where will be showcasing our world-class EIM solutions.”

The SAP Pinnacle awards showcase SAP’s commitment to its partner ecosystem strategy, which delivers unmatched value to customers and enables SAP to reach its business goals. Award winners will be formally recognized at SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP’s international customer conference being held in Orlando, Fla., May 14–16.

“We congratulate OpenText on its well-deserved receipt of a 2013 SAP Pinnacle award and for its outstanding partnership with SAP,” said Eric Duffaut, corporate officer and president, Global Ecosystem and Channels, SAP. “SAP is an innovative and fast-growth company. We put customer success at the center of everything we do. Our vibrant and expanding ecosystem of partners is critical to the company we are now and the company we want to become in the future. Together with our partners – who are co-innovating with us, reselling and implementing our solutions – we offer choice and deliver transformational value to our joint customers of all sizes. Partners like OpenText are our force multipliers, and today, more than ever, they are essential to our customers’ success.”

An SAP partner since 1992, OpenText continues to be a leader in the Enterprise Information Management ^[4] market across all major functional areas and industries. Thousands of customers of all sizes deploy solutions from OpenText, resold as solution extensions by SAP, to seamlessly connect unstructured information to SAP business processes. Our integrated solutions enable customers to realize the full value of digital data, as information is easily discovered, captured, managed, governed, secured, and leveraged.