Open Text eyeing China with ongoing APAC expansion

Peter Dinham
Monday, 01 June 2009 16:23

IT Industry - Market

According to Pullen, Open Text has also augmented its already large group of key customers in the region, including Aurora Energy, Australia Post, BHP Billiton, Dexus Property Group, Energy Australia, SingTel, Cerebos Pacific Limited, Orica, Petronas, Google India, Telstra, VicRoads and Woolworths.

Pullen maintains that Open Text continues to see momentum in its SAP business, and he attributes this growth to the global reseller agreement that the company and SAP enjoy “coupled with a pragmatic, locally-driven sales partnership.”

Pullen also says that, in line with Open Text’s growth in the Asia Pacific region, there’s a prediction from IT analyst firm, Hydrasight, that Asia-Pacific will enjoy continued growth in ECM.

And, according to John Brand, research director at Hydrasight, growth in enterprise content management solutions in the Asia Pacific region will continue, “irrespective of global economic conditions, through to at least 2012.”
 
Brand says that organisations are still being faced with an “explosion of information” from sources ranging from paper documents, emails, video and audio files, plus new content demands from social media applications.

“Ultimately, Hydrasight believes the enterprise content management market will be worth more than the relational database market - though it will be harder to define because of the vast number of competing vendors and implementation approaches.

“While each region across Asia Pacific has very different levels of maturity and investment capacity, commercial ECM solutions are expected to continue to dominate, especially in enterprise accounts, due to the requirement for integrated security, policy management, efficiency of storage, performance, social content and reliability of enterprise search.”