Jul 11, 2017   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

OpenText Announces OpenText People Center

New Low Code Application Simplifies HR Processes to Enable Faster, Data Driven Approach to Human Resources

TORONTO, July 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText(TM) (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced OpenText People Center, an HR application built on OpenText AppWorks, to deliver talent-focused companies with deeper visibility and insight into the success of their HR services. OpenText People Center integrates with key back-end systems to provide employees and HR teams with self-service access to relevant information, forms and documents; enable faster response to inquiries and requests; and offer the ability to address critical HR issues.

OpenText People Center is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application designed to simplify HR processes. OpenText People Center enables HR departments to create an employee portal with dynamic case management to save time, optimize resources and increase employee engagement with self-service capabilities. The application simplifies access to employee documents, drives document compliance and transforms the employee experience. OpenText People Center enables organizations to take a data driven approach to HR, incorporating predictive analytics and document management capabilities to address complex HR issues and focus on high-value initiatives.

"Built on the low-code development environment, OpenText AppWorks, People Center allows both professional and citizen developers to easily customize the application for specific organizational needs with pre-built accelerators and building blocks," said Muhi Majzoub, executive vice president of Engineering at OpenText. "The low-code platform speeds up development by enabling developers to rapidly design, build and deploy applications. It also enables developers to easily build new applications or extend applications as needed using purpose built APIs and RESTful or content services, such as the OpenText LEAP family of products."

With OpenText People Center, HR departments can:

    --  Centralize Content and Gain Compliance - Access control by role to
        ensure confidentiality and protect employees' privacy along with
        regulatory tracking to ensure employees have all documents in place to
        avoid compliance concerns.
    --  Simplify Question and Request Responses - Easily capture, respond and
        track inquiries and requests. Quickly build additional processes to
        manage employee engagement and increase responsiveness.
    --  Gain Visibility and Control of Key Metrics and SLAs - Track and report
        on key metrics to optimize HR service delivery performance.

OpenText People Center is part of the OpenText EIM portfolio, enabling organizations to discover and manage information to spur growth and innovation and decrease time to competitive advantage. The platform consists of comprehensive and integrated product solutions including Content Suite, Process Suite, Experience Suite, Analytics Suite, Discovery Suite and Business Network. OpenText's EIM solutions are available for deployment on premises, in the cloud and in hybrid deployments.

Availability
OpenText People Center will be generally available in late summer 2017, initially for the North America market only.

About OpenText
OpenText enables the digital world, creating a better way for organizations to work with information, on premises or in the cloud. For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX) visit opentext.com.

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