OpenText expands its cloud based solutions

OpenText announced that its powerful capture and optical character recognition (OCR) services are now included in the SAP cloud for travel solution (formerly known as SAP Travel OnDemand), a cloud based application for travel management. Further strengthening the partnership between OpenText and SAP, the offering is expected to make it easier for business travelers to file expense reports using information scanned from receipts using scanners or mobile devices.

Delivering a mobile user experience designed for today's business traveler, SAP Cloud for Travel is a subscription based cloud solution that helps customers manage expenses without any additional hardware or services. SAP customers can now have cost-efficient access to prove OpenText Capture Center technology, which is recognized as one of the leading multi-channel capture solutions available today.

A report by Forrester Research titled 'The Forrester Wave: Multichannel Capture, Q3 2012' has ranked ranked OpenText a leader in its report, received the highest possible scores in the OCR support, multichannel input, mobile capture, and document classification categories, now available as a service in SAP cloud for travel.

"OpenText has been innovating alongside SAP for more than 2 decades to provide customers with transformational technologies that can set them apart from the competition," said Patrick Barnert, senior vice president, partners and alliances at OpenText. "The new OpenText cloud based service offering within SAP cloud for travel is yet another step forward in our partnership, reinforcing OpenText's commitment to empowering customers with EIM cloud solutions. The future cloud offerings are expected to further help ensure organizations have flexible access to the EIM solutions they need to help drive business."

"OpenText's OCR technology greatly enhances the SAP cloud for travel offering," said Tobias Dosch, senior vice president, product management cloud, SAP." It helps to reduce cost and increase usability and efficiency of our customers in the expense reporting process."