
Find the documents when needed: Enterprise Content Management Systems (graphic: OpenText)
Roadmap: SAP’s ECM Systems
Contracts, records, invoices – companies often have a multitude of documents they need to keep in check. Enterprise content management (ECM) systems can help prevent files from getting lost in the shuffle by providing orderly archiving, administration, and the ability to find documents when needed. This saves both time and management costs. Here, we give you an overview of the ECM solutions SAP offers, including what the future holds for each.
Enterprise content management systems are mainly of interest to accounting, legal, marketing, and human resources departments. For years, SAP has been working on ECM solutions with Open Text. A reseller agreement enables customers to acquire Open Text products through SAP.
Currently, SAP and Open Text offer the following ECM software:
- SAP Archiving by Open Text
- SAP Document Access by Open Text
- SAP Invoice Management by Open Text
- SAP Extended ECM by Open Text
- SAP Employee Information Management by Open Text
- SAP Digital Asset Management by Open Text
- SAP Employee File by Open Text
In the article „From iPad to Business“, we brought you information on the various ways to use enterprise content management systems. The following pages will now provide details on SAP’s ECM solutions, as well as where they are headed.

