HONG KONG, Aug. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenText™
(NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Information
Management (EIM), announced today that OpenText Trading Grid powers
Hong Kong's leading EDI platform,
ezTRADE. By providing regional enterprises access to the world's
largest integration cloud, OpenText enables them to compete more
effectively and execute any-to-any transactions on a global
scale.
ezTRADE is an efficient and proven B2B e-commerce platform which
has close to 2,000 users in Hong
Kong and South China
region. Its users span across industries such as supermarkets,
pharmaceuticals, food services and healthcare and include SME,
large enterprise and government sectors. Currently, ezTRADE
customers include Watson's Group, Dairy Farm Group, DKSH and the
Hong Kong Hospital Authority.
GS1 Hong Kong is an
industry-led organization committed to enhancing Hong Kong enterprises' competitiveness through
the provision of global supply chain standards. OpenText, through
its GXS acquisition, has been providing trading grid services to
ezTRADE members since 2000 and has just renewed the existing
contract with the company to continue its ezTRADE partnership.
"We are delighted to continue our partnership with OpenText to
provide our members with a more efficient and enhanced ezTRADE
platform," said Anna Lin, Chief
Executive of GS1 Hong Kong. "With this partnership, I
strongly believe that all the industry key stakeholders will be
benefited collectively."
Now part of OpenText's Information Exchange portfolio of
products, Trading Grid is the world's largest integration cloud.
Built on OpenText Trading Grid, ezTRADE not only facilitates
transactions seamlessly but allows the use of integrated smart
mobile devices for EDI document exchange processes to enable
real-time event notifications, transaction status inquiries and
visibility to analytics.
Lin continued, "In this internet age, an efficient B2B
e-commerce platform is essential to help businesses meet the ever
changing needs of their customers. GS1 HK is committed to enabling
our business partners to capture the infinite possibilities with
this unique product code spanning the entire supply chain, and to
facilitate our members to be more efficient and more competitive in
the e-commerce world."
The OpenText Information Exchange suite facilitates efficient,
secure and compliant exchange of information inside and outside of
organizations. A comprehensive suite of products, Information
Exchange offers messaging and B2B Integration services on–premise
and via the cloud such as secure mail, large file transfer, fax and
EDI within a single platform, enabling any-to-any transactions.
Information Exchange is one pillar of OpenText's Enterprise
Information Management (EIM) platform consisting of five
comprehensive and integrated product suites, an engaging and
consistent user experience and deep integration across suites to
enable CIOs to partner with all lines of business.
Quotes from ezTRADE users
- "ezTRADE is a platform that we have relied on to connect with
our suppliers since 1996. It streamlines our business
processes by allowing us to transmit mission-critical commercial
data efficiently to our suppliers' computer systems."
Wendy
Lam, Head of IT Services, Wellcome
- "ezTRADE is an important building block in our supply chain
management solution. It enables us to become more responsive to our
customers' demands and manage inventory more
efficiently."
Ada
Wong, Manager, IT Applications, DKSH Hong Kong Limited
Learn more about OpenText EIM:
- Read the blog of Mark Barrenechea, OpenText's CEO
- Connect with OpenText:
- Twitter: @opentext
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/OpenText
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/opentext
About OpenText
OpenText provides Enterprise
Information Management software that helps companies of all sizes
and industries to manage, secure and leverage their unstructured
business information, either in their data center or in the cloud.
More than 100,000 companies already use OpenText solutions to
unleash the power of their information. To learn more about
OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX; TSX: OTC), please visit:
www.opentext.com.
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OpenText's current expectations, estimates, forecasts and
projections about the operating environment, economies and markets
in which the company operates. These statements are subject to
important assumptions, risks and uncertainties that are difficult
to predict, and the actual outcome may be materially different.
OpenText's assumptions, although considered reasonable by the
company at the date of this press release, may prove to be
inaccurate and consequently its actual results could differ
materially from the expectations set out herein. For additional
information with respect to risks and other factors which could
occur, see OpenText's Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports
on Form 10-Q and other securities filings with the SEC and other
securities regulators. Unless otherwise required by applicable
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update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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