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NTT Comware Started Partnership with OpenText for Strongly Supporting Sustainable Reforms of Enterprise Systems
-- NTT Comware Signed the Distributorship Agreement with OpenText on OpenText Process Suite --

NTT Comware Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Shinobu Umino, hereinafter, NTT Comware) signed the distributorship agreement with OpenText Corporation (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo: President: Noriyuki Hayakawa, hereinafter OpenText) on October 2, 2014 for the business process management (hereinafter, PM products*1), OpenText Process Suite (hereinafter, Process Suite) and OpenText Cordys (hereinafter, Cordys), the core engine of the platform.
We provide the products as a platform to realize BPR (for further improvement of the enterprise workflows by networking with conventional systems and visualization of the process).

1. Background

Companies are required to adapt their business process and systems to a drastic change of the business environment in a speedy and flexible manner. Currently, as both business process and systems became complicated, upgrading the systems to adapt such changes should require huge expenses and workloads. Therefore, companies are facing the challenges that they are not fast enough to catch up with the speed of changes with conventional business processes and systems.
Under the circumstance of change of business environment and competitive markets, BPM to manage and optimize the business processes and SOA*2 to accelerate the improvement of the process by integrating the business processes are gaining attentions as the solutions to the issues.

2. Effect of the Solution

NTT Comware contributes to the customers' businesses with the BPM Products gProcess Suite" and "Cordys" to make them capable to adapt to changes.

(1)Integration of business processes while effectively using the conventional system assets
Various business tasks on the conventional systems can be restructured into a standard type of web-based components, which can be easily used. Then, these web-services are connected on the network to make the system to the new business process.
Accordingly, companies can enjoy the flexibility and adaptability of IT infrastructure by making the best use of the conventional business system without a tremendous amount of investment for a new system.
The conventional business system database and the WEB services are connected with various types of connectors of Cordys, which is adaptable to various business systems and databases.

(2)Visualization of complicated processes to show the effects
The graphical user interfaces are for visualization of various complicated networking between systems and processes, as well as for prediction and analysis of the effectiveness and impacts of the improvement plan by simulations. This function enables users to further optimize their business processes.

(3)Making the project term for the process improvement development 50% less
Cordys' various system development tools and parts such asguser interface", "rule management", "data conversion" are effective to minimize the tasks for coding as well as for achieving the business processes in a short term.
In addition, the single system development environment makes the system architecting and maintenance more effective and reduces the time to develop the system.
With the strong support of functions, we have validated that the system development period can be less than half of a system development project designed from a scratch.

[Major achievements of Process Suite and Cordys]
- Reduced the time for the system development for banking business
- Designed a single instance as the master data and reduced redundancies of a system for security businesses
- Eliminated the duplication of inputs of data into systems and enhanced the risk monitoring
- Automated a complicated process for insurance sector such as complaint management and issuance of insurance policies
- Reduced costs for staff administrative divisions by integrating the sales management division
- Improved CS by a unified management of the contract data for IT sector
- Reduced costs and term for the lead-time from procurement, manufacturing to delivery for manufacturing sector etc.

3. Future Scenario
NTT Comware provides upgraded versions of the solutions for the system integration with the new lineups, Process Suite and Cordys, in line with the new service combined with NTT Comware's cloud service (SmartCloud) for highly reliable services for the users to enjoy. For the customers in finance, manufacturing, distribution and public services sectors, NTT Comware also strives to contribute to them with the services to improve the business competitiveness though our business process-reforming scheme.
This solution is demonstrated on Financial Information Technology 2014 (October 9 and 10, 2014 at Tokyo International Forum).

[Endorsement by Open Text]
OpenText proudly welcome NTT Comware to be our new partner for OpenText's BPM solution. We are convinced that the strong partnership with NTT Comware with a highly proven system integration technologies and background in various business sectors including finance, public services and utilities will create fusions with our Process Suite and Cordys the core engine solutions, as well as more opportunities to provide solutions to meet various needs of customers.
Noriyuki Hayakawa, President, OpenText Corporation


*1 BPM(Business Process Management): A method of business process management to visualize tasks and continuously improve the flow.
*2 SOA(Service Oriented Architecture): A design method to architect an overall system by connecting with virtual services with the simulated functions of software equivalent to a single business processes.

** OpenText is a trademark of OpenText SA and OpenText ULC. Names of corporations and products are either trademarks or registered trademarks of each corporation.
** "SmartCloud" is a registered trademark of NTT Comware Corporation.

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