{"id":492991,"date":"2021-05-25T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=492991"},"modified":"2021-05-25T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T05:00:17","slug":"why-information-management-is-more-important-than-ever-before-register-for-the-virtual-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/492991\/why-information-management-is-more-important-than-ever-before-register-for-the-virtual-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Why information management is more important than ever before \u2013 Register for the virtual event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leading information management solutions provider OpenText will host its Africa Summit 2021 virtual event in June.<\/p>\n<p>The event will focus on how companies\u2019 information management journeys ultimately lead to the cloud.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentext.com\/info\/opentext-africa-summit-2021?utm_source=Article&amp;utm_medium=BusinessTech&amp;utm_campaign=May%202021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to register for the virtual event.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This has become particularly evident as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to transform the way that companies and their employees work.<\/p>\n<p>The online event will take place on 3 June 2021 from 10:00 until 12:00 CAT, and will cover important topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How information management provides a path for growth.<\/li>\n<li>OpenText&#8217;s latest products and solutions.<\/li>\n<li>How to accelerate growth with the Ultimate Cloud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The keynote speaker for the event will be Dion Chang of Flux Trends, who will present on \u201cThe Great Staggering\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a presentation by the Department of Social Development on how it transformed its processes using OpenText Documentum.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, OpenText will update both current and prospective customers on how its products and services have evolved.<\/p>\n<p>The full virtual event agenda is detailed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10:00 &#8211; Welcome and Opening &#8211; <strong>Julie Tregurtha, RVP Africa, OpenText<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10:05 &#8211; OpenText Vision \u2013 <strong>Mark Barrenechea, CEO and CTO, OpenText<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10:10 &#8211; Manage the Content that Powers Modern Work &#8211; <strong>Nadine Coetzee, Senior Account Executive, OpenText<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>10:35 &#8211; Customer Story<\/li>\n<li>10:50 &#8211; Communications, Content and Insights to Deliver Modern Experiences &#8211; <strong>Thabiso Hlatshwayo, Solution Consulting Manager, OpenText<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>11:10 &#8211; OpenText Cloud: Information Management in the Cloud &#8211; <strong>Frank Heitmuller, Senior Account Executive, OpenText<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>11:30 &#8211; Keynote Speaker &#8211; The Great Staggering: Why Innovation Matters, Right Now &#8211;<strong> Dion Chang, Flux Trends<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OJgm-zCtIVI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">OpenText<\/h3>\n<p>OpenText is focused on helping organisations deal with one of the biggest challenges they face \u2013 the massive amount of information they must manage.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, OpenText is focused on helping organisations deal with unstructured data. This ranges from emails and files on employees, to vendor invoices, goods receipt notes, and legal contracts.<\/p>\n<p>There are three areas of ongoing acceleration it has seen over the past 20 months, which it said companies must take note of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Customer experience<\/strong> \u2013 With the changes to how organisations are operating remotely, it is still crucial that businesses offer a customer experience that is not only sufficient, but exemplary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cloud<\/strong> \u2013 There is a massive move from many South African organisations both to contain costs and find better ways to achieve agility and innovation while not incurring major costs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Content<\/strong> \u2013 While content management has been a key consideration for decades, it is more relevant now than ever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OpenText was named a leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms, which proves how OpenText is expertly qualified to provide insight into information management.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentext.com\/info\/opentext-africa-summit-2021?utm_source=Article&amp;utm_medium=BusinessTech&amp;utm_campaign=May%202021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to register for the virtual event.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading information management solutions provider OpenText is running an Africa Summit 2021 virtual event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":493001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[15818],"class_list":["post-492991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-opentext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493135,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492991\/revisions\/493135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}