Merant Collage Enables Organizations to Reduce Risk and Maximize Value of IT Infrastructure with New SAP NetWeaver Integration

Business Wire,  Dec 9, 2003  

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HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2003

Extends Capabilities of mySAP(TM) Enterprise Portal to Help Companies

More Effectively Integrate Enterprise Content

Merant (Nasdaq:MRNT) (LSE:MRN), a leading provider of software and services that deliver flexible control of code, content and other business-critical assets, today announced that its enterprise-class content management solution, Merant Collage(R), is one of the first content management systems to achieve certification as part of the SAP(R) NetWeaver(TM) Partner Initiative.

Merant Collage's "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" status means that it can be deployed on the SAP(R) Web Application Server and accessed through mySAP Enterprise Portal via pre-built iViews. The integration between Merant Collage and the SAP NetWeaver integration and application platform enables users to integrate sources of enterprise data and content from SAP and other vendors to more effectively control heterogeneous IT environments. This increases productivity, efficiency and collaboration across the extended enterprise, delivers the ability to trace and audit assets, and reduces costs.

"Merant Collage, with its flexible, open standards-based design, embraces SAP's vision of SAP NetWeaver and helps companies reduce costs and leverage heterogeneous infrastructure," said James Rogers, vice president of product marketing at Merant. "However, this is only the first step we expect to take together with SAP. We believe there is further work we can do to help organizations streamline the development and management of application code and content across the entire IT ecosystem, regardless of the underlying infrastructure."

By unifying all types of enterprise information from a people-centric perspective, mySAP Enterprise Portal provides customers with a centralized view that spans solutions from SAP and other vendors, including applications, data warehouses, desktop documents, internal and external web content, and collaboration tools. For SAP customers who have already implemented -- or have plans to implement -- mySAP Enterprise Portal, Merant Collage provides complementary capabilities for managing change to content and other digital assets within the portal environment.

Ideal for Managing Structured and Unstructured Content

Merant Collage is an ideal complement to mySAP Enterprise Portal due to its unique ability to handle "unstructured data" -- the business data created on a daily basis using typical office applications. Merant Collage easily manages unstructured information and applies capabilities such as versioning, audit trails and workflow.

Merant Collage integrates seamlessly with mySAP Enterprise Portal using SAP-certified iViews that enable users to retrieve, search and contribute information to or from Merant Collage, allowing unstructured content to be easily added, managed and retrieved via the portal. Merant Collage is certified for SAP Web Application Server 6.20 and SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0.

About Merant Collage

Merant Collage is an enterprise-class content management solution available for a fraction of the cost of comparable products. Merant Collage enables customers to easily and rapidly design, create, deploy and maintain code and content throughout all of their web initiatives. Featuring an open standards-based, J2EE architecture, Merant Collage is easy to implement and delivers an intuitive browser-based interface, strong task management, workflow, a powerful content contribution engine and integration with common desktop applications such as Microsoft Office and Macromedia Dreamweaver. With Merant Collage, organizations can increase productivity, speed time to web, control the process of maintaining web sites and maximize efficiency and collaboration across the enterprise.

About Merant

Merant delivers the industry's most flexible and comprehensive enterprise change management solutions. Thousands of organizations across the globe rely on Merant's software and services to dramatically enhance the productivity, quality and ROI of their technology initiatives by allowing them to easily track, manage and control modifications in business-critical information assets. For more information, please visit www.merant.com.

Merant and Merant Collage are registered trademarks of Merant. SAP, SAP NetWeaver, mySAP and all other SAP product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries around the world. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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