Micro Focus partners with Citadel to deliver SaaS-based content management solution

Micro Focus  has partnered globally with Citadel, to expand its Content Management product line to now provide Content Manager Select Software as a Service, an innovative managed service solution. The new service provides customers a one-stop cloud-based managed solution for content management that combines the strengths of Citadel’s longstanding Citadel-IX^TM market presence for managed SaaS solutions and Micro Focus’ longstanding market and technical expertise with Content Manager. The new offering provides robust, innovative content management software in a SaaS model that lowers the total cost of ownership and offers unrivalled customer flexibility.

“In collaboration with our partner, Citadel, Micro Focus is excited to take this next step in supporting customers’ digital transformation by introducing Content Manager Select Software as a Service,” said Rick Carlson, vice president of product management at Micro Focus. “This offering provides a modern, SaaS-based solution to customers worldwide and enables us to deliver our industry-leading Content Manager solution as a fully managed service to address the ever-increasing shift to the cloud.”

“Today’s announcement is the culmination of 3 years of innovation with Micro Focus to deploy Content Manager Select Software as a Service in the cloud on our Citadel-IX^TM Platform,” said Mark McConnell, CEO, Citadel. “As a platinum Micro Focus partner, Citadel’s strong security and managed services history has enabled the rapid adoption of Citadel-IX in the market, and this agreement today takes the platform globally to those Content Manager users looking to adopt a managed service model.”

Micro Focus Content Manager is a governance-based enterprise content management (ECM) system that enables a diverse array of global organisations and government agencies to manage their business content from creation to disposal. The new offering provides a secure cloud-based content management solution that accelerates digital transformation while addressing data sovereignty concerns.

Content Manager Select Software as a Service is available in three levels, representing different scales of required service. Gold, Platinum and Titanium levels provide a flexible choice of service provision in terms of supported users and service level commitments on response time and up-time.