OpenText released its own cloud file sharing solution this week called Tempo, which works a lot like Dropbox. You can save files to Tempo and they sync across all devices.

The key difference between OpenText Tempo and a public cloud service like Dropbox, according to OpenText, is that the data remains safely behind the firewall while providing access to it from a variety of mobile devices. What Open Text is attempting to do here is offer the consumer type of experience to users and the back-end security for IT and management. And it sounds like a smart approach.

As users demand their apps behave like consumer ones on the web, traditional enterprise software vendors have been short on answers, but a service like this offers the potential to give everyone what they want (assuming Tempo works as simply as Dropbox does).

Eugene Roman, chief technology officer of OpenText, believes that this changes the game by providing employees with simple, fast access to content wherever they are. "Tempo takes advantage of existing IT infrastructures and security to create an environment where business-critical information can be exchanged, used on the go and retained in ways never before possible," he said.

Customers can deploy Tempo behind the firewall or in the cloud, depending on their requirements.

It will be available in January.

For more:
- see the OpenText press release

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