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OpenText Acquires Hightail
Feb. 14 2018
The new year has been pretty quiet on the acquisition front for OpenText, but today, they showed some love for the cloud file sharing and collaboration firm Hightail, announcing they had acquired Hightail... View More
Content Services Are Evolving
Dec. 18 2017
About a year ago, we reported on the announcement by OpenText on their intention to acquire Dell EMC's Enterprise Content Division (ECD), which includes Documentum, InfoArchive, and LEAP. It was a move... View More
DOCStratNews
Nov. 7 2017
OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX), the global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced the availability of OpenText Release 16 Enhancement Pack 3 (EP3). This release delivers... View More
Digital CCM Revolution
Sept. 1 2017
If you regularly follow our publication, then you know we’ve been covering the dynamic shifts within the customer communications management (CCM) market. More often than not, the conversation... View More
July 26 2017
OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTEX), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Guidance Software (NASDAQ: GUID),... View More
Managing Documents
July 18 2017
There’s a lot of talk about the change in enterprise content management (ECM). There’s change in the name of ECM: One camp wants to call it “Content Services” and another “Intelligent... View More
July 11 2017
OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), announced the availability of OpenText Magellan, the company's new Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform.... View More
DOCStratNews
June 5 2017
OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTEX), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Covisint Corporation (NASDAQ: COVS),... View More
archiving
May 4 2017
April was a busy month for content and workflow technology vendors, with new partnerships, product redesigns, new integration, and, possibly, new ownership. Today, we review a few interesting developments
May 4 2017
OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), announced Release 16 Enhancement Pack 2 (EP2), the second enhancement pack for OpenText Release 16, the company's... View More
ECM Suites - DOCUMENT Strategy
March 22 2017
The first major consolidation in the enterprise content management (ECM) marketplace occurred when IBM bought FileNet in 2006, the first time two major players united to form one large, multi-repository... View More
March 1 2017
Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX) ("OpenText") announced today the appointment of Jürgen Tinggren to its board of directors. Mr. Tinggren is the former chief executive officer of Schindler... View More
GMC Software and OpenText Top Gartner Magic Quadra
Feb. 7 2017
GMC Software continues to dominate as a Leader in Gartner’s recent “Magic Quadrant for Customer Communications Management Software,” as does OpenText, who has been busy expanding their... View More
Jan. 23 2017
OpenText(TM) (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today announced that it has completed the closing of the previously announced acquisition of Dell EMC's... View More
Small steps to improve user experience - DOCUMENT
Jan. 12 2017
Enterprise content management (ECM) implementations experienced rapid growth and significant client investments from the late 90s through the financial downturn of 2008. With the reduction in storage costs... View More
Future of Information Management - DOCUMENT Strate
Jan. 12 2017
2016 brought about some interesting changes in the information management industry. Among the big changes in the supplier landscape, we saw Dell acquire EMC, who then sold its Documentum solutions to OpenText,... View More
futureDocumentum
Jan. 3 2017
On September 12, 2016, OpenText announced that it would acquire Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division (ECD). ECD includes... View More
Oct. 4 2016
OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), announced the latest version of OpenText Exstream. The new release offers the fastest, most reliable communications... View More
Sept. 16 2016
Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dell EMC's Enterprise... View More
CX_Opentext
June 27 2016
OpenText Corporation, Canada’s largest software company with roughly $2B in global sales, announced it is buying HP Exstream for $315M. Exstream is a market-leading customer communications management... View More
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  • Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has long been recognized as a tool that clicks buttons faster than humans, excelling at repetitive tasks like moving files or exporting reports
  • For decades, customer communications management (CCM) has focused on outbound engagement, such as statements, explanations of benefits (EOBs) and annual notifications of changes (ANOCs), delivered in
  • When I think about how far customer communications have evolved, it’s clear that we’ve entered a new era, one where the regulated document is moving from being an artifact of a transaction
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