OpenText
OpenText Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management software.
OpenText, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is Canada's largest software company as of 2014 and recognized as one of Canada's top 100 employers 2016 by Mediacorp Canada Inc.
OpenText software applications manage content or unstructured data for large companies, government agencies, and professional service firms. OpenText aims its products at addressing information management requirements, including management of large volumes of content, compliance with regulatory requirements, and mobile and online experience management.
OpenText employs over 12,000 people worldwide and is a publicly traded company, listed on the NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
History
University of Waterloo professors Frank Tompa, Timothy Bray, and Gaston Gonnet founded OpenText Corporation in 1991. It grew out of OpenText Systems Inc., founded in 1989. The founders spun the company off from a University of Waterloo project that developed technology to index the Oxford English Dictionary.Key people involved later include Tom Jenkins, who joined the company as COO in 1994. Tom Jenkins later became President and Chief Executive Officer, and has been Executive Chairman since 2013. John Shackleton served as President from 1998–2011, and as CEO from 2005 - 2011. Mark Barrenechea has been President and CEO of OpenText since 2012. Mark Barrenechea was named Canadian Business CEO of the year in 2015. From January 2016, Steve Murphy served as the President, however, the company eliminated the position in Q1 2017.
OpenText is a supporter of the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus, contributing both funds and in-kind services to the school.
On September 12, 2016, OpenText further expanded its share of the enterprise content management software market by buying that division of Dell EMC, which included Documentum, for $1.6 billion USD. OpenText had originally had Documentum and Hummingbird, Ltd., as its chief competitors in this space, but this acquisition brought the long-time third competitor in Documentum under one corporate roof.
OpenText acquired Carbonite Inc. in 2019 for approximately $1.45 billion.
RedDot
RedDot, founded in 1993, is a business unit of OpenText Corporation that the company refers to as the Web Solutions Group. The software assists in the management of content, with regulatory compliance and industry specific requirements.Its core product, RedDot CMS is a Windows-based server application that provides Web content management in a multi-user environment. Complementary to the CMS or as a standalone product, LiveServer aggregates disparate document resources and serves them as Web pages.
Captiva
Captiva Software became a subsidiary of OpenText in 2017. It makes software for document information processing and data capture from paper and electronic documents and provides related services. Information in the form of extracted content and files are acquired in the Captiva Solution and then delivered for storage or workflow into document management systems such as those from Documentum, Open Text, Microsoft, or IBM. In 2019 Captiva was rebranded as OpenText Intelligent Capture.Content authoring
Red dots on the authoring interface indicated sections of editable content for each web page, hence the name RedDot for the product. This feature was popular with customers and won awards in 2001 for its usability. By 2006 RedDot was one of the few WCM vendors that continued to develop their own content authoring interface. Most other WCM vendors had moved to open source alternatives, or had licensed an online rich-text editor from commercial vendors such as Ephox or Ektron. In response to customer attempts to work around the limitations of the RedDot editor by installing other editors RedDot developed an integration layer to support CKeditor and Ephox EditLive! as alternative editors. In 2009 RedDot made the Telerik RadEditor available alongside the existing RedDot editor for CMS 9.Acquisitions
Acquisitions by GXS
Products
OpenText Content Suite Platform
In 1996, the product originally called "Livelink" became OpenText™'s. Between 2003 and 2005, "Livelink" evolved from being the name of a single product to being a brand applied to the names of several OpenText software products. As a result of this change, "Livelink Server" became known as "Livelink Enterprise Server" and later "Livelink ECM. In 2012, OpenText introduced the OpenText Content Suite. Then the technology component formerly known as Livelink ECM - Enterprise Server became known as OpenText Content Server, which is now a key component of OpenText Content Suite Platform.Version release dates
| Product Name | Version | Release Date |
| OpenText Content Server 16.2.6 | 16.2.6 | September 2018 |
| OpenText Content Server 16 | 16.0.2 | June 2016 |
| OpenText Content Server 10.5 | 10.5 | December 2013 |
| Livelink ECM 10.0.0 | 10.0.0 | September 2010 |
| Livelink | 9.7.1 | December 2007 |
| Livelink | 9.7.0 | December 2006 |
| Livelink | 9.6.x | May 2006 |
OpenText Archive Center (Archive Server)
Around 2010 Livelink Enterprise Archive became Archive Server. It is a key product in the Extended ECM scenario. With Version 16 the Archive Server was renamed to Archive Center.| Product Name | Version | Release Date |
| Archive Center | 16.0.20 | June 2016 |
| Archive Server 10.5 | 10.5 | December 2013 |
| Archive Server 10.0.0 | 10.0.0 | September 2010 |
| Livelink Enterprise Archive | 9.7.1 | December 2007 |
| Livelink Enterprise Archive | 9.1.1 | December 2006 |
| Livelink Enterprise Archive | 5.8.x | May 2006 |
https://www.opentext.com/products-and-solutions/products/ai-and-analytics/opentext-magellan OpenText Magellan
In July of 2017, OpenText launched its artificial intelligence and analytics platform, OpenText Magellan, at the company’s Enterprise World conference. The platform combines open source machine learning with advanced analysis and is able to merge, manage, and analyze both structure data and unstructured, textual content. It offers machine-assisted decision making, automation, and business optimization in a scalable, flexible solution.https://businessnetwork.opentext.com/fax-server-software OpenText RightFax
OpenText™ RightFax™ provides network-based fax functionality to enterprise organizations.| Product Name | Version | Release Date |
| RightFax | 16 EP6 | April 2019 |
| RightFax | 16 EP4 | July 2018 |
| RightFax | 16 EP2 | May 2017 |
| RightFax | 10.6 | November 2013 |
| RightFax | 10.5 | July 2012 |
| RightFax | 10.0 | May 2011 |
| Open Text Fax Server | 9.4 | December 2008 |
| RightFax | 9.3 | June 2006 |
| RightFax | 9.0 | November 2004 |
| RightFax | 8.7 | February 2004 |
| RightFax | 8.5 | August 2002 |
| RightFax | 8.0 | August 2001 |
| RightFax | 7.2 | September 2000 |
| RightFax | 7.0 | May 2000 |
| RightFax | 6.0 | 1998 |
| RightFax | 5.2 | 1998 |
| RightFax | 5.0 | 1997 |
| RightFax | 4.5 | 1996 |
| RightFax | 4.02 | 1995 |
| RightFax | 4.0 | 1995 |
| RightFax | 3.5 | 1994 |
| RightFax | 3.0 | 1993 |
| RightFax | 2.0 | 1992 |