Upgrade and Optimize OpenText Solutions for Success in 2026

Upgrade and Optimize OpenText Solutions for Success in 2026

OpenText has been a cornerstone of content management platforms for Life Sciences, Finance, Manufacturing, Automotive, Retail, Insurance and more for decades, delivering unrivaled stability and capability in the most demanding, business critical environments. As we head into 2026, they continue to push the industry forward, upgrading proven core technology and integrating advanced AI-driven capabilities.

To ensure you get the full benefits of your OpenText investment, there are several key areas to consider for both short- and long-term initiatives. Here are a few of the most important.

OpenText Product Lifecycles

The heyday of isolated, on-premises software applications installed on local servers is long gone, evolving into today’s cloud-based, integrated, and always advancing solutions. For better or worse, those improvements can happen fast. Any upgrade can include valuable improvements as well as critical changes that can impact your team and business workflows. Keeping up with changes in capabilities and their deeper impacts has become a continual frustration for IT departments maintaining multiple systems and integrations across complex business environments.

It’s essential to understand which versions are active and vendor-supported to avoid additional maintenance costs and unintentionally paying extra to support obstacles to future innovation. fme keeps close tabs on OpenText’s product lifecycle matrix and works with our clients informed of the critical dates for their individual technology stack.

We also have advanced TechOps Support Services for cost-effective release and application change management, and day-to-day application support if required.

Optimize OpenText Solutions for Your Business

As with any technology, it’s vital that your platforms support your unique business needs and goals. Over our 25 years, we’ve served as our clients’ technology partner, providing an objective perspective to help maximize their technology ROI and minimize their total cost of ownership, balancing costs, capabilities, and business priorities. Learn more in this post where we compare both the benefits and challenges of OpenText solutions, and outline a variety of strategies that provide quick-win and foundational improvements. We can provide a clear roadmap that can both reduce costs and increase efficiency within teams and across departments.

Ensuring System-wide AI Readiness

We are in the middle of a dramatic change in human-software interaction, and the technology hype-cycle is giving way to the real possibilities and applications of AI technology. Regardless of what system or platform you choose, it’s essential that the data and documents fueling your AI platform are organized and ready for ingestion and analysis.

To quote our CEO Dirk Bode, “All the AI in the world won’t help if your data’s a mess. You’ve got to have a solid foundation.” 

fme’s history of content management and platform services gives us an unparallelled understanding of the best practices required to prepare structured and unstructured data for AI solutions.

Let’s Meet at OpenText World!

fme has been an OpenText partner for over two decades and every year we look forward to the announcements, innovations and excitement of OpenText World November 17-20 in Nashville, Tennessee. We will have multiple team members on site to discuss everything OpenText, and to share how fme guides their clients to get the most value from their OpenText solutions. If you are attending let us know below, we’d love to meet you there!

Learn More About fme’s OpenText Solutions

With 25 years of experience, fme has the knowledge and skills to help you maximize the ROI of your content management solutions like OpenText Documentum and OpenText Content Suite. We are the right partner with experience in complex Life Science data, the industry’s leading platforms and the current best-practices and strategies to get the most from the OpenText IT landscape. Let us help you reduce costs while improving your system efficiency and capability.

Webinar 🖥️ Modern Archiving for Life Sciences Enterprises: A Case Study

Webinar 🖥️ Modern Archiving for Life Sciences Enterprises: A Case Study

IT and Operations teams that complete digital transformation programs often face a familiar question: what happens if they decide to leave some records or documents behind? Our clients sometimes run multi-year initiatives to move onto new, best-of-breed platforms. But they may not want to bring every document or decade’s worth of data with them. Still, compliance requirements mean that historical content can’t simply be ignored. So then what? Keep the old systems running? Pay a small team to maintain them?

In today’s competitive environment, these challenges aren’t just operational, they can create a real strategic disadvantage. Let’s look at the most common pain points we hear from clients and partners.

Technical and Operational Challenges

Rising Infrastructure Costs
Maintaining outdated systems and on-premise architectures drives up costs. Hardware upkeep, security patching licensing, and support all add up, making it difficult for organizations to scale efficiently.

System Complexity and Maintenance Overhead
Years of customizations, patches, and integrations often leave legacy platforms fragile. Specialized skills are required to keep them running, but those skills are harder to find as IT professionals gravitate toward modern technologies.

Data Silos and Inconsistent Metadata
Mergers, acquisitions, and department-level repositories often leave organizations with fragmented archives. This leads to inconsistent metadata and taxonomies, reducing visibility and slowing access to critical records.

Compliance and Risk Management Challenges

Audit and Inspection Readiness
Regulators expect rapid, accurate access to historical documents. Legacy systems, with clunky user interfaces and inconsistent metadata, make it difficult to retrieve information quickly during audits or inspections.

Validation Burden
Maintaining compliance requires frequent re-validation of legacy platforms. However, even minor patches or upgrades can trigger new rounds of validation driving up costs and eating up time.

Security Vulnerabilities
Outdated platforms often lack modern safeguards such as role-based access controls, real-time monitoring, or advanced encryption. This leaves sensitive records exposed to potential breaches.

The Bottom Line

IT and Operations leaders are being pulled in all directions: rising infrastructure costs, growing compliance demands, user frustration, and leadership pushing for innovation and AI adoption.

But there is a path forward. Modern archiving strategies allow organizations to move to new platforms without dragging along every last document, while still ensuring compliance, security, and accessibility.

Case Study: fme Modernizes Archiving for Life Sciences Firm

Does this sound familiar? If so, you’re not alone, and there are clear paths forward. There are practical strategies to break free from legacy systems and move toward scalable, secure, and compliant information management.

Early in 2025, one of our global pharma clients faced this exact situation. They decided it was time to retire their costly legacy systems and replace them with a modern archiving solution that could meet today’s business and regulatory requirements.

They turned to fme Life Sciences for our decades of experience in content migrations and our deep understanding of Life Sciences business requirements. Together with our partner Generis, we combined the flexibility of the CARA Platform with the power of fme migration-center to provide a scalable, cost-efficient archiving solution that not only addressed immediate challenges but also laid a strong foundation for future AI-enabled capabilities.

View the Recording to Learn More

If you are struggling with similar challenges with the costs and barriers of legacy systems, view the recording for Modern Archiving for Life Sciences Enterprises: A Case Study to learn more about this distinctive solution. fme’s president Frank D’Entrone and Generis’ Rex Harrison will be sharing details on the project, as well as how the combination of fme and Generis solutions enabled the client to not only achieve immediate goals, but established a strong foundation for future capabilities.

Why Watch This Webinar?

In this session, you’ll learn:

    • How to eliminate excessive legacy system maintenance costs and integration complexity
    • Planning process and significant benefits of fme’s custom-built archiving tool leveraging Generis CARA and fme’s migration-center
    • An introduction to CARA’s AI-powered capabilities for search and content interaction
    • How the strategic partnership between fme and Generis benefits our clients

Webinar Details

🖥️ Title: Modern Archiving for Life Sciences Enterprises: A Case Study

📅 Date: Recorded Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Who Should Attend?

    • IT Leadership (CIOs, IT Directors, Architects)
    • Regulatory & Quality leaders
    • Records, Information Management and Data Integrity professionals
    • Digital Transformation / Business Systems Owners
    • Migration & Compliance IT teams

If your teams are weighed down by the costs and risks of legacy archiving systems, this is your opportunity to learn how to modernize with confidence, especially if you have implemented or are considering modern solutions within other departments.

👉 View the recording today and be ready to learn efficient and cost-effective archiving with modern solutions.

Data Quality is the Key to Veeva Success: Learn Why at Veeva Summit

Data Quality is the Key to Veeva Success: Learn Why at Veeva Summit

For a large segment of the life sciences industry, Veeva has become THE strategic hub for regulated content and data. Its unified suite of applications is designed to improve collaboration, compliance, and speed to market, outshining many legacy systems that have been the go-to solutions for decades. And each year, industry leaders travel to the Veeva Summit: R&D and Quality in Boston to explore how to plan, integrate, and sustain the Veeva platform within modern digital ecosystems.

As a proven Veeva partner with many successful, large-scale migrations to the Veeva platform, we regularly sponsor the Veeva Summit to share our knowledge and strategies for success. Without fail, the most common question we get asked at our booth is “What is the key to a successful migration to the Veeva platform?” Some assume that as a modern SaaS platform, it’s ready to go out of the box. Others suggest that the initial configuration is what guarantees a successful digital transformation. While both have a degree of accuracy, the true key to success rests in launching your system with accurate data.

Data Quality Is the Key to Veeva Success

Without a doubt, data quality is the key to a successful migration to the Veeva platform. Organized, complete, and accurately classified data and metadata are essential to harness the power of the Veeva platform and support the compliance and process requirements that are critical to effective digital transformation. Other components can’t be ignored, but for true digital transformation that feeds long-term growth, data quality is critical.

Whether you’re implementing a single Veeva application or expanding across the full suite, your ability to unlock Veeva’s value is directly tied to the quality and integrity of the data that feeds it. That means your migration must be more than just technically correct: it must be strategically aligned, intelligently designed, and executed with deep awareness of the life sciences regulatory environment.

fme’s Migrations Deliver Data Quality

Migrating from legacy systems is a complex, high-stakes endeavor and every project comes with its own unique challenges. From fragmented repositories and inconsistent metadata to GxP compliance and validation requirements, your long-term success depends on how those challenges are handled from the start.

As a Gold Sponsor of the Veeva Summit, fme is proud to share real-world lessons from the field: how we’ve solved challenges, mitigated risks, and delivered success under pressure for the most demanding programs in the industry. We don’t just speak about possibilities: we show results.

With decades of experience and deep domain expertise, fme is the go-to partner for large-scale (and we mean very large), highly regulated Veeva migrations. We’ve supported clients with aggressive timelines, global scopes, and zero room for error, and we’ve done it with precision, strategy, and trust.

Trusted Expertise + Intelligent Accelerators = Strategic Success

fme is not just a transactional migration vendor—we are your strategic partner committed to long-term success. We know that no two organizations are alike, and neither are their migrations. Our proven, field-tested methodology is designed to be tailored to your business, technical, and regulatory needs. From full-scale global deployments to phased rollouts, we adapt to your size, timeline, and complexity, whether migrating thousands or millions of documents. Our comprehensive, full-lifecycle migration services are grounded in close collaboration and built to ensure a smooth, compliant experience.

To deliver at the scale and speed today’s life sciences leaders require, fme pairs expert consulting with AI-powered tools and certified accelerators that de-risk, streamline, and future-proof your migration. Here are two of our powerful tools:

MetadataAssist™

MetadataAssist uses automation and AI to streamline metadata analysis, enrichment, and mapping, significantly reducing manual effort and accelerating the preparation of high-quality metadata ahead of migration. This ensures that your Veeva environment is not only populated with the right data, but with data that’s clean, consistent, and aligned with your business logic.

migration-center®

Complementing this is migration-center®, fme’s Veeva-product-certified migration accelerator, purpose-built to simplify even the most complex, large-scale content migrations. Supporting over 250 source-to-target combinations, migration-center® handles the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from legacy systems, databases, file shares, and cloud platforms. The result is accurate, structured, and compliant data that supports your teams immediately upon deployment into Veeva.

Let’s Move Forward, Together!

Migrating to Veeva is a strategic move that sets the foundation for your future in regulated content and data management. With fme by your side, you’re backed by decades of life sciences experience, a tailored and proven methodology, and powerful accelerators that deliver unparallelled clarity, speed, and confidence.

Download our Veeva capabilities overview below to learn more about our services, tools, and client success stories. Then, we’ll schedule a discovery meeting where we’ll discuss your current environment (or environments) and walk through the next steps for accelerating your Veeva transformation.

Not Attending Veeva Summit? Let’s Still Connect.

Can’t make it to Boston this year? We’ll be happy to share our key takeaways from the event, review the latest Veeva updates, and discuss how fme can support your short- and long-term goals: on your timeline, and on your terms.

See You in Madrid: Let’s Talk Transformation at Veeva Summit

See You in Madrid: Let’s Talk Transformation at Veeva Summit

Accelerating Your Veeva Journey

As life sciences organizations prepare to attend the Veeva R&D and Quality Summit in Madrid, one key theme continues to emerge: How can we fully harness the power of Veeva to support digital transformation and long-term growth?

Throughout Summit, industry leaders will explore how to plan, integrate, and sustain the Veeva platform within modern digital ecosystems. With its unified suite of applications, Veeva is the strategic hub for regulated content and data, designed to improve collaboration, compliance, and speed to market. But, the true value of the Veeva ecosystem is only realized when the data it holds is accurate, complete, and usable.

Data Integrity as the Cornerstone of Transformation
Whether you’re implementing a single Veeva application or expanding across the full suite, your ability to unlock Veeva’s value is directly tied to the quality and integrity of the data that feeds it. That means your migration must be more than just technically correct: it must be strategically aligned, intelligently designed, and executed with deep awareness of the life sciences regulatory environment.

The reality? Migrating from legacy systems is a complex, high-stakes endeavor. From fragmented repositories and inconsistent metadata to GxP compliance and validation requirements, every project comes with its own risks. Your long-term success on the Veeva platform depends on how those challenges are handled from the start.

fme at Veeva Summit: Proven Migration Leadership

We’re not just speaking about possibilities: we’re bringing results. As a Gold Sponsor, fme is proud to share real-world lessons from the field: how we’ve solved challenges, mitigated risks, and delivered success under pressure for the most demanding Vault programs in the industry.

With decades of experience and deep domain expertise, fme is the go-to partner for large-scale (and we mean very large), highly regulated Veeva migrations. We’ve supported clients with aggressive timelines, global scopes, and zero room for error, and we’ve done it with precision, strategy, and trust.

Transform with Confidence: The fme Veeva Migration Advantage
We know that no two organizations are alike, and neither are their migrations. While we bring a proven, field-tested methodology, we tailor every engagement to your business, technical, and regulatory needs. From full-scale global deployments to phased rollouts, we adapt to your size, timeline, and complexity, whether migrating thousands or millions of documents.

Our comprehensive, full-lifecycle migration services are grounded in close collaboration and built to ensure a smooth, compliant experience. We begin with a thorough assessment of your current systems and data to identify complexities and data quality issues early, allowing us to craft a customized plan that aligns with your business and ensures readiness for the Veeva ecosystem.

And our support doesn’t end at go-live. Many of our clients continue to work with us through post-migration services that ensure long-term success:

  • TechOps Support℠ provides ongoing operational oversight to keep your Veeva environment running smoothly.
  • HealthCheckAssist™ offers post-deployment optimization, ensuring your system performs at peak efficiency as business needs evolve.

With fme, you gain a strategic partner committed to long-term success, not just a transactional migration vendor.

Trusted Expertise. Intelligent Accelerators.

To deliver at the scale and speed today’s life sciences leaders require, fme pairs expert consulting with AI-powered tools and certified accelerators that derisk, streamline, and future-proof your migration.

MetadataAssist™, uses automation and AI to streamline metadata analysis, enrichment, and mapping, significantly reducing manual effort and accelerating the preparation of high-quality metadata ahead of migration. This ensures that your Veeva environment is not only populated with the right data, but with data that’s clean, consistent, and aligned with your business logic.

Complementing this is migration-center®, fme’s Veeva-product-certified migration accelerator, purpose-built to simplify even the most complex, large-scale content migrations. Supporting over 250 source-to-target combinations, migration-center® handles the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from legacy systems, databases, file shares, and cloud platforms. The result is accurate, structured, and compliant data that supports your teams immediately upon deployment into Veeva.

Why fme? Trusted Partner. Recognized Results.

Migrating to Veeva is more than a basic technical project: it’s a strategic move that sets the foundation for your future in regulated content and data management. With fme by your side, you’re backed by decades of life sciences experience, a tailored and proven methodology, and powerful accelerators like migration-center® and MetadataAssist™ that bring clarity, speed, and confidence to even the most complex migrations.

We’ve delivered for the world’s largest life sciences organizations and we’re ready to do the same for you.

Let’s Move Forward, Together!

Ready to explore your path to Veeva?
Download our Veeva capabilities overview below to learn more about our services, tools, and client success stories. Then, we’ll schedule a discovery meeting where we’ll discuss your current environment (or environments) and walk through the next steps for accelerating your Veeva transformation.

Not Attending Veeva Summit? Let’s Still Connect.

Can’t make it to Madrid this year? We’ll be happy to share our key takeaways from the event, review the latest Veeva updates, and discuss how fme can support your short- and long-term goals: on your timeline, and on your terms.

Is Your Veeva RIM System Falling Behind?

Is Your Veeva RIM System Falling Behind?

You invested in Veeva RIM to stay ahead—so why does it feel like you’re always catching up?

With three major product releases each year, Veeva RIM evolves constantly. While this pace of innovation is exciting, it also places a heavy burden on your internal teams to keep up. New configurable features are introduced regularly—some automatically turned on—and organizations often fall behind in implementing them. This not only limits your system’s value but introduces risk, inefficiency, and frustration across your regulatory operations.

fme’s HealthCheckAssist℠ is designed to help you take back control. Our service identifies exactly where your configuration, data, documents, and security model are falling behind—and gives you a roadmap to catch up fast.

Are You Seeing These Warning Signs?

Many teams using Veeva RIM experience one or more of these problems:

    • You aren’t sure which features are active—or if they’re being used
    • Your metadata is inconsistent and hard to report on
    • Your security model is slowing down access or creating user friction
    • You’re relying too heavily on workarounds
    • You’re preparing for a regulatory inspection and unsure if your system is truly compliant
    • Your team complains that “Vault doesn’t work” when the issue is configuration, not capability
    • Modern Platforms Evolve—Has Your Configuration Kept Up?

Veeva’s model of three releases a year is a leap forward compared to static, on-prem systems. But it comes with a new kind of pressure. Features are released with little warning, configurable settings change, and legacy configurations may block you from taking advantage of what’s new. Worse, these changes may seem small—but they can add up to missed functionality and diminished ROI.

Veeva RIM has the power to drive incredible efficiency—but only if it’s aligned with your business process and organizational maturity. HealthCheckAssist ensures you’re not missing out on what you’ve already paid for.

Is Your Security Model Getting in the Way?

One of the most common signs that your system is falling behind is when security becomes more of a roadblock than a safeguard. We often find clients with hyper-granular access models, overly complex user roles, or workflows that frustrate rather than empower.

This complexity leads to increased admin time, slow issue resolution, and poor user adoption. HealthCheckAssist helps you identify where to redesign your security to strike the right balance: protecting your data while enabling your teams to work.

What HealthCheckAssist Delivers

HealthCheckAssist is a structured, low-burden assessment that gives you clear, actionable insights into how your Veeva RIM environment is being used and how to fix what’s broken or outdated. We don’t just point out what’s wrong. We give you a strategic plan that outlines exactly how to get your system back in shape.

Our assessment includes:

    • Stakeholder and user interviews to capture frustrations and goals
    • Review of feature usage (or under-usage) across key objects like Events, Objectives, HA interactions, and more
    • Data and document quality evaluation, including naming consistency and metadata completeness
    • Security model analysis, including role design and permission complexity
    • Training and documentation assessment to identify gaps in user enablement
    • Turn Regulatory Change Into Strategic Advantage

One of the most overlooked challenges in Veeva is staying release-ready. With HealthCheckAssist, we help you anticipate upcoming platform changes, leverage features that enhance productivity, and avoid the trap of always being in ‘reactive mode.’ You’ll no longer be left wondering, “What did we miss in the last release?” Instead, you’ll be confident that your system is future-proof.

Bonus: Supercharge Your Admins with dqMan

As part of every HealthCheckAssist engagement, we include a 1-year license of dqMan—our advanced Veeva query and metadata tool. dqMan empowers your admins to run fast, deep queries across Veeva Vaults, edit metadata in bulk, and troubleshoot with precision. It’s an ideal complement to your internal support model and a powerful tool to accelerate cleanup and optimization. 

fme developed dqMan to provide a professional administration tool designed to boost productivity and maximize your efficiency as a Veeva Vault expert. Carefully crafted on the robust dqMan platform, this tool reveals the true power of the VQL (Vault Query Language) and MDL (Metadata Definition Language). It provides users with exclusive capabilities and a broad feature set while enhancing user accessibility and streamlining operations alongside the comprehensive functionalities offered by Veeva Vault Admin. Seamlessly installable on any Windows machine, our enterprise-grade software solution boasts an intuitive user interface, delivering a great user experience.

Say goodbye to manual, time-consuming tasks and focus on what truly matters—efficiently managing your Veeva Vault applications.

HealthCheckAssist Delivers Results

    • Faster access to information and higher user satisfaction
    • Streamlined, compliant security model that scales
    • Increased feature adoption and configuration alignment
    • Strategic roadmap to unlock platform value
    • Enhanced document and metadata quality
    • Improved readiness for inspection or global rollout

Let’s Catch You Up—And Keep You Ahead

Don’t let your Veeva RIM system fall behind just when you need it most. fme’s HealthCheckAssist gives you a clear, fast, and effective way to assess, align, and accelerate your Veeva RIM configuration.

Download the HealthCheckAssist datasheet below and contact us today to get started—and start using everything your system has to offer.

Unlock the Power of Generis CARA for Quality — With fme as Your Proven Migration Partner

Unlock the Power of Generis CARA for Quality — With fme as Your Proven Migration Partner

The life sciences industry is redefining what quality means in the digital era. No longer confined to siloed workflows or paper-era processes, modern quality management demands real-time insights, cross-functional alignment, and seamless integration across systems.

That’s why more organizations are choosing Generis CARA, a next-generation platform built not only to modernize quality operations, but to align them with broader regulatory, clinical, and enterprise goals. But reaching that vision takes more than selecting the right platform: it requires executing a migration strategy that ensures business continuity, compliance, and long-term value from effective data usability.

This is where fme delivers.

Why Generis CARA is Gaining Momentum

Generis CARA is rapidly becoming the platform of choice for forward-looking life sciences organizations that need more than just incremental improvements to their quality systems. What makes CARA stand out is its metadata-driven architecture, which enables intelligent workflows, dynamic configurations, and true cross-functional collaboration.

CARA brings quality, regulatory, safety, and clinical processes together in a truly single, harmonized environment, eliminating the inefficiencies of disconnected systems that require manual connectivity and redundant data. The platform’s modern UX, personalized dashboards, and responsive design enhance adoption and usability, while deployment flexibility (including public cloud, private cloud, or on-premise) supports a wide range of IT and compliance strategies.

With built-in interoperability and open APIs, CARA integrates naturally with ERP, LIMS, PLM, and other enterprise systems, helping quality become a connected, agile function across the business. Those who know me, know this is a major sticking point for me – stop duplicating your master data in your QMS when you can integrate with your ERP, please!

Proven Experience with Generis CARA Migrations

fme doesn’t just understand quality systems: we understand how to move them. We are actively supporting some of the world’s most complex and highly regulated organizations as they migrate to Generis CARA today. That firsthand experience gives us a deep understanding of the platform’s architecture, its data model, and the transformation steps required to get from legacy to next-gen, all without compromising compliance.

We combine that expertise with migration-center®, our purpose-built migration platform that enables large-scale data and document migrations with precision and traceability. From structured metadata to unstructured legacy documents, we help organizations classify, map, transform, and verify every record so what arrives in CARA is not only compliant, but clean, usable, and aligned with your business goals.

Our work isn’t theoretical. It’s happening now and delivering measurable value to companies modernizing their global landscapes with CARA.

What fme Brings to the Table

Making the move to a new QMS platform is a high-stakes endeavor. fme brings the tools, expertise, and industry knowledge to ensure that the migration isn’t just successful, it’s designed in line with your organization’s strategic goals. That means not only preserving compliance and continuity, but also structuring your data to support future innovation.

Whether you’re building a foundation for AI-driven quality insights, enabling advanced trend analysis, or preparing for greater integration across enterprise systems, we ensure your migration delivers usable, intelligent, and value-rich data that is ready to power what’s next. Here’s what you can count on fme for:

  • End-to-end CARA migration services, from legacy system analysis with our Migration Readiness Evaluation and Data Quality Assessment offerings to migration execution to legacy system decommissioning and archiving
  • Accelerated execution through reusable templates, automation frameworks, and proven methodologies from hands-on migrations into CARA
  • Change-aware transformation, built to preserve compliance history and improve future usability

We don’t just move data, we move the right data, in the right format, with the right controls to support your next-generation quality operations.

The Right Platform. The Right Partner.

Generis CARA is changing the way quality systems work. fme ensures you get there the right way: confidently, compliantly, and with a migration strategy designed to deliver value from day one.

Let’s talk about your path to Generis CARA. Download the datasheet below to learn more about fme’s capability with the Generis CARA platform, and request a personalized discovery discussion.