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.