CEO Blog
The CEO of OpenText, Mark Barrenechea, shares his insights and observations on information management and the latest technologies.
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Ten things impacting the world: artificial intelligence
Autonomy is the mother of artificial intelligence (AI). AI will impact every industry as the autonomy of decision making—from self-driving…
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Ten things impacting the world: automation
According to Moore’s law, based on increased affordability and greater access, computing power will increase exponentially. When we examine the…
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Ten things impacting the world: connectivity
Humankind’s quest for better and faster connectivity can be traced from early smoke signals to the invention of the smartphone.…
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Ten things impacting the world
All knowledge is cumulative. Consider that every thought, novel, painting, poem, symphony, and software code has been created using the…
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OpenText acquires Guidance Software
I am pleased to announce that today, Guidance Software, the makers of EnCase, the gold standard in forensic security, joins…
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OpenText Acquires Covisint
Today is a very exciting day for OpenText customers as we announce the acquisition of Covisint, the leading Cloud platform…
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How Will We Measure the Golden Age?
Industrial revolutions tend to benefit the rich more than the poor, initially. They all begin with great inequality. In unequal…
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The Impact on Government
“Good enough” as a measure for government work is no longer good enough. The changing nature of the citizenry (Millennials…
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The Digital Self
Just as our analog notion of self (flesh and blood) consists of RNA and DNA, our digital sequence—let us call…
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The Impact on the Person
The “Physical” Self The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is expected to accelerate knowledge like never before. As I mentioned previously,…
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The Rise of the Machine
It is happening so fast it cannot be stopped. From Oxford to MIT to Harvard to the World Economic Forum,…
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New Skills are Required
Over the last decade much attention has been applied to a handful of skills for the professional worker. This is…
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Industries are Transformed
Every industry will be transformed by new technologies, a new workforce, new business models, and new buyer expectations. All businesses…
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New Business Models Emerge
New business models have emerged in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) that distinguish themselves from “the way business was conducted” in…
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The Impact on Business
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is servicing new market needs while simultaneously disturbing existing products and services. New business models…
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Ingenious: How Canadian Innovation Made the World a Better Place
What do the electric light bulb, peanut butter, the zipper, basketball, the Declaration of Human Rights, Saturday Night Live, the…
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution
What makes the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) different from the Third Industrial Revolution (3IR)? Well, everything. It is marked by…
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Revolutions. Industrial or otherwise.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution changes everything. Although it has many names—Industry 4.0, Digitalization, the Singularity, the Internet of Things (IoT),…
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Is the Microphone Working?
Testing, one, two, three. Testing, one, two three. Can you hear me? Is the microphone working? Testing (tapping on the…
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Introducing The Golden Age of Innovation
By all accounts, we are entering the Golden Age of Innovation, which many are calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Some…
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