CEO Blog
The CEO of OpenText, Mark Barrenechea, shares his insights and observations on information management and the latest technologies.
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Mark BarrenecheaMarch 7, 2018
Press for Progress
Today, as the world celebrates and reflects on the achievements of women, OpenText continues the important conversation to promote and…
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Mark BarrenecheaJanuary 2, 2018
2018 top tech predictions
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke It is an amazing time for technology and…
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Mark BarrenecheaDecember 19, 2017
Ten things impacting the world: impact on society
In January of 2017, the sales of George Orwell’s novel 1984 spiked, climbing to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list…
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Mark BarrenecheaDecember 12, 2017
Ten things impacting the world: the nature of conflict
In 2010, a malicious virus known as Stuxnet destroyed nearly 1,000 centrifuges in an Iranian uranium enrichment facility. The cyberattack…
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Mark BarrenecheaDecember 5, 2017
Ten things impacting the world: the nature of commerce
Innovations in digital payments are expanding the economy. As consumers (most notably Millennials) opt for new ways to pay for…
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Mark BarrenecheaNovember 28, 2017
Ten things impacting the world: climate change
The burning of fossil fuels and other activities have released enormous amounts of gases into the atmosphere. These emissions have…
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Mark BarrenecheaNovember 21, 2017
Ten things impacting the world: IQ of 1,000
The notion of a super-intelligent being has been the source of both speculation and entertainment for many years. We have…
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Mark BarrenecheaNovember 14, 2017
Ten things impacting the world: living to 150
Over the course of human history, our life expectancy has been on an upward trend: increasing from 30 years (during…
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Mark BarrenecheaNovember 7, 2017
Ten things impacting the world: the Internet of Things
Few things have the power to transform our world as rapidly and radically as digital. At the hub of this…
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Mark BarrenecheaNovember 1, 2017
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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Mark BarrenecheaOctober 25, 2017
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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Mark BarrenecheaOctober 17, 2017
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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Mark BarrenecheaOctober 10, 2017
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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Mark BarrenecheaSeptember 14, 2017
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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Mark BarrenecheaJuly 26, 2017
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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Mark BarrenecheaJune 14, 2017
How Will We Measure the Golden Age?
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to…
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Mark BarrenecheaMay 31, 2017
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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Mark BarrenecheaMay 24, 2017
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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Mark BarrenecheaMay 17, 2017
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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Mark BarrenecheaMay 10, 2017
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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