CEO Blog
Mark J. Barrenechea
Mark J. Barrenechea joined OpenText as President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2012, and also serves as a member of the Board of Directors. In January 2016, Mark took on the role of Chief Technology Officer and was appointed Vice Chair in September 2017.
OpenText Committed to Climate Innovation
As I return home from OpenText World Europe, I am feeling invigorated by the powerful conversations that occurred throughout the week. I am also feeling…
New Cloud Offerings at Enterprise World
Enterprise World 2014 is now officially closed and was one for the history books. We had 1, 950 attendees, 464 partners, 181 sessions, and 16…
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Digital: Disrupt or Die
I’m pleased to announce the release of my latest book Digital: Disrupt or Die. It’s an exciting discourse about the emerging Digital-First World and…
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Building Smarter Cities with EIM
History is written by the winners. In a Digital-First world, there’s a whole slew of them: Google, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Facebook, Wikipedia, Pinterest, YouTube, GoPro,…
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Interview with “The Street”
As a follow-on to our year-end earnings call in the summer, I stopped by “The Street”, a U.S. financial news and services site, to…
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OpenText and SAP—Structuring the Unstructured for Competitive Advantage
Last week I had the privilege of delivering a keynote at SAP’s annual Sapphire Now conference. For more than two decades now, SAP and OpenText…
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Discovery Suite Release—Unlocking Value in Unstructured Information
Unstructured information is the most valuable untapped resource in the enterprise today based on its potential to reveal hidden insights, impact decisions, and unveil new…
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Investing Today for Tomorrow’s Growth
As the CEO of OpenText, I am often asked the secret of our success. How did a small spin-off company from the University of Waterloo…
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Experience Suite Release—Adaptive, Omni-Channel Experiences
Digital technologies have ushered in the “age of the customer.” With increasing access to information about products and services, today’s consumers are empowered to shop…
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2020 Agenda: Are You Ready?™ – New Process Suite
The pace of business has accelerated. We’ve seen more change in the last 20 years than in the previous 100. Change is the new constant….
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2020 Agenda: Are You Ready?™
By the year 2020, technologies like the cloud, mobile devices, big data, and the Internet of Things will have digitized our world in many ways….
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OpenText Acquires GXS
On November 5, 2013 we announced our intention to acquire GXS Group, Inc (GXS). Today, I am pleased to report the acquisition has closed and…
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Reduce Risk with Secure Information Exchange
Every business is an information business and this is why digitization is a key corporate priority. Every enterprise exchanges massive amounts of information on a…
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