Your OpenText Content Server environment has been the backbone of your document management strategy for years. Now imagine transforming that reliable foundation to drive innovation, enable AI-powered automation, and position your organization at the forefront of intelligent content management.
The potential impact of this transformation is substantial. A Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study found that organizations using the full capabilities of OpenText Content Cloud can achieve 95% time savings per business process by dramatically improving productivity and reducing digital friction.[1] The evolution from your legacy OpenText content repository to modern enterprise content management capabilities isn’t just about staying current. It’s about unlocking productivity gains that change how your team gets work done.
The innovation opportunity
Your modernization journey opens doors to capabilities that simply weren’t possible with legacy platforms:
- AI-powered content intelligence: Use an embedded AI content assistant for conversational search, automatic document summarization, and intelligent content analysis across your entire repository.
- Enhanced collaboration: Support your distributed workforce with cloud-native capabilities that offer real-time collaboration tools and mobile access that maintain enterprise security.
- Advanced integration ecosystem: Connect effortlessly with current business systems, including updated SAP environments, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Guidewire, and emerging cloud applications.
- Future-ready architecture: Built for scalability and continuous innovation, modern platforms ensure your content management capabilities evolve with your business needs.
Choose your enterprise content management modernization strategy
OpenText Content Management represents the natural evolution of Content Server (and Livelink, if you’re really old school) enhanced with quarterly innovations. Choose one of these enterprise content management software upgrade paths to maximize your existing investment while opening new possibilities.
On-Premises and hybrid deployment
Upgrade your Content Server environment while maintaining control over your infrastructure.
Enhanced capabilities:
- Gen AI ready: use an embedded AI content assistant, OpenText Content Aviator, to drive faster decisions and intelligent automation
- Modern information governance: roles-based permissions and certified compliance controls offer stronger security and audit readiness than legacy platforms
- Flexible deployment options: support for on-premises, in a private cloud, or hybrid configurations based on your requirements
- Enhanced performance: Optimized architecture that handles larger content volumes with improved response times
What stays the same:
- Existing workflows and business processes
- Familiar administrative interfaces
- Current integrations and customizations
- Team knowledge and expertise
Private cloud hosting
Transform your Content Server environment through an OpenText Private Cloud deployment of OpenText Content Management.
Key advantages:
Gain the new capabilities from using the newest software version, plus:
- Dedicated infrastructure with cloud benefits
- Professional management freeing your IT resources
- Enterprise-grade security with enhanced control
- Predictable scaling without infrastructure investment
Your Content Server modernization journey
Getting started
Use OpenText’s “What’s Your Version?” assessment tool to map your enterprise content management software upgrade path, including business, integration, and deployment requirements. Search for “OpenText Content Management” because “Content Server” represents the legacy product name.
Professional services support
Work with OpenText consulting to accelerate your success through:
- Strategic assessment with customized upgrade roadmap
- Migration automation reducing manual effort
- Change management ensuring team adoption
Build your business case
Modernization isn’t just a technical upgrade. It’s a strategic investment in organizational capability. According to the same Forrester study, organizations that use OpenText Content Cloud can realize a 310% return on investment and $1.9 million cost savings due to infrastructure modernization.[2]
Here’s what you gain:
- Productivity: AI-powered automation, improved search capabilities, enhanced collaboration tools
- Competitive advantage: advanced analytics, new integration capabilities, AI-powered content intelligence
- Strategic positioning: platform longevity, modern architecture, flexible deployment options
Moving forward
The Content Server platform knowledge you’ve built becomes the foundation for AI content management, advanced automation, and seamless business integration.
Ready to begin? Connect with OpenText specialists to discuss your upgrade strategy.
What stays the same, what gets better
Preserved elements:
- Workflows: established business processes continue working as designed
- Administrative knowledge: existing admin skills transfer directly with enhanced capabilities
- Integration points: system connections remain functional while new integration options become available
- Configurations: existing platform configurations and business logic are maintained during upgrade, ensuring continuity while enabling new capabilities.
Enhanced enterprise content management capabilities:
- Performance improvements: faster response times and improved handling of large content volumes
- Mobile access: native mobile capabilities that weren’t available in legacy Content Server
- Cloud deployment options: flexibility to move to private cloud or hybrid configurations when ready
- AI content management platform: foundation for adding Content Aviator and other AI productivity capabilities
[1] The representative interviews and financial analysis in a Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study commissioned by OpenText found that a composite organization experiences benefits from potential time savings of 95% per business process over three years: Forrester, The Total Economic Impact™ Of OpenText Content Services Private Cloud Platforms, June 2024
[2] The representative interviews and financial analysis in a Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study commissioned by OpenText found that a composite organization experiences benefits of $24.31 million over three years versus costs of $5.94 million, adding up to a net present value (NPV) of $18.37 million and an ROI of 310%; and $1.9 million three-year, risk-adjusted present value (PV) cost savings: Forrester, The Total Economic Impact™ Of OpenText Content Services Private Cloud Platforms, June 2024
