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Activate your content for the agentic AI era

If an AI agent tried to act on your content today, could it? Most organizations aren’t ready.

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Modernize without disruption

ACTIVATE with OpenText lets you move content management to the cloud so you can preserve what works while reducing upgrade burden, strengthening governance, and preparing content for AI.

Less upgrade burden

Move from frozen versions to continuous content management innovation 

Trusted, AI-ready content

Make content governed, curated, and permissioned for reliable AI outcomes

Predictable economics

Use existing maintenance funds to modernize with predictable costs

Step 1

Recognize the signs your environment is falling behind

92% of orgs have had at least one AI setback tied to content barriers.* Most environments don’t fail; they become harder to evolve. You need activation, not just migration.

Content is invisible to AI

Lacks structure, metadata, and governed access

Upgrade path is frozen

Projects are longer, riskier, and harder to justify

Integrations are harder to maintain

Keeping pace with systems has become more complex

Governance is inconsistent

Policies vary or rely on manual enforcement

Content platform is stuck in repository mode

Limited workflow, automation, or orchestration

IT is stuck maintaining systems

Less time for innovation and improvement

Evaluate your environment

Use a structured framework to identify gaps in governance, integration, and AI content readiness and prioritize modernization.

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Step 2

Deliver trusted, governed, and connected content for AI

AI without governance is a liability. AI agents require content that’s complete, permission-aware, and connected to business context. Without it, retrieval becomes inconsistent and automation breaks down.

AI-ready content is:

  • Current
  • Accurate
  • Permission-aware
  • Consistently governed
  • Enriched with metadata
  • Connected to processes
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Step 3

Activate your content, not just your infrastructure

ACTIVATE with OpenText provides a structured path to cloud modernization, protecting existing integrations, maintaining critical workflows, and eliminating disruptive upgrade cycles so your environment evolves without starting over.

  • Make content visible to AI

    Structure and govern content so AI agents can retrieve, reason, and act on trusted information.

  • Connect content to business context

    Bring content and context together so AI can access all relevant information.

  • Build governance in, not on top

    Ensure every interaction with content is secure, auditable, and policy-driven.

  • Manage the content lifecycle at scale

    Automate retention, legal holds, and disposition across content types and systems.

  • Move beyond upgrade cycles

    Eliminate long upgrade projects and shift to continuous innovation.

  • Free IT to focus on higher-value work

    Reduce maintenance overhead so your team can focus on innovation, not upkeep.

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Common modernization questions

Get clear answers to common concerns about modernization, integration, cost, and timing.

  • No. A phased approach keeps existing integrations and workflows in place while your environment transitions. Both environments run in parallel until you're ready to cut over, with dual-run options available for complex environments. Certified integration patterns cover the enterprise applications content management customers depend on most, including SAP software, Microsoft 365, and Salesforce. Nothing moves until it's been validated.

  • No. ACTIVATE with OpenText builds on your current environment and evolves it over time. Many organizations modernize OpenText™ Content Management (Extended ECM) or OpenText™ Documentum™ Content Management (CM) progressively, while others move to a SaaS model based on their business and integration needs. The goal is to improve how your content works, not start over.

  • AI and automation depend on governed, accessible content. As environments fall behind, technical debt increases, integrations become harder to maintain, and AI initiatives stall before they deliver value. Delaying modernization increases both cost and complexity over time. The gap does not pause while you decide.

  • A standard migration moves your content management environment from one place to another. ACTIVATE focuses on making content governed, connected, and usable for AI and automation in the process. The goal is not to replicate your current environment in the cloud, but to improve how it operates. A lift-and-shift migration preserves existing limitations. ACTIVATE is designed to eliminate them.

  • If you’re an OpenText Content Management (Extended ECM) customer, you can:


    If you’re an OpenText Documentum CM customer, you can:

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    Footnotes

    Footnotes

    1. *Foundry Research sponsored by OpenText, MarketPulse Survey: Content Modernization: Accelerating Enterprise AI Goals, June 2026.