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OpenText Documentum Content Management for Life Sciences

Ensure GxP-compliant content management in life sciences

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Is your life sciences content ready for the next regulatory inspection?

If you're drowning in documents, siloed systems and processes, and regulatory hurdles, you're not alone. There’s a better way to manage content—faster, smarter, and built for the pace of modern life sciences.

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OpenText™ Documentum™ Content Management (CM) for Life Sciences is a GxP-compliant document management system purpose-built for life sciences. It unifies regulated content across clinical, regulatory, quality, and manufacturing domains—keeping critical life sciences content organized and following strict regulations for safety and quality—while enabling secure, cloud-ready collaboration, automated workflows, and seamless system integrations.

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Why OpenText Documentum CM for Life Sciences?

Only OpenText combines 25+ years of life sciences expertise with a proven platform trusted by global leaders. Our solution goes beyond compliance, streamlining innovation, enabling speed, and letting you scale in the cloud with confidence.

  • 25+ years
    industry-proven, GxP-ready
    Rely on a solution designed for life sciences with built-in support for 21 CFR Part 11, audit trails, e-signatures, and regulatory standards.
  • 3.5x
    more documents processed monthly
    Free up time, cut risk, and make room for real business growth with digital workflows.
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  • 3
    purpose-built life sciences solutions
    Let your content move as fast as science by securely handling clinical, regulatory, and quality documents in one system.

Use cases

From clinical trials to commercial launch, teams rely on OpenText Documentum CM for Life Sciences to manage regulated content with speed and precision, simplify compliance, boost productivity, and bring life-saving therapies to market faster.

  • Automate compliance with ICH-compliant filings, using taxonomies, lifecycles, and workflows. Enable editing, merging, and secure archiving with metadata-driven access control through OpenText Documentum CM for Regulatory.

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  • Simplify clinical trial documents with fast, safe access in one place. Track progress, fix gaps, and stay inspection-ready with OpenText Documentum CM for eTMF.

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  • Support consistent quality, organization, and management of GMP compliant documents—along with secure, traceable printing and tracking—using powerful, controlled templates from OpenText Documentum CM for Quality and Manufacturing.

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  • Work smarter by linking to tools like CTMS, LIMS, LMS, QMS, and ERP, so your info stays connected and easy to manage.

  • Share and edit documents securely—whether your team is in the lab or at home—to keep work protected and moving in the right direction.

  • Use pre-built solutions designed for life sciences teams to help you set up quickly and follow important industry rules like IDMP and eTMF.

    Key features

    Consolidate all life sciences document management in one easy system. From clinical trials to quality and manufacturing or regulatory activities, get the tools you need to stay organized, follow the rules, and work smarter.

    GxP compliance framework

    Delivers validation support with audit trails, e-signatures, and automated controls to ensure regulatory compliance and reduce inspection risk.

    Unified repository

    Keeps clinical, regulatory, and manufacturing files together and secure, so you can easily find and manage everything in one spot.

    Cloud or on-site deployment

    Deploys your way—on-premises or in the cloud—leveraging smart tech like Docker and Kubernetes to make updates and scaling simple.

    Ready-made workflows

    Helps you get started fast with workflows, templates, and folders built for your industry, and ensures you adhere to global standards.

    Automated document checks

    Spots missing or wrong documents with helpful charts and reports, and fixes problems quickly before they become issues.

    App integration

    Links the system to your existing quality, training, and publishing apps, so you don’t have to switch between programs.

    Smart tagging and document tracking

    Uses built-in rules and metadata tags to easily and consistently manage documents the right way from start to finish.

    Scalable content management

    Captures, indexes, organizes, stores, tracks, and archives documents securely in a repository built to meet corporate mandates and handle extreme demands, like importing 20 million objects per hour.

    Integrations

    Connect your life sciences content with these integrations.

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    Add-ons

    Maximize your investment in OpenText Documentum CM for Life Sciences with powerful extensions.

    Integrations

    Integrate the systems you use every day with your enterprise content management tools.

    Deployment

    OpenText offers flexible deployment options for OpenText Documentum Content Management for Life Sciences.

    Professional services

    OpenText Professional Services combines end-to-end solution implementation with comprehensive technology services to help improve systems.

    Partners

    OpenText helps customers find the right solution, the right support, and the right outcome.

    Training

    OpenText Learning Services offers comprehensive enablement and learning programs to accelerate knowledge and skills.

      Communities

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      Premium Support

      Optimize the value of your OpenText solution with dedicated experts who provide mission-critical support for your complex IT environment.

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      • OpenText Documentum CM for Life Sciences helps manage documents by keeping them organized and compliant with rules. It speeds up clinical trials, regulatory submissions, and quality control with secure, easy-to-use tools.

      • OpenText Documentum CM for Life Sciences organizes trial documents, checks for errors like missing approvals, and lets teams share files securely. This cuts delays and keeps everything ready for inspections.

      • OpenText Documentum CM for Life Sciences uses templates and workflows to create submission-ready documents fast, helping organization meet FDA and EMA rules with clear audit trails.

      • It manages GMP documents with templates to reduce errors, simplify reviews, and ensure secure, traceable printing for compliance.

      • Yes, it connects with existing systems like CTMS, QMS, LMS, and LIMS. That means your data flows smoothly between systems, and you don’t have to switch back and forth.

      • It lets you securely print controlled copies with watermarks, expiration dates, and access logs, helping meet GxP and audit requirements.

      • No, you can run it on-premises, in your own private cloud, or with a public cloud provider. It’s flexible, so you can choose what works best for your team.

        February 5, 2025

        What’s new in OpenText Documentum for Life Sciences solutions

        Learn about the latest new functionality and how it can benefit your organization.

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        June 6, 2025

        What’s new in OpenText Documentum Content Management

        Learn about the latest new functionality and how it can benefit your organization.

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        Take the next step

        Let’s take the next step toward simpler, safer life sciences document management, because in life sciences, every document matters.

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