OpenText
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| Public | |
| Traded as | TSX: OTC NASDAQ: OTEX |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Founder | Tim Bray, Gaston Gonnet, Frank Tompa |
| Headquarters | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
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Key people
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Mark Barrenechea, CEO Tom Jenkins, Chairman |
| Products | Enterprise content management (ECM), business process management (BPM), customer experience management (CEM), information exchange, and analytics software |
| Revenue |  US$ $1,936 million (FY 2015[1]) |
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Number of employees
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8,600 (2016) |
| Website | www |
OpenText Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management (EIM) software.[2]
OpenText is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada,[3] is Canada's largest software company as of 2014[4] and recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers 2016 by Mediacorp Canada Inc.[5]
OpenText software applications manage content or unstructured data for large companies, government agencies, and professional service firms.[citation needed] OpenText aims its products at addressing information management requirements, including management of large volumes of content, compliance with regulatory requirements, and mobile and online experience management.[citation needed]
OpenText employs 8,500 people worldwide[citation needed] and is a publicly traded company, listed on the NASDAQ (OTEX) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (OTC).
History[edit]
OpenText was founded in 1991 as a small four-person consulting operation.[citation needed] The company spun off from a University of Waterloo project that developed technology to index the Oxford English Dictionary. Early participants in the project included two computer science professors, Dr. Frank Tompa and Dr. Gaston Gonnet, an undergrad Computer Science co-op student, Michael Knowles, and their Faculty of Arts colleague, John Stubbs.[citation needed]
Key people involved later include Tom Jenkins (P Thomas Jenkins, known as Tom), who joined the company as COO in 1994 and Tim Bray. Tom Jenkins later became President and Chief Executive Officer,[6] and has been Executive Chairman since 2013. John Shackleton served as President from 1998–2011, and as CEO from 2005 - 2011. Mark Barrenechea has been President and CEO of OpenText since 2012.[7]
OpenText is a supporter of the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus, contributing both funds and in-kind services to the school.[8]
Acquisitions[edit]
The growth of OpenText has largely been through acquisitions:
- HP Customer Communication Management suite. Including HP Extream.[9]
- Recommind
- HP Web Experience Management[10]
- Daegis
2015
2014
2013
- Cordys
- ICCM
2012
- Easylink
2011
- MESSAGEmanager Solutions
- Metastorm
- weComm
- Global360
- Operitel
2010
- Nstein technologies
- StreamServe Inc
2009
- Vizible Corporation
- Vignette Corporation
2008
- eMotion LLC
- Spicer Corporation
- Captaris
2006
2005
- Optura
2004
- IXOS
- Artesia
2003
2002
- Centrinity
2000
- Bluebird
Pre-2000
References[edit]
- ^ "Open Text 2015 Annual report"
- ^ "Top 25 Canadian Software Companies"
- ^ Nick Waddell. "Cantech Letter interviews John Shackleton of OpenText". Cantech Letter.
- ^ "Ontario Liberals give $120M grant to Canada's largest software company". CTV News Canada.
- ^ "Recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers 2016". Mediacorp Canada Inc.
- ^ Nick Bontis, ed. (2011). World Congress on Intellectual Capital Readings. Routledge. p. 7.
- ^ "Investor FAQs | OpenText". investors.opentext.com. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
- ^ "Grand opening for UW Stratford Campus". Kitchener.
- ^ "OpenText buys HP capture and output management products". Image and data manager. 2016-06-29. Retrieved 2010-11-16.
- ^ "OpenText acquires HP customer experience content management for $170 million". TechCrunch.com. 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-06-20.
- ^ "Cory Doctorow; USC Center on Public Diplomacy". Uscpublicdiplomacy.com. 1971-07-17. Retrieved 2010-11-16.
- ^ a b Rao, Madanmohan (2003). Leading with Knowledge: Knowledge Management Practices in Global Infotech Companies. McGraw Hill. p. 365. ISBN 0070499608.
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