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With its information management solutions, OpenText enables organisations to reduce risk, cut costs and grow revenue, and gain an information advantage

Founded as a project out of the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1991, OpenText has grown into the global market leader for Information Management, empowering its customers to organise, integrate and protect data and content as it flows through business processes inside and outside their organisation.

OpenText provides hundreds of products including enterprise content management, digital process automation, security and AI and analytics tools to a range of audiences, from small and medium businesses to enterprises and governments.

“One of the things that we offer is a very robust cloud services business where a lot of our products are either on the business network or our cloud services business,” explains Anthony Lloyd, VP of Technology Services at OpenText, who is responsible for all of OpenText’s infrastructure operations and financial reporting for corporate IT, covering everything from data centres to networks, storage and compute service desk, end-user services, and support.

“Those products are online and available as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, or in our public cloud or in the private cloud,” says Lloyd. “We are also continuously expanding our portfolio and trying to find ways to develop or implement more solutions that will allow us to bring greater value to the world.”

The need to digitise data

The world is becoming more data-hungry. In 2018, the total amount of data created and captured in the world was 33 zettabytes (ZB). By 2025, Statista predicts this number will soar to 181ZB.

Built on a groundwork of automation, connectivity, integration and insight, organisations now have an unprecedented ability to create, capture, manage and make sense of this new mass of information. Only with this data can businesses see the whole picture, allowing them to make better decisions faster, establish cultures of collaboration and master modern work, while building a connective ecosystem between partners, vendors, customers and employees.

“Today, a lot of companies are still paper bound, so they may have filing cabinets or