OpenText has announced the completion of its acquisition of Dell EMC's Enterprise Content Division, effective January 23, 2017.  This acquisition, which also includes the popular Documentum suite as well as other core ECM products, carried a price tag of $1.62 billion and was funded by a combination of cash on hand, stocks, senior notes, and credit.  Through this process, which has taken nearly a year, OpenText has made strides to ensure that ECD partners and their clients would experience as seamless of a transition as possible.

Earlier this month Dell EMC announced the introduction of the ProDeploy Client Suite, a tool that helps enterprises deploy PCs faster, easier, and with better ability to control the process.  The system is offered with three service levels so that customers can fine tune services to their needs, while also enjoying available training and certification to streamline the process from start to finish.

In late 2016 PaperFree joined forces with Avnet, a global leader in electronics fulfillment, to offer the full line of Dell EMC storage products to its customers.  This move not only expands PaperFree's product portfolio; it enables clients to take advantage of purpose built hardware to power their systems.  This means that enterprises can easily do away with dusty old servers and switch to streamlined, fast, and manageable platforms with the help of a trusted and proven provider.

Currently, Dell EMC offers a variety of storage solutions from large to small:

In a recent blog post Rohit Ghai, Dell EMC's President of the Enterprise Content Division, reflected on the successes of Dell EMC in the past year.  2016 has been a year of great change for the company with mergers, new products, and numerous events catered to partners and customers.  Mr. Ghai's post reads:

Dell EMC, a worldwide leader in information capture and management technology and PaperFree partner, has been making recent strides in their product offerings and has announced a lineup of new high performance computing (HPC) products designed for integration into the cloud.  These advances into software, systems, and customer results serve to make high performance computing available for enterprises of all sizes, all while improving the technology and ultimately making it more easily available.

Gartner has released its most recent Magic Quadrant report on the state of the Enterprise Content Management industry.  In it they have found:

• By 2018, 50% of enterprises will manage their content using a hybrid content architecture.

• By 2018, more than 20% of the enterprise content management solution sales will address multiorganization "ecosystem" content.

• By 2018, enterprise file synchronization and sharing will be a standard capability of enterprise content management and collaboration offerings.

Dell EMC, a leader in enterprise content management solutions, has announced Suite, a unique product suite within EMC Documentum for Life Science for enterprises who operate in both the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.  Suite provides clinical, regulatory, and design history file/device master record document features to fully enhance the lifecycle of products from design to manufacturing.  Not only is it compliant with industry regulations, its use is efficient and includes quality control features that greatly assist in product trials.

On September 12, 2016 OpenText announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire the ECD arm of Dell EMC, an acquisition that includes product lines such as InfoArchive, LEAP, and most notably the comprehensive and powerful Documentum line.  OpenText is an Ontario, Canada-based leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM).  This acquisition will strengthen OpenText's product offerings as well as allow it to serve a broader complement of industries who depend on enterprise content management solutions to power their businesses.

PaperFree recently attended the Long Beach Customer.Next event hosted by Dell EMC.  The purpose of the event was to “provide insights, interaction and engaging dialogues on the future landscape of content management” and it was attended by dozens of enterprise content management customers and ECM partners.  As part of the event, participants were treated to a series of informational sessions, labs, and networking opportunities that culminated in an end of day reception.  PaperFree representatives were on hand to promote their products, with a focus on the InfoArchive application retirement

Today Dell/EMC announced that they have worked out the final details of moving EMC’s Enterprise Content Division (ECD) over to OpenText, a merger that has tallied $1.6 Billion. As one of EMC’s largest Certified Partners for the Enterprise Content Division (ECD), PaperFree is pleased with the decision today to align that division with OpenText moving forward. OpenText has made a significant investment in becoming a market leader in Enterprise Information Management and with this new acquisition their positon will only be that much greater.