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 "as_of": "2026-10-01",
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   "dimension": "Search technology origin",
   "statement": "Waterloo's Oxford English Dictionary project built the PAT indexing software and the GOEDEL query system to search a 540 MB dictionary, the technology the founders later commercialized.",
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   "id": "opentext-p02",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
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   "dimension": "First product",
   "statement": "The company began shipping its text-search software in September 1991, three months after incorporation.",
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   "id": "opentext-g01",
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   "dimension": "First customers",
   "statement": "Early search customers included the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association (1992) and UBS (1993); the company had 20 staff in 1993.",
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   "id": "opentext-p03",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
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   "dimension": "Web search index",
   "statement": "It launched the Open Text Index, a web-crawler search engine, in April 1995.",
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   "id": "opentext-g02",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
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   "dimension": "Yahoo deal",
   "statement": "It agreed to supply search software to Yahoo!, alongside Yahoo's hierarchical directory.",
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   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-p04",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
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   "dimension": "Livelink",
   "statement": "It bought Odesta Systems for C$29.8 million to acquire Livelink, web-based document management that let many users share documents over a company intranet.",
   "event_date": "1995-11",
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   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-g04",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
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   "dimension": "Refocus on Livelink",
   "statement": "As the search engine market collapsed in mid-1996, Livelink became the main business and staff were cut 12%.",
   "event_date": "1996",
   "date_precision": "year",
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   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-g27",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Market choice",
   "statement": "Jenkins later wrote that after the search strategy failed the company repurposed its money, people and technology for business-to-business applications, a less competitive market.",
   "event_date": "1996",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-g03",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Nasdaq IPO",
   "statement": "It listed on Nasdaq at $15 a share, netting $61 million; early Livelink adopters included Ford and Qualcomm.",
   "event_date": "1996-01",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-p18",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Browser clients",
   "statement": "Livelink Intranet worked from Motif, Macintosh, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator clients; IDC counted about 60,000 users.",
   "event_date": "1997-02",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  {
   "id": "opentext-g05",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Large enterprise contracts",
   "statement": "Ford signed for 135,000 workers and Motorola for 60,000; pricing was about $100 per user with read-only and full-access tiers.",
   "event_date": "1998-03",
   "date_precision": "month",
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   "sources": [
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  {
   "id": "opentext-g32",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Buying the nearest rival",
   "statement": "OpenText bought Information Dimensions, second in web-enabled document management in 1997, for about $18.4 million.",
   "event_date": "1998-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  {
   "id": "opentext-p05",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "MyLivelink",
   "statement": "It launched MyLivelink after buying the assets of bankrupt Lava Systems.",
   "event_date": "1999",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "OT1"
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   "id": "opentext-g06",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "PC Docs bids",
   "statement": "Bids of $162 million (November 1998) and C$235.5 million (1999) for PC Docs, with its one million installed seats, failed; Hummingbird outbid it.",
   "event_date": "1999-04",
   "date_precision": "month",
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   "sources": [
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  {
   "id": "opentext-p06",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Hosted Livelink",
   "statement": "It offered Livelink through application service providers such as British Telecom and KPNQwest so smaller companies could lease rather than buy.",
   "event_date": "2000",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "opentext-p07",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Secure government edition",
   "statement": "After September 2001 it built secure storage and gained US Department of Defense certification; government work grew to over 10% of revenue.",
   "event_date": "2001",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-p08",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Content lifecycle suite",
   "statement": "With IXOS, Jenkins described the combined offer as an end-to-end content lifecycle solution 'from content creation to archiving', including email archiving.",
   "event_date": "2004",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
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  },
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   "id": "opentext-g07",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Department then corporation",
   "statement": "Shackleton described the model as 'first selling important business solutions to a department and then up-selling to the corporation'.",
   "event_date": "2004",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-g08",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Maintenance renewals",
   "statement": "Livelink maintenance renewals exceeded 90% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004.",
   "event_date": "2004",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "id": "opentext-g09",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "IXOS",
   "statement": "The IXOS purchase for about $230 million, its largest to date, doubled the company to 2,000 staff and about $375 million of combined revenue.",
   "event_date": "2004",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "id": "opentext-p09",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Digital asset management",
   "statement": "It bought Artesia, software for managing large video, audio and graphics files.",
   "event_date": "2005-08",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  {
   "id": "opentext-g10",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Hummingbird",
   "statement": "It agreed to buy Hummingbird for US$489 million in cash, displacing Symphony Technology Group's $465 million deal, to add legal and government customers.",
   "event_date": "2006-08-04",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "id": "opentext-p19",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Library services across repositories",
   "statement": "Livelink's Enterprise Library Services managed metadata centrally for content left in file servers, databases and third-party repositories; customization used the proprietary OScript language.",
   "event_date": "2007-08",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "id": "opentext-g28",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "SAP route to buyers",
   "statement": "After IXOS, OpenText was SAP's preferred supplier of archiving and document management, and many buyers reached it through SAP.",
   "event_date": "2007-08",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
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   "id": "opentext-g29",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Services and licensing",
   "statement": "OpenText favored its own services group over integrator channels and licensed Livelink per named user.",
   "event_date": "2007-08",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "OT46"
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  },
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   "id": "opentext-g11",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "SAP resale",
   "statement": "SAP agreed to also resell OpenText Vendor Invoice Management and Document Capture solutions.",
   "event_date": "2008",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "id": "opentext-g13",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Support exceeds license",
   "statement": "Fiscal 2009 customer support revenue was $405.3 million against $229.8 million of license revenue.",
   "event_date": "2009-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "id": "opentext-p10",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "SharePoint archiving",
   "statement": "Its products let customers keep using SharePoint while applying OpenText retention policies for archiving and records.",
   "event_date": "2009-08",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-g12",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
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   "dimension": "Direct sales and alliances",
   "statement": "Most sales were direct through subsidiary sales organizations, supported by SAP, Microsoft and Oracle alliances and integrators such as Accenture and Deloitte, with industry solutions for government, legal, energy, financial services and pharma.",
   "event_date": "2009-08",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
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  {
   "id": "opentext-p11",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "eDOCS DM",
   "statement": "Hummingbird's DOCS document management continued as eDOCS DM, with Windows 8 and Server 2012 support added in 2012.",
   "event_date": "2012",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "id": "opentext-p12",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "B2B integration cloud",
   "statement": "GXS added cloud B2B integration and managed messaging services billed on transaction usage, monthly in arrears.",
   "event_date": "2014-01-16",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-g17",
   "business": "Acquired enterprise software portfolio (B2B network, security, IT operations, application delivery)",
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   "dimension": "GXS",
   "statement": "It bought GXS for $1.2 billion, partly in shares; Barrenechea later said GXS added about 30% to revenue.",
   "event_date": "2014-01-16",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
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   "id": "opentext-g14",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
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   "dimension": "Documentum purchase",
   "statement": "It agreed to pay $1.62 billion for Dell EMC's enterprise content division, about 2.7 times its $599 million revenue, funded partly by a $1 billion Barclays debt commitment.",
   "event_date": "2016-09-12",
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   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
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   "id": "opentext-p13",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
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   "dimension": "Documentum family",
   "statement": "The Dell EMC enterprise content division added the Documentum, InfoArchive and LEAP product families.",
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   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
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   "id": "opentext-g15",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
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   "dimension": "Acquisition-led plan",
   "statement": "Barrenechea said 'We're not changing our playbook one page' and that it could deploy US$1.5 billion quickly, while guiding organic growth to low single digits.",
   "event_date": "2017-08",
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   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-p14",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Hybrid cloud and managed service",
   "statement": "It announced the OT2 hybrid cloud platform and Release 16 on AWS, Google and Azure; Barrenechea said its private-cloud managed service had over 2,000 customers.",
   "event_date": "2018-07",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-g16",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Total growth",
   "statement": "Barrenechea called the strategy 'total growth' with acquisitions 'central to our strategy'.",
   "event_date": "2018-07-11",
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   "id": "opentext-g18",
   "business": "Acquired enterprise software portfolio (B2B network, security, IT operations, application delivery)",
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   "dimension": "Carbonite",
   "statement": "It agreed to buy Carbonite and Webroot for $1.42 billion to reach small businesses, consumers and managed service providers.",
   "event_date": "2019-11-11",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-p15",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Titanium releases",
   "statement": "Barrenechea said the Titanium 23.2 release reached functional parity between public and private cloud editions.",
   "event_date": "2022-11",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-p16",
   "business": "Acquired enterprise software portfolio (B2B network, security, IT operations, application delivery)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Micro Focus portfolio",
   "statement": "Micro Focus added IT operations, application delivery, security, COBOL and mainframe software, and the Vertica and IDOL analytics products.",
   "event_date": "2023-01-31",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
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   "id": "opentext-g19",
   "business": "Acquired enterprise software portfolio (B2B network, security, IT operations, application delivery)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Micro Focus",
   "statement": "It completed the Micro Focus purchase for $6.2 billion including cash and repaid debt; Barrenechea called the $5.8 billion price about 2.2 times revenue and cut about 8% of staff.",
   "event_date": "2023-01-31",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-g20",
   "business": "Acquired enterprise software portfolio (B2B network, security, IT operations, application delivery)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "AMC sale",
   "statement": "It sold the AMC mainframe business to Rocket Software for $2.275 billion and used the proceeds to cut $2.0 billion of debt.",
   "event_date": "2024-05-01",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "id": "opentext-g26",
   "business": "Acquired enterprise software portfolio (B2B network, security, IT operations, application delivery)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Capital return",
   "statement": "In fiscal 2025 OpenText returned a record $683 million to shareholders through dividends and buybacks.",
   "event_date": "2025-08-07",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "id": "opentext-g21",
   "business": "Acquired enterprise software portfolio (B2B network, security, IT operations, application delivery)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "CEO change",
   "statement": "The board removed Barrenechea, named Jenkins executive chair and chief strategy officer, and put non-core assets up for sale.",
   "event_date": "2025-08-11",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  {
   "id": "opentext-g22",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Installed base and renewals",
   "statement": "OpenText reported 120,000+ enterprise customers, 99 of the top 100 global companies, a 96% cloud and 91% support net renewal rate.",
   "event_date": "2025-11-05",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  {
   "id": "opentext-g23",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "eDOCS sale",
   "statement": "It sold the eDOCS legal document management business to cloud rival NetDocuments for $163.0 million.",
   "event_date": "2026-01-12",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-g25",
   "business": "Acquired enterprise software portfolio (B2B network, security, IT operations, application delivery)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "New CEO",
   "statement": "Ayman Antoun became CEO, with priorities of the core portfolio, partners and execution.",
   "event_date": "2026-04-20",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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   "id": "opentext-p17",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "AI Data Platform",
   "statement": "OpenText shipped an AI Data Platform with more than 1,500 connectors and an Aviator AI assistant.",
   "event_date": "2026-05",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  },
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   "id": "opentext-g24",
   "business": "Acquired enterprise software portfolio (B2B network, security, IT operations, application delivery)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Vertica sale",
   "statement": "It sold Vertica to Rocket Software for $150.0 million.",
   "event_date": "2026-05-11",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "OT56"
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  },
  {
   "id": "opentext-g30",
   "business": "Acquired enterprise software portfolio (B2B network, security, IT operations, application delivery)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Programmatic acquisitions and divestitures",
   "statement": "The fiscal 2026 10-K described tuck-in acquisitions and 'programmatic divestitures' of mature products, with a goal to return to organic growth.",
   "event_date": "2026-08",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
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  {
   "id": "opentext-g31",
   "business": "Enterprise content management software (Livelink, Content Server, Documentum)",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Fiscal 2027 sales plan",
   "statement": "Antoun set fiscal 2027 priorities of more sales capacity, ecosystem partners and more organic investment in the core portfolio.",
   "event_date": "2026-08-06",
   "date_precision": "day",
   "evidence_kind": "participant_account",
   "sources": [
    "OT52"
   ]
  }
 ]
}