opendocument . opentext corporation type public traded as tsx otc nasdaq otex industry computer software founded 1991 ; 25 years ago 1991 founder tim bray gaston gonnet frank tompa headquarters waterloo ontario canada key people 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 number of employees 8 900 june 30 2016 website www.opentext.com opentext richmond hill office 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 8 900 people worldwide 6 and is a publicly traded company listed on the nasdaq otex and the toronto stock exchange otc . contents 1 history 2 acquisitions 3 references 4 external links 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 7 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 . 8 mark barrenechea was named canadian business ceo of the year in 2015 9 opentext is a supporter of the university of waterloo stratford campus contributing both funds and in kind services to the school . 10 on september 12 2016 opentext acquired documentum a legacy enterprise content management suite from emc for 1.6 b usd . acquisitions edit the growth of opentext has largely been through acquisitions 2016 dellemc s enterprise content management division . including documentum 11 hp customer communication management suite . including hp exstream . 12 recommind hp web experience management 13 2015 actuate corporation informative graphics corporation daegis 14 2014 gxs inc. 2013 cordys iccm 2012 easylink 2011 messagemanager solutions metastorm wecomm global360 operitel 2010 nstein technologies 15 streamserve inc 2009 vizible corporation vignette corporation 2008 emotion llc spicer corporation captaris 2006 hummingbird ltd 2005 optura 2004 ixos artesia 2003 opencola 16 eloquent corechange 2002 centrinity 2000 bluebird pre 2000 microstar software ps software solutions information dimensions lava systems ontime 17 nirv odesta 17 intunix thinktank technologies 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. open text corporation annual report 2016 pdf . nick bontis ed . 2011 . world congress on intellectual capital readings . routledge . p. 7 . investor faqs opentext . investors.opentext.com . retrieved 2016 02 15 . top new ceo of the year . image and data manager . 2016 07 07 . retrieved 2010 11 16 . grand opening for uw stratford campus . kitchener . opentext buys dell emc ecd . 2016 09 12 . 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 . opentext buys daegis inc. . prnewswire.com . open text to acquire nstein technologies . prnewswire firstcall . 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 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to opentext . official website opentext analytics retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title opentext & oldid 744036612 categories companies listed on the toronto stock exchangeportal softwaresoftware companies of canadacompanies listed on nasdaqs & p tsx composite indexcompanies based in waterloo ontariocompanies established in 1991internet search enginescontent management systemscustomer communications management1991 establishments in canadarecords management technologyhidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from december 2015commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschespa olfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 12 october 2016 at 18 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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