How do you get to be an executive and not understand the golden rule of always tell the truth. People respect you when you are truthful and explain why painful things have to be done.
Guess who has z e r o respect? The coward who cannot even answer a question that many employees want to know. What products are considered core?
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Sounds familiar ?
https://www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/the-things-i-want-to-say-to-my-boss
Maybe Mark B will buy all the non-core assets and start Barrenechea Inc. Non-core OpenText 4.0 now a private company.
four main pillars (Content, Business Network, ITOM, and Enterprise Cybersecurity). SMB and Consumer Cybersecurity are not core and will be sold off with everything not linked to Enterprise Content Management, Business Networks and ITOM.
Core and none-core as told to our customers and investors at OTWorld
They are not going to list individual products or business units as that would destabilise them for obvious reasons.
https://www.iteuropa.com/news/opentext-shrink-grow-strategy-may-mean-it-has-13bn-sales-hole
Tom Jenkins answered this with a chat with Citibank or capital one. Forget which but he did say…if it’s sold at Best Buy it’s not our core product. Not a direct quote but.
The rest is conjecture but we know Content and BN mentioned as future. The rest could be on the block. I presume OSM is ok as well for the most part but any small subset from above is prob also on list.
@OP which textbook says that?
@b3 think from that response core is the following and everything else is for sale
four main pillars (Content, Business Network, ITOM, and Cybersecurity)
Thank you for that explanation and providing names on your list. Now does anyone have a list of the solutions who are on the list who are left to be sold off? Name the solutions is what we want to know.
Criteria for Defining Non-Core Products
A product is generally considered non-core if it exhibits one or more of the following characteristics:
• Legacy/On-Premise: It is a traditional, non-cloud-native solution, meaning it doesn't align with the strategic shift to the OpenText Cloud.
• Siloed Function: It provides highly specialized, standalone functionality, meaning it does not easily integrate into the four core "Clouds" (Content, Business Network, ITOM, Cybersecurity).
• Low Growth: It is a product showing low or stagnant revenue growth, meaning OpenText is prioritizing high-growth areas, particularly those powered by AI (Aviator).
OpenText is currently undergoing a strategic shift, often described as "shrink to grow," to refocus on their four main pillars (Content, Business Network, ITOM, and Cybersecurity). This strategy involves divesting non-core or non-strategic assets, particularly those that are legacy, on-premise, or don't align with their push into the cloud and AI-powered EIM.
"Non-core" for OpenText generally refers to products or entire business lines that fall outside of their four primary strategic clouds.
Areas Currently Considered "Non-Core" or De-Emphasized:
OpenText has been very active in acquisitions, especially the large acquisition of Micro Focus. As a result, many of the products they now consider non-core were either acquired or represent older, legacy, on-premise solutions.
- Divested or Announced Divestiture
These are the clearest examples of products defined as non-core by OpenText's management.
• eDOCS: OpenText recently announced the divestiture of the eDOCS business (part of its Analytics portfolio, primarily focused on document management for legal professionals). This was explicitly cited as a move to rationalize a non-core, on-premise solution to focus on the core Cloud/AI strategy. - Classic or Legacy IT Management Tools (Pre-Micro Focus)
Before the integration of the Micro Focus portfolio, which included many overlapping or specialized tools, some OpenText products were considered less central than the core EIM suite. - Highly Specialized or Legacy Infrastructure/Productivity Tools
While some of these tools still exist in their portfolio, they are often less emphasized than the large cloud platforms. Examples acquired from various companies include:
• GroupWise & Open Enterprise Server: These are classic Novell products (acquired via Attachmate/Micro Focus) focusing on legacy email, collaboration, and operating system services. These are distinct from modern, cloud-native EIM tools.
• Legacy Data Backup/Recovery: Solutions like OpenText™ Data Protector (a former HPE/Micro Focus product) offer crucial data protection but are part of the broader IT Operations Management (ITOM) group, which OpenText is keeping, but they are often highly siloed from the core content/business process flow.
This was already answered publicly in news releases. You should be able to decipher from that.
@a6 You are full of SHI_.
If it was asked and answer then why was it the most prevalent question from employees in the Q&A?
Clearly NOT answered.
All hands ?
This was already answered. You need to pay attention.
This was already answered, so not sure where the uncertainty comes from!! Although fair to say, If you are asking you are non core.
Executives should be masters in explaining painful things.
What is this talk about “things we cannot control”. We don’t need a psychologist we need a leader with integrity. Truly disappointing.
When was this asked
Old school Masters in Business taught us this. Shame it seems like no one at OT is a master of anything.