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The modern OpenText alternative

More speed and innovation - without legacy tech.

OpenText customers feel left stranded as acquired platforms shut down, forcing them to costly, lengthy migrations. Combined with a clunky UI, a lack of innovation, and increased platform complexity, it’s time to rethink what’s possible with a modern CMS. Why invest in a difficult migration, to stay stuck with legacy software? 

CoreMedia is the modern OpenText CMS alternative that puts you in control:

  • Secure against product extinction - Avoid the uncertainty of platform discontinuations with a future-proof architecture, lowering TCO.
  • No more forced migrations - Always stay ahead with the latest tech, without having to rebuild from scratch.
  • Your tools, your way - Integrate the tools you love and swap out what you don’t, without being locked into a specific vendor's ecosystem. Support continuous improvement by testing and iterating content directly where it’s authored.
  • Superior preview capabilities - Visualize content for various channels with real-time preview capabilities before publishing, ensuring a consistent customer experience across all touchpoints.  

Ready to leave OpenText behind? Our experts will migrate you to CoreMedia’s composable DXP in 90 days, cutting costs, boosting productivity, and maximizing ROI – without foced rebuilds.

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Why replace OpenText with CoreMedia?

Only pay for what you need

Forget complex product portfolios and outdated, poorly integrated product acquisitions. With our composable platform, you only pay for the tools you use. 

Flexible integrations

Integrate your preferred CRM, DAM, PIM, or analytics tools. Thanks to our composable architecture, you have the flexibility to integrate the tools that drive results and swap out what's no longer needed, without vendor lock-in or complex rebuilds.

Industry-leading eCommerce connectors

Take advantage of the deepest pre-built integrations with platforms like Salesforce, Commercetools, SAP, Elastic Path, and more, ensuring smooth integrations and fast implementation. 

Upgrades made easy

No more disruptive upgrade cycles or product sunsets. With CoreMedia, updates just work — without downtime. 

Robust translation capabilities

CoreMedia offers pre-built connectors to leading translation providers, making it easy to efficiently create, manage, and deploy high-quality multilingual content, ensuring a consistent and relevant brand experience for global audiences.

Future-ready architecture

Build any frontend, with any framework, and stay agile with AI-powered workflows, adaptable layouts, and dynamic customer experiences. 

Security, compliance and governance at scale

Maintain top security, compliance, and governance standards while ensuring your content management remains fast, flexible, and user-friendly. Built-in workflows and governance frameworks ensure clear roles and responsibilities for content creation, editing, and approval - improving accountability and smoother processes.   

Out-of-the-box personalization

Use existing customer, CRM, or eCommerce data to tailor content to different audiences, directly within the CMS. This keeps personalized experiences consistent and scalable across channels, without introducing additional tools or technical complexity.

Migrate in just 90 days

Our expert team guarantees a seamless migration of your content and documents, minimizing risks, costs, and hassle. Complete your CMS migration in just 90 days. 

Benefits of switching from OpenText to CoreMedia

OpenText’s product suite, built from numerous acquisitions, often faces integration challenges due to limited compatibility between tools. It often requires heavy development effort and forced migrations due to discontinued products, just to make things work. Additionally, its proprietary system requires more developer and admin resources, adding complexity to your operations. 

CoreMedia offers a flexible, composable CMS approach. You choose the tools that drive success – whether it’s personalization, analytics, or marketing automation. With 150+ pre-built connectors, you can add or replace any tool in your tech stack, from CRM and DAM to AI and eCommerce. Plus, CoreMedia’s open API framework allows full control over customizations and extensions. 

Many OpenText projects face lengthy implementation cycles due to complex architectures and inconsistent upgrade timelines. Customers often struggle with slow rollouts and forced migrations from legacy platforms that require extensive development efforts. 

CoreMedia gets you up and running faster. Our best-of-breed architecture, seamless third-party integrations, and ready-to-go eCommerce connectors let you deliver faster results and maintain the flexibility to innovate, without rebuilding your system every time. 

As content volumes grow, semantic understanding and reusable governance help teams maintain quality and consistency without manual bottlenecks.

OpenText’s platform complexity drives up costs across licensing, infrastructure, and maintenance, especially with non-standard delivery environments. A complete solution requires licensing multiple products and will complicate your infrastructure, staffing, and budget. 

CoreMedia allows you to pay only for what you need, scaling as your business evolves. Choosing a CMS is a big decision, but with the right choice, you avoid costly migrations in the future. Trusted brands like Deutsche Telekom, Henkel and DAK-Gesundheit (German healthcare provider) have relied on CoreMedia for decades, getting maximum value with a future-proof setup that scales on their terms. 

OpenText’s complex architecture often limits innovation and requires above-average developer effort for customization.

CoreMedia empowers your teams with full control. Developers can build with our open API framework, creating custom solutions tailored to your business needs. Marketers can manage global campaigns from a single interface, and editors can reduce time-to-web from days to minutes with AI-powered assistance and smart publication workflows, empowering them to focus on creating impactful content. 

OpenText’s complex interface and slow rollout of new features limit your ability to respond to market changes quickly.  

With CoreMedia, you can accelerate revenue growth by delivering personalized, multilingual content that speaks to customers at every touchpoint, across every channel. Launch 75% faster using our intuitive drag-and-drop interface and automated localization workflows – without IT dependencies. 

CoreMedia KIO, our intelligent AI assistant, accelerates content creation and personalization by automating repetitive tasks, freeing your team to focus on impactful experiences. In just 4 weeks, you’ll start seeing results that optimize ROI and conversions.

The best OpenText alternative

Pricing

OpenText: Complex licensing model  
OpenText’s solutions require licensing multiple products for a complete setup, complicating budgets and increasing costs for implementation, migration, and maintenance. 

CoreMedia: Transparent, fair, flexible pricing 
Pay only for the features and services you need - no unnecessary expenses. CoreMedia’s composable architecture ensures a cost-efficient solution customized to your business without overpaying for tools you don’t want.

Integration

OpenText: Fragmented and outdated ecosystem 
Built through acquisitions, OpenText often struggles with internal integration between its products and external third-party tools. Custom development is frequently required just to maintain compatibility or handle forced migrations.

CoreMedia: Composable and future-proof CMS 
Stay in control with a truly composable approach. Leverage a composable offering of personalization, optimization and testing tools or choose from 150+ pre-built connectors to seamlessly integrate the best tools for your business - whether it’s eCommerce, marketing automation, analytics, DAM, CDP, the latest AI or any legacy tools.

Innovation

OpenText: Legacy challenges and forced migrations
Acquired technologies are built on older architectures that require significant effort to modernize or migrate from. The underlying platform of some solutions is nearly two decades old, creating compatibility issues and increasing the risk of obsolescence. 

CoreMedia: Built for innovation at scale
CoreMedia’s headless CMS and composable DXP architecture are designed to scale with your business. We provide developers with the freedom to innovate, integrate, and extend capabilities, while marketers gain a unified interface to manage campaigns without IT dependency. CoreMedia KIO, our intelligent AI assistant, supports users to create, optimize and personalize content in record time.

Usability

OpenText: Complex and outdated user interface
Non-technical users often struggle with OpenText’s unintuitive interface while support requests are frequently delayed or insufficiently addressed.

CoreMedia: Faster content management with the help of AI
CoreMedia KIO, an intelligent AI assistant, revolutionizes content management by streamlining workflows, automating repetitive tasks like metadata generation and image processing, and enabling real-time personalization. Even new users can optimize and personalize content faster and more effectively than ever before.

Deployment

OpenText: Legacy tech makes upgrades complex 
OpenText’s deployment options are often tied to its acquired platforms, leading to fragmented and complex systems that are difficult to maintain. Many of its legacy solutions require custom development to integrate new technologies, and scaling often involves significant architectural adjustments.

CoreMedia: Stable on-premises or on-cloud deployments
CoreMedia’s composable architecture allows for easy scaling and integration of new technologies, without disrupting your existing environment. You can deploy at your own pace and continue innovating without worrying about complex rebuilds or forced migrations.

Clearing your doubts about OpenText (FAQs)

All your questions answered.

Why are enterprises replacing legacy platforms like OpenText?

Legacy platforms often come with high maintenance costs, forced migrations due to product sunsets, and complex integration requirements. Modern CMS, as CoreMedia, alternatives streamline workflows, reduce technical debt, and help teams focus on delivering value continuously. 

Why is a flexible integration model important for enterprise CMS platforms?

Flexible integrations allow organizations to bring in best-of-breed tools for CRM, analytics, commerce, and more — without being locked into a legacy ecosystem. This reduces risk, simplifies migration, and accelerates time-to-value.

Is migrating from OpenText to CoreMedia risky or disruptive?

No — a proven, low-risk migration process from OpenText to CoreMedia. Content models, metadata, workflows, and integrations can be mapped and adapted as part of the migration process, allowing teams to maintain continuity while modernizing their platform.

How does CoreMedia compare to OpenText for content management flexibility?

CoreMedia is built on a composable architecture, allowing teams to integrate third-party tools and update or replace them as business needs evolve. This supports flexible CMS setups and avoids dependency on a single bundled ecosystem.

What types of organizations typically migrate from OpenText to a modern CMS?

Organizations with complex enterprise content environments — such as global brands with multiple sites, teams, and systems — often migrate when they need faster publishing, modern integrations, and improved agility.

Low-risk migration from OpenText - in less than 90 days

Switching from OpenText doesn’t have to be difficult. With CoreMedia, you benefit from a proven, low-risk OpenText migration process, led by an experienced team that ensures all your content, metadata, users, and assets are moved with zero disruption and full continuity. 

We begin the migration process with a discovery phase to identify what needs to move, streamlining the process and reducing complexity. Technically, we extract the content using OpenText’s built-in export features or API, transform it for CoreMedia, and import it via our robust ingest service to make sure all required assets are migrated and optimized for CoreMedia Content Cloud. By employing a smart agile methodology, Enterprise Ireland migrated to CoreMedia within just 90 days.

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"With the development of a robust, customer-centric website, we are taking the next significant step toward becoming a digital leader. Thanks to its sophisticated platform and progressive interface, working with CoreMedia is a dream."

Erik Ober, Product Owner, DAK-Gesundheit

"With CoreMedia, the technical setup is no longer a limiting factor for launching a new website. On the contrary, CoreMedia's latest technology standards enable us to launch websites faster than ever before and prepare us for the future."

Martin Schönfeld, Head of Digital Platform and Technology Management at Henkel

"We picked CoreMedia after researching multiple content management systems for a couple of years. The learning curve for a non-technical user was really easy."

Nick Smotek, Global Director Digital Technology and UX, Deckers Brands (HOKA + UGG)

“We have over one million articles on the MTV News site, with more than 100 journalists creating content. We needed a stable CMS that could deliver all of this material to millions of visitors.”

Jaakko Inkinen, Service Manager, MTV oy

“The most important innovation for us is the acceleration of our work. We can play with different images and see directly how they look on the page. We can create content more efficiently than ever before.”

Kathrin Tofall, Claas
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