OpenText Content Server Migration
Preserve metadata, permissions, and governance while modernizing ECM into Microsoft 365.
Many organizations running OpenText Content Server (formerly Livelink) are modernizing their enterprise content management environments into SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365.
While OpenText has served as a core ECM platform for decades, organizations increasingly seek modern collaboration, cloud scalability, and AI readiness through Microsoft 365.
Migrating OpenText to SharePoint is not simply a data transfer exercise. It requires careful transformation of metadata models, permission structures, and records governance frameworks to ensure information remains compliant, secure, and usable within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Cadence Solutions delivers OpenText to SharePoint migration using the Peregrine platform, enabling controlled, auditable modernization of enterprise content environments.
Why Organizations Replace OpenText with SharePoint
Microsoft 365 Ecosystem Alignment
SharePoint Online integrates directly with:
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Microsoft Teams
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Microsoft Purview
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Microsoft Copilot
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Power Platform
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OneDrive
This creates a unified collaboration and governance environment across the organization.
Migration Challenges from OpenText Content Server
OpenText environments are often deeply embedded in enterprise operations.
Typical migration challenges include:
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Complex Category Metadata
OpenText categories and attributes often contain deeply nested metadata structures that must be transformed into SharePoint content types and managed metadata.
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Permission Inheritance
Legacy permission inheritance models frequently contain years of exceptions and overrides that must be rationalized during migration.
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Records Management
OpenText records management configurations must be mapped to Microsoft Purview retention policies and labels.
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Extended ECM Integrations
Many organizations integrate OpenText with ERP platforms such as SAP or other line of business applications such as Salesforce, Guidewire, and even Workday.
Migration must preserve document relationships while modernizing architecture.
Cadence OpenText Migration Methodology
Cadence approaches OpenText modernization as a structured transformation program rather than a simple data move.
Typical migration phases include:
Why Cadence Solutions?
Cadence Solutions brings deep expertise in both OpenText Content Server environments and Microsoft 365 architecture, making us the right choice to lead complex ECM modernization initiatives.
In 2021, Cadence Solutions was recognized as the OpenText Global Implementation Partner of the Year, selected from more than 700 OpenText partners worldwide. This recognition reflects our extensive experience implementing, configuring, and optimizing OpenText platforms across enterprise environments.
Because our team has worked extensively inside OpenText architectures, we understand how Content Server repositories are structured, including category metadata, records classifications, permission inheritance, and Extended ECM integrations.
That experience matters during migration.
Many migration vendors treat OpenText repositories as simple file systems. OpenText environments contain deeply embedded governance, metadata, and security structures that must be carefully translated into Microsoft 365. Cadence combines OpenText platform expertise with Microsoft 365 governance architecture, ensuring migrations preserve metadata integrity, maintain compliance posture, and modernize information environments without introducing new risk.
With Peregrine and Cadence, organizations gain a partner that understands both sides of the transformation.