Case Study: Efficient Energy Management Company saves millions in legacy application costs with OpenText

Structured Data Manager and Content Manager facilitate secure data archiving, leading to millions of cost savings and productivity gain

Efficient Energy Management Company had accumulated many legacy applications through acquisitions, but the data inside them still needed to be retained for legal and business access reasons. Keeping these systems running and paying renewal fees was costing millions, so the company turned to OpenText, using Structured Data Manager (SDM) and Content Manager, to find a way to archive data and retire the applications.

OpenText, through its partner InfoCorvus, implemented a standardized archiving process that securely stored data in Content Manager while keeping a reporting copy in SDM. The approach helped the company retire systems such as Workday and Salesforce, avoid costly license renewals, and protect attached documents and records; in one case, data preparation time dropped from two weeks to one day, a 90% productivity improvement.