Case Study: Widewaters achieves over 350% productivity boost and 50% faster data-sharing with OpenText Extended ECM

Vertically integrated real estate business unlocks group-wide content management efficiencies with OpenText™ Extended ECM.

Widewaters is a vertically integrated real estate company with more than 50 years of experience across development, construction, acquisition and management of retail, hospitality, residential and office/industrial properties. The organization struggled with fragmented content systems—employees relied on spreadsheets, email and shared drives—leading to duplicated documents, slow retrieval, inconsistent versions and lengthy onboarding.

Partnering with Wisteria IT, Widewaters consolidated three legacy repositories into OpenText Extended ECM integrated with Microsoft 365, migrated project data, introduced virtual folders, automated workflows and a train‑the‑trainer rollout. The new platform delivered centralized, searchable content and role-based access, boosting productivity by more than 350% for 150+ users, accelerating data‑sharing by 50% and streamlining employee onboarding.

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Timothy Carroll

Vice President – Information Technology