In a recent blog post Rohit Ghai, Dell EMC's President of the Enterprise Content Division, reflected on the successes of Dell EMC in the past year. 2016 has been a year of great change for the company with mergers, new products, and numerous events catered to partners and customers. Mr. Ghai's post reads:
For many, this time of year is full of the hustle and bustle of the holidays, preparing for time with families, and pondering what the New Year has in store. For Team ECD it’s no different, only this year there’s additional activities, excitement and anticipation about the road ahead as we prepare to join forces with OpenText. With this in mind, I wanted to take a moment and provide an update on progress to date and unwrap a little of what’s to come.
Do You Hear What I Hear?
It’s hard to believe that we just passed the 90-day mark since signing the agreement with OpenText in September. Since then, the focus has been primarily been on you, our valued customers and partners. We’ve spent hundreds of hours talking with you and receiving feedback through webcasts, Customer.Next events in the U.S., Momentum Europe in Barcelona, and a multitude of 1:1 meetings across the globe. As always, our goal is to be as transparent as possible with our ECD family and ecosystem, and we hope you’ve found these interactions as valuable as we have. If you missed any of these events, please take a moment to review the resources here.
On a tactical level, the main driver behind our “hustle and bustle” has been to ensure consistency and continuity – everything from the products to the processes to the people – we want to make the transition as seamless as possible for you.
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Closing…
There has also been tremendous effort focused on delivering the items that are needed for regulatory approvals and closing the deal. I’m pleased to report that everything seems to be moving ahead as planned. Just as we were all fortunate to participate in the close of the Dell EMC deal, the team is looking forward to celebrating this next step for ECD in the New Year. As we get closer to finalizing a close date, we will share opportunities for you to get involved and celebrate with us.
A Toast to You
It’s been an amazing 2016, with big, successful events like ECD Ready, Momentum in Las Vegas and Barcelona, and Customer.Next. We’ve delivered more than 65 products, solutions and betas over the past 12 months, with major initiatives across the product families, including the release of 5 LEAP apps and the LEAP Platform beta; Documentum 7.3 with significant updates to the full Documentum family and vertical solutions; and the introduction of extreme archiving with InfoArchive 4.0 and Clinical Archiving 2.0. We’ve been recognized as a leader by five industry analyst firms, including our 13th time as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, and have won multiple product and strategy awards.
And it’s all for, and because of, you. On behalf of the entire ECD team, I’d like to raise a virtual toast to you – for your continued business, loyalty and friendship. Cheers and best wishes for a happy holiday season and a joyous new year!