OpenText Portal getting crowded out?

Since the acquisition of Vignette by OpenText in 2009, both it's flagship products OpenText WEM (formerly VCM ) as well as OpenText Portal (formerly Vignette Portal) have been losing its market share - OpenText Portals more that OpenText WEM.  To be clear, we don't have exact sales figures and OpenText does not issue sales data by product.

One can argue that it's a natural decline post the acquisition of any product; the Vignette portal decline has deeper roots to it. With the portals market saturating and overall diminishing new license sales; OpenText is paying less and less attention to the product innovations. A significant part of the OpenText Portal revenues come from the existing license renewals and new sales through SAP.  OpenText sales team also generally like to piggy back on OpenText WEM license sale to bundle in OpenText Portal licenses.

We've also heard that OpenText is considering to merge significant Portal functionality into OpenText WEM - while this could be good news for the potential WEM customer (they won't need to buy portal license along with it) ; it could well just push the portal offering over the edge.

Stay tuned to our Portals & Content Integration Research that's also been recently updated for more insights..

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