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Documentum is an enterprise content management platform currently developed by OpenText. In December 2003, Dell EMC acquired Documentum for $1.7 billion. The Documentum platform was part of EMC's Enterprise Content Division (ECD), one of EMC's four operating divisions.

On January 23, 2017, OpenText, a Canadian technology firm based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, specializing in enterprise content management, acquired Documentum from Dell EMC for $1.62 billion.

Howard Shao and John Newton, who worked together at Ingres at one point, founded Documentum in June 1990. With initial backing from Xerox, Shao and Newton developed a customized system for Boeing to organize, store, and selectively publish the thousands of pages of information for the Boeing 777 training manuals, and they developed another customized system for Syntex, a pharmaceutical vendor, to automate the assembly of New Drug Application (NDA) documents when seeking approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Documentum introduced its Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) in 1993, a client-server product for electronic document management. End users connected to the repository through desktop client applications. Documentum EDMS included a full-text search engine for retrieving documents from the repository.

In 1993, Jeffrey Miller, a Silicon Valley marketing executive, joined Documentum as president and CEO with a mandate to transform the company from a technology-driven start-up into an established software firm. Under Miller's leadership, the company raised its first round of venture capital funding from Brentwood, Merrill Picker Anderson, Sequoia Capital, Norwest Corporation, and Xerox Venture.

Documentum was floated on NASDAQ on February 5, 1996, listing with the DCTM symbol.

In 1998, Documentum launched its Web Application Environment, a set of Internet extensions for EDMS, offering web access to the documents stored within an EDMS repository. In 2000, Documentum released Documentum 4i, its first web-native platform. Documentum 4i could integrate with external web applications.^[6]

In 2002, Documentum launched Documentum 5 as a unified enterprise content management (ECM) platform for storing content types within a shared repository.