If your organization is like many others, you likely have one or more legacy enterprise content management (ECM) or repository systems that are not only still in service, but they also actively support your core business processes. In fact, recent research from Forrester found organizations store content across an average of 21 systems.
With their outdated technology, unintuitive interfaces and limited integration options, your legacy systems probably already detract from your users’ productivity.
Legacy technology often has many other, less obvious detriments including:
Content Innovation Cloud is the future of enterprise content management. By leveraging a unified content, process and application intelligence platform, your organization can unlock profound insights from enterprise content and unstructured data — fueling innovation without disruption.
Hyland’s modern content solution platform is cloud-native and built from the ground up to enable extensibility and integration. Our low-code interfaces and solutions provide a rapid time to value and enable developers to build more quickly than ever before.
Our thriving ecosystem of professional services, partners and systems-integrator networks are ready to help modernize your content management strategy so your employees can focus on high-value tasks.
Hyland customers benefit from our market-leading technology, which constantly evolves and reflects future-forward thinking.
Cloud-native content solution architecture
Gain flexibility and take full advantage of leading cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
Reduced IT complexity
Hyland’s modern, lightweight solutions leverage low-code tooling and the cloud to make it simpler to build on your technology foundations.
Content intelligence
Unlock the full potential of your enterprise content — whether it’s in structured or unstructured formats — with Hyland’s suite of content intelligence tools. From content enrichment to building your own intelligent agentic workforce, our AI-powered platform reimagines what intelligent content management looks like.
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Intelligent process automation
Accelerate your business processes, reduce errors and costs, and automate workflows that don’t require a human touch using AI-enabled process automation, intelligent capture, intelligent document processing and robotic process automation.
Modern application development tools
Use Hyland’s low-code tools and AI-enabled process design automation suite to provide the agility to create compelling user experiences faster than legacy ECM.
The ground is shifting in the content management market, and companies have an advantage when they're partnered with a provider like Hyland. Learn how the FAA, NASA’s Langley Center, publishing giant Pearson, CVS Health and Dutch bank ABN AMRO worked with Hyland to accomplish things like:
Proven solutions
With deep industry expertise, extensive integration options and ecosystem partnerships, Hyland delivers solutions that solve your users’ business needs.
Flexible migration paths
It’s never been easier to move to a modern content solution platform with Hyland. From multiple migration and conversion options to federation and in-place migration, there are many options available. Our experts will help you find the one that’s best for your organization.
Extreme scalability
Hyland supports the management of billions of documents — our customers never have to worry about scaling up or down.
Of course, the right technology is only one factor in your modernization success. The technology also must be successfully implemented into your processes and your existing technology ecosystem.
Hyland’s team of industry experts can help you at every step of your modernization journey, from planning to implementation and training. And with our experience from tens of thousands of deployments, we can also help you leverage your industry’s best practices to find your own shortcut to ROI.
Legacy ECM systems were architected for a different time. They are too inflexible and technically limited for today’s dynamic business and computing environments, and they don’t support today’s anywhere-work requirements. Download our ebook to discover if the top five legacy ECM roadblocks impact you as well — and if so, how to overcome them.
Need to migrate millions (or billions) of records from your legacy system?
No problem! Hyland offers multiple conversion options to ensure you move only what you need, when you need to.
No migrations are required when you work with Hyland. Our solutions unify enterprise content across multiple repositories and connect it to Hyland Content Innovation Cloud™, so your content can tap into our powerful platform and gain immediate access to cloud-native, AI-powered solutions.
Hyland’s data conversion services deliver predictable file conversion projects that meet your scope, timeline and budgetary needs. We have experts available to support migrations to Hyland.
Analyst evaluations and research give a snapshot in time of vendors and platforms. We’re proud of where our ambitious roadmap has brought us. Take a look at some of our most recent recognitions:
The Aragon Research Globe™ for Intelligent Enterprise Content Management, 2025
Highlight: “… Hyland is firmly positioning itself for the future by modernizing content management and expanding its AI and automation capabilities.”
Vendor Vignette: Hyland Content Innovation Cloud
Highlight: “We really like the new AI platform approach, and in conversation with Hyland’s customers, so do they, as wisely it meets them where they are and doesn’t demand unrealistic overhauls and migrations … If you’re not a current Hyland customer but are a document and process-heavy organization looking to modernize and leverage AI in general, and agentic AI specifically, then Hyland should likely be on your shortlist of options to explore.”
The Forrester Wave™ Content Platforms, Q1, 2025
Highlight: “Organizations seeking to modernize their legacy ECM deployments and take advantage of cloud-first content, process, and AI-driven insight services should explore Hyland’s Alfresco.”
2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ report for Document Management
Highlight: “Hyland’s vision is to deliver a unified content, process and application intelligence platform via the Content Innovation Cloud, enabling all customers to take advantage of advanced capabilities while continuing to leverage the content platforms they are using today.”
With Hyland and the Content Innovation Cloud, you can modernize your content infrastructure, automate complex workflows and empower your teams to achieve what wasn't possible before — all without sacrificing security or signing on for a massive data migration.
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