OpenText has unveiled the OpenText AI Data Platform to help Middle East enterprises overcome their biggest AI challenge: moving beyond isolated pilots to secure, scalable, and audited enterprise-wide deployments. As organizations in the region rapidly invest in artificial intelligence, the disconnect between experimentation and real business outcomes is widening. According to McKinsey’s State of AI in GCC Countries 2025, while 84% of companies utilize AI, only 31% have successfully scaled it across the enterprise—revealing a trust, governance, and contextual data gap.
“Customers now demand trusted AI that understands their data, complies with sovereignty laws, and delivers accurate, auditable results,” said George Schembri, Vice President & General Manager, Middle East at OpenText. “The OpenText AI Data Platform directly addresses this need by transforming proprietary data into secure, contextual, and reliable business intelligence.”
“Scaling AI is no longer just a technology challenge—it is a trust, governance, and data integrity imperative.”
— George Schembri, OpenText
Built on OpenText’s 35-year legacy in secure information management, the platform enables organizations to govern, classify, and enrich enterprise data with metadata, lineage tracking, retention policies, and rights management—critical for ensuring accuracy and compliance. This foundation allows enterprises to deploy AI confidently while maintaining full control over data ethics, privacy, and sovereignty.
OpenText Aviator sits on top of this enriched data layer, enabling organizations to deploy AI with flexibility through multi-cloud, multi-model, and multi-application capabilities. It supports on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, allows customers to bring their own AI models, and integrates natively with core enterprise systems like ERP and CRM—essential for unlocking contextual AI value.
Strengthening the ecosystem approach, OpenText also announced expanded partnership with Databricks to enable joint innovation on data unification, governance, and Delta Sharing. Additional offerings—Aviator Studio, Knowledge Discovery, Data Compliance, and Aviator AI Services—support enterprises with no-code agent deployment, real-time metadata automation, privacy controls, and purpose-built AI agent development.
As Middle East enterprises accelerate transformation, OpenText positions itself as a key enabler of secure, auditable, and contextual AI—bridging the critical gap between experimentation and scalable value.
