Hyland Software
Hyland is a U.S. enterprise software company whose content services and automation solutions help organizations capture, manage, connect and use business content.
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Overview
Hyland Software, commonly known as Hyland, is a U.S.-based enterprise software company focused on content services, enterprise content management and the processes built around organizational information. Its company history traces its origins to 1991, when Packy Hyland Jr. and Miguel Zubizarreta collaborated on ImageBase. The company identifies Necedah Bank in Wisconsin as its first customer. In 1992, the product and company story developed into Hyland OnBase, a name that the company says referred both to Packy Hyland Sr.’s interest in baseball and to the idea of keeping an organization’s content in “one database.” Hyland’s current positioning is broader than a single content repository. The company describes its offerings as an intelligent content platform that captures, processes and manages high volumes of diverse content, and helps customers improve, accelerate and automate operational decisions and workflows. Its capabilities include content management, content intelligence, document processing, process automation, governance, application development, systems integration and collaboration. Its website also presents Content Innovation Cloud as a platform for connecting content, processes and applications, with AI used to help organizations draw value from unstructured data and enterprise content. The company serves organizations across industries and describes its customer base as global, including thousands of organizations and more than half of the Fortune 100, according to its homepage. Its solutions are intended for enterprise use, where businesses and institutions need to organize information, manage complex processes, support compliance and connect content to applications and work activities. Hyland’s history and product portfolio are associated with OnBase, which began as the successor to ImageBase. The company’s present platform messaging emphasizes cloud architecture, integration and AI-enabled content and process capabilities. Hyland presents itself as an independent company rather than a product of a consumer technology brand. The supplied materials do not establish its current parent company, ownership structure, listing status, headquarters, or named current executives. Its corporate responsibility materials describe community, technology education, employee and environmental initiatives, including the Hyland Fund and Tech Outreach. Its current public message combines enterprise content modernization with customer partnership and organizational innovation.
History
Hyland’s official history places the company’s beginnings in 1991. Packy Hyland Jr. and Miguel Zubizarreta collaborated on ImageBase, the software that preceded Hyland OnBase. Hyland identifies Necedah Bank in Wisconsin as its first customer and describes the early customer relationship as an example of the partnership ethos that has remained part of the company’s identity. The history page dates the transition from ImageBase to the Hyland OnBase name to 1992. It explains that “OnBase” drew on Packy Hyland Sr.’s love of baseball and also referred to “one database” for an organization’s content. The official timeline describes the early company as a start-up sustained by its employees’ shared vision and by Packy Hyland Sr.’s support and fundraising. In 1995, Hyland released its first official advertisement, introduced Workflow, began working with reseller partners and put its first website online. The timeline notes that its first advertisement featured Packy Jr.’s driver’s license and referenced Necedah Bank, its first customer. In 1997, the company began its weekly Monday Morning Meeting tradition, a forum for company updates and announcements about new customers. These details show an early focus on customer relationships, partner distribution, workflow functionality and internal communication. Hyland’s business developed from this early content-management foundation into a broader enterprise software offering. The company’s current materials describe solutions that capture, process and manage high volumes of diverse content, helping customers improve and automate operational decisions and workflows. It presents capabilities spanning content management, content intelligence, document processing, process automation, governance, application development, systems integration and collaboration. Its platform messaging now emphasizes cloud architecture and the use of AI to make enterprise content and unstructured data more useful. Content Innovation Cloud is presented as a unified platform connecting content, processes and applications. Hyland’s current corporate description emphasizes serving organizations around the world and supporting their digital transformation. The company says its platform is designed to help organizations make content more accessible when needed and to modernize how they work. Its corporate responsibility materials describe community programs, technology education through Tech Outreach, support through the Hyland Fund and wider environmental and social commitments. The available official history extract provides milestones through 1997, while the current company and homepage pages describe its present platform and responsibilities. They do not establish a complete intervening timeline, current ownership, named executives or exact headquarters, so those details are not asserted here.
Products and positioning
Enterprise content and process technology provider. Hyland presents its platform as a way to connect and manage content, applications and workflows, with cloud, AI, governance and automation capabilities.
Hyland OnBase
The content management offering that grew from ImageBase; Hyland dates the OnBase name to 1992.
Content Innovation Cloud
Hyland presents this as a unified content, process and application intelligence platform, with AI capabilities for enterprise content and unstructured data.
Brand decisions
- Adopted company core valuesOther
Recent events
Hyland launches OnBase in AWS Marketplace[5]
Reported:
Hyland launched OnBase in AWS Marketplace, making the content services platform available through AWS's digital catalog.
Hyland completes acquisition of Nuxeo[6]
Reported:
Hyland completed its acquisition of Nuxeo, bringing Nuxeo's business, products and technology under Hyland.
Hyland launches Alfresco Collaboration Connector for Microsoft 365[7]
Reported:
Hyland launched the Alfresco Collaboration Connector for Microsoft 365, available on the Alfresco Digital Business Platform and Alfresco Content Services.
Hyland completes acquisition of Alfresco[8]
Reported:
Hyland completed its acquisition of Alfresco, bringing the entire Alfresco business, including its technology and products, under Hyland.
Hyland announces acquisition of Another Monday[9]
Hyland announced its acquisition of German RPA software developer Another Monday. Hyland said the addition would extend its process automation capabilities and strengthen its content services portfolio.
Weekdays and relative dates follow the original report; their exact calendar dates have not been verified.
Hyland announces CFO succession plan[10]
Reported:
Hyland announced that CFO Christopher J. Hyland would retire and that Nancy Person would become the company's new CFO effective April 2, 2020.
RJ Young and Hyland partner on information management solutions[11]
Reported:
RJ Young and Hyland announced a partnership to provide enterprise-level businesses with integrated information management solutions.
Sources13 sources
- 1Hyland | Content Services | Enterprise Content Management | Hylandhyland.com
- 2The History of Hyland | Company Timeline | Hylandhyland.com
- 3All About Hyland | Hylandhyland.com
- 4Global Corporate Responsibility | Hylandhyland.com
- 5Hyland在AWS Marketplace推出OnBaseprnewswire.com
- 6Hyland完成对Nuxeo的收购prnewswire.com
- 7Hyland推出Alfresco Collaboration Connector for Microsoft 365prnewswire.com
- 8Hyland 完成对 Alfresco 的收购prnewswire.com
- 9Hyland宣布收购Another Mondayscoop.co.nz
- 10Hyland 宣布首席财务官继任计划prnewswire.com
- 11RJ Young 与 Hyland 合作提供信息管理解决方案prweb.com
- 12Hyland Completes Acquisition Of Nuxeoscoop.co.nz
- 13Hyland launches OnBase in AWS Marketplace | iTWireitwire.com
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