Introducing Hyland OpenArch, the Open Source, AI-Ready Content Hub Across All Unstructured Data Sources

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Extending two decades as the content management industry's leading open source content vendor, Hyland is introducing OpenArch, an AI-ready content hub that le ...

- Extending two decades as the content management industry's leading open source content vendor, Hyland is introducing OpenArch, an AI-ready content hub that lets developers connect potentially any repository to any AI service

- OpenArch connects Alfresco, Nuxeo and other repositories to whichever AI models, services and agents developers choose, ensuring metadata, permissions and business signals travel with the content, so AI respects what each user is already allowed to see

- Available now on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license, OpenArch continues Hyland's prominence as the world's leading open source enterprise content management leader

CLEVELAND, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AI is moving from pilot projects to production, and companies are finally pointing it at the content that actually runs their business. There is just one problem: that content is scattered across dozens of repositories, each with its own structure, permissions, and rules. To deliver reliable results, AI needs access to all that data.

Today, Hyland, a leader in content intelligence and automation, is reshaping how enterprises will realize the content-powered agentic enterprise with the introduction of Hyland OpenArch. This is an open source AI index that continuously builds a unified database with content chunks and vectors, comprised of enterprise content, metadata, and permissions across every connected repository. The result is one holistic view of what an organization knows, no matter where any individual piece of content lives, storing the AI-ready form of content and its permissions, while the original content and its governance stay in the source systems. Unlike data lakes, there is no second system of record.

"Building on our long history as the industry's leading open source content management vendor, Hyland has consistently championed transparency, collaboration, and innovation; and OpenArch is the next expression of that commitment," said John Newton, chief innovation strategist at…

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