OpenText, Cohere Partner to Combine Trusted Data with Agentic AI

OpenText Corp., a player in data management and context for enterprise AI, and Cohere, a sovereign AI company, announced a strategic partnership at the ALL IN AI conference to bring trusted agentic AI to governments and regulated industries.Together, OpenText and Cohere provide complementary layers of the AI stack for the agentic enterprise. As the data and context layer, OpenText unlocks enterprise data, including unstructured, operational and transactional data, and gives agentic AI the context it needs.

Cohere provides the application and orchestration layer through North, its secure, privately deployable agentic AI platform, together with its cutting-edge enterprise AI models for powering complex automations. Clients have the choice of where it all runs: on-premises, or in a private, public, or sovereign cloud depending on their security, data, and deployment requirements.

“Data is not the supporting act, it is what gives agentic AI the context it needs to perform,” said Ayman Antoun, CEO, OpenText. “OpenText brings the data and context layer, while Cohere brings the orchestration and models that turn that data into agentic AI that acts with purpose. Together, we give clients what they need to build the agentic enterprise.”

Expected to reach clients in early 2027, the OpenText and Cohere agentic solution is purpose built for governments and organizations in highly regulated sectors, where AI agents must reason over trusted data and act across systems without sacrificing control over data location, security, or deployment. OpenText’s data and context layer already runs inside the world’s top 20 federal governments, along with healthcare systems, financial institutions, insurers, and global supply chains, through its Content, Business Network, IT Operations Management (ITOM), and Cybersecurity solutions.

“Enterprises and governments need AI that can work with their most important data while keeping them in control of where that data lives and how it is used,” said Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO, Cohere. “By bringing North and our models together with OpenText’s trusted data and context, we’re giving organizations a secure path to move agentic AI from pilot to production and put it to work across the systems and workflows their teams rely on every day.”

OpenText brings clients a world-class ecosystem of partners that together deliver the full AI stack they need to deploy agentic AI. The OpenText and Cohere partnership will include product development, integration of Cohere’s agentic platform and models into OpenText Aviator AI agents, coordinated go-to-market execution, and a strategic reseller relationship through SOLEX, enabling OpenText to offer Cohere-supported solutions both on-premises and through OpenText Cloud.

Two Canadian AI Leaders With Global Reach
OpenText was founded in Canada in 1991 and serves more than 120,000 enterprise clients in 180 countries. Cohere was founded in Toronto in 2019 and is the world’s leading sovereign AI company building cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end AI products for enterprise and public sector organizations. Together, the companies extend a common foundation in trust and security to regulated markets worldwide, where deployment choice and control over data matter most.

Key Takeaways

OpenText and Cohere have partnered to integrate the Cohere agentic AI platform, North, and large language models into OpenText’s context and data foundation, and OpenText Aviator AI agents. This collaboration will provide trusted agentic AI solutions for governments and highly regulated industries
The partnership is designed to help organizations move AI from pilot projects into production by enabling agents to reason over trusted enterprise data. This allows for automated actions across systems while maintaining strict control over data security, deployment, and human oversight
This combined AI stack of trusted data, context, orchestration, and large language models (LLMs) addresses a gap that has previously limited agentic AI adoption in enterprises and organizations. OpenText brings the enterprise data foundation, including unstructured, operational, and transactional data, and gives agentic AI the context it needs. Cohere brings the orchestration layer, North, and models that turn that data into agentic AI that acts with purpose
Clients have the choice to deploy these integrated AI solutions on-premises or within private, public, or sovereign clouds
OpenText CEO Ayman Antoun states that well-governed and secure data provides the necessary context for agentic AI to perform. He believes this partnership provides the critical layers of the AI stack required for clients to build an agentic enterprise that performs and delivers results