Strengthening Legal Technology Leadership Worldwide
NetDocuments, the cloud-native, AI-enabled leader in legal document management, has officially completed its acquisition of eDOCS from OpenText. This milestone positions NetDocuments as a global powerhouse, now serving legal professionals in over 90 countries. By welcoming the eDOCS product portfolio and team, NetDocuments reinforces its commitment to modernizing legal workflows while providing stability and continuity for organizations of all sizes.
The acquisition underscores NetDocuments’ dedication to delivering secure, compliant, and modern document management solutions to law firms, corporate legal departments, and organizations navigating the complexities of digital transformation in the legal sector.
Supporting Legacy Systems While Enabling Modernization
For existing eDOCS customers, this transition comes with reassurance. NetDocuments will continue to support the on-premises eDOCS platform with no end-of-life plans, preserving established workflows, long-standing customer relationships, and trusted partner engagements.
By integrating long-time eDOCS team members, NetDocuments ensures that expertise and support remain uninterrupted. Customers and partners can expect proactive engagement, continuity in services, and access to dedicated resources, including a welcome portal featuring FAQs, events, and training opportunities.
Josh Baxter, CEO of NetDocuments, emphasized the company’s customer-first approach:
“We’re proud to welcome the eDOCS community to NetDocuments. Customers and partners now have a dedicated home with a company committed to supporting what works today while helping legal professionals do their best work. Our focus is to provide stability and continuity first, while ensuring customers have access to a modern platform and a clear, seamless path to modernization when they choose to pursue it.”
A Seamless Path to Modernization
For organizations ready to modernize, NetDocuments offers a proven, streamlined upgrade path. Owning and supporting both NetDocuments and eDOCS platforms allows for purpose-built migration tools that preserve institutional knowledge, established processes, and critical workflows. This strategic approach ensures legal teams can confidently transition to modern cloud-based legal solutions without disruption.
By providing a modern, AI-enabled platform alongside a commitment to legacy systems, NetDocuments empowers law firms and corporate legal departments to focus on productivity, compliance, and collaboration—cornerstones of effective legal document management.
Global Impact on Legal Professionals
With this acquisition, NetDocuments strengthens its position as a global leader in legal technology. Organizations worldwide gain access to innovative cloud solutions designed to improve document security, streamline collaboration, and optimize workflow efficiency. Legal professionals now have a trusted partner that balances stability with forward-looking modernization, ensuring long-term operational success.
About NetDocuments
NetDocuments helps legal professionals do their best work with an intelligent document management system (DMS) that goes beyond getting organized and brings to life seamless AI, powerful workflows, and smarter experiences. The #1 trusted cloud-native DMS for 25+ years, NetDocuments delivers tools to make work easier throughout the document lifecycle — from award-winning automation and AI to email management, search, collaboration, document bundling, advanced security, and more.
Supporting more than 7,000 law firms, corporate legal departments, and public sector organizations worldwide, the platform integrates with 150+ other technologies, including Microsoft 365 and DocuSign, making it a core solution that meets users wherever they work. To learn more, visit netdocuments.com.
