OpenText Content Storage Service - DeSL Integration and Automation

Common Integration Use Cases Between OpenText Content Storage Service and DeSL

1. Centralized storage for product development assets

Data flow: DeSL to OpenText Content Storage Service

DeSL users can store large product development files such as tech packs, sketches, CAD outputs, fit photos, and sample approvals in OpenText Content Storage Service for secure, scalable retention. This reduces pressure on DeSL application storage while giving product, design, and sourcing teams a reliable repository for high-volume content.

Business value: Lowers storage costs, improves performance in DeSL, and creates a durable archive for product records.

2. Long-term retention of approved product documentation

Data flow: DeSL to OpenText Content Storage Service

Once a style, colorway, or collection reaches approval, DeSL can automatically send final specifications, BOMs, compliance documents, and sign-off records to OpenText Content Storage Service for governed retention. This supports audit readiness and reduces the risk of losing critical product history after seasonal closeout.

Business value: Strengthens compliance, simplifies audits, and preserves a complete product history for future reference.

3. Retrieval of archived content back into DeSL for active workflows

Data flow: OpenText Content Storage Service to DeSL

When teams need to revisit an older style, supplier file, or approved artwork, DeSL can pull the archived document from OpenText Content Storage Service directly into the active workflow. This is useful for reorders, line extensions, or seasonal refreshes where prior assets must be reused quickly.

Business value: Reduces duplicate file creation, speeds up reuse of approved materials, and improves consistency across product lines.

4. Version-controlled storage for artwork and packaging approvals

Data flow: Bi-directional

Design and packaging teams can upload draft artwork from DeSL to OpenText Content Storage Service, while final approved versions are written back to DeSL as the system of record for product development. OpenText can retain all versions for traceability, while DeSL surfaces the current approved file to downstream users.

Business value: Improves version control, reduces approval errors, and creates a clear audit trail for creative and packaging assets.

5. Supplier collaboration file exchange with controlled retention

Data flow: DeSL to OpenText Content Storage Service, and OpenText Content Storage Service to DeSL

DeSL can exchange large supplier files such as lab dips, sample images, test reports, and material certifications through OpenText Content Storage Service. Suppliers upload content to the storage layer, and DeSL links the files to the relevant style, vendor, or development milestone.

Business value: Streamlines supplier collaboration, reduces email-based file handling, and ensures all supplier evidence is retained in a secure enterprise repository.

6. Compliance evidence management for materials and product safety

Data flow: DeSL to OpenText Content Storage Service

DeSL can send compliance-related documents such as test certificates, restricted substance declarations, and audit evidence to OpenText Content Storage Service for long-term retention. This creates a centralized archive that supports regulatory reviews, customer audits, and internal quality checks.

Business value: Improves traceability, supports regulatory compliance, and reduces the effort required to assemble audit packages.

7. Legacy content migration into a modern cloud storage layer

Data flow: Legacy systems or file repositories to OpenText Content Storage Service, then linked to DeSL

Organizations modernizing fashion product development can migrate historical style files, sample records, and archived documents into OpenText Content Storage Service and connect them to corresponding records in DeSL. This allows teams to retire older file shares or legacy repositories while keeping historical product data accessible.

Business value: Supports cloud migration, reduces legacy infrastructure costs, and gives teams a single governed storage foundation for both current and historical content.