OpenText Lens - Data Visibility - DeSL Integration and Automation

Common Integration Use Cases Between OpenText Lens - Data Visibility and DeSL

OpenText Lens - Data Visibility and DeSL complement each other well in organizations that manage large volumes of product, supplier, and design-related content. OpenText Lens helps identify what unstructured data exists, where it is stored, and whether it is sensitive, redundant, or obsolete. DeSL manages fashion and retail product development workflows, supporting PLM and supply chain collaboration. Together, they can improve data governance, reduce risk, and streamline product development operations.

• 1. Sensitive design and supplier content discovery before DeSL migration

  Data flow: OpenText Lens - Data Visibility to DeSL

  Before migrating legacy product development files into DeSL, OpenText Lens can scan shared drives, file repositories, and collaboration platforms to identify design specs, supplier contracts, technical packs, and other unstructured content. It can flag obsolete, duplicate, or sensitive files so teams only migrate approved content into DeSL.

  Business value: Reduces migration risk, prevents unnecessary data transfer, and improves the quality of content loaded into DeSL.

• 2. Governance of product development documents stored outside DeSL

  Data flow: DeSL to OpenText Lens - Data Visibility

  DeSL users often create supporting files such as sketches, fit comments, lab reports, and supplier correspondence that may be stored in external repositories. OpenText Lens can continuously scan those repositories to provide visibility into what related content exists outside DeSL and whether it contains confidential or regulated information.

  Business value: Improves information governance across the broader product development ecosystem and reduces compliance exposure.

• 3. Identification of obsolete product assets for cleanup and retention management

  Data flow: OpenText Lens - Data Visibility to DeSL

  OpenText Lens can identify outdated seasonal artwork, retired style files, superseded tech packs, and duplicate supplier documents. That insight can be used to determine which assets should remain linked to active DeSL records and which should be archived or deleted according to retention policy.

  Business value: Lowers storage costs, reduces clutter in product development processes, and supports defensible retention practices.

• 4. Compliance review of regulated product documentation

  Data flow: OpenText Lens - Data Visibility to DeSL

  For fashion and retail organizations that manage restricted materials, country-specific labeling, or supplier compliance documentation, OpenText Lens can locate sensitive files such as certificates, test results, and audit evidence across repositories. Those findings can be used to ensure DeSL contains complete and current compliance-related records for each product line.

  Business value: Strengthens audit readiness, improves traceability, and reduces the chance of missing compliance evidence during product approvals.

• 5. Supplier collaboration file rationalization

  Data flow: Bi-directional

  DeSL supports collaboration with suppliers on product development deliverables, while OpenText Lens can analyze supplier-shared repositories to identify duplicate, outdated, or sensitive documents. Integration can help route approved supplier files into DeSL and flag external copies that should be removed or archived.

  Business value: Improves supplier data quality, reduces version confusion, and creates a more controlled collaboration environment.

• 6. Pre-launch content readiness checks

  Data flow: OpenText Lens - Data Visibility to DeSL

  Before a product moves from development to launch, OpenText Lens can scan all supporting content across repositories to verify that final design files, approvals, and compliance documents are present and that draft or obsolete versions are not being used. DeSL can then use that insight to confirm launch readiness.

  Business value: Reduces launch delays, improves accuracy of final product records, and minimizes the risk of using incorrect assets.

• 7. Enterprise content cleanup ahead of PLM process standardization

  Data flow: OpenText Lens - Data Visibility to DeSL

  When an organization standardizes product development processes in DeSL, OpenText Lens can analyze legacy content repositories to identify redundant style libraries, duplicate vendor files, and obsolete project folders. This helps business teams decide what should be retained, migrated, or retired before PLM process redesign.

  Business value: Supports cleaner process design, reduces manual cleanup effort, and accelerates DeSL adoption.