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Quick Take: OpenText Cloud Editions (CE) 24.3

OpenText announced the release of Cloud Editions (CE) 24.3, a significant updated integrating advanced information management, trusted cloud solutions, robust security measures, and AI.

What’s New in CE 24.3?

Key Innovations in CE 24.3 include:

  1. Business AI:
    • OpenText DevOps Aviator:
      • Deploys AI-driven testing bots to create codeless tests from manual ones, reducing risks and talent shortages.
      • Features an AI-guided smart assistant for instant answers and summaries on development tasks, streamlining workflows for enhanced efficiency.
    • OpenText Aviator IoT:
      • Integrates IoT data trending and analysis with a low-code application builder, facilitating secure and frictionless information exchange.
    • OpenText Trading Grid with Aviator:
      • Utilizes conversational AI to simplify B2B integration tasks, enhancing efficiency, productivity, and user experience.
    • OpenText Fortify Aviator:
      • Automates the auditing and remediation of SAST vulnerabilities using AI, integrating fixes into DevOps workflows and simplifying security processes.
    • OpenText Axcelerate with Aviator:
      • Enhances legal document summarization and review with generative AI, allowing users to refine criteria and ensure accurate results.
    • OpenText Content Aviator:
      • Offers an interactive demo for AI-powered content management, available in a hybrid deployment model for on-premises customers.
  2. Business Cloud:
    • OpenText Content Cloud:
      • Enhances enterprise content management with expanded video content capabilities, improving workflow efficiency and productivity.
    • OpenText Discover:
      • Supports complex investigative analytics with secure, auditable interactions, integrating with OpenText IDOL for comprehensive unstructured data analysis.
  3. Business Technology:
    • OpenText Developer Cloud:
      • Introduces digital signature integration via APIs, facilitating a transition to digital approvals.
      • Extends API support for Google Cloud Platform archival services, enabling efficient data storage and management.
      • Launches OpenText Thrust Studio, a real-time digital assistant powered by generative AI, to accelerate development processes and boost productivity.

Analysis

The integration of AI into DevSecOps, content management, and development workflows underscores the importance of security, efficiency, and scalability in modern IT environments. OpenText follows an Agile-like rolling cadence of releases to its customers, which means new features become quickly available. The relevance of its new features for enterprise customers, along with its rapid-release approach, are what allows OpenText to maintain its position as a leader in information management solutions.

OpenText Cloud Editions (CE) 24.3 is a step forward in executing the company’s strategic roadmap. As organizations continue to navigate the complexities of AI and cloud adoption, OpenText’s latest innovations provide a robust framework for growth and transformation, ensuring data integrity and operational agility. It’s hard not to like what OpenText is doing.

Disclosure: The author is an industry analyst, and NAND Research an industry analyst firm, that engages in, or has engaged in, research, analysis, and advisory services with many technology companies, which may include those mentioned in this article. The author does not hold any equity positions with any company mentioned in this article.