OpenText has announced the launch of Magellan Risk Guard to remediate high-risk content with expanded cloud API services. The Magellan Risk Guard is an AI-powered security solution offered as part of the OpenTextโข Cloud Editions (CE) 21.3., OpenText delivered new innovations, including a new Customer Data Platform (CDP) to enable businesses to meet the new challenges in the complex post-pandemic world.
At the time of this announcement, Mark J. Barrenechea, CEO & CTO, OpenText said, ย โOrganizations are embracing the cloud as a key pillar in their digital transformation and growth strategies.โ
Mark added, โOpenText Cloud Editions supports both by delivering Information Management in the cloud at scale, empowering businesses of all sizes to master modern work, power modern experiences, digitize supply chains and strengthen cyber resilience.โ
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CE 21.3 features a number of significant new products, solutions and integrations to support Information Management in the cloud at scale. OpenTextโข Magellan Risk Guard is one of these.
What is OpenTextโข Magellan Risk Guard?
Businesses suffer loses costing millions of dollars due to risky content in the form of inappropriate images, texts and links that could irreversibly damage your reputation. Magellan Risk Guard, powered by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI ML), provides sensitive data discovery services to uncover and remediate potentially sensitive, inappropriate, or detrimental text, images, or video content within business systems. Risk Guard is easy to deploy and includes 20 prebuilt AI models that identify risk across 50 pre-defined categories such as personally identifiable information (PII), d****, alcohol and violence.
This intuitive AI-based solution tracks harmful, sensitive and inappropriate text, visual and audio content within enterprise content using advanced ML models. The solution could save a company additional cost involved in handling compliance by improving data governance and reducing file storage costs.
An update to OpenTextโข Extended ECM for Office 365, that provides deeper integrations with Microsoft Teamsโ, further simplifying collaboration, productivity, and compliant control of information.
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As part of OpenTextโs commitment to delivering information management solutions as Cloud APIs, OpenTextโข Developer Cloud now delivers APIs for content services, fax, notifications, capture and security. Webrootยฎ real-time threat protection and monitoring APIs help protect sensitive data and reduce the potential risks of cyber-attacks. Additionally, the OpenTextโข Business Network Cloud now offers connectors to 135 API in the SAP S/4HANAยฎ Cloud, enabling organizations to unlock real-time data flow and minimize disruptions when migrating to the SAP S/4HAHA Cloud.
โThe OpenText Cloud solution is meeting our objectives to help us lower and stabilize our operational costs and provide access for our customers, improving security, monitoring and administration,โ said Joris Verberckmoes, Head of Delivery and Operations at Engie Electrabel.
CE 21.3 also contains significant updates across each of the OpenText Clouds, as well as new solutions tailored to address unique industry requirements.
Introducing ย OpenText Content Cloud
Theย OpenText Content Cloudย empowers modern work by improving user and process productivity, and automating the management of critical business content. Furtherย innovationsย beyond OpenText Extended ECM include:
- OpenTextโข Core for Regulatory Plans, a SaaS solution for Life Sciences helps organizations plan, manage, and track complex regulatory submissionsโ.
- OpenTextโข Core Share for SAP solutions,ย available at the SAP Store, enables secure remote collaboration in the cloud within an SAP business process.
- OpenTextโข Axcelerateโข delivers enhanced chat review functionality and expanded collection capabilities for Google Workspace and Microsoft Exchange.
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Introducing OpenText Business Network Cloud
Theย OpenText Business Network Cloudย connects business to global commerce and trading networks through a unified integration platform. In addition to new API connectors,ย innovations include:
- OpenTextโข Lens is now available in OpenTextโข Trading Grid Classic to provide near real-time visibility for B2B transactions, tailored experiences, and new reporting capabilities to enhance productivity and communication.
- OpenTextโข IoT Platform simplifies the user experience and delivers APIs with operational features for internalization and device onboarding and provisioning.
Introducing OpenText Experience Cloud
Theย OpenText Experience Cloudย provides a single platform to deliver modern engagements across the customer journey.ย โIn addition to the new customer data platform,ย innovations include:
- OpenTextโข Media Management now integrates with Shutterstock to streamline image search and asset management.
- OpenText Media Management also introduces a new Jobs Dashboard that provides immediate visibility of all current projects, helping teams and stakeholders to optimize collaboration and meet deadlines.
Introducing OpenText Security & Protection Cloud
The launch of theย OpenText Voyager Connect Community, an online community for digital experience and information management professionals to network and share ideas, content, and resources.
Theย OpenText Security & Protection Cloudย strengthens cyber resilience byย protecting and securing data to withstand and quickly recover from cyberattacks and accidental data loss.ย Recentย innovations include:
- OpenTextโข Managed Detection & Response (MDR) Service helps enterprise customers uncover hidden risks and threats to help prevent financial, legal, or reputational impact.
- OpenTextโข EnCase Forensic and OpenTextโข EnCase Endpoint Investigator now enable the collection of social media artifacts from cloud-based collaborationโฏandโฏstorage applicationsโฏincluding, Microsoft Teams,โฏAmazon S3,โฏDropboxโฏand Box.
- Webrootยฎ Business Endpoint Evasion Shield offers better protection by identifying threats earlier in the attack chain.
- Webrootยฎ Security for Chromebook now includes antivirus and web filtering protection.
- Webrootยฎ Security Awareness Training delivers regionalized and localized content in additional languages for EMEA.
Introducing OpenText Developer Cloud
Theย OpenText Developer Cloudย is a single source of cloud API services that helps developers quickly bring their ideas to life using powerful, developer-trusted APIs.ย Enhancements to the Developer Cloud include more accessible API documentation, new learning materials, and a new Developer forum.
Underpinning each of the clouds are OpenTextโข Advanced Technologies. In addition to Risk Guard, newย innovations include:
- Support for Amazon EMR Data Lake and a text classification model for a Life Sciences taxonomy using Medical Subject headings (MeSH)โ.
- Deeper integrations between OpenTextโข Core Case Management and OpenTextโข Core Content to betterย connect content to processes.
Introducing OpenText Industry Solutions
OpenText Industry Solutionsย are tailored to address the unique requirements of individual industries, bringing together information management products from across the OpenText portfolio. New solutions in CE 21.3 support the following industries:
- Utilities: Customer Experience Platform for Utilities by OpenText includes authenticated customer portals and deep integration with SAP to improve the quality of customer experience and drive loyalty and revenue.
- Life Sciences:ย Clinical Data Intelligenceโ from OpenTextโขย accelerates regulatory approvals while ensuring governance by automating the capture, analysis and filing of clinical trial documentation for Life Sciences.
- Government:ย Cloud for Government from OpenTextโขย empowers Federal agencies with stronger, risk-based security features, enabling deeper visibility, automation, and collaboration.
- Manufacturing: Asset Track for Manufacturing from OpenTextโข tracks the location and movement of assets in real-time to eliminate manual processes and asset loss, increasing production output and reducing operating costs.
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