ApplicationXtender 16.3 Now Available from Image One

ApplicationXtender (AX) version 16.3 is now available and replaces version 8.1.

Why the jump from 8.1 to 16.3? The current release for all new OpenText products is Release 16. ApplicationXtender has completely shifted all of its processes, technologies and management over to align with OpenText’s product marketing.

OpenText is investing heavily in ApplicationXtender, and all of the products from their acquisition of EMC’s Enterprise Content Division (ECD). ApplicationXtender’s multi-year road map and strategy is exciting and fully endorsed by OpenText’s leadership.
The goal of the 16.3 release is ease of use and a view towards an information management platform rather than just a bucket for content.

Web Access Features

This release is focused on ensuring that ApplicationXtender is a modern multi-platform experience. Web access is now the first choice of customers and AX 16.3 has expanded the features that are browser first.

Full feature, responsive mobile experience that includes:

• Ability to “Pan” the image within the viewer
• Multi-touch support so that users can take advantage of not only tablets but touchscreen monitors
• Navigate page by flicker, zoom in/out by pinch with two fingers, switch viewer to full-screen mode, hide/show application list and thumbnails, draw/move/delete annotations, pan page images

Additional Upgrades

In addition to the new touch and mobile-focused features there are also some basic upgrades that are part of this release:

• Higher quality thumbnail rendering
• Ability to save layout of pages as new version (when rotating/adjusting pages)
• Hot keys to move to next/previous document or next/previous page
• Ad hoc text searches: from the result set, users can select multiple items and search within them; from the document view, users can perform a search of all pages within the document

Easier Maintenance

As many of ApplicationXtender customers have made strategic decisions to reduce their IT footprint due to the evolving cloud technologies and a greater alignment of information management with business users. With that in mind, ApplicationXtender is now even easier to maintain:

• Eased system management including storage management for a logical way to choose the location of actual files, and support for member pagination in admin group setting
• Support for Single Sign-On for Active Directory users
• Greater focus on information security, including support TLS 1.2 (AX-6236, WX-9625), and expanded AES encryption that includes Encrypt256 by default but with additional options

Contextual Landing Pages

People love ApplicationXtender because it aligns with their work processes rather in a simple, flexible way. So, with a focus on practical usability, contextual landing pages have been added that offer the following:

• The initial login landing page is different for each user, administrative users see global elements whereas users see specific elements to their security, including recently viewed documents and documents currently checked out
• Application landing pages are focused on getting people back to where they left off by including application name and description, new documents and saved searches

Web-Based Scanning

Further on the point of practical usability, the scanning tools have been expanded to add robust web-based scanning:

• Single and batch document scanning directly into ApplicationXtender without add-ons
• Moved scanning, printing and export to back-end tasks so as not to interrupt actual work
• Scanning interface has out-of-the-box connector for the Captiva Cloud Capture Toolkit

Contact us to learn more about ApplicationXtender 16.3 document management software