Asset-intensive organizations are under constant pressure to operate more efficiently, make faster decisions, and maintain absolute confidence in the integrity of their asset data. Whether you’re managing complex facilities in utilities, oil and gas, infrastructure, or manufacturing, one thing remains consistent: the information needed to keep operations running is growing in volume, importance, and urgency.
In this context, cloud transformation isn’t just a technology shift – it’s a foundational step toward more connected, resilient, and scalable engineering information ecosystems. As organizations modernize their platforms, they increasingly expect the applications that support engineering workflows to follow suit: cloud-ready, containerized, seamlessly integrated, and easy to deploy.
As cloud initiatives accelerate, more organizations are looking for solutions that can seamlessly operate within modern, containerized OpenText environments. Cad-Capture’s HotSpots, part of its Asset Navigation solution, is now among the applications aligning with this direction.
The certification itself validates architectural compatibility – but its importance is more strategic. It marks a broader evolution in how engineering information can be connected, contextualized, and activated across the cloud ecosystem.
Rethinking engineering information for a cloud-driven world
Engineering information – drawings, technical documents, specifications, inspection reports, and interconnected asset data – forms the backbone of safe and reliable operations. Yet historically, accessing that information has been challenging; multiple systems, inconsistent data structures, and workflows that rely on heavy, static deployments.
As cloud strategies mature, organizations are reimagining how this information can be delivered:
- More consistently
- More intelligently
- And more closely aligned with the tools teams rely on every day
Containerized applications play a crucial role in this transformation. They support rapid deployment, predictable scalability, and streamlined updates – advantages that directly benefit engineering teams operating across complex facilities or geographically dispersed assets.
The certification means HotSpots can now be included as part of an OpenText managed cloud service, including full containerized deployment and PostgreSQL support. This means the engineering-focused Hotspots solution is ready to operate at a new level of agility and resilience.
HotSpots in the cloud: extending the value of unified engineering information
At the center of this certification milestone is HotSpots, Cad-Capture’s tool for the automatic navigation to and interaction with engineering drawings and connected asset content, directly inside the OpenText CM (Content Management) Intelligent Viewing solution.
Cad-Capture’s HotSpots enables users to:
- view engineering drawings and technical documents in their operational context,
- automatically activate the metadata and asset data behind them,
- and move seamlessly between related systems and information.
With the new containerized certification, organizations using OpenText Cloud can now deploy HotSpots with the speed and flexibility modern operations demand – giving their teams the scalable, cloud-ready foundation needed for confident decision-making.
This certification reinforces that commitment and positions HotSpots – and the broader Asset Navigation solution – as an integral part of the modernized information landscape organizations are building with OpenText.
Looking ahead: cloud-ready engineering information that keeps evolving
This move toward containerization signals a shift in how engineering information solutions will be delivered in the coming years. Solutions like Cad-Capture’s HotSpots are aligning with modern cloud requirements, enabling organizations to:
- deploy faster
- operate more efficiently
- remain confident in the quality and accessibility of their engineering information
- and continue modernizing without disrupting critical workflows
More than a technical milestone, it highlights the ongoing evolution of cloud-ready solutions that enable organizations to make engineering information more actionable and reliable.
