OpenText™ Digital Asset Management helps teams organize, discover, and distribute digital assets at scale. As content volumes grow and user expectations shift toward faster, more personalized experiences, the platform continues to evolve with regular releases.
This rolling blog captures what’s new in each release, so you can quickly understand what’s changed, what’s improved, and how it impacts day-to-day work across teams.
May 2026: What’s new in OpenText Digital Asset Management CE 26.2
As digital asset management platforms evolve into personalized, role-aware workspaces, the 26.2 release delivers on two fronts: deeper personalization for end users and continued modernization of the core search and navigation experience.
Personalized & relevant experiences
OpenText™ Digital Asset Management CE 26.2 introduces composable homepages and curated content experiences, giving administrators the tools to tailor the platform for every user group—from a single-brand team to a complex, multi-department organization.
- Eliminate search friction by landing users in a homepage configured for their brand or department, so relevant content is visible from the moment they log in
- Accelerate asset discovery by surfacing curated assets and topics upfront, reducing the time users spend navigating to the content they need
- Deliver personalized experiences at scale by configuring distinct homepages for different audiences, ensuring every user group gets a high-impact, role-appropriate starting point
Continued user experience modernization
Building on the platform’s ongoing UX investment, 26.2 introduces several targeted improvements to search, filtering, and asset browsing that reduce friction and keep users in flow.
- Speed up asset retrieval with multi-facet filtering in a single step, cutting down the back-and-forth in large, complex libraries
- Maintain search momentum with persistent filter positioning that returns users to their exact search state during deep or repeated queries
- Enable faster asset selection with collection tiles that display multiple thumbnails, giving users richer visual context without opening individual collections
December 2025: OpenText Digital Asset Management CE 25.4
The 25.4 release is available for both on-premises and cloud deployments, with enhancements spanning AI flexibility, UI modernization, webhook-based integrations, and application server support.
OpenText Experience Aviator enhancements
OpenText Digital Asset Management CE 25.4 expands the AI engine options for OpenText™ Experience Aviator™, giving organizations greater flexibility to deploy and manage AI-powered search and content discovery.
- Maximize deployment flexibility by choosing between OpenText Knowledge Discovery or Google Gemini to power Experience Aviator based on your organization’s infrastructure and licensing
- Simplify AI configuration with a straightforward Gemini (Media Aviator) setup process covering OTDS licensing, account details, and system settings
- Keep search sessions focused with Aviator conversations that narrow results incrementally—select New Topic to start a fresh query when powered by Gemini
Updated UI and Improved Accessibility
The Web Desktop Client has been refreshed with a modernized look and meaningful accessibility improvements, making the platform easier to navigate for a broader range of users.
- Improve asset browsing with Masonry view, offering a more intuitive and visually engaging way to discover content across large libraries
- Reduce cognitive load with a restyled Main menu and Header bar that improve visual clarity during everyday navigation
- Streamline search interactions with updated Sorting, Selecting, and Filtering components — including filter chiclets — that simplify how users refine results
- Improve consistency and ease of use with modernized select and command menus across Assets and Folders pages
May 2025: What’s new in DAM 25.2
Digital asset management is having a moment. Industries that traditionally generate large volumes of rich media benefit from the productivity advantages of AI-led innovation in usability and automation. At the same time, new use cases for images, video, audio, 3D models, and other rich media formats have emerged across industry verticals such as manufacturing, transportation, and utilities, increasing the market need for both specialized and versatile DAM solutions.
OpenText™ Digital Asset Management is a leading Enterprise DAM solution that excels in securely handling multiple use cases and user communities across any organization. One of the pillars of the OpenText DAM team is relentless innovation. Let’s look at the top capabilities unlocked in the latest updates.
Generative AI Search
Helping colleagues find the perfect assets for their project is one of the biggest benefits of digital asset management. A skilled user can craft the ideal search query for any situation with OpenText DAM’s industry-leading Advanced Search. However, Generative AI search using RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is a powerful asset-discovery assistant for occasional DAM users, freeing super-users to focus on higher-value tasks.
By leveraging the exceptional power of OpenText™ Knowledge Discovery, OpenText Digital Asset Management 25.2 now offers Aviator Search, including:
- Natural Language Search enables users to find assets using their own words
- Reverse Image Search enables users to find assets using a local or online image
- AI Asset Summary adds natural language descriptive metadata, ideal for SEO and GEO
Unlike most alternatives, OpenText Knowledge Discovery is available as a Private Cloud or on-premises solution, so all your data stays securely under your control in the same location as OpenText Digital Asset Management.
Video and 3D model enhancements
Recent releases have further improved the video and 3D model management capabilities of OpenText Digital Asset Management.
- Use AI auto-tagging to analyze 3D model previews, improving discoverability
- Export video transcripts in VTT format, providing more options for translation and subtitles
- Improved video and audio analysis when using OpenText Knowledge Discovery for AI Media Analysis
Continual improvement
While those are the top highlights, every update keeps OpenText Digital Asset Management at the leading edge of usability and security. Recent versions have included improvements in accessibility, watermarking, asset linking, project management, API functionality and many other areas. With an exciting roadmap and a powerful vision, OpenText continues to lead the market for Enterprise DAM.
February 2024: Product content integrations, new file formats, AI and more
For a category that has been around for over 30 years, digital asset management (DAM) is surprisingly dynamic. However, it remains challenging to manage the increasing volume and complexity of rich media that organizations and individuals create and consume. Whether it is new formats, like 3D models, new channels, like social short-form video, or new technologies like Generative AI, DAM innovation must keep up the pace.
At OpenText™, we are proud of our track record of relentless innovation. But we spend so much time looking ahead that we sometimes fail to consider the milestones we have achieved. So this is a look at the highlights that were achieved over the last year in digital asset management.
Product content integrations
For many online retailers, DAM and product information management (PIM) have been a power couple for years. We have integrated OpenText DAM with leaders like SAP, Stibo, Riversand, and Salsify. But as more brands market their products directly, the PIM market has expanded rapidly. That’s why we introduced a PIM Integration Framework to OpenText DAM in 2023, making it easy and fast to integrate with (almost) any PIM.
More file format support
As is typical with emerging content types, the number of file formats for 3D assets continues to grow. In 2023, OpenText added support for GLB/GLTF, WRL/VRML, and 3DS. This is in addition to the existing support for PLY, FBX, STL, DAE and OBJ file formats. Our objective is to eliminate the need for dedicated 3D editing software when only viewing and rotating the object is required.
Also in 2023, we introduced support for viewing animated GIFs in the user interface and delivery through Adaptive Media Delivery (AMD). In addition, we won’t disagree with how you pronounce GIF.
Dynamic search experience
Keyword search now dynamically displays thumbnails of top results. This accelerates the discovery of key resources and reduces the friction that decreases user engagement.
Automated workflows
Automation is more than a way to increase productivity; it also drives compliance and consistency. The workflow engine in OpenText DAM was improved to allow easy scheduling and recurrence of automated jobs. New actions were added, including watermarking and unpublishing from collections. A sample expiration workflow, developed in collaboration with our customers, is now provided to show how to use the new capabilities.
AI and ML
OpenText completed the acquisition of Micro Focus in February 2023, and that included the powerful and flexible IDOL Media Analysis. We wasted no time adding IDOL support to OpenText DAM, expanding the options available to customers seeking world-class AI image and video analysis. Key to some customers, IDOL can be installed as a private service for security-conscious organizations, so training sets and assets needing analysis do not need to be sent outside the organization.
But the big buzz of 2023 was generative AI (GenAI). We partnered with Google Vertex Imagen to add this exciting new capability to the creative request workflow as inspiration images that clarify the requirement. Listening to the needs and concerns of our customers, we added governance options such as automatic tagging, watermarking, and image cleanup to prevent accidental or unapproved use of assets created by AI.
A big year
It has been a big year for OpenText DAM innovation, and these were just the highlights. We’ve continued to improve usability, security, and connectivity in ways that drive success for our customers and help them succeed with their customers.
2024 is set to be even bigger, so stay tuned for more!
