HCL Digital Experience CF224 and New offering HCL Digital Experience Compose 9.5 CF224 are Now Available!

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See the details on all product and program release deliveries below:

Key Features and Benefits

HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update and CF 224 (All Versions)

  • AI Translation and Workflow capabilities in WCM –Optionally apply (AI) Translation in WCM to translate content items into different languages, and additionally, generate summaries or keywords.
  • Presentation Designer – A new Presentation Designer component provides ease of use visual drag and drop capabilities to create or edit Presentation templates.
  • DXClient - LiveSync Pull and Push commands for WCM Design Library - Leverage the new LiveSync Pull and Push commands for WCM Design Library artifacts

HCL Digital Experience 8.5 and 9 versions

  • Extended Support option now available for DX versions 8.5 and 9.0 – Customers who may not be able to update from DX versions 8.5 and 9.0 version 9.5 by June 30, 2025 can sign up for an Extended Support option. The Extended Support option will be offered from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2026.
  • Automatically apply 9.5 from a later CF installation – Administrators can speed upgrading to the latest DX 9.5 version from V8.5 & 9 using the CF Update process, now set as the default (configurable) setting.

HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update and CF 224 (K8s deployments)

  • DAM - Updated UI - The Digital Asset Management (DAM) user interface (UI) presents a new theme for an improved visual asset management experience.
  • Additional interface features for OpenSearch – New OpenSearch UI features are available within Practitioner Studio for end users and content authors
  • People Service – New People Service feature can enhance user profiles with additional data and interactive features, improving team collaboration and project execution.
  • Guidance to configure hostAliases for DX Pods – This may be useful for setting up domain name system (DNS) names services or for mapping hostnames to IP addresses.
  • Sizing guidance for maximum rendering in a single-node configuration - Presents the KPIs and discusses how adjustments to the pod configuration can make improvements in the responsiveness of the system.

HCL Digital Experience Compose v9.5

HCL Digital Experience Compose v9.5 is new a lightweight, fast performing, cloud–only digital experience platform for delivering content-centric and transactional experiences. DX Compose includes a core container called WebEngine that is built on the Open Liberty platform and operates on certified Kubernetes platforms. This architecture supports fast startup and execution times to deliver high-performance DX sites, and is capable of using the latest Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) levels.

Key Features and Benefits

HCL Digital Experience Compose 9.5 CF 224 (K8s deployments)

Deployment

  • Architecture – HCL DX Compose deploys via Helm to certified Kubernetes platforms, is scalable and flexible, supports rapid startup and execution, authentication for security and personalization, and integration with various applications.

Site creation

  • Site Manager - HCL DX Compose provides web site composition and project management features.
  • Customize and create role-based sites – Apply custom branding and themes in your sites, also control access to authoring items and elements and pages that are displayed within a website.
  • Personalize sites – Target your content to maximize its impact as presented to different audiences.
  • Collaborate - People Service can enhance user profiles with additional data and interactive features, improving team collaboration and project execution. The service is also supported by a robust API layer compatible with OpenAPI, ensuring third-party support and extensibility.

Administration

  • Configure – Configure and manage DX Compose deployments via Helm, resulting in immutable containers and application resilience. Eliminate performance critical RWX volumes to lower cloud hardware storage costs and complexity.
  • Use external databases for production – Update the database used for production
  • Security and Authentication – Integrate and configure LDAP server with the DX Compose using Helm.
  • Tuning – Add, update, or delete deployment properties from services in Helm to tune your implementation.
  • Track Usage - Configure user session tracking for DX Compose deployments and extract report results

Content and Digital Asset Management

  • Create and manage content – Leverage the feature set of Web Content Manager (WCM) and Content Composer. Use the Multilingual Content Solution (MLS) to coordinate publication of multilingual content
  • Manage assets with Digital Asset Management (DAM) - DAM is used for managing web-ready digital assets such as images or videos for use in content and sites built with HCL DX Compose.
  • Use the new DX search based on OpenSearch to search Content, site pages, and portlets – Configure OpenSearch to support DX Compose search services.
  • Apply AI analysis to content and assets – Use AI features to augment content and asset management and delivery.
  • Syndicate content from server to server - Syndication is used to replicate data from a web content library on one server to a web content library on another server under a one-way or two-way relationship.

Development and integration

  • Create custom Script Applications - Script Applications enable developers to create simple to complex integrated applications.
  • Integrate external sites with Web Application Bridge (WAB) - WAB can be used to integrate web-based content providers with HCL DX Compose sites.
  • Integrate HCL Leap applications using Script Applications or WCM components - HCL Leap builds dynamic forms and applications with a web-based interface
  • Integrate HCL Foundry services with DX Compose - Volt MX Foundry is a back-end service provider that helps developers build omni-channel digital applications presented through DX Compose web interfaces.
  • Use DXClient for automation and release management - DXClient is a command line tool that can be used to execute development automation and CI/CD-related tasks.

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