Regulated organizations have been stuck with an impossible choice. Strengthen security and compliance to meet NIST, HIPAA, and PII standards, and risk alienating employees with clunky, restrictive systems. Modernize the user experience with intuitive mobile interfaces, and security teams worry you're opening doors to risk. Automate workflows to reduce manual work, and compliance becomes harder to track. Simplify administration, and you sacrifice control.
For years, organizations have picked one or two priorities and sacrificed the others. OnBase 26.1 changes that. This release delivers significant advancements across security, compliance, user experience, automation, and administration—enabling regulated organizations to stop choosing and start excelling across all dimensions.
The Regulatory Pressure is Real, and Growing
Compliance requirements keep tightening. NIST 800-53 Rev 5, FIPS, HIPAA, SOX—and this list of requirements keeps growing. Financial services firms face higher audit scrutiny. Healthcare organizations must protect sensitive patient data. Government agencies must balance accessibility with security.
At the same time, employee expectations have shifted. Workers expect mobile access and intuitive interfaces. Customers expect accessible digital services. Organizations in regulated industries are caught between two irresistible forces. OnBase 26.1 is built for exactly this moment.
Four Dimensions. Zero Tradeoffs.
Cybersecurity and Data Protection: OnBase 26.1 strengthens the security foundation for regulated environments. Security teams can configure protections once and enforce them consistently across the platform.
Centralized Key Management and Configurable PII Masking — Organizations manage encryption keys from a single control point and automatically mask sensitive data based on role. This reduces breach surface area while maintaining operational visibility.
Enhanced Password Security and Expanded Encryption Options — Stronger policies and flexible key management give IT teams fine-grained control over how sensitive data is protected.
Platform Experience: Modern work demands modern tools. OnBase 26.1 brings the interface into the present. For regulated organizations, modern experience means higher adoption, fewer user errors, and improved productivity—while maintaining the governance controls that matter.
OnBase App Builder — Advances the persona-based end user experience with additional document actions, simplified search options, and process analytics dashboards delivered in tailored role-based user experiences.
Responsive and Accessible — The interface is faster, more responsive, and accessible, supporting Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards. All users, including those with disabilities, get a modern experience whether on desktop, mobile, or web.
Unity Briefcase — Serving offline use cases with synchronization, enhanced encryption of metadata, and seamless user interaction with content for remote or traveling users without connectivity.
Extensibility and Intelligence: Automation is how organizations compete, and OnBase 26.1 extends those automation capabilities. These are built on a governed, secure foundation. Every workflow is traceable, every decision is documented, and compliance doesn't take a back seat to speed.
AI-Driven Workflow Automation — Agentic automation handles routine document-centric tasks, freeing employees for higher-value work. Content-driven automation ensures decisions are made consistently and compliantly, with full audit trails.
Unity Forms Enhancements and Low-Code Development — Organizations can build custom applications without extensive coding, accelerating time-to-value.
Enhanced Interoperability — Built to integrate across business-critical systems, plugging content and workflows into the broader systems organizations already depends on.
Administration and Management: Simplicity reduces errors, and OnBase 26.1 simplifies system administration. With this update, IT teams spend less time firefighting and more time on strategic initiatives.
Streamlined Storage Management — Administrators manage content across multiple storage tiers and cloud environments without manual overhead. Policies are enforced automatically.
Unified Administration — Security, users, workflows, and storage are consolidated in a single interface, reducing complexity that causes mistakes.
The Path Forward
OnBase 26.1 represents a turning point. It is proof that you don't have to choose between compliance and innovation, security and usability, automation, and governance. The organizations winning today are those that modernize across all dimensions simultaneously. They strengthen security while enhancing experience, automate while maintaining compliance, and simplify while building extensibility.
If you're operating in a regulated industry and managing tradeoffs between security, experience, automation, and administration, OnBase 26.1 is worth exploring.
Learn more about OnBase 26.1 and how it applies to your industry on Sept. 2, 2026, at 11:00 AM EDT during our upcoming webinar: OnBase 26.1: Built for What's Next.