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Year: 2020 (Page 14 of 44)

Cloudinary and Contentful partner

October 20, 2020 /

Cloudinary announced its partnership with headless content management systems (CMS) provider Contentful. The new partnership offers Contentful users access to Cloudinary’s media experience solutions, including its headless digital asset management (DAM) within Contentful’s CMS, allowing Contentful users to more easily upload, optimize and deliver engaging visual-first experiences at scale. With Cloudinary’s AI-based media experience solutions, Contentful customers automatically benefit from media performance. By leveraging APIs for media management tasks, marketers and developers benefit from an integrated headless tech stack for optimization and automation. Rich media stakeholders can:

  • Benefit from bi-directional access to media assets in Contentful via Cloudinary’s media library, offering the ability to more easily browse, manage, and optimize assets including images, videos, 3D objects and GIFs
  • Automatically optimize assets according to the end-user device for optimal display and ensure every image and video is automatically adjusted for best format and quality
  • Utilize Cloudinary’s innovative AI capabilities for auto-tagging images and videos, all within the media workflow to ensure image and video assets are identified, managed and optimized, all within Contentful.

Contentful users can take advantage of Cloudinary’s media experience capabilities today.

https://cloudinary.com, https://www.contentful.com

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MariaDB updates MariaDB SkySQL cloud database

October 20, 2020 /

MariaDB Corporation announced a major expansion of MariaDB SkySQL cloud database. With this update, SkySQL now runs the latest version of MariaDB Platform X5, which most notably added distributed SQL capabilities for global scale. With the ability to be deployed as clustered or distributed, MariaDB SkySQL addresses customers’ specific needs within one cloud database. Update includes latest versions of MariaDB Enterprise Server, advanced database proxy MaxScale and smart engines ColumnStore and Xpand for new and expanded cloud capabilities, and offers:

  • MariaDB Platform for distributed SQL: Xpand is a new smart engine that delivers distributed SQL through MariaDB Enterprise Server. This functionality is now also available in SkySQL with elastic scale, making it easy to increase or decrease capacity to handle anticipated usage spikes. Xpand in SkySQL also automatically rebalances data hotspots for optimum performance.
  • MariaDB Platform for analytics: SkySQL includes a distributed cloud data warehouse that now provides massively parallel processing (MPP) for scalability and high availability on large datasets.
  • End-to-end security: All SkySQL databases are secure by default. SkySQL now also enforces secure SSL/TLS connections for any database access, avoiding exposure of data due to insecure defaults or configuration choices.
  • Reduced complexity for application development: SkySQL provides a single connection point for applications rather than exposing individual database instances, primaries or high availability replicas. SkySQL manages read/write-splitting, seamless failover and application session migration. The result is fault tolerance and efficient use of resources that is completely transparent to developers and end users.
  • Expanded monitoring: SkySQL monitoring shows the status and all vital metrics for database instances and is customizable. The monitoring tool is updated to support the new topologies enabled in this new release of SkySQL such as Xpand for distributed SQL.

SkySQL is available now. New users who sign up now receive $500 in service credits.

https://mariadb.com

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OpenStack Foundation announces name change to Open Infrastructure Foundation

October 20, 2020 /

OpenStack Foundation announced that it is changing its corporate name to Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF) starting in 2021. The name change reflects the organization’s broader commitment and expertise in driving innovations in open source needed to shape the future of infrastructure software. OIF’s goal is to build an open infrastructure for the next decade by solving infrastructure issues raised by continuing demands in new markets. The demands are being driven by modern use cases such as containers, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, 5G, network function virtualization (NFV), and edge computing. OIF continues to build a community to write open source software that addresses these infrastructure markets. OIF wants to ensure that the solutions to these demands are developed in the open, using the same transparent and proven approach to open source.

InMotion Hosting joins the new Open Infrastructure Foundation with a Silver Founding Membership. InMotion Hosting’s latest open source product, Flex Metal Cloud, provides on-demand infrastructure as a service powered by OpenStack. The infrastructure technology simplifies private cloud deployments, increases infrastructure flexibility, and can be deployed in minutes.

https://www.openstack.org, https://www.inmotionhosting.com/

Third Light launches collaborative digital asset management solution for creative teams

October 19, 2020 /

Digital asset management software company, Third Light, has released a significant update to its digital asset management (DAM) software, Chorus, to deliver a complete collaborative DAM solution for creative teams. The update includes features designed to connect teams working remotely and facilitate collaborative project cooperation. With this update, Chorus now provides a suite of features that, used together, connect team members and drive creative projects-in-progress. File management tasks related to the DAM are connected to users’ desktop computers, freeing time and allowing teams to create and deliver their core roles. In this Chorus update, Third Light incorporates three key new features:

  • The Project Sync app, which synchronizes files between the media library and users’ desktops, allowing them to be used seamlessly with Adobe design and production software, without using plugins
  • File-by-file comments and reactions that allow teams to collaborate within the system, give feedback, post quick reactions via emoji and tag in other users, right next to the work itself.
  • Detailed activity reports that provide business intelligence to project owners and IT teams.

https://www.thirdlight.com

Translations.com announces GlobalLink Connect compatibility with Adobe Experience Manager

October 15, 2020 /

Translations.com announced that its GlobalLink Connect product is now fully compatible with cloud-native Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a Cloud Service. Translations.com’s first GlobalLink Connect for AEM launched in 2009, and the new integration for AEM as a Cloud Service allows users to take advantage of GlobalLink’s translation workflow management and create new translation requests within the familiar interface of the Adobe application.

GlobalLink Connect is built to communicate with AEM as a Cloud Service and provides an all-in-one solution to initiate, automate, control, track, and complete all facets of the translation process. The combination of Adobe and the extended localization workflow capabilities of GlobalLink provides users with a comprehensive tool for managing global enterprise content. GlobalLink Connect and AEM as a Cloud Service provides:

  • Easy Implementation – Update or move to Adobe’s AEM cloud offering with no interruptions while retaining all functionality.
  • Single-Platform Translation – Access scheduled or on-demand translation services via the AEM UI.
  • Visibility – Get a dashboard view of translation spend and other KPIs with on-demand analytics.
  • Resource and Workflow Flexibility – Make linguist, vendor, and workflow decisions through the same interface and easily incorporate machine translation, human translation, or both.
  • ROI – Reduce IT involvement, soft costs, and project management overhead.

https://www.translations.com

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Liferay releases Liferay DXP 7.3

October 15, 2020 /

Liferay announced the release of Liferay DXP 7.3. Liferay digital experience platform supports the need for organizations to digitize their operations and quickly create engaging digital experiences for customers, dealers, partners, and employees. Release highlights include:

  • Content Performance Analytics: Liferay DXP 7.3 allows content creators to view metrics on how many visitors read through the entirety of their content directly in-line with the relevant page or asset. Content authors also have access to more traditional metrics such as total views, search engine traffic volume, and keyword reports. In addition, Liferay DXP 7.3 provides a new Content Dashboard allowing content creators and administrators to view a graphical representation of the assets they have based on specified characteristics such as category, tag, asset subtype, etc.
  • Streamlined Content Creation: Liferay DXP 7.3 introduces the Master Pages tool to deliver visual consistency and help ensure branding guidelines are respected across all pages in a site. Subject to administrator permission, business users are now able to create Master Pages to specify common elements, such as headers, footers, and company logos across pages. Master Pages can be created using drag-and-drop widgets and components with changes automatically applied across all specified pages.
  • Application Builder: Liferay DXP 7.3 delivers a new low-code capability to build business applications backed by Liferay’s Data Engine. Applications can be deployed in standalone fashion or added to pages as a widget or through the product menu.
  • API Explorer: With the release of Liferay DXP 7.3, developers have access to the new API Explorer application, allowing them to easily monitor available APIs and API documentation. API Explorer also allows developers to run queries to test their applications during development and explore all available REST applications and endpoints. In addition, API Explorer comes with a GraphQL client.
  • Application Security and Multi-Factor Authentication: Site administrators can activate multi-factor authentication, requiring users to complete additional checks to verify their identity beyond login name and password. Developers can also create additional custom authentication factors using a provided API. Once built, custom authentication factors appear in the authentication configuration list for deployment by site administrators.

Liferay DXP 7.3 is immediately available.

https://www.liferay.com/products/dxp

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NewsCred unveils Welcome – a new product and a new name

October 14, 2020 /

NewsCred announced the launch of Welcome, a software solution for marketing work management, strategic campaign planning, collaborative content creation, and real-time performance measurement, all of which is underpinned by a differentiated integration framework. Off the back of this product launch, NewsCred will be changing its name to Welcome, with the full rebrand to be complete in Q1 of 2021.

Welcome, a NewsCred brand, delivers a suite of functionality, including: global calendars and shared briefs for strategic planning; capacity planning and time tracking to maximize resources; content editors and intelligent workflows to accelerate campaigns and content creation; native publishing and digital asset management to govern distribution and reuse; as well as content and campaign performance analytics for real-time measurement. All of these modules are underpinned by an API and integration marketplace consisting of hundreds of no-code connectors — a framework designed to offer strategic integrations for every phase of the marketing process. Welcome refers to this complete technology set as its Marketing Orchestration Platform.

https://welcomesoftware.com

SMASHDOCs launches new solution for drafting contracts

October 14, 2020 /

SMASHDOCs, a development and sales platform for collaborative word processing projects, announced a new solution that simplifies and accelerates collaboration in creating, negotiating, and signing contracts. SMASHDOCs’ Contract Drafting Projects allows all contract project stakeholders to work collaboratively from the first draft to eSigning. The new solution is suitable for medium-sized companies or large corporations, including insurance, banking, finance companies, as well as other industries.

The draft contract is stored online and every action is logged and audit-proof. It is also possible to add legally compliant, digital signatures without having to leave the online contract. At the end of the drafting process, the digitally signed contract and a clearly documented history of the entire drafting process are archived in PDF. Negotiations with other stakeholders can be conducted online via the platform or via exporting a Word version of the draft contract and re-importing the modified Word document with comments from the relevant parties.

The new solution ensures that every single step in the drafting process is transparent and traceable. SMASHDOCs simplifies workflows with section-by-section versioning, which makes sure that the entire contract drafting team knows precisely when and where an amendment has been suggested and whether it has been adopted or not. A second feature, intelligent change tracking, helps ensure no project stakeholder will miss or overlook modifications because it automatically highlights all of the changes that are new to the respective viewer (Adaptive Redlining). SMASHDOCs’ comment function facilitates detailed discussions about contract content in real time, including confidential exchanges between selected users. Metadata, such as the start date of the contract, interest rates, prices and bank transfer information can be tagged in the online contract, allowing contracts to be generated in a contract management system once negotiations have been completed without manual input. The system can also generate self-executing “Smart Contracts.”

https://www.smashdocs.net/en/

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