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Year: 2022 (Page 3 of 27)

Sonic Foundry launches Video Solutions

November 3, 2022 /

Sonic Foundry, Inc., provider of video capture, management, and streaming solutions, announced the launch of Video Solutions, a new business unit that will provide comprehensive video services to enterprise and events customers. Video Solutions incorporates many of the services previously offered under Sonic Foundry’s Mediasite Events brand with a variety of additional enterprise-facing services. These include editing tools, video distribution solutions, integration into any video management platform, and concierge-quality service from dedicated project managers.

Enterprise video libraries have grown in both volume and variety, putting pressure on marketing and operations professionals who are managing video in ways they never expected. Video Solutions addresses these challenges by providing a streamlined, all-in-one source for video capture, management, and distribution solutions, as well as the support necessary to coordinate and execute a comprehensive video strategy.

If the goal is to achieve maximum impact with a new video initiative, Video Solutions project managers can help to design a customized distribution and engagement strategy to ensure that you and your audience get maximum value from the content you produce. If the goal is to improve operational efficiency, Video Solutions technicians can integrate workflows and capabilities into your existing technology stack and video tools.

https://sonicfoundry.com

Gilbane Advisor 11-2-22 — Innovation graph, collabverse, APIs

November 2, 2022 /

This week we feature articles by Alan Morrison, and Terry Crowley. 

Additional reading from Mike Loukides, Louise de Leyritz, Seb Joseph, and David Darnes.

News comes from Tridion, TransPerfect & Brightcove, Contentful, Acquia, and TigerGraph.

If you’ve missed any of the past 62 issues you can see them here; those, as well as all earlier issues can be found here.

Opinion / Analysis

One big graph and the interorganization

Alan Morrison makes the case for a less-hyped version of web3 as an “evolution of P2P networking + shared file systems” that is achievable today — not that it will be easy given the huge technical debt we are currently saddled with. Morrison’s argument however is appealing and a worthy and easy read. (4 min).

https://www.datasciencecentral.com/one-big-graph-and-the-interorganization/

APIs don’t matter?!?

APIs are of course valuable for platform, application, and line-of business developers, but as API ecosystems evolve over time the value to each of these shifts. Terry Crowley explains, for example, how the moat value of APIs to platforms degrades over time. Crowley also looks at other ways the value changes that anyone in the API value chain ecosystem will benefit from understanding. (11 min).

https://terrycrowley.medium.com/apis-dont-matter-ac53d705ae50

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Tridion now available for small-to-medium sized businesses

Developed in partnership with EXLRT, Tridion Sites Editions support businesses web content management needs throughout global expansion.
https://gilbane.com/2022/10/tridion-now-available-for-small-to-medium-sized-businesses/

TransPerfect debuts MediaNEXT integration for Brightcove

The integration pulls source material automatically and securely from Brightcove into MediaNEXT for translation and localization.
https://gilbane.com/2022/10/transperfect-debuts-medianext-integration-for-brightcove/

Contentful announces new capabilities to content platform

Includes their vision and the new Contentful Studio product, platform orchestration capabilities, and App Framework.
https://gilbane.com/2022/10/contentful-announces-new-capabilities-to-content-platform/

Acquia announces updates to Acquia Code Studio

New updates integrate Code Studio with the Acquia Cloud Platform UI, reducing effort during the procurement and configuration processes.
https://gilbane.com/2022/10/acquia-announces-updates-acquia-code-studio/

TigerGraph to support openCypher in GSQL

Gives developers more choice to build or migrate graph applications to TigerGraph’s scalable, secure, and managed graph database platform.
https://gilbane.com/2022/10/tigergraph-to-support-opencypher-in-gsql/

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Smartling expands Neural Machine Translation Hub

November 1, 2022 /

Smartling, an enterprise translation solutions company, announced a major product expansion for its Neural Machine Translation (NMT) Hub, available to all Smartling customers. Smartling uses a combination of technologies such as Neural Machine translation, which is capable of providing translation quality comparable to that of human translation, their proprietary Machine Learning models and “human-in-the-loop” delivery platform.

Smartling spent years collecting vast volumes of Machine Translation Quality data across multiple translation directions and content types, based on a widely accepted Translation Error Rate (TER) automated MT evaluation metric. From there, the data was used to train the AI models to not just make accurate decisions for the best MT engine selection, but consider fallback engine suggestions as well. This solves for the main deficiency associated with single-engine approach. The AI algorithms in NMT Hub are designed to dynamically learn from billions of data points available through Smartling’s closed-loop enterprise content delivery platform to ensuring the best quality MT output.

Designed to tackle translation issues that traditional single-engine approaches are not able to solve, Smartling’s NMT Hub is built to solve many of the challenges web developers and content managers.

https://www.smartling.com/software/neural-machine-translation-hub/

Pinecone launches hybrid search functionality

October 31, 2022 /

Pinecone Systems Inc., a machine learning (ML) search infrastructure company, announced the release of a keyword-aware semantic search solution that enables accessible and advanced combination of semantic and keyword search results. “Vector search” allows companies to provide relevant results based on semantic, or similar meanings, as opposed to simple keyword-based searches. At the same time, keywords still matter in searches involving uncommon words like names or industry-specific terms. With few exceptions, companies have to choose between semantic search and keyword search, or running both systems in parallel.

Neither of these options is ideal. When companies choose one or the other, the results are not as complete as they could be, and when they run both systems in parallel and try to combine the results, cost and complexity goes up significantly. This technology can search across two data types — “dense vectors” generated by ML models to represent meaning, and “sparse vectors” generated by traditional keyword-ranking models such as BM25 — before automatically fusing everything into one ranked list of the most relevant results. The Pinecone hybrid search feature is available in beta.

https://www.pinecone.io/hybrid-search-early-access

Tridion now available for small-to-medium sized businesses

October 27, 2022 /

RWS, a provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property services, announced the launch of Tridion Sites Editions for fast growing companies looking to expand into international markets.

Many of the world’s largest brands rely on Tridion Sites, a web content management system (WCMS), to create, manage and deliver multilingual digital experiences to global customers, employees and partners across any channel. Now small-to-medium sized companies can also benefit from access to RWS’s WCMS platform. The new solution – developed and implemented by Tridion’s partner EXLRT – is available in three variations.

Tridion Sites Essential Edition offers all the key web WCMS features that a business needs to start engaging with international, multilingual audiences. Available in the cloud at an attractive price point, businesses can integrate with existing digital asset management platforms, customer relationship management systems and third-party applications.

Tridion Sites Team Edition enables integration to RWS’s translation management and machine translation technology, streamlining and simplifying localization processes without the cumbersome exchange of translation files and manually copy and paste. 

Tridion Sites Enterprise Edition provides all the capabilities that a large enterprise need, including options for deploying semantic AI across all content, which enables companies to automatically tag and organize information.

https://www.rws.com/blog/tridion-editions-smb/

Contentful announces new capabilities to content platform

October 26, 2022 /

Contentful, a composable content platform, unveiled its vision for composable content and the new Contentful Studio product, platform orchestration capabilities, and App Framework features:

  • Connect content experiences with Contentful orchestration. A new set of orchestration capabilities native to the platform enables companies to orchestrate content experiences across teams, regions, and brands without the need to piece together content from different data sources.
  • Create streamlined content with Contentful Studio. Contentful Studio empowers customers to streamline content workflows, development, and publication in one central location. With easy access to all the tools content creators need to produce high-quality content, Studio allows teams to remove reliance on developers by placing the power directly in the hands of content creators. Access rights are centrally managed with governance features.
  • Extend with Contentful App Framework and Ecosystem. The App Framework makes it easier for businesses to adapt the platform to the preferences and routines of their digital teams – from business-specific UIs to integrating personalization or translation tools of choice. Contentful shipped a new version of the open-source design system, Forma 36, to enhance the platform with visually appealing and accessible features. App actions make the content lifecycle more efficient to build and link individual apps together.

https://www.contentful.com

Acquia announces updates to Acquia Code Studio

October 26, 2022 /

Acquia announced major updates to Acquia Code Studio, a full stack Drupal development platform. A part of Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), Acquia Code Studio provides developers with the tools to plan, build, review, test, deploy, and measure Drupal applications. New updates integrate Code Studio with the Acquia Cloud Platform UI, reducing effort during the procurement and configuration processes.

Developers can now manage their Code Studio seats from the platform in a User Management screen, assign Acquia account users to their Code Studio seats, grant and set roles for their users, and un-assign and reassign seats. Developers can automatically provision Code Studio projects from the platform UI, and see links on their Acquia Cloud environments to the corresponding branch in Code Studio. Features include: 

  • AutoDevOps: Automatically build, test, and deploy Drupal applications with Acquia Code Studio managed continuous integration pipelines.
  • Automatic Updates: Automatically updates Composer packages, replaces deprecated custom code, and submits those changes for users to review in a Merge Request with a dedicated review environment.
  • Powered by GitLab: In partnership with GitLab, Acquia hosts and manages a version of GitLab that is customized for Drupal and Acquia developers on the company’s next-generation infrastructure.

https://acquia.com

Gilbane Advisor 10-26-22 — CMS dev, Choice Architecture, AT Protocol

October 26, 2022 /

This week we feature articles by Adwait Mathkari, and Ben Weintraub, Katelyn Salvatori & James Lawrie.

Additional reading from David Pierce, Daniel Waisberg, and Feifei Liu.

News comes from ApostropheCMS, Adobe, Altova, Sitecore, and TransPerfect & Hiventy Group.

If you’ve missed any of the past 61 issues you can see them here; those, as well as all earlier issues can be found here.

Opinion / Analysis

Designing a content management system backend

I will present a case study of the development of a ‘Content Management System’ backend which was developed for the website of a leading UK based journal.

Adwait Mathkari describes the CMS his development team created for one of the The Economist publications. The requirements were relatively straightforward, allowing Mathkari to be delightfully succinct (4 min).

https://medium.com/@addyvmathkari/designing-a-content-management-system-backend-f9e10f7c1c61

Effortless alerting for platforms and their tenants

How The New York Times Publishing Pipeline team is harnessing the power of defaults to make the right path the easy path for tenants of our shared platform.

This case study by the NYT Open Team explains how they were inspired by Choice Architecture to benefit both themselves and their clients. (15 min).

https://open.nytimes.com/effortless-alerting-for-platforms-and-their-tenants-8bba32c3e9ca

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ApostropheCMS launches Document Versions tool

The Document Versions tool facilitates the use and management of multiple versions of a document with multiple editors across multiple sites.
https://gilbane.com/2022/10/apostrophecms-launches-document-versions-tool/

Adobe delivers new creative, document, and marketing capabilities

Automation and collaboration features across the Adobe product portfolio help SMBs modernize workflows in creativity and productivity.
https://gilbane.com/2022/10/adobe-delivers-new-creative-document-and-marketing-capabilities/

Altova announces Version 2023

The updated desktop developer tools, server software, and regulatory solutions include Dark Mode, a Schema Manager, and new ESEF XBRL tools.
https://gilbane.com/2022/10/altova-announces-version-2023/

Sitecore releases new public cloud products

Sitecore Search, a search and discovery function; Content Hub One, a CMS for modeling, authoring and consumption; and Sitecore Connect for integration.
https://gilbane.com/2022/10/sitecore-releases-new-public-cloud-products/

TransPerfect acquires Hiventy Group

Hiventy specializes in technical audiovisual services including post-production, localization, distribution, and film restoration.
https://gilbane.com/2022/10/transperfect-acquires-hiventy-group/

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