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Gilbane Advisor 1-18-23 — Practical decentralization, knowledge graph funding

January 18, 2023 /

This week we feature articles by Bojan Ciric, and Jad Esber & Scott Duke Kominers.

Additional reading from Shenyang Huang, Emanuele Rossi, Michael Galkin & Kellin Pelrine, Tanya O’Carroll & Julia Angwin, and Tony Stubblebine.

News comes from Vercel and Sitecore, Bloomreach, Solodev, and NewSpark[.]io.

You can view all previous issues on our site here.

Opinion / Analysis

Knowledge graph adoption — sales pitch for getting executive support

Bojan Ciric has some good advice on getting buy-in.

This article is my take to resolve the communication gap where the knowledge graph concept and its potential to generate business outcomes is not properly communicated to the executives who have the decision capacity to give the “go” for knowledge graph enablement. (6 min).

https://medium.com/the-future-of-data/knowledge-graph-adoption-sales-pitch-for-executive-support-ebb1a662a096

Progressive decentralization: a high-level framework

Decentralization may be a core requirement of web3, but its utility is not limited to web3 or crypto. Nor is decentralization the answer to every business objective. It is also not easy. Jad Esber and Scott Duke Kominers (and of course a16z Crypto) are clearly believers in decentralization, but argue for a balanced and flexible approach on how, where, and when to adopt it. Their high-level framework is useful for broad senior management planning discussions. (9 min).

https://a16zcrypto.com/progressive-decentralization-a-high-level-framework/

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Bloomreach adds catalog management feature

The new feature means business users can view, debug, and test new API call types against all of their product catalogs in one place.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/bloomreach-adds-catalog-management-feature/

Vercel and Sitecore partner

Vercel’s platform for front-end developers and Sitecore’s content management and other products, will help clients build composable digital experiences.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/vercel-and-sitecore-partner/

Solodev launches serverless CMS

The Serverless CMS provides composable services for traditional and headless websites and apps, including Jamstack frameworks like React.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/solodev-launches-serverless-cms/

NewSpark[.]io updates digital asset management platform

The Media Manager uses NewSpark’s AI tagging tool uses computer vision to analyze and automatically tag assets with relevant keywords and phrases.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/newspark-io-updates-digital-asset-management-platform/

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Uniform and Algolia partner

January 16, 2023 /

Uniform announced a partnership with Algolia. With the new integration, marketers and merchandisers can query Agolia within Uniform Canvas to show either for specific results, such as blog entries or products, or a dynamic range based on a search query. This process uses Algolia to deliver results quickly and can be used with any connected index within Algolia. These results can also be used for testing and personalization using Uniform Context. 

In practice, this means that a Canvas component can be connected to an Algolia index built from a commerce engine, then set to search for either alternative products (e.g., showing alternative brown leather shoes when viewing a product detail page) or complementary products to drive cross-sales (e.g., Brown belts and bags to match the shoes being viewed.) As new products are added to the index, the component automatically adds the most relevant options, to boost conversions without manual work. This can be used to recommend content or tutorials to support marketing use cases. 

With Algolia’s prebuilt front-end component, business users can control the display of search results (pagination, columns, other page content), also the display of the images in the Algolia index without developer support.

https://uniform.dev/ ■ https://algolia.com

Lexalytics expands NLP capabilities across foreign languages

January 12, 2023 /

Lexalytics, an InMoment company and provider of AI-based, natural language processing (NLP) technology, announced it has improved accuracy and expanded NLP capabilities for 11 non-English languages. Now global brands and businesses can analyze unstructured data natively and benefit from full-featured text analytics to better understand their customers and make more informed decisions across 31 total languages.

While some companies offer a range of NLP features in languages other than English, few cover the sheer number that Lexalytics supports. Many rely on machine translation before processing which can decrease the accuracy of the analysis. Because Lexalytics processes text data in its native language, it can take into account specific nuances and complexities of that language, and better understand the meaning and context of the text.

Lexalytics has expanded feature coverage to include entities, themes, summarization, sentiment (at the document and item level), categorization, and part-of-speech tagging for the following 11 languages: Arabic, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. Lexalytics continues to offer full-featured support for an additional 20 languages. These expanded language capabilities are available for customers of Lexalytics’ Salience, Semantria API, and Spotlight application, as well as InMoment’s XI Platform.

https://www.lexalytics.com/

Vercel and Sitecore partner

January 12, 2023 /

Vercel, a cloud platform for frontend developers, together with Sitecore, a global provider of end-to-end digital experience solutions, announced a strategic partnership in response to the needs of brands for a more composable architecture. Marrying Vercel’s mission to power the frontend experience of businesses around the world, and Sitecore’s experience in helping brands potential to connect with their consumers globally, is meant to create new opportunities to scale on the Web.

Vercel and Sitecore have a history of collaborating on multiple engagements globally for clients across industries including Focus Brands and Avid Technology, with Platinum Sitecore implementation partners like Merkle and XCentium. Together, the companies help clients build composable digital experiences using Vercel’s Edge Middleware, Sitecore’s XM, and deep integrations built to allow for a headless solution by leveraging Vercel’s frontend as a Service (FaaS) experience expertise.

https://vercel.com ■ https://www.sitecore.com

Bloomreach adds catalog management feature

January 12, 2023 /

Bloomreach announced a new feature from Bloomreach Discovery that gives merchandisers greater control over their product catalogs. With Catalog Management, merchandising teams can use business user-friendly tools to configure and manage all product catalogs within their account. Bloomreach Discovery customers now provides all users with the ability to see data import activity and make configuration changes in real time. They are also able to select which data attributes they want to show up in the product feed, ensuring product data is relevant for their business and for customer queries.

The data implementation process for product discovery tools can take time, and often becomes more complicated with larger product catalogs. This can lead to delays in generating value from the tool, as merchandisers have to wait for the implementation process to be completed before they can make changes or customizations to the data. Catalog Management solves for this issue directly by enabling search and merchandising teams to manage the data integration process on their own. It offers users the ability to view, manage, diagnose, and explore data across all the catalogs in their account, allowing them to optimize their merchandising, make necessary changes or customizations in real-time.

https://www.bloomreach.com/en

NewSpark.io updates digital asset management platform

January 11, 2023 /

NewSpark.io announced a new release of Media Manager, a digital asset management platform. This latest build offers more features and improvements to help businesses of all sizes organize, store, and access their digital assets such as images, documents, and videos. The streamlined platform has been redesigned from the ground up with a focus on intuitiveness, allowing users to save a significant amount of time on core tasks around asset management and publishing operations. One of the enhancements in Media Manager is NewSpark’s AI tagging tool, a technology that uses computer vision to analyze and automatically tag assets with relevant keywords and phrases. This makes it possible for users to recall and re-use specific pieces of media assets for new projects through a search function. In addition to its search functionality, the platform also offers a range of tools for ingestion and publishing of assets. Users can create custom project folders, add tags and metadata, and collaborate with team members securely inside or outside of their organization. The platform is now available for a 30 day free trial.

https://www.newspark.io/

Gilbane Advisor 1-11-23 — Mobile UX, connected catalogs

January 11, 2023 /

This week we feature articles by Raluca Budiu and Tony Seale.

Additional reading from Heather Hedden, Michael Lodato, and Raymond Camden.

News comes from Progress Software & Marklogic, Confluent & Immerok, and Crownpeak & CI&T.

You can view all previous issues on our site here.

Opinion / Analysis

The state of mobile user experience

Raluca Budiu haș a useful update on mobile UX. It has improved overall – so much so that you may have missed some of the details (as I did!). Badiu’s report is helpful for designers and developers, but also for users who can improve their own experience by learning what has changed. (8 min).

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/state-mobile-ux/

Building your connected data catalog

In November we recommended an article by Tony Seale on how you can more effectively manage data by inverting the data growth and integration problems within your organization based on a model inspired by schema.org. This post follows-up with a look at how using a shared definition of a data catalog contributes to the same goal. While this is technically doable, as Seale points out it can be difficult organizationally. But it is still important to understand and consider the possibilities for strategic planning. (11 min).

https://medium.com/@Tonyseale/building-your-connected-data-catalog-634674b41770

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Progress to acquire MarkLogic

Adds multi-model NoSQL database, semantic metadata management, and AI capabilities to its portfolio of products.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/progress-to-acquire-marklogic/

Confluent to acquire Immerok

Confluent plans to accelerate the launch of a Flink offering that is compatible with its managed Kafka service, Confluent Cloud.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/confluent-to-acquire-immerok/

CI&T and Crownpeak partner

The retail digital experience platform uses a composable commerce architecture with reusable components to support specialty retail.
https://gilbane.com/2023/01/cit-and-crownpeak-partner/

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The Gilbane Advisor is authored by Frank Gilbane and is ad-free, cost-free, and curated for content, computing, web, data, and digital experience technology and information professionals. We publish recommended articles and content technology news weekly. We do not sell or share personal data.

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CI&T and Crownpeak partner

January 9, 2023 /

CI&T, focused on driving digital transformation for global brands, and Crownpeak, a digital experience platform (DXP) provider, announced a partnership to build retail experience management accelerators combining the companies’ expertise in the industry and technology.

The Retail Experience Platform is a digital experience platform using composable commerce architecture with reusable components to support specialty retail sales. As a result, retail and e-commerce companies can bring their brand’s unique customer experiences to life – launching and continuously optimizing those experiences to maximize conversions, revenue, and customer engagement. Leveraging a composable architecture to build a personalized “best-of-stack” platform, companies do not have to compromise on future, scalable performance or uncontrolled costs.

Crownpeak helps bring enterprise marketers and IT professionals together with its hybrid, headless, and composable DXP architecture to deliver content-driven commerce – fast, secure, accessible, and transactional omnichannel digital experiences. Crownpeak also finalized its acquisition of Attraqt in December 2022. Attraqt is a provider of SaaS solutions that powers product discovery experiences and online conversion for top brands and retailers globally.

https://www.crownpeak.com ■ https://ciandt.com/

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