The Gilbane Advisor

Curated for content, computing, and digital experience professionals

Month: April 2023 (Page 2 of 2)

Stardog introduces Stardog 9

April 12, 2023 /

Stardog, a provider of an enterprise knowledge graph platform, announced Stardog 9, with a range of new features and enhancements that enable organizations to easily connect data, people, and processes, and improve performance, scalability, and security. With this release, Stardog’s knowledge graph powered semantic layer has new integrations for Azure Synapse, Collibra Data Governance and Databricks. Benefits include:

  • Expanded Data Access: Stardog 9 supports federated access to Azure Synapse which enhances connectivity to data in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen-2 (ADLS2), reducing the friction in accessing and connecting data through meaning for self-serve analytics.
  • Activated Metadata: Stardog 9 extends Stardog’s Knowledge Catalog to harvest enterprise metadata with integrations for Collibra and Microsoft Purview Data catalogs (in-preview mode only), and any JDBC-accessible data source. These integrations make it easy to semantically-enrich technical metadata with business concepts and enable Data Governance teams and end users to search, query, and explore data assets with an Enterprise Metadata Knowledge Graph.
  • Smart, Automated Entity Linking Across Data Silos: Stardog 9 can identify and link data associated with business objects across data landscapes for better decisions in support of use-cases from Customer 360 to Digital Twin to Fraud Detection, leveraging Databricks Spark to process data.

https://www.stardog.com/blog/introducing-stardog-9/

Brightspot expands partner program

April 12, 2023 /

Brightspot, a provider of content management system (CMS) software, announced the expansion of the Brightspot Partner Program to offer comprehensive implementation and maintenance options for building digital, web and content experiences using Brightspot CMS.

The program is designed to help businesses accelerate their digital strategy by providing access to a network of experienced partners that can help them create and deliver more powerful digital experiences powered by Brightspot CMS. Brightspot’s Partner Program will enable businesses to leverage the company’s comprehensive suite of flexible technology, expert services and partner ecosystem. Partners will have access to a range of benefits, including training and certification, marketing support and co-selling opportunities.

The Partner Program is open to a variety of businesses that specialize in digital experiences, content management and web development, including solution, technology and agency partners. As part of the program, partners will receive in-depth training, online technical resources, co-marketing opportunities, partner support and access to the Brightspot platform for testing and development. Solution, technology and agency partners that have already joined the Brightspot Partner Program, include: AITHERAS LLC, Bannockburn, Deveire, Digital Prism Advisors, Inc., eThinking, Material, SNO CORP, THINKware, WayPath and Wizeline.

https://www.brightspot.com

Gilbane Advisor 4-12-23 — Future data stacks, digital twin KGs

April 12, 2023 /

This week we feature content from Barr Moses & Shane Murray, and Peter Lawrence.

Additional reading comes from Jay Graber, Kingsley Uyi Idehen, Stanford, and the National Science Foundation.

News comes from Expert[.]ai & Reveal Group, Databricks, Algolia, and Stilo.

Note that news items now link to the original source of the news rather than our 200 word summaries, which are always available here.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index/

Opinion / Analysis

Zero-ETL, ChatGPT, and the future of data engineering

“The post-modern data stack is coming. Are we ready?”.

Barr Moses & Shane Murray aim to help you prepare with this very readable post on promising components of future data stacks. (9 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/zero-etl-chatgpt-and-the-future-of-data-engineering-71849642ad9c

Knowledge Graphs + Large Language Models = The ability for users to ask their own questions?

One area the article recommended above doesn’t address is the incorporation of knowledge graphs in data stacks. This is an area we are keenly interested in, especially in combination with LLMs. Peter Lawrence examines what may seem a less-than-obvious use-case (digital twins) for such a combination, and describes how a knowledge graph can be used to train an LLM to be significantly more valuable. He also illustrates why it is not easy. (12 min)

https://medium.com/@peter.lawrence_47665/knowledge-graphs-large-language-models-the-ability-for-users-to-ask-their-own-questions-e4afc348fa72

More Reading

All Gilbane Advisor issues

Content technology news

Expert[.]ai and Reveal Group partner to combine NLP and RPA

Expert[.]ai and Reveal Group partner to combine NLP and RPA — To help organizations extend the value in intelligent automation programs with natural language processing and understanding (NLP/NLU).
https://www.expert.ai/ ■ https://revealgroup.com/

Databricks announces Lakehouse for Manufacturing

Lakehouse for Manufacturing offers pre-built solutions, partner-designed Brickbuilder offerings and integrated AI capabilities.
https://www.databricks.com/solutions/industries/manufacturing-industry-solutions

Algolia introduces developer-friendly plan 

The AI Search and Discovery platform’s two new plans include a “Build” plan that is free and a “Grow” plan that offers low-priced scalability.
https://www.algolia.com

Stilo launches Migrate 5.0 

Migrate 5 provides automated content conversion from legacy content to structured DITA XML.
https://www.stilo.com/

All content technology news

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.

Subscribe | View online | Editorial policy | Privacy policy | Contact

Expert.ai and Reveal Group partner to combine NLP and RPA

April 5, 2023 /

Expert[.]ai and Reveal Group announced a partnership to help organizations extend the value in intelligent automation programs with natural language processing and understanding (NLP/NLU). Robotic process automation (RPA) makes organizations more profitable and responsive, streamlining enterprise workflows and enhancing employee engagement and productivity by removing mundane tasks from their workdays. By adding NLP/NLU to RPA, enterprises now have the ability to increase the flexibility and scalability of automation, expanding deployment to more complex use cases and business processes by making sense of unstructured language data. Unstructured data is critical for organizations to be able to understand, analyze and use it to enable a real intelligent automation across the entirety of an enterprise data assets.
 
The expert.ai hybrid AI platform complements the Reveal Group’s expertise in intelligent automation services. With expert.ai, NLP outputs, including intent, automatic categorization, emotional and behavioral traits identification, entity extraction and sentiment analysis, can be deployed and delivered  by Reveal Group to automate multiple use cases, from common cross-industry use cases (email triage in customer services, data analysis, comparison and extraction in legal departments) to more industry-oriented processes (claims management in insurance companies, loan origination and customer onboarding in banking and financial services.).
  
https://www.expert.ai/ ■ https://revealgroup.com/
 

Databricks announces Lakehouse for Manufacturing

April 4, 2023 /

Databricks released Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing, a lakehouse platform tailored to manufacturers that unifies data and AI and delivers performance for analytics use cases. Databricks’ Lakehouse for Manufacturing breaks down data silos and is designed for manufacturers to access all of their data and make decisions in real-time.

The industry-specific lakehouse goes beyond traditional data warehouses by offering integrated AI capabilities and pre-built solutions such for predictive maintenance, digital twins, supply chain optimization, demand forecasting, real-time IoT analytics. A partner ecosystem and custom, partner-built Brickbuilder Solution offer customers choice in delivering real-time insights and impact across the value chain at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

With Databricks, organizations can unlock the value of their existing investments and achieve AI at scale by unifying all of their data, regardless of type, source, frequency or workload, on a single platform. The Lakehouse for Manufacturing has data governance and sharing built-in, and enables organizations to deliver real-time insights for agile manufacturing and logistics across their entire ecosystem.

Customers across the manufacturing industry also benefit from vetted data solutions from partners like Avanade, Celebal Technologies, DataSentics, Deloitte and Tredence, which combine of Databricks’ Lakehouse Platform with industry expertise.

https://www.databricks.com/solutions/industries/manufacturing-industry-solutions

Stilo launches Migrate 5.0

April 3, 2023 /

Still Corporation, a provider of automated content conversion tools, announced the launch of its latest software product, Migrate 5.0. This new release promises to provide more robust and reliable content conversion capabilities for organizations looking to convert legacy content (such as HTML, Word, and FrameMaker) into structured XML. Migrate 5.0 builds on Stilo’s previous content conversion solutions by incorporating new features and capabilities, including DITA 2.0, that make the conversion process even more streamlined and efficient.

One of the key new features of Migrate 5.0 is the upgraded framework which significantly improves performance and stability. With this new upgrade, Migrate 5.0 becomes a more potent and adaptable tool, making it a useful solution for any organization seeking to optimize its data migration process. A free sample conversion is available on Stilo’s website.

Stilo develops tools to help organizations automate the conversion of content to XML and build XML content processing components integral to enterprise-level publishing solutions. Operating from Canada, Stilo supports commercial publishers, technology companies and government agencies around the world in their pursuit of structured content.

https://www.stilo.com/

Newer posts »

Policies

Contact

twitterrssMastadon

Contact • customerservice@gilbane.com

© 2024 Bluebill Advisors (except for contributed posts which are licensed under creative commons)

Banner photos: Fort Point Channel, Summer St bridge, and Northern Ave bridge, Boston

Bluebill Advisors Inc logo

© 2024 The Gilbane Advisor

Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑