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Year: 2023 (Page 2 of 23)

Acquia Site Studio introduces capabilities to create Drupal and headless applications from a single platform

November 15, 2023 /

Acquia announced new capabilities for Acquia Site Studio, the low-code Drupal website builder. Now, developers and marketers can create and manage digital experiences for traditional Drupal websites and headless applications using the same content. This allows marketers to create engaging digital experiences across digital channels from a single content platform, reducing demands on development and IT resources. 

Acquia Site Studio offers an intuitive visual page building and content authoring experience for Drupal. In a traditional website build, Site Studio allows non-technical users to create components, layouts, and content without the need for PHP and JavaScript. Now, with the launch of the new JSON:API for Site Studio, JavaScript and front end developers can easily access the content and layouts created via Site Studio in decoupled or headless apps to create more engaging, interactive digital experiences. The new feature requires Acquia Site Studio 7.4 and above and use of a modern version of Drupal. 

https://www.acquia.com/newsroom/press-releases/site-studio-drupal-headless

Gilbane Advisor 11-15-23 — CMSs & ESUS, creative remixing

November 15, 2023 /

This week we feature articles from Michael Andrews and Mike Loukides.

Additional reading comes from Alan Morrison, Cobus Greyling, Thomas Macaulay, and Nicholas Megaw.

News comes from Transperfect & Sitecore, OpenAI, Brightcove & Socialive, and Elastic.

Note: We’ll be off next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

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

Opinion / Analysis

How to compare CMSs, objectively

“There are literally hundreds of CMSs on the market, possibly thousands. So much choice, but often so little satisfaction, judging by the gripes of end-users. Why is the right option so muddled? Old CMS vendors soldier on, and new ones enter the market all the time, promising a better future. How do we make sense of this?”

Michael Andrews provides some help. He argues for benchmarking usability, and illustrates how using the recently proposed Enterprise System Usability Scale (ESUS). (7 min)

https://storyneedle.com/how-to-compare-cmss-objectively/

Creativity isn’t just remixing

Mike Loukides has a delightful post on generative AI and creativity. His conclusion is uncontroversial, but his discussion is a gem.

“It’s amazing that an AI system can produce derivative works, but we have to remember that they are derivative works. And we have to recognize that AI, as a tool for artists, makes perfect sense. Just as we don’t confuse the artist’s creativity with the paintbrush, we shouldn’t confuse their creativity with the AI.” (8 min)

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/creativity-isnt-just-remixing/

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TransPerfect announces integrated translation solution for Sitecore XM Cloud

The integration provides the ability to create, manage, and deliver multilingual content with an enterprise content management system (CMS).
https://www.transperfect.com ■ https://www.sitecore.com

OpenAI introduces custom GPTs

You can now create custom versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills.
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts

Brightcove and Socialive partner

Brightcove customers can leverage Socialive’s remote production features to improve their content operations for internal communications.
https://www.brightcove.com ■ https://socialive.us

Elastic unveils Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL)

The dedicated query language to simplify data investigation enables data aggregation and transformation within a single query.
https://www.elastic.co

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Gilbane Advisor 11-8-23 — OpenAI dashboard, knowledge graph representations

November 8, 2023 /

This week we feature articles from Cobus Greyling, and Julia Cohen, Ana Iglesias-Molina, Kian Ahrabian, Filip Ilievski, Jay Pujara & Oscar Corcho.

Additional reading comes from Michael Parekh, Caroline Mimbs Nyce, and Ethan Zuckerman.

News comes from DataStax, Cloudera & Pinecone, SnapLogic & Acolad, and Fivetran.

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

Opinion / Analysis

What is happening to OpenAI’s playground?

“Creating solutions with longevity which are based on LLMs and Generative AI will demand exceptional UX, a solid layer of IP which creates differentiation” and “Users do not care about the underlying technology, they are looking for exceptional experiences.” 

Greyling provides a useful update on what OpenAI is doing to make sure they don’t miss out on the value of direct UX control. (6 min)

https://cobusgreyling.medium.com/what-is-happening-to-openais-playground-76c04816adc2

Comparison of knowledge graph representations

In addition to RDF, knowledge graphs can be represented using 
alternative models such as property graphs, the Wikidata model, and RDF-star, which may more useful for certain use-cases. When might they be advantageous? This paper looks at the fitness of popular knowledge graph representations for three consumer scenarios: knowledge exploration, systematic querying, and graph completion. 

(3 min intro): https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2023/11/finding-answers-about-the-best-way-to-find-answers/
Paper: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-47240-4_15

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DataStax launches RAGStack

RAGStack, is a retrieval augmented generation solution to simplify RAG implementations for enterprises building generative AI applications.
https://www.datastax.com/products/ragstack

Cloudera and Pinecone announce strategic partnership

With the combination of Pinecone vector database and semantic search customers can improve and accelerate generative AI use cases.
https://www.cloudera.com ■ https://www.pinecone.io

SnapLogic and Acolad partner to provide generative AI translation solutions

Pre-built integration connectors for instant document translation allows SnapLogic users to add Acolad’s translations to integration pipelines.
https://www.snaplogic.com ■ https://www.acolad.com

Fivetran unveils new SDKs for connectors and destinations

Enables third-party vendors to build integrations on Fivetran’s infrastructure for extensive compatibility with data sources and integrations.
https://www.fivetran.com

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Elastic unveils Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL)

November 7, 2023 /

Elastic the company behind Elasticsearch, today announced Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL), its new piped query language designed to transform, enrich and simplify data investigation with concurrent processing. ES|QL enables site reliability engineers (SREs), developers and security professionals to perform data aggregation and analysis across a variety of data sources from a single query. 

Over the last two decades, the data landscape has become more fragmented, opaque, and complex, driving the need for greater productivity and efficiency among developers, security professionals, and observability practitioners. Organizations need tools and services that offer iterative workflow, a broad range of operations, and central management to make security and observability professionals more productive. Elasticsearch Query Language key benefits include:

  • Delivers a comprehensive and iterative approach to data investigation with ES|QL piped query syntax.
  • Improves speed and efficiency regardless of data’s source or structure with a new ES|QL query engine that leverages concurrent processing.
  • Streamlines observability and security workflows with a single user interface, which allows users to search, aggregate and visualize data from a single screen.

ES|QL is currently available as a technical preview. The general availability version, scheduled for release in 2024, will include additional features to further streamline data analysis and decision-making.

https://www.elastic.co

Brightcove and Socialive partner

November 7, 2023 /

Brightcove announced today an expanded partnership with Socialive, a video content creation platform designed for enterprises, to provide customers additional remote video production capabilities. Enhancing Brightcove’s comprehensive and reliable live streaming solution with Socialive’s features provides customers greater control over the creation, management and distribution of live and on-demand internal video content. Through the integration, customers can:

  • Easily produce high-quality dynamic live video content through Socialive’s Studio, where they can combine multiple presenters in layouts, add graphics, sound effects, and pre-recorded videos.
  • Access Socialive’s Virtual Green Room feature that simplifies guest talent management during live virtual events from any device.
  • Stream and manage live video and on-demand content globally across various formats and devices, and leverage Brightcove’s analytics and insights to measure the impact of video content.
  • Integrate an end-to-end video creation, distribution, and management solution that easily combines Socialive and Brightcove.

https://www.brightcove.com ■ https://socialive.us

TransPerfect announces integrated translation solution for Sitecore XM Cloud

November 7, 2023 /

TransPerfect announced the launch of the first translation integration to support Sitecore XM Cloud, giving users the ability to create, manage, and deliver relevant multilingual content with an enterprise-ready CMS.

GlobalLink for Sitecore XM Cloud is TransPerfect’s solution to initiate, automate, control, track, and complete all facets of the translation process within Sitecore’s user interface. By marrying Sitecore’s hybrid CMS, XM Cloud, with GlobalLink’s extended localization workflow capabilities, this integration offers users a holistic solution for crafting and launching multilingual digital experiences. The solution allows users to:

  • Automatically import translated content back to Sitecore XM Cloud target locales
  • View dashboards depicting complete submission statistics, status of submissions at target locales, and translation jobs at each target locale level
  • View a visual tree structure in the GCC UI for easy navigation (includes system folder for translations)
  • View a list of selected pages before submitting for translation
  • Submit a single page for translation
  • Automatically publish translated content
  • Translate alt text images, single-line text, and rich text
  • Configure templates and template field types in the connector
  • Copy the source content that does not need translation into the target language
  • Automatically include all page and page components for translation in recursive page submissions

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

OpenAI introduces custom GPTs

November 6, 2023 /

From the OpenAI Blog…

We’re rolling out custom versions of ChatGPT that you can create for a specific purpose—called GPTs. GPTs are a new way for anyone to create a tailored version of ChatGPT to be more helpful in their daily life, at specific tasks, at work, or at home, and then share that creation with others. For example, GPTs can help you learn the rules to any board game, help teach your kids math, or design stickers…

Anyone can easily build their own GPT—no coding is required. You can make them for yourself, just for your company’s internal use, or for everyone. Creating one is as easy as starting a conversation, giving it instructions and extra knowledge, and picking what it can do, like searching the web, making images or analyzing data…

Example GPTs are available today for ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users to try out including Canva and Zapier AI Actions…

You can also define custom actions by making one or more APIs available to the GPT. Like plugins, actions allow GPTs to integrate external data or interact with the real-world. Connect GPTs to databases, plug them into emails, or make them your shopping assistant…

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts

DataStax launches RAGStack

November 2, 2023 /

DataStax announced the launch of RAGStack, an out-of-the-box RAG solution designed to simplify implementation of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications built with LangChain. RAGStack reduces the complexity and overwhelming choices that developers face when implementing RAG for their generative AI applications with a streamlined, tested, and efficient set of tools and techniques for building with LLMs. 

With RAGStack, companies benefit from a preselected set of open-source software for implementing generative AI applications, providing developers with a ready-made solution for RAG that leverages the LangChain ecosystem including LangServe, LangChain Templates and LangSmith, along with Apache Cassandra and the DataStax Astra DB vector database. This removes the hassle of having to assemble a bespoke solution and provides developers with a simplified, comprehensive generative AI stack. 

RAG combines the strengths of both retrieval-based and generative AI methods for natural language understanding and generation, enabling real-time, contextually relevant responses that underpin much of the innovation happening with this technology.

With specifically curated software components, abstractions to improve developer productivity and system performance, enhancements that improve existing vector search techniques, and compatibility with most generative AI data components, RAGStack provides overall improvements to the performance, scalability, and cost of implementing RAG in generative AI applications.

https://www.datastax.com/products/ragstack

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