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Sitecore launches Sitecore Stream

October 16, 2024 /

Sitecore, a digital experience software provider, today announced Sitecore Stream to address challenges and opportunities faced by enterprise marketing teams. Built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Sitecore Stream helps orchestrate a seamless marketer experience across Sitecore solutions, including XM Cloud, Content Hub, and Experience Platform (XP).

Sitecore Stream leverages generative AI to simplify marketing workflows and enhance productivity through orchestration, content intelligence, and automated assistance. Sitecore Stream leverages Sitecore’s composable product architecture, enabling full interoperability across a brand’s existing martech stack, with built-in AI guardrails to help preserve brand compliance and data privacy. Sitecore Stream includes:

  • Brand-aware AI: Helps align marketers’ actions, recommendations, and experiences with the organization’s brand identity, values, and guidelines.
  • AI-enhanced workflows: Automates repetitive tasks to accelerate execution and boost collaboration. These workflows may be creating content, building a website page, or A/B testing a call to action to help marketers stay in a productive flow.
  • Generative copilots: For brand, brief, content, and experience creation and optimization, these help marketers stay true to their brand and brief as they complete their work.

Sitecore Stream capabilities are available today.

https://www.sitecore.com/products/sitecore-stream

Gilbane Advisor 10-9-24 — ChatGPT Canvas, Agent tooling

October 9, 2024 /

This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagel, and Tula Masterman.

Additional reading comes from Michal Malewicz, Tari Ibaba, Eugen Rochko, Rachel Andrew, and Sara Fischer.

News comes from MongoDB, Magnolia, Movable Ink, and Optimizely.

Our next issue will arrive October 30.

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

Opinion / Analysis

An imperfect Canvas … but an interesting first step

OpenAI… “We’re introducing canvas, a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go beyond simple chat. Canvas opens in a separate window, allowing you and ChatGPT to collaborate on a project. This early beta introduces a new way of working together—not just through conversation, but by creating and refining ideas side by side.” 

Kurt Cagel has taken Canvas for a spin, and describes his experience using the basic editing capabilities. (6 min)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/imperfect-canvas-interesting-first-step-kurt-cagle-1gwvc

AI agents: The intersection of tool calling and reasoning in generative AI

Tula Masterman’s article “… focuses on how reasoning is expressed through tool calling, explores some of the challenges of tool use, covers common ways to evaluate tool-calling ability, and provides examples of how different models and agents interact with tools.” is a valuable resource. Be sure to check out The Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard V3 she references. (11 min)

https://medium.com/towards-data-science/ai-agents-the-intersection-of-tool-calling-and-reasoning-in-generative-ai-ff268eece443

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MongoDB releases MongoDB 8.0

The document database has performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities.
https://www.mongodb.com/products/updates/version-release

Magnolia integrates Magnolia DXP with Veeva Vault PromoMats

Marketers can create digital experiences for multiple channels using MLR reviewed and approved assets in Veeva Vault PromoMats.
https://www.magnolia-cms.com

Movable Ink adds Da Vinci to Adobe Experience Cloud integrations

Joint customers can leverage their enterprise-specific data and campaign assets to inform the intelligent assembly and personalization of email templates and content variations.
https://movableink.com/adobe-and-movable-ink

Optimizely to acquire NetSpring

Optimizely’s DXP provides “warehouse native” analytics, enabling customers to tie experimentation and other digital experience activities to business metrics.
https://www.optimizely.com/netspring

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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 most Wednesdays. We do not sell or share personal data.

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MongoDB releases MongoDB 8.0

October 2, 2024 /

MongoDB, Inc. released MongoDB 8.0, providing performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, and additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities. MongoDB 8.0 is available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure through MongoDB Atlas, on MongoDB Enterprise Advanced for on-premises and hybrid deployments, and as a free download with MongoDB Community Edition. Capabilities: 

  • Optimized performance for a wide variety of applications. 
    Architectural optimizations reduced memory usage and query times, has more efficient batch processing capabilities, and handles higher volumes of time series data.
  • Encryption that unlocks new use cases.
  • Queryable Encryption allows customers to encrypt sensitive application data, store it securely and run expressive queries on the encrypted data for processing.
  • Faster horizontal scaling for high availability.
  • Sharding improvements in MongoDB 8.0 distribute data across shards faster without the need for additional configuration. 
  • Resilience for unexpected application demand. 
  • The ability to set a default maximum time limit for running queries, to reject recurring types of problematic queries, and to set query settings to persist through events like database restarts. 
  • Reduced costs and increased scale for vector applications.
  • With vector quantization, customers can build a wide range of search and AI applications at higher scale and lower cost.

https://www.mongodb.com/products/updates/version-release

Gilbane Advisor 10-2-24 — Content presentation, Medium & ScyllaDB

October 2, 2024 /

This week we feature articles from Michael Andrews, and Andréas Saudemont.

Additional reading comes from Marta Serra-Garcia & Uri Gneezy, Mike Loukides, and Merve Noyan, Philipp Schmid, Omar Sanseviero, Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Lewis Tunstall, Vaibhav Srivastav & Pedro Cuenca.

News comes from Ai2, Contentstack, MindsDB, and Salesforce.

Our next issue will arrive October 9.

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

Opinion / Analysis

Separating content and presentation: Moving past FUD

Michael Andrews argues this separation is more critical than ever, and that the decades old discussions about this topic “don’t account for the current changes reshaping today’s digital ecosystems (e.g., the development of design systems, structured content, and the shift to composable and headless architectures.)”. Andrews starts a more modern discussion. (21 min)

https://storyneedle.com/separating-content-and-presentation-moving-past-fud/

ScyllaDB implementation: Lists in Medium’s feature store, Part 2

Andréas Saudemont’s case-study/tutorial is useful for those curious about ScyllaDB, or anyone who has struggled with similar limitations of relational DBs — see his link to (a shorter) Part 1. (18 min)

https://medium.engineering/scylladb-implementation-lists-in-mediums-feature-store-part-2-905299c89392

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Ai2 launches family of open multimodal models

Molmo goes beyond today’s most advanced multimodal models by creating open models that can now point and act in the visual world.
https://molmo.allenai.org/blog

Contentstack adds visual building capabilities to CMS

The composable digital experience platform (DXP) based on the enterprise headless CMS with Visual Builder accelerates workflows for marketers.
https://www.contentstack.com/platforms/visual-building

MindsDB launches conversational enterprise-ready AI

Designed to reason and orchestrate across real-time and historical enterprise data to answer natural language questions for AI applications and agents.
https://mindsdb.com/newsroom/mindsdb-launches-conversational-enterprise-ready-ai-that-shows-you-how-it-thinks

Salesforce to acquire Zoomin

Will accelerate the unlocking of unstructured data to power AI agents for more personalized and context-aware in every customer interaction.
https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-zoomin/

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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 most Wednesdays. We do not sell or share personal data.

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Movable Ink adds Da Vinci to Adobe Experience Cloud integrations

October 1, 2024 /

Movable Ink announced the integration of Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Journey Optimizer. This adds to existing Movable Ink built integrations into Adobe Experience Cloud applications, including Adobe Target, Adobe Commerce, Adobe Real-Time CDP, and Adobe Campaign.

The new integration of Movable Ink Da Vinci, an AI-powered content personalization solution, and Adobe Journey Optimizer accelerates the creation of custom marketing content for high-volume campaigns. When orchestrating customer journeys in Adobe Journey Optimizer, joint customers can leverage their enterprise-specific data and campaign assets to inform the intelligent assembly and personalization of email templates and content variations unique to each subscriber. Customers can then bring those assets into Adobe Journey Optimizer to further personalize, optimize, and deploy their email marketing campaigns. This builds on existing integrations between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign, which aims to maximize customer engagement for large-scale campaigns and reach dormant subscribers.

Movable Ink has also built existing integrations between Adobe and Movable Ink Studio – an open-time, in-the-moment content-generation solution. In Movable Ink Studio, brands can leverage insights from applications like Adobe Real-Time CDP, Commerce, and Target to generate personalized content for email and mobile messages.

https://movableink.com/adobe-and-movable-ink

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