Month: January 2025 (Page 2 of 2)

dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs

January 14, 2025 / NewsShark

dbt Labs, experts in analytics engineering, has acquired SDF Labs, the team of former Meta and Microsoft engineering leaders behind SDF, a data transformation technology. The acquisition will integrate SDF’s multi-dialect, dbt-native SQL comprehension capabilities into dbt, delivering improvements to dbt performance and enhancing the developer experience, efficiency, data velocity and data quality. the SDF Labs team will become a part of dbt Labs.

SDF Labs, which emerged from stealth in June 2024, has focused its efforts on building a toolset and framework to address the complexities of compiling and understanding SQL that users write, regardless of platform. It’s technology, built on the Rust programming language and natively integrated into dbt.

SDF validates the SQL code a user is writing as it’s being written. This real-time feedback allows developers to embrace modern development accelerants like code completion and content assist as well as pinpoint errors and ensure data quality earlier in the development process. This expedites data velocity, boosts data quality, and makes organizations more efficient in their analytics practices. SQL comprehension also adds a new layer of detailed metadata to dbt’s table- and column-level lineage for enhanced data classification, enabling organizations to accomplish nuanced governance use cases.

https://www.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-labs-announces-sdf-labs-acquisition

Foxit launches standalone web-based AI platform

January 14, 2025 / NewsShark

Foxit, a provider of PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do more with documents, announced the launch of Foxit AI, a standalone web-based AI platform that delivers document-centric AI capabilities to users across industries.

Foxit AI offers a comprehensive suite of features, including AI-powered chat assistance, document and image analysis, advanced summarization, multilingual translation, text enhancement, and the ability to analyze multiple documents simultaneously. By combining intuitive design, cross-device accessibility, and seamless integration with Foxit’s broader ecosystem, Foxit AI empowers users across industries to streamline workflows, gain actionable insights, and maximize productivity.

Whether simplifying complex legal documents, generating concise summaries, or translating content for global audiences, Foxit AI is designed to provide an efficient, secure, and user-friendly solution tailored to modern document management challenges.

https://foxit.com

Contentstack acquires Lytics

January 8, 2025 / NewsShark

Contentstack, a composable digital experience platform (DXP) provider, today announced its acquisition of Lytics, a real-time customer data platform. The acquisition, which closed in December of 2024, brings comprehensive audience insights, content analytics and profile management to the Contentstack platform, unlocking real-time personalization for known and unknown users. Major global brands including Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Glassdoor, Universal Music Group, LiveNation, Clorox and Ancestry will join the Contentstack customer community.

With the Lytics acquisition, Contentstack addresses the actionable first-party data activation side of the equation. The technology gives brands:

Real-time engagement data and audience insights for both known and unknown visitors.
The ability to easily create audience profiles and segments out-of-the-box.
A data activation layer that enables users to access and understand customer data and send it across preferred channels instantly.

The Lytics acquisition creates a combined entity with over 500 customers and 500 employees.

https://www.contentstack.com ■ https://www.lytics.com

Gilbane Advisor 1-8-25 — o3 and ARC, Simpson’s Paradox

January 8, 2025 / Frank Gilbane

This week we feature articles from Melanie Mitchell, and Maria Mouschoutzi.

Additional reading comes from Chia Jeng Yang, Nilay Patel & Mustafa Suleyman, Kate Knibbs, and Sayash Kapoor & Arvind Narayanan, and Louie Peters.

News comes from Graphlit, RWS, Brightcove, and Grammarly & Coda.

Next issue arrives January 22.

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

Opinion / Analysis

OpenAI’s o3 model aces the “Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus” — but what does it mean?

The most interesting AI news in December was OpenAI’s announcement of remarkable benchmark results with their o3 model. Melanie Mitchell’s article on o3’s significance is the best and most balanced I have read. (13 min)

https://aiguide.substack.com/p/did-openai-just-solve-abstract-reasoning

Water cooler small talk: Simpson’s Paradox

Is your data tricking you? What can you do about it?

Sophisticated data analysis is a woefully under-represented skill in organizations. We can’t all be statisticians, but decision-makers need to be more aware of the potential to be misled by even by well intentioned and proficient data collection results.

Maria Mouschoutzi provides an excellent example of “how aggregated data can hide or misrepresent subgroup-level patterns”. You don’t need any statistics knowledge, or code (there is a small amount) to understand the article and how to deal with this particular pitfall. (9 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/water-cooler-small-talk-simpsons-paradox-caf98151db0e

Content technology news

Graphlit Agent Tools Library streamlines unstructured data ingestion and AI agent workflows

The toolkit builds on Graphlit’s RAG-as-a-Service platform, enabling developers to rapidly build AI agents that streamline data handling and LLM-driven workflows.
https://www.graphlit.com

Brightcove partners with Acquia

The partnership with Acquia provides customers with integrated DAM and CMS capabilities to help customers build more cohesive, easy-to-deploy martech stacks.
https://www.brightcove.com/en/company/press/brightcove-partners-with-acquia-to-benefit-customers

RWS releases Tridion Sites 10.1

Web content management platform enables more granular control and management of global content, multilingual marketing campaigns, and digital experiences.
https://www.rws.com/about/news/2024/rws-launches-latest-version-tridion-sites

Grammarly to acquire Coda

Acquisition extends Grammarly beyond an AI assistant to become an AI productivity platform for Apps and Agents.

https://coda.io/blog/about-coda/grammarly-acquires-coda ■ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-acquires-coda

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

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