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Bloomreach supports OAuth 2.0 authentication

Bloomreach, provider of a Commerce Experience Cloud, announced the support of Open Authorization (OAuth) 2.0 authentication for webhooks, an industry standard protocol for authentication that enables third-party applications to access a user’s data without sharing their credentials. Businesses will now have the ability to integrate Bloomreach Engagement with third-party applications that require OAuth through webhooks, safely connecting real-time data in and out Bloomreach and boosting marketing personalization without the need to switch platforms.

The use of webhooks plays a crucial role in facilitating real-time data synchronization and triggering actions across multiple marketing channels. By leveraging webhooks effectively, marketers can deliver personalized, timely, and consistent experiences across touchpoints, to improve customer engagement and satisfaction. As marketers deliver these enhanced experiences, the OAuth 2.0 authentication method for webhooks maintains the security and integrity of the exchanged data. By enabling controlled access to protected resources, it mitigates the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches.

OAuth 2.0 authentication via webhooks opens the door for brands to frictionlessly integrate Bloomreach Engagement with third-party platforms and applications in their tech stack that require this authentication method. This includes Microsoft Azure, Commercetools, Criteo Marketing, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Listrak, and Talkdesk, among others.

https://www.bloomreach.com/en/news/2023/bloomreach-now-supports-frictionless-integrations-with-third-party-applications-requiring-oauth-2.0-authentication-method

dtSearch updates enterprise products

dtSearch announced the release of version 2023.01 and beta release of version 2023.02 of its enterprise and developer product line for instantly searching terabytes of online and offline data. The product line’s proprietary document filters cover popular “Office” formats, website data, databases, compression formats, and emails with attachments. dtSearch products can run either “on premises” at organizations or in a cloud environment such as on Azure or AWS.

  • The release adds a new search results display for dtSearch’s enterprise products.
  • The beta adds sample code demonstrating use of the dtSearch Engine in an ASP.NET Core application running in a Windows (NanoServer) or Linux Docker container.
  • The beta adds sample code demonstrating use of the dtSearch Engine in an ASP.NET Core application running in a Windows or Linux Docker container.
  • The beta also adds sample code demonstrating how to build NuGet packages to deploy the dtSearch Engine with associated dependencies including ICU, CMAP files, stemming rules, and the external file parsers.

https://www.dtsearch.com

Databricks announces LakehouseIQ

Databricks announced LakehouseIQ, a knowledge engine that learns what makes an organization’s data, culture and operations unique. LakehouseIQ uses generative AI to understand jargon, data usage patterns, organizational structure, and more to answer questions within the context of a business. Anyone in an organization can interact with LakehouseIQ using natural language to search, understand, and query data. LakehouseIQ is fully integrated with Databricks Unity Catalog to help ensure that democratizing access to data adheres to internal security and governance rules.

LakehouseIQ learns from signals within an organization using schemas, documents, queries, popularity, lineage, notebooks, and BI dashboards to gain intelligence as it answers more queries. LakehouseIQ helps employees get immediate answers to questions without requiring that they possess the technical skill required by traditional data analysis tools. The engine understands their unique business jargon and context to more accurately interpret the intent of the question, and can even generate additional insights that could spur new questions or lines of thinking. With LakehouseIQ, every employee, not just data scientists, can unlock the full potential of internal corporate data to make better, more informed decisions. The Databricks Assistant, powered by LakehouseIQ, is in preview.

https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-lakehouseiq-ai-powered-engine-uniquely-understands-your-business

Gilbane Advisor 6-28-23 — LLM KG roadmap, AI2 public service

This week we feature articles from Shirui Pan, Linhao Luo, Yufei Wang, Chen Chen, Jiapu Wang & Xindong Wu, and Maria Antoniak, Li Lucy, Maarten Sap & Luca Soldaini.

Additional reading comes from Jon Udell, Fabio Matricardi, Mark Sundstrom, and Rhiannon Williams.

News comes from MongoDB, Drupal, Databricks, and Bloomreach & Shopware.

Note: We’ll be off next week and back on July 12th.

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


Opinion / Analysis

Unifying large language models and knowledge graphs: A roadmap

We’ve been focused mostly on practitioner-authored articles on this topic. This comprehensive paper is a useful resource for practitioners, strategists, and researchers alike. It is well written and illustrated, and a valuable reference that will come in handy at multiple points in related projects. (50 min)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.08302.pdf

Using large language models with care

This is not news, but researchers Maria Antoniak, Li Lucy, Maarten Sap, and Luca Soldaini from The Allen Institute provide an important public service with their “introductory outline of the risks of LLMs, written for the everyday user.” This will be directly helpful to some of us, but especially useful for sharing with certain colleagues, or family and friends. (11 min)

https://blog.allenai.org/using-large-language-models-with-care-eeb17b0aed27

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MongoDB launches five new capabilities for MongoDB Atlas

The new MongoDB features can help speed up innovation by standardizing workloads on a single developer data platform across the enterprise.
https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-launches-five-new-capabilities-for-mongodb-atlas-to-build-new-classes-of-applications

Drupal 10.1 is now available

Customizing the look of your site easier, adds support for decoupled navigation, improves content modeling and editing, block management…
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/10.1.0

Databricks announces Lakehouse Apps

Databricks customers will be able to discover, deploy, and manage data and AI applications directly from Databricks.
https://www.databricks.com

Bloomreach and Shopware partner

Bloomreach’s marketing automation, product discovery, and content management will enhance Shopware e-commerce customer’s customer journeys.
https://www.bloomreach.com ■ https://www.shopware.com/en/

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Snowflake unveils large language model to extract data from documents

Snowflake announced new advancements to its single, unified platform that make it easier for organizations to get value from all of their data. With Document AI (private preview), Snowflake is launching a new large language model (LLM) built from Applica’s generative AI technology to help customers understand documents and put their unstructured data to work. Building on Snowflake’s support for unstructured data, Snowflake’s built-in Document AI will make it easier for organizations to understand and extract value from documents using natural language processing.

Document AI stems from Snowflake’s acquisition of Applica (Sept. 2022) and leverages its purpose-built, multimodal LLM. By integrating this model within Snowflake’s platform, organizations will be able to easily extract content like invoice amounts or contractual terms from documents and fine-tune results using a visual interface and natural language. Customers are using Document AI to help their teams be smarter about their businesses, and enhance user productivity in secure and scalable ways. Snowflake is starting with Document AI and plans to expand these capabilities to more types of unstructured data.

https://www.snowflake.com/news/snowflake-unveils-new-large-language-model-to-extract-deeper-insights-from-documents-while-continuing-to-advance-platform-speed-and-performance/

Drupal 10.1 is now available

Drupal released Drupal 10.1, which makes customizing the look of your site easier, adds support for decoupled navigation, improves content modeling and editing, block management, performance, and more. A sample of the changes include:

  • New APIs for retrieving menus configured in Drupal using the Linkset standard.
  • Various CKEditor improvements including an autoformat feature.
  • A unified entity revision editing experience was added. This makes prior versions of content easier to manage regardless of whether they are in content blocks or nodes or other entities.
  • You can create custom blocks directly under Structure in the administrative interface. More granular permissions allow granting block management per type and revisions to block content can be reviewed and rolled back.
  • BigPipe supports serving interface previews for delayed content, which makes the user experience smoother.
  • HTML pages and AJAX responses can now be served before dynamically processed JavaScript and CSS assets have been generated.
  • The request type used for making AJAX requests can be configured allowing certain dynamic requests to be cached using render and edge caching capabilities, enabling faster response times.
  • Drupal 10.1 is also approved as a Digital Public Good (DPG) by the Digital Public Good Alliance (DPGA).

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/10.1.0

MongoDB launches five new capabilities for MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB, Inc. announced five new products and features for its developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, that make it faster and easier for customers to build modern applications, for any workload or use case. The new products and features include:

  • MongoDB Atlas Vector Search simplifies bringing generative AI and semantic search into applications for highly engaging end-user experiences.
  • MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes now provide dedicated infrastructure for search use cases so customers can scale independently of their database to manage unpredictable spikes and high-throughput workloads with greater flexibility and operational efficiency.
  • MongoDB Atlas Stream Processing transforms building event-driven applications that react and respond in real-time by unifying how developer teams work with data-in-motion and data-at-rest.
  • MongoDB Atlas Time Series collections now make time series workloads more efficient for use cases from predictive maintenance for factory equipment to automotive vehicle-fleet monitoring to financial trading platforms.
  • New multi-cloud options for MongoDB Atlas Online Archive and Atlas Data Federation enable customers to tier and query data in Microsoft Azure and in addition to Amazon Web Services.

Together, these new features for can speed up their pace of innovation by standardizing many types of workloads on a single developer data platform across the enterprise.

https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-launches-five-new-capabilities-for-mongodb-atlas-to-build-new-classes-of-applications

Gilbane Advisor 6-21-23 — Conversational programming, usability

This week we feature articles from Simon Wardley, and Jakob Nielsen.

Additional reading comes from Sayash Kapoor & Arvind Narayanan, Rishi Bommasani, Kevin Klyman, Daniel Zhang & Percy Liang, and Alex Ratner.

News comes from Acquia, Adobe, Optimizely, and Expert[.]ai & Blue Prism.

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


Opinion / Analysis

Both articles this week argue that the current state of conversational programming with prompt engineering as the interface, is primitive, though directional. Simon Wardley’s post is a bit more technical, while Jakob Nielsen’s focuses on end-user usability.

Why the fuss about conversational programming

“In my last post on conversational programming I asked the reader to “get yourself ready for a world of conversational programming” but I wasn’t willing to call it for ChatGPT or the existing crop of LLMs.”

If you’re familiar with Simon Wardley, you won’t be surprised that he says we need to get to “code as maps”. Otherwise, see his previous post and perhaps some of his other links. (10 min)

https://swardley.medium.com/why-the-fuss-about-conversational-programming-70a8b7ca0d2b

AI: first new UI paradigm in 60 years

Jakob Nielsen…

“I doubt that the current set of generative AI tools (like ChatGPT, Bard, etc.) are representative of the UIs we’ll be using in a few years, because they have deep-rooted usability problems. Their problems led to the development of a new role — the prompt engineer.” (5 min)

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-paradigm/

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Content technology news

Acquia enhances digital experience platform for personalization

Enables digital experiences based on knowledge gained from a broader array of channels, using anonymous, known, and understood customer data.
https://www.acquia.com/newsroom/press-releases/acquia-enhances-digital-experience-platform-power-omnichannel-customer

Expert[.]ai expands partnership with SS&C Blue Prism

Processing unstructured language data for automation creates new potential for leveraging intelligent automation in the enterprise.
https://www.expert.ai ■ https://www.blueprism.com

Optimizely introduces Content Graph

Content Graph service extends the capabilities of Optimizely’s CMS by enabling flexible content delivery across channels and applications.
https://www.optimizely.com/headless

Adobe adds Firefly generative AI capabilities to Illustrator

Following Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Express, Illustrator is the latest Creative Cloud application to benefit from Adobe’s generative AI.
https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html

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