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Bridgeline announces suite for multi-location businesses

February 17, 2022 /

Bridgeline Digital, Inc., a cloud-based marketing technology software provider, announced they are launching a new product suite focused on the franchise industry and multi-location businesses called TruPresence. The suite of products includes specialized software for managing multiple websites including location pages, local eCommerce, advanced location finder, search, reporting, analytics, and more. TruPresence plans to release a web analytics dashboard that can index, benchmark, and drive insight and analysis to make game-changing improvements to each location, as well as the national brand’s presence.

https://www.bridgeline.com/news/bridgeline-announces-new-product-suite-for-multi-location-businesses

Gilbane Advisor 2-16-22 — data mesh, EKGs, topic models

February 16, 2022 /

This week we feature articles from JPMorgan’s Anu Jain, Graham Person, Paul Conroy, with Nivas Shankar from AWS, and from IBM’s Rolly John.

Additional reading is from the Google AI Blog, ZDNet, Wired, and The Next Platform.

News comes from Acquia, Elastic, Piano & SocialFlow, and Oro.

Opinion / Analysis

How JPMorgan Chase built a data mesh architecture to drive significant value to enhance their enterprise data platform

A short high-level description of a data mesh implementation that does a good job explaining the what, and the value; suitable for senior management and non-technical colleagues. Excellent illustrations.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/how-jpmorgan-chase-built-a-data-mesh-architecture-to-drive-significant-value-to-enhance-their-enterprise-data-platform/

How Topic Modelling can help companies to mine customer reviews

Rolly John has a more technical how-to piece based on a project she is working on. She includes details with links to analysis and code on her GitHub, and plans to provide updates on enhancements as she progresses.

https://medium.com/ibm-data-ai/how-topic-modelling-can-help-companies-to-mine-through-comments-and-reviews-c5cd973ce201

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Acquia launches UK hosting solution

London data center allows Drupal Cloud in-country hosting for organizations impacted by Brexit to support customer data localization.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/acquia-launches-uk-hosting-solution/

Elastic 8.0 Elastic search, vector search, natural language processing

Enterprise Search updates include native vector search, support for modern natural language processing (NLP) models, and data onboarding.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/elastic-releases-elastic-8-0/

Piano acquires SocialFlow

Will help organizations manage organic posting across platforms, manage paid social media campaigns, and collect data on user clicks.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/piano-acquires-socialflow/

Oro unveils OroCommerce 5.0

Open-source eCommerce platform for B2B adds features to boost productivity, improve site performance, and optimize customer experiences.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/oro-unveils-orocommerce-5-0/

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InfluxData releases new features

February 15, 2022 /

InfluxData, creator of the time series platform InfluxDB, released new features to expedite IoT and Industrial IoT application building. New capabilities deliver an intuitive experience for developers and engineers working with time series data at the edge and deliver better data processing for use cases spanning predictive maintenance, performance monitoring, energy optimization, operational technology, smart offices, and more. New features include:

  • Run analytics at the edge with persistent and replicated data: Enables analytics at the edge, providing replication of data for centralized collection, visibility and additional analytic processing. Users can replicate data into InfluxDB Cloud from an InfluxDB instance deployed at the edge.
  • Broadcast new data to thousands of devices simultaneously: New feature adds the ability to distribute processed data with custom payloads to thousands of devices all at once from a single Flux script.
  • Intelligently deploy software at the edge with configurable packages: Users can break down the stack into smaller base components, installing only what they need at the often-resource-constrained edge.
  • Contextualize IoT data across multiple sources: InfluxData has added MQTT data ingest to Telegraf, InfluxDB’s distributed collection agent. The new Telegraf MQTT input allows users to have more context over the IoT data they are ingesting.

https://www.influxdata.com

Acquia launches UK hosting solution

February 14, 2022 /

Digital experience company Acquia announced the launch of its new Drupal Cloud hosting solution for customers in the United Kingdom. A London data center provides in-country hosting for organizations impacted by Brexit who prefer their Drupal databases to remain in-country. This service is particularly attractive to UK government authorities or businesses working with the government.

Drupal Cloud is a composable experience platform that allows customers to build and deploy applications to any digital channel. With Drupal Cloud hosting, organizations can ensure that their digital applications are highly available, with a 99.95% uptime SLA, multi-zone availability for built-in redundancy, and multi-region failover clusters for enhanced resiliency. Beyond the London hosting solution, Acquia offers regional data centers in Ireland, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Japan, and China.

Acquia customers who want to migrate Drupal applications to the UK with zero downtime can take advantage of Acquia Platform Migration Services. These provide an Acquia Professional Services Technical Architect to manage configuration, testing, and more to ensure an efficient and seamless Drupal application migration.

https://www.acquia.com

Oro unveils OroCommerce 5.0

February 10, 2022 /

Oro Inc. announced the launch of OroCommerce 5.0, the latest long-term support (LTS) release of its open-source eCommerce platform for B2B companies. OroCommerce 5.0 adds features to boost productivity, improve site performance, and optimize customer experiences. Among the upgrades:

  • Speed and performance. Buyers can manage orders and product lists containing hundreds or thousands of individual items. Out-of-the-box support for WebP images.
  • New search functionality with upgraded discovery tools for B2B buyers. Weighted attributes enable the promotion of products based on popularity, available inventory, or user ratings.
  • Accessibility for everyone, with full compatibility with screen readers and other assistive technologies and new features such as search autocomplete and keyboard-optimized navigation to support users with visual impairments.
  • A friction-free work environment including full integration with Microsoft Office 365 to help team members spend less time window-switching. With a single sign-on, OroCommerce 5.0 makes it easier to stay on top of contacts, calendars, tasks, and emails, without ever leaving the Oro interface.
  • Stability and security. The platform gets upgrades across the tech stack, which now includes Symfony 5.4 LTS, PHP 8.1, PostgreSQL 13 / MySQL 8, and ElasticSearch 8.

https://oroinc.com/b2b-ecommerce/

Piano acquires SocialFlow

February 10, 2022 /

Piano, a Digital Experience Cloud provider, announced it has acquired SocialFlow, a social distribution and marketing platform for media companies. The addition of SocialFlow onto Piano’s platform will allow social media teams to optimize engagement and attention across multiple accounts and gain a deeper level of insight into how content is driving revenue. SocialFlow’s tools help streamline execution to efficiently manage organic posting across platforms, manage paid social media campaigns, and collect data on user clicks.

Organizations often face a fundamental challenge in determining which content will perform well on social media, when to publish it for maximum impact and then tracking results. These brands produce hundreds to thousands of articles and videos per month and have scores of social media accounts, with multiple team members managing those channels. Executing a social media strategy at scale requires tools built intentionally for the needs of publishers.

The transaction is a cash purchase, with funding provided by Updata Partners, Rittenhouse Ventures and Sixth Street Partners, and results in Piano acquiring 100% of the shares of SocialFlow.

https://resources.piano.io/articles/piano-acquires-socialflow-to-connect-social-media-strategies-to-customer-journey-orchestration ▪︎ https://www.socialflow.com

Elastic releases Elastic 8.0

February 10, 2022 /

Elastic announced the general availability of Elastic 8.0 with enhancements across the Elastic Search Platform and its Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions. Updates include native vector search, native support for modern natural language processing models, simplified data onboarding, and a streamlined security experience.

Native support for natural language processing (NLP) enables the use of custom or third-party PyTorch machine learning models directly in Elasticsearch. The addition of native NLP support with vector search enables users to perform inference within Elasticsearch, resulting in faster and more relevant search results. Customers can now leverage enhanced vector search capabilities, including native support for approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search, to quickly perform queries on enormous data sets such as documents, images, and audio files.

Elastic native vector search extends technology commonly associated with searching for image and text content into the world of business data. Organizations can use vector search with NLP support to deliver faster, more relevant customer support information, improve shopping experiences, and enhance search accessibility by providing unique audio and visual search results. A simplified Elastic Cloud on AWS onboarding experience includes new integrations to speed data ingestion, including the new Elastic Serverless Forwarder.

https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-8-0-0

Gilbane Advisor 2-9-22 — MLOps, lock-in and multi-cloud

February 9, 2022 /

This week we feature articles from Ryan Dawson and Tim Bray.

Additional reading is from TheSequence, Kai-Fu Lee, NLPlanet, and Sandeep Uttamchandani.

News comes from Franz, Webscale, Box & Slack, and Access Innovations.

Opinion / Analysis

How do you evaluate MLOps platforms?

Companies that pioneered application of AI at scale did so using in-house ML platforms (facebook, uber, LinkedIn etc.). These capabilities are now available in off-the-shelf products. The rush to MLOps has led to too much choice. There are hundreds of tools and at least 40 platforms available…

Ryan Dawson wants to help. He starts with this high-level view, but is then kind enough to point to a detailed open source MLOps platforms comparison matrix.

https://medium.com/mlops-community/how-to-evaluate-mlops-platforms-c98cf7874cca

Lock-in and multi-cloud

Multi-cloud is a tricky thing, and causes serious stress in various parts of organizations. We’ve covered this before, including here, here, and here. This week Tim Bray digs in to the trade-offs and delivers additional and useful thoughts to help inform your decisions.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/01/30/Cloud-Lock-In

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Access Innovations launches Data Harmony Hub for automated content classification and semantic metadata enrichment

A cloud-based platform that provides automated content tagging using expertly curated taxonomies. Users can select from existing taxonomies.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/data-harmony-hub-for-automated-content-classification-and-semantic-metadata/

Webscale launches CloudEDGE PWA

CloudEDGE PWA supports frontend delivery for including Adobe/Magento, Shopify, Hybris, Salesforce Commerce Cloud or BigCommerce backends.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/webscale-launches-cloudedge-pwa/

Franz’s Gruff 8.1 brings visual knowledge graphs to web applications

Users can now visually build queries and visualize connections between enterprise data directly within a web page or web application.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/franzs-gruff-8-1-brings-visual-knowledge-graphs-to-web-applications/

Box updates Slack integration

The Box for Slack integration that enables customers to use Box as the single file storage system in the Slack environment.
https://gilbane.com/2022/02/box-updates-slack-integration/

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