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John Snow Labs announces free no-code natural language processing tools

October 6, 2021 /

John Snow Labs, a Healthcare AI and NLP company and developer of the Spark NLP library, announced that it will enable free access to its enterprise-grade Annotation Lab and NLP Server software for all users. The Annotation Lab, a data labeling and AI/ML solution for teams, enables users to annotate documents, images, and videos. The software automatically trains models using active learning and transfer learning. The project-based workflow helps users leverage real-time analytics on productivity, dataset bias, and inter-annotator agreement.

The enterprise solution also supports strong user management and role-based access, fully versioned and auditable completions, customizable workflows and tags, the ability to use custom models and embeddings, and integration with other tools using an API. Users can install the Annotation Lab within their own software infrastructure, including in air-gap networks, avoiding the need to share any data. There are no limits on the number of deployments, users, and customers. The NLP Server grants users access to thousands of pretrained out-of-the-box NLP models, enabling their use with no coding or data science experience necessary. Users can simply install the server as a single Docker container or on a cloud compute instance and access APIs.

https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/john-snow-labs-announces-free-enterprise-grade-no-code-natural-language-processing-tools-annotation-lab-and-nlp-server/

DataStax announces K8ssandra on VMware Marketplace

October 6, 2021 /

DataStax announced that K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes, is available on the VMware Marketplace. VMware Marketplace enables customers to discover and deploy compatible, validated third-party solutions to VMware environments. Once validated, partners can easily publish their solutions for VMware customers across platforms. Customers will be able to access these third-party partner solutions directly from their cloud environments, while also being able to experience the convenience of features such as notifications, reporting, and analytics.

Every element of a modern data application should embody the cloud native principles of scale, elasticity, self-healing, and observability. K8ssandra is at the forefront of the move to cloud native data on Kubernetes. K8ssandra combines the flexible, cloud-native benefits of Kubernetes together with the global scale of Cassandra — the NoSQL database used by enterprises including Apple, Instagram, Netflix, Sky, Spotify, TikTok, Uber, and Yelp. It is a complete operational data platform for Kubernetes including APIs, monitoring, and backups, providing database administrators (DBAs) and site reliability engineers (SREs) elastic scale for data on Kubernetes.

https://www.datastax.com

WP Engine launches Atlas Content Modeler

October 5, 2021 /

WP Engine, a WordPress technology company, announced the launch of Atlas Content Modeler (ACM), a free WordPress plugin to create custom post types and fields for headless WordPress sites. ACM integrates seamlessly with WPGraphQL, replacing the need for three separate plugins required to create content models for headless sites. Custom content modeling is a critical task for every enterprise WordPress project, however WordPress doesn’t have this feature as part of its core content management system (CMS). ACM makes the creation of custom content models easier:

  • 3 tools in 1 – Create custom post types and fields in WordPress, and integrate it with WPGraphQL for headless projects in a single package.
  • Easy to use – The plugin is intuitive enough to use right away.
  • Advanced fields, by default – Developers can create schemas that include Rich Text, Media, Numbers, Dates, Boolean and Relationship data fields.
  • Define relationships between content models – ACM comes with the ability to define relationships between content models, which adds both structure and meaning to content.
  • Create custom taxonomies – With ACM, developers can define taxonomies that help their content producers organize their content in a flexible manner.
  • Easy-to-use publisher experience – ACM automatically creates edit screens for publishing structured content immediately.

https://wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine-launches-atlas-content-modeler/

Sitecore launches Sitecore Manager Experience Cloud

October 5, 2021 /

Sitecore announced Sitecore Experience Manager Cloud, a cloud-native CMS offering design flexibility, integration-friendliness, and authoring experience for business users to create and deliver personalized digital experiences. With this new addition to the Sitecore Digital Experience Platform (DXP), Sitecore offers their first SaaS offering that reimagines how content, experience orchestration, commerce and analytics support modern enterprises. The company also announces a range of new product updates that integrate recent acquisitions, and the launch of a subscription-based learning resource.

Sitecore’s new SaaS DXP is available for customers in most regions globally, is built on a composable architecture, so end users can buy best-of-breed products or an integrated platform that scales to support high volume content, visitor, and data processing needs. The composable approach enables brands to capitalize on Sitecore’s partner ecosystem, developer network, and expertise in helping enterprise businesses manage and enhance the customer experience. Customers can now configure and connect products through APIs as needed and have the ability to flex their creativity to create differentiation in the market faster. With microservices-based, cloud-native technology, the option to scale up or down, and quickly change content across different channels is possible.

https://www.sitecore.com

Sinequa announces Starter Apps

October 5, 2021 /

Sinequa, a provider of Intelligent Enterprise Search, announced new accelerators for custom Insight Apps. These accelerators, referred to as Starter Apps, power tailored search experiences that bring all relevant enterprise content together in the flow of work for all employees. This reduces the amount of time and effort it takes to build and scale Insight Apps for complex and high-value use cases. These Insight Apps target the digital hybrid workplace for knowledge-intensive industries and applications such as life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, and intelligence and information discovery. Starter Apps are pre-configured and open source applications that bring together the reusable and extensible components of Sinequa’s Insight App Framework to deploy Insight Apps faster. Starter Apps available:

  • The Search Starter App is an out-of-the-box UI that includes all the pieces of a standard enterprise search application without the need for any custom code.
  • The Sinequa Analytics Starter App structures unstructured content and extracts information for display on an interactive dashboard. This tool helps employees spot trends and relationships across vast quantities of data quickly and efficiently, providing insights to inform business strategy.
  • The Usage Dashboard Starter App makes it easy to analyze and track the usage of Sinequa applications.

https://sinequa.github.io/sba-angular

Brightcove announces Marketing Studio

October 5, 2021 /

Brightcove unveiled Brightcove Marketing Studio, a new solution that gives marketers access to easily find, use, and repurpose video assets, which are costly to create and underutilized across marketing teams.

Marketing professionals are often forced to search multiple systems to find ideal videos for their initiatives, often lacking insight into which videos perform best or what useful assets actually exist. And, although 3 out of 4 marketers say video is “important” or “central” to their content strategies, more than half say “unclear processes” or “technical constraints” prevent them from using video more. Brightcove Marketing Studio provides role-based access to video assets through a team’s preferred social platforms, marketing automation, digital asset management, and content management tools. Marketing Studio features:

  • Centralized video management: Puts everything marketers need at their fingertips, including full-length videos, social clips, and thumbnails.
  • Integration into existing workflows: Pulls video into the tools marketers use for discovery and implementation in email, social, partner, web, and event campaigns.
  • Smart search: Surfaces relevant videos for every initiative with smart tagging and recommendations based on topic, format, audience, and buyer stage.
  • Viewer intelligence: Provides insights into video performance and viewer engagement, displayed in intuitive dashboards or existing third-party analytics systems.

https://www.brightcove.com/en/company/press/Brightcove-Announces-Brightcove-Marketing-Studio

Gilbane Advisor 9-29-21 — data repatriation, legacy scaling

September 29, 2021 /

This week we have articles from Kendall Clark and Timothy Prickett Morgan. News comes from Umbraco, Elastic, Brightspot, Optimizely, ServiceNow and Microsoft.

➔ We’ll be traveling and mostly off the grid next week. Our next issue will be October 13th.

Opinion / Analysis

Why the big three can’t win the hybrid multicloud game

Data integration is not solved by AWS, Azure, or Google cloud platforms. Though each have been building partnerships with third party data management tools, it is not in their interest to work together, or to tempt regulatory reaction. So how do enterprises address this problem, and the dreaded repatriation costs? Kendall Clark (founder and CEO of Stardog) doesn’t paint a pretty picture, but delivers a dose of reality. Also see The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox.

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/why-the-big-three-cant-win-the-hybrid-multi-cloud-game/

The endless pursuit of scale at LinkedIn

Switching software stacks is incredibly complex and costly, but keeping up with scaling needs can’t be avoided given never-ending data growth. Timothy Prickett Morgan provides a peek at how LinkedIn has been dealing with this balancing act. Not all of you have exabyte size data stores as they do, but nonetheless may find this a fascinating (I know, a strange word choice) read as I did. There is also a bonus link describing LinkedIn’s knowledge graph.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/09/15/the-endless-pursuit-of-scale-at-linkedin/

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Umbraco moves content management system to .NET 5

Umbraco 9 is a complete update of the CMS’ technology stack, from .NET Framework to .NET 5 (previously known as .NET Core).
https://gilbane.com/2021/09/umbraco-moves-content-management-system-to-net-5/

Elastic announces Enterprise Search 7.15 with App Search web crawler

Including general availability of the native Elastic App Search web crawler and new personalization capabilities in Elastic Workplace Search.
https://gilbane.com/2021/09/elastic-announces-enterprise-search-7-15-with-app-search-web-crawler/

Brightspot launches partner program

Developed for solution partners and digital agencies and consultancies that are looking to deliver and execute on CMS projects.
https://gilbane.com/2021/09/brightspot-launches-partner-program/

Optimizely’s data core service to strengthen digital experience platform

To enhance its digital experience platform (DXP) with deeper analytics and unified data insights across its suite of products.
https://gilbane.com/2021/09/optimizelys-data-core-service-to-strengthen-digital-experience-platform/

ServiceNow expands Microsoft partnership with new collaborative app in Teams

The new collaborative app for its Employee Center integrates with Teams to streamline employee experiences in hybrid work environments.
https://gilbane.com/2021/09/servicenow-expands-microsoft-partnership-with-new-collaborative-app-in-teams/

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Umbraco moves content management system to .NET 5

September 28, 2021 /

Umbraco launched Umbraco 9, the latest version of their flexible, fully customizable and content management system. Umbraco 9 features a complete update of the CMS’ technology stack, with a move from .NET Framework to now running completely on .NET 5 (previously known as .NET Core). This unique transformation offers better performance and scalability, a cleaner architecture, and compatibility with macOS, Linux and Microsoft Windows, opening up Umbraco to a larger pool of web developers.

Umbraco’s CMS family includes the flagship, open-source Umbraco CMS; Umbraco Heartcore, a headless CMS; Umbraco Cloud; and Umbraco Uno, a one-stop platform for non-technical marketers and creative agencies. With help from its active community members, including a large “best-of-breed” partner network that offers customized solutions that integrate with Umbraco, the company now counts more than 700,000 websites worldwide, the majority in Europe and the U.S, running live on its solutions.

The launch of Umbraco 9 also kicks off a steady release cadence for new major versions of Umbraco. This new cadence is aligned with Microsoft .NET Long Term Support (LTS) releases, which means users can be confident that future Umbraco LTS versions are always updated to the latest Microsoft technology.

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