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Foxit launches standalone web-based AI platform

January 14, 2025 /

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 /

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 /

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

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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

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

December 31, 2024 /

Unstruk Data Inc, an AI software provider, introduced the Graphlit Agent Tools Library, now live on GitHub (github.com/graphlit/graphlit-tools-python). This new toolkit builds on Graphlit’s RAG-as-a-Service platform capabilities, enabling developers to rapidly build AI agents that streamline data handling and LLM-driven workflows. By eliminating infrastructure complexities, Graphlit positions itself as a comprehensive solution for organizations seeking to harness large language models (LLMs) and unstructured data at scale. Features include:

  • Multi-Agent Orchestration
    Built-in CrewAI integration offers a streamlined path to multi-agent collaboration without heavy coding.
  • Extensive Data Connectivity
    Ingest data from Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, SharePoint, Notion, Intercom, Zendesk, Slack, Teams, GitHub, Jira, Linear, ensuring seamless integration of diverse sources into agentic workflows.
  • Robust RAG Tools
    Offers built-in capabilities for PDF OCR, content chunking, vector embeddings, and RAG conversation history in a single library of agent tools.
  • Multi-Model Compatibility
    Integrates with top LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Google AI, Groq, Mistral, etc.) for context-rich, near-real-time decision-making.
  • Multimodal Data Support
    Ingest and process diverse data types—including text, audio, video, and images—with automatic transcription and image embeddings for deeper AI insights.
  • Azure-Native Security
    Inherits enterprise-grade encryption, auto-scaling via Azure Functions, and compliance readiness (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA) from Microsoft Azure, ensuring robust governance for sensitive data.

https://www.graphlit.com

Brightcove partners with Acquia

December 18, 2024 /

Brightcove, a streaming technology company, is sharing enhancements to its platform through strategic partnerships to enhance the video content creation, distribution and monetization, and to help customers build more cohesive, easy-to-deploy martech stacks.

The relationship with Acquia is part of a broader initiative to co-sell and co-market integrated solutions that drive mutual customer success. For example, Brightcove has been able to grow its enterprise customer base across industries, including financial services, healthcare, travel and tourism, and technology, as well as media companies. With Brightcove’s capabilities integrated within Acquia’s DAM (digital asset management) and the Drupal CMS, system integrators and agency partners have a video solution to add to these digital experience platform (DXP) practices, especially for clients who leverage video as a critical part of their digital strategy. 

Brightcove’s integration with Acquia DAM centralizes the storage and management of images, videos and documents, improving content deployment speeds. Brightcove’s APIs further extend the reach of Acquia’s capabilities, including the Brightcove Video Connect for Drupal. Customers can manage Brightcove video and players in their Drupal site from a single interface. Together, Brightcove and Acquia allow for a broader distribution of interactive video experiences that increase viewer engagement, and optimize marketing outcomes.

https://www.brightcove.com/en/company/press/brightcove-partners-with-acquia-to-benefit-customers

Grammarly to acquire Coda

December 17, 2024 /

Grammarly, an AI assistant, announced its intent to acquire productivity platform Coda. Coda’s CEO and Co-Founder Shishir Mehrotra will become the CEO of Grammarly. The addition of Coda’s AI tools and surfaces aims to transform Grammarly into an AI productivity platform for apps and agents where customers can unlock access to company knowledge, generative AI chat, a productivity suite, and capable, trusted AI agents to work smarter and faster.

With this acquisition, Grammarly is increasingly focused on the future of how AI agents can, not only improve applications, but also benefit the entire enterprise with increased productivity. Grammarly understands the infrastructure needed to deploy it at scale and the value of integration across applications. Grammarly’s AI agents, include authorship, plagiarism detection, and proofreading.

Coda has spent the past few years perfecting Coda Docs, a flexible productivity suite. Most recently, they’ve introduced Coda Brain, which unlocks company knowledge across enterprise applications.

Grammarly and Coda products will continue to work the way customers know. Grammarly is focused on making its AI assistant smarter and more contextually aware with company knowledge from Coda Brain, enabling permission-aware connections with other systems and applications, from email and documents to CRM and project trackers.

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

RWS releases Tridion Sites 10.1

December 17, 2024 /

RWS, a provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property solutions, announced the availability of Tridion Sites 10.1. The latest version of RWS’s web content management platform includes several new features that enable more granular control and management of global content, multilingual marketing campaigns and digital experiences. New features include:

  • Sophisticated localized brand control: Enhanced BluePrinting capability enables more precise control over localized content. Marketers can rapidly and centrally create and update global digital experiences while delegating control over local campaigns to in-country teams.
  • Improved localization with new Context Views for translators: Allows internal and external translation teams to better understand the context of their translations by directly viewing the web page they are translating and follow localization guidance from the web team.
  • More connectors and partners: As a composable Digital Experience Platform (DXP), Tridion Sites offers access to more connectors and partners, helping organizations build feature rich digital customer experiences while leveraging the latest innovations in AI, generative AI, digital asset management, governance and compliance.

New integrations and partnerships include TravelLaunch Pro from Lux Interactive; AAAnow .ai for website quality, compliance and accessibility; and ai12z, for AI-powered digital assistants.

https://www.rws.com/about/news/2024/rws-launches-latest-version-tridion-sites

Gilbane Advisor 11-20-24 — AI “supercycle”, old typefaces, Typst

November 20, 2024 /

This week we feature articles from Rita Kind-Envy, jreyesr, and Dharmesh Thakker, Danel Dayan, Jason Mendel, Sudhee Chilappagari, Patrick Hsu & Payal Modi.

Additional reading comes from Giuseppe Futia, Joel Cunningham, Manuj Dhariwa & Shruti Dhariwal, and Aeree Cho, Grace C. Kim, Alexander Karpekov, Alec Helbling, Jay Wang, Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, & Polo Chau.

News comes from Box, Snowflake, Brightcove, and Elastic.

It’s hard to believe it’s time for our annual holiday break, especially given the sunny and 60ish weather here in Boston. See you in early January.

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

Opinion / Analysis

Inside the coming AI market “supercycle” and how cloud startups can benefit

The Battery Ventures 2024 State of OpenCloud Report

Dharmesh Thakker, Danel Dayan, Jason Mendel, Sudhee Chilappagari, Patrick Hsu, and Payal Modi provide an optimistic case for investing in AI technology. There is a short summary, followed by lots of useful charts to peruse. (3 min summary)

https://www.battery.com/blog/opencloud-2024

Before Times New Roman, there was something better

What was the 14th century font that foreshadowed Times New Roman? Why are they both so readable? You do care about readability don’t you? Well, even if you don’t, Rita Kind-Envy’s short piece is a fun read, and if nothing else “…you can casually drop what Humanistic minuscule is on your colleagues. Random facts are cool…” (7 min)

https://uxdesign.cc/before-times-new-roman-there-was-something-better-e227f34796c4

Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX

I have to admit to a certain nostalgia for markup languages and formatting software given my time working on and with both. As “jreyesr” says, Typst looks like an interesting project, and his post was well worth the time to read. (85 min)

https://blog.jreyesr.com/posts/typst

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Box announces Box AI Studio

Box AI Studio delivers the ability to choose AI models and enables the creation and deployment of Box AI agents tailored to unique needs.
https://blog.box.com/intelligent-content-management-innovations-boxworks-2024

Snowflake announces availability of Unistore with Hybrid Tables

Unistore with Hybrid Tables brings transactional and analytical data together in a single unified platform, simplifying data architectures.
https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/unistore-general-availability

Brightcove launches Marketing Studio for sales

The solution empowers global sales teams to create personalized videos while centralized teams manage brand quality and optimize content.
https://www.brightcove.com/en/company/press/brightcove-launches-marketing-studio-for-sales

Elastic announces AI ecosystem to accelerate GenAI application development

Elasticsearch vector database integrations with curated AI technology provides developers resources to expedite the deployment of RAG applications.
https://ir.elastic.co/news/news-details/2024/Elastic-Announces-AI-Ecosystem-to-Accelerate-GenAI-Application-Development/default.aspx

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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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