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This category is focused on enterprise / workplace collaboration tools and strategies, including office suites, intranets, knowledge management, and enterprise adoption of social networking tools and approaches.

Adobe expands Frame.io collaboration platform beyond video

April 13, 2023 /

Adobe announced they expanded Frame.io’s video collaboration platform to photos and PDF documents, broadening the cloud-based solution to new markets and a wider range of creative professionals and businesses.

Frame.io now fully supports PDF documents to aid teams in reviewing collateral and other project-adjacent materials. New enhancements enable customers to natively open and mark up PDF files on iPhones and iPads, while enabling all PDF and photo annotations to be seen on these devices and the web, just as with videos.

Frame.io now offers users a workflow from content capture to edit, review and approval through one centralized hub, leveraging new Camera to Cloud native integrations with FUJIFILM X-H2S and X-H2 cameras.

Adobe also previewed Forensic Watermark, a forensic watermarking solution, providing media and entertainment studios, global brands and large agencies with a secure collaboration platform for working with sensitive pre-release content. Forensic Watermark is designed to be easy for creators to use and difficult for leakers to circumvent. The security service embeds invisible watermarks on video assets as short as 30 seconds, using pixel-level details that are capable of surviving screen recording, file copying and external recording.

Frame[.]io is on display at 2023 NAB, April 15-19, Las Vegas.

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/Adobe-Expands-Frame.io-Collaboration-Platform-Beyond-Video/default.aspx

Adobe announces multiple product updates

March 21, 2023 /

At Adobe Summit Adobe unveiled a wide range of product updates across Adobe Experience Cloud, a customer experience management solution, and Adobe Creative Cloud a platform for creating compelling content, to help brands drive experience-led growth.

Adobe debuted new Adobe Sensei GenAI services, including Adobe Firefly – a new family of creative generative AI models, as well as new generative AI innovations across Adobe Experience Cloud to power marketing workflows. The company also announced new Adobe Product Analytics and a reimagined content management solution enabling marketers to self-serve website and mobile app edits.

Adobe unveiled Adobe Express for Enterprise, allowing anyone within an organization to rapidly create and iterate content, regardless of their creative skill level. Adobe also announced a Content Supply Chain solution, made possible through Creative Cloud and Experience Cloud that connect popular tools for planning, creating, reviewing and distributing creative collateral so teams can collaborate more efficiently.

AI and generative AI services will be integrated natively in Adobe Experience Cloud as a co-pilot for marketers, improving productivity and efficiency while providing full creative control and trusted governance capabilities. Sensei GenAI will leverage multiple large language models (LLMs) including Microsoft Azure OpenAI and FLAN-T5 within Adobe Experience Platform, depending on business needs.

https://news.adobe.com/home/default.aspx

Lucid Software announces new integrations to enhance collaboration

March 7, 2023 /

Lucid Software, a provider of visual collaboration software, announced the rollout of 15 new integrations with software providers across the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite. These integrations can be found at Lucid’s newly launched marketplace.

Lucid’s latest integrations add to the utility of the Lucid Visual Collaboration ecosystem, which allows teams to communicate complex ideas and align at every stage of their workflow, from brainstorming to execution. Through its library of integrations, Lucid streamlines processes and workflows within a company’s tech stack and creates a foundation for effective and efficient collaboration across all teams and departments.

New integrations include: Figma, Google Workspace (Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Slides), Microsoft OneDrive, Asana, Jira Cloud, Microsoft SharePoint, Notion, Airtable, Asana, ClickUp, Monday.com, and Trello.

Lucid documents can be directly added to meeting invitations, so users are prepared and aligned on context.

https://lucid.co

Quark releases Quark Publishing Platform NextGen v3.0

February 28, 2023 /

Quark Software, a global provider of content automation, intelligence and design software, announced the newest release of Quark Publishing Platform (QPP) NextGen, its content automation platform designed to simplify the complexities associated with enterprise content lifecycle management from creation to consumption. QPP NextGen v3.0 takes self-service further with simplified role-based dashboards and now includes enhanced analytics capabilities to help enterprises understand how published content is being consumed. Additional features foster content team collaboration and productivity with the ability to publish personalized, compliance-controlled content across any digital output fast.

QPP NextGen’s automation capabilities support multiple use cases for to managing large, complex documents. Enterprises can create, manage and store structured, reusable content components with auto-generated XML metadata tags from Microsoft Word, collaborate across roles and departments to streamline reviews/approvals and eliminate duplicate efforts, and publish compliance-controlled content in multiple formats from a single source-of-truth CCMS (component content management system).

New features and benefits available in the newest release of QPP NextGen include: granular section-level analytics & visual intelligence, enriched UI team collaboration and workflow productivity enhancements, interoperability of structured authoring tools, version branching, and self-service content modeling.

https://www.quark.com ■ https://developer.quark.com

Wondershare releases EdrawMind 10.5

February 27, 2023 /

Wondershare launched EdrawMind V10.5.0, a collaborative mind mapping and brainstorming tool for project managers, product managers, students, teachers, decision-makers, writers, designers, marketers, and engineers. It also offers a new way for team collaboration, enabling users to innovate solutions collaboratively. EdrawMind V10.5.0 includes:

  • All-New Design: The simplified UI design to make it a familiar, functional, and aesthetically pleasing interface. It has rounded buttons and edges, a drag-and-drop feature, and toolbars and other elements are well placed.
  • New Outline Mode: That improves editing performance, supports custom settings for the background, adjusts the width of the content area, and provides rich, personalized configurations.
  • Personal template library: Allows users to save commonly used template files as personal templates and create files from the template library.
  • Third-party resource library: This V10.5 update accesses third-party resource library, including high-definition pictures from Pexels, massive vector icons from Iconfont, and 700+ emojis from Emoji.

EdrawMind also added functions such as Floating Theme Cascade, Style Follow, Style Reset, View Navigation, and Custom Watermark.

Wondershare EdrawMind is available on Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, Android, and iOS. EdrawMind supports English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Russian. Pricing starts from US$39 semi-annually.

https://www.edrawsoft.com/edrawmind/

MadCap Software adds cloud-based authoring to MadCap Central

February 7, 2023 /

MadCap Software, Inc., a provider of multi-channel content authoring software, released a new version of their content experience management (CxM) platform, MadCap Central. Designed for teams and enterprises, the latest version adds content authoring capabilities in the cloud. Now authorized users can contribute to content development, publishing, project management, collaboration, translation, hosting and analytics using the cloud-based MadCap Central platform without the need to add subscriptions to the MadCap Flare desktop application. Single-source publishing means the same content can be repurposed to deliver modern documentation websites, print brochures, online Help, knowledge bases, support sites, training and development content.

MadCap Flare and Central extend micro content functionality with the ability to design and display micro content as curated knowledge containers or panels on any topic or in search results. The flexible knowledge panels can be used to improve the user experience (UX). The containers can also be used to help bridge the gap between technical documentation and sales and marketing by highlighting new products, updated features, and promotions and turning technical information into a variable lead and revenue generation engine. MadCap Central also adds enterprise single sign-on (SSO) for improved user management, password management, and security compliance.

https://www.madcapsoftware.com

Section enhancements to help setup and scale Mastodon servers

January 24, 2023 /

Section, a cloud-native hosting platform, announced it is making it easier to deploy and scale a Mastodon server; in just a few clicks, developers can use Section’s global platform to ensure a responsive user experience. With the open-source Mastodon software seeing explosive growth in interest and adoption, communities find themselves looking for solutions that can help run self-hosted social networks for a geographically dispersed base of users. Section’s platform automates the management of workloads like Mastodon using easily adjusted, rules-based parameters, making it suited to easily distribute and scale these Mastodon instances globally. Simultaneously, the company has announced support for Persistent Volume storage, better enabling distributed deployment of Mastodon and other complex workloads.

Section’s global, redundant, federated cloud network and multi-cluster deployment automatically re-routes traffic to keep Mastodon instances running while also delivering the benefits of a multi-cluster environment with the ease and simplicity of deploying a single cluster. Mastodon consists of a Ruby on Rails backend, a JavaScript frontend, Sidekiq jobs management and a PostgreSQL relational database. Section distributes the data out to where users and servers are located, leveraging PolyScale’s intelligent serverless caching between the Mastodon application front-end and the back-end PostgreSQL database.

https://www.section.io/

Acquia announces updates to Acquia Code Studio

October 26, 2022 /

Acquia announced major updates to Acquia Code Studio, a full stack Drupal development platform. A part of Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), Acquia Code Studio provides developers with the tools to plan, build, review, test, deploy, and measure Drupal applications. New updates integrate Code Studio with the Acquia Cloud Platform UI, reducing effort during the procurement and configuration processes.

Developers can now manage their Code Studio seats from the platform in a User Management screen, assign Acquia account users to their Code Studio seats, grant and set roles for their users, and un-assign and reassign seats. Developers can automatically provision Code Studio projects from the platform UI, and see links on their Acquia Cloud environments to the corresponding branch in Code Studio. Features include: 

  • AutoDevOps: Automatically build, test, and deploy Drupal applications with Acquia Code Studio managed continuous integration pipelines.
  • Automatic Updates: Automatically updates Composer packages, replaces deprecated custom code, and submits those changes for users to review in a Merge Request with a dedicated review environment.
  • Powered by GitLab: In partnership with GitLab, Acquia hosts and manages a version of GitLab that is customized for Drupal and Acquia developers on the company’s next-generation infrastructure.

https://acquia.com

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