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Technologies and strategies for authoring and editing, including word processors, structured editors, web and page layout and formatting, content conversion and migration, multichannel content, structured and unstructured  data integration, and metadata creation. 

MadCap Software brings ChatGPT to MadCap Central  

October 9, 2023 /

MadCap Software, Inc., a provider of multi-channel content authoring, management and publishing software, announced the newest release of its MadCap Central content management platform featuring AI Assist. 

Available today, MadCap Central with AI Assist is a content management platform to provide integrated ChatGPT functionality optimized for authors and editors of technical content, such as documentation websites, knowledge bases, online Help, policy manuals, and training. With AI Assist, authorized users can now:

  • Make requests to ChatGPT and receive responses directly in MadCap Central.
  • Train ChatGPT on their existing content to receive responses in the company’s voice.
  • Edit and format the ChatGPT responses in the AI Assist interface.
  • Click to insert the text directly into a document on MadCap Central.
  • View the difference between original content and text edited by ChatGPT.
  • Translate content directly in the Content Editor.

Designed for teams and enterprises, the cloud-based MadCap Central platform combines the content authoring capabilities also found in MadCap Flare with functionality for publishing, project management, collaboration, translation, hosting and analytics. Because MadCap Central supports single-source publishing, the same content can be repurposed to deliver modern documentation websites, print brochures, online Help, knowledge bases, support sites, training and development content, and more.

https://www.madcapsoftware.com

Sitecore unveils XM Cloud Plus and Sitecore Accelerate  

October 4, 2023 /

Sitecore, a provider of digital experience software, announced new offerings as part of its cloud-based digital experience platform. The new solutions, XM Cloud Plus and Sitecore Accelerate, are designed to help brands simplify their move to the cloud. With the launch of XM Cloud Plus, an extended digital-experience solution that brings together content management, AI-powered search, personalization, customer data management and analytics. Features include:

  • Content Creation and Management: User-friendly tools that allow teams to efficiently produce, optimize, and deliver captivating content to the right audience at the right time.
  • AI-Powered Search and Content Recommendations: Includes dynamic personalization and targeting strategies, offering omnichannel personalization, intelligent search recommendations, and access to personalization development tools.
  • Omnichannel Content Center: Teams can now efficiently manage all digital customer touchpoints from a single, unified content repository.
  • Seamless Integrations and Connectivity: XM Cloud Plus can be easily implemented within an existing tech stack.
  • Form Builder: Our drag and drop form builder for XM Cloud and XM Cloud Plus, provides a way to add data capture forms to their pages and components.

Sitecore also launched Sitecore Accelerate, to guide Sitecore XM and Sitecore XP customers to either XM Cloud or XM Cloud Plus and XC customers to OrderCloud.

https://www.sitecore.com

Contentful announces new products and capabilities

October 4, 2023 /

Contentful, a composable content platform, has incorporated a variety of generative AI-driven capabilities into the Contentful product and ecosystem and is introducing a number of capabilities that support better ways for digital teams to work together to harness the business value of content. Highlights include:

The Contentful Platform. Enhanced enterprise governance and security, including an expanded EU data residency footprint, can help address an organization’s data protection and compliance needs. The AI Content Type Generator, announced previously, streamlines the content model creation process so developers can accelerate time to market.

Contentful Studio. The new Experience Builder capability will provide a visual canvas whereby teams can create consistent, on-brand experiences using design system components and a structured content foundation. New AI enhancements include the AI Image Generator to create and manipulate images, and the improved AI Content Generator to quickly create content, translations, and SEO keywords.

The Contentful Ecosystem. New partnerships and enhanced integrations from AWS, Salesforce, SAP, Twilio Segment, commercetools, BigCommerce, Cloudinary, and WPP. Contentful AI advancements from ecosystem partners include the new AI Content Detector from Writer. SurferSEO delivers AI-driven SEO capabilities.

https://contentful.com/whats-new

Brightspot launches its next generation CMS solution 

October 3, 2023 /

Brightspot, a provider of content management solutions, announced a new version of its flagship product: Brightspot CMS version 4.7. New capabilities include:

Brightspot’s flexible Design System comes with hundreds of pre-built templates, styles, behaviors and interactions for Brightspot users to get started with. They can also choose to modify, extend or customize these pre-built assets with or without code, so your digital experiences fit your brand and can be easily changed over time.

The integration with OpenAI provides suggestions for headlines and full body text for articles and blog posts to make content creation easier, while enhanced search features allow users to make changes to content directly from the search view. With personalized content monitoring to stay updated on changes to specific content pieces and use in-platform production guides for step-by-step guidance on modules so you can navigate the CMS confidently.

Integrations with Shopify, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, and SharePoint enable you to transform externally-created content into Brightspot CMS content types. AI-driven auto tagging and taxonomy capabilities reduce the manual burden of content categorization.

Brightspot CMS 4.7 introduces alerts that promptly notify of broken links, missing metadata, content inconsistencies and more, helping you proactively tackle potential issues.

https://www.brightspot.com/brightspot-cms/brightspot-4-7

WordLift introduces Content Generation Tool

October 2, 2023 /

WordLift announced a WordLift Content Generation Tool, technology for content generation that seamlessly integrates the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and incorporates a compound network of Knowledge Graphs (KG).

At the heart of WordLift is the Knowledge Graph. It’s a dynamic, interconnected web of information. It’s mapping every piece of information, fact, and relationship. It creates a rich tapestry that breathes life into your content. It isn’t only data; it’s a living, evolving entity that understands context, relationships, and nuances. By leveraging these graphs built using WordLift, we guide the LLMs, ensuring they remain on the right path, enriching content with depth and relevance, enabling a more reliable and accurate way of exploiting LLMs.

Key features and technologies: 

  • Structured Data Integration, making content more readable and recognizable for search engines like Google.
  • Knowledge Graph Creation, with the help of AI, allows search engines to comprehend the structure of your content.
  • Content Recommendation System can suggest products to users and integrate clickable cards, widgets, and shopping cart banners.
  • Generative AI-powered content creation to scale content production through AI within the company’s guidelines and TOV.
  • Integration with Data Studio facilitates the creation of shareable, comprehensive reports.

https://wordlift.io

Amazon and Anthropic announce strategic collaboration to advance generative AI

September 25, 2023 /

Amazon and Anthropic announced a strategic collaboration that will bring together their respective technology and expertise in safer generative artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the development of Anthropic’s future foundation models and make them widely accessible to AWS customers. As part of the expanded collaboration:

  • Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train, and deploy its future foundation models, benefitting from the price, performance, scale, and security of AWS.
  • AWS will become Anthropic’s primary cloud provider for mission critical workloads, including safety research and future foundation model development. Anthropic plans to run the majority of its workloads on AWS.
  • Anthropic makes a long-term commitment to provide AWS customers around the world with access to future generations of its foundation models via Amazon Bedrock. In addition, Anthropic will provide AWS customers with early access to unique features for model customization and fine-tuning capabilities.
  • Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic and have a minority ownership position in the company.
  • Amazon developers and engineers will be able to build with Anthropic models via Amazon Bedrock so they can incorporate generative AI capabilities into their work.

https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/9/amazon-and-anthropic-announce-strategic-collaboration-to-advance-generative-ai ■ https://www.anthropic.com

Contentful launches composable content platform in AWS Marketplace

September 19, 2023 /

Contentful, a composable content platform for digital-first business, today announced that it has expanded its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch the Contentful Composable Content Platform in AWS Marketplace. AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software and or services that run on AWS. With Contentful, powered by AWS, customers can build and orchestrate content experiences across all of their digital channels and platforms through AWS Marketplace.

Now, AWS customers can license Contentful through AWS Marketplace for seamless integration of Contentful with their existing cloud infrastructure, in addition to streamlined procurement, consolidated billing and cost-saving opportunities. This enables streamlined management and enhanced performance of digital content, empowering customers to deliver omni-channel digital experiences with increased speed and agility, and ensuring reliability and consistency to meet evolving consumer demands. Contentful, powered by AWS, allows organizations to build digital experiences by creating, managing, and delivering content across websites, mobile apps, and digital platforms.

https://www.contentful.com/partners/technology/aws/

StreamText updates Automatic Speech Recognition Caption platform

September 18, 2023 /

StreamText, enterprise caption platform, announced the latest release of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology powered by artificial intelligence (AI). With the ability to create captions directly from an audio source, StreamText ASR features term glossaries to help finetune captioning AI for specific events and increase overall accuracy. The platform offers direct integrations with meeting software such as Zoom and Adobe Connect. It also supports over 50 source languages, including variants of English, French, and Spanish. While the quality of human captioning is often more accurate than AI counterparts, it may not always apply to all captioning needs. In these cases, StreamText ASR is a solution. ASR is useful in university settings, classrooms, government administration, and broadcast media.

https://streamtext.net/automatic-captions/

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