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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. 

Kentico to focus on CMS & DXP

July 13, 2022 /

Kontent by Kentico announced that they raised an investment of $40 million from Expedition Growth Capital and became a standalone enterprise. Now Kontent.ai, which originally started in 2015 as an internal startup within Kentico, will operate as a separate company, focused on targeting high-level enterprise organizations. This allows Kentico Xperience to return to its roots and refresh its name to Kentico. Petr Palas, the founder of Kentico, is now Chairman of the Board for both companies and the newly formed board has appointed Dominik Pinter, as Chief Executive Officer of Kentico.

Kentico started with a content management system (CMS) in 2004 and have since created two products: a digital experience platform (DXP) with content management, digital marketing, and commerce capabilities, and a headless CMS. In May 2020, the company split into two divisions; Kentico Xperience (DXP) and Kontent by Kentico (headless CMS). 

The investment into the Kontent by Kentico division will be redirected straight into the DXP. With heavy investment in product development, the plan is to hire at least 60 more people over the next 12 months to join the 160+ global team. 

https://www.kentico.com

Netlify announces investments for the Jamstack Innovation Fund

July 12, 2022 /

Netlify, a platform for modern web development, announced the first cohort of the Jamstack Innovation Fund, created by Netlify to support the early-stage companies that are driving forward the modern web by arming developer teams with Jamstack-based tooling and practices.

Jamstack is an architectural approach that decouples the web experience from data and business logic, improving flexibility, scalability, performance and maintainability. Each of the startups Netlify has invested in offers a unique technology that adds to the best development experience for the web. They include ChiselStrike, a prototype-to-production data platform; Clerk, the first authentication service purpose-built for Jamstack; Clutch, a visual editor for Jamstack solutions; Convex, a global state management platform; Deno, a modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript; Everfund, a developer-first nonprofit tool to build custom fundraising systems; NuxtLabs, making web development intuitive with NuxtJS, an open source framework for Vue.js; Snaplet, a tool for copying Postgres databases; TakeShape, a GraphQL API mesh; and Tigris Data, a zero-ops backend for web and mobile apps.

The Fund has a goal of investing $10 million in the Jamstack ecosystem. In addition to a $100,000 investment, Netlify provides a free startup program. Netlify is accepting rolling submissions to the Jamstack Innovation Fund.

https://www.netlify.com/jamstack-fund/

Sitecore releases Experience Manager Cloud (XM Cloud)

July 12, 2022 /

Sitecore announced it has completed transition of its core CMS solution including personalization and the content authoring experience, to a modern cloud architecture with the release of Sitecore Experience Manager (XM) Cloud. The release will help brands with speed to market in the implementation of customer experiences, simplifying design and deployment, and eliminating upgrades. With XM Cloud, marketers can instantly create, manage and deliver engaging omnichannel experiences with an enterprise-ready CMS.

For business users, XM Cloud offers the ability to build pixel-perfect digital experiences via a WYSIWIG authoring experience that can access content anywhere as well as embedded testing & personalization, and integrated visitor analytics. For developers, XM Cloud can be used with headless development techniques and will work with modern frontend frameworks and support all deployment scenarios.

With Sitecore XM Cloud, the company’s entire Digital Experience Platform can now provide brands and marketers with:

  • Composability – all of Sitecore’s platform solutions can now be purchased independently and will fit in a best-of-breed marketing technology stack
  • On-the-Fly Engagement – rapidly create experiences to meet constantly evolving market needs
  • Multi-channel content management – create content once and reuse across any channel and experience
  • Simplicity for marketers – business-focused tools and intuitive content authoring workflows

https://www.sitecore.com

TransPerfect GlobalLink CCMS upgrades Acrolinx Connector for Astoria

June 23, 2022 /

TransPerfect, provider of language and technology solutions for global business, announced that its connector between the GlobalLink CCMS Astoria platform and Acrolinx has been upgraded and recertified by Acrolinx GmBH. This action marks the latest milestone in the strategic relationship between TransPerfect and Acrolinx that began in 2013.

Astoria is an SaaS platform for building, managing, and publishing XML content, and Acrolinx is a platform for content quality optimization. In the joint solution, Acrolinx analyzes Astoria client content for spelling, grammar, style, terminology, reuse, search-engine optimization, and simplified English. By calculating a quality score for content components that reside in Astoria servers, Acrolinx enables Astoria users to automate and unclog typical bottlenecks in the copy-editing operation. Benefits include localization savings by reducing word count, simplifying sentence structure, and standardizing terminology, and editing efficiency improvements by automating checks in seven critical areas, including style, spelling, and grammar

The Astoria/Acrolinx integration includes both English and non-English content, enabling users to enter and service new markets with higher quality content in new languages faster and more efficiently.

https://www.transperfect.com ■ http://www.globallinkccms.com

Siteimprove launches Prepublish

June 9, 2022 /

Siteimprove, announced the launch of Siteimprove Prepublish, technology that provides digital marketers with data and analytics to help ensure website content is error-free, optimized for SEO and accessibility, and aligned with brand standards. Bringing these together on a single platform as a CMS plugin or an API, Prepublish protects the quality of a brand’s website content before it goes live.

The Siteimprove Platform includes three solutions that support marketing departments, web teams and CMOs to deliver optimized content performance across marketing channel:

  • Marketing Performance. Intelligent insights are served daily across organic and paid search (SEO and ad insights, simplified Quality Score analysis, structured budget optimization, website speed) to ensure visibility and growth. Workflow integration with CMS/DXPs provides a seamless experience for marketing teams. Siteimprove works integrates with Optimizely, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal, Tridion, Sitecore and Sitefinity.
  • Digital Inclusivity. Siteimprove Prepublish provides instant insights into accessibility issues and actionable recommendations in a single view, ensuring a brand’s content is in line with accessibility guidelines and regulations.
  • Content Experience. On-page SEO diagnostics pinpoint where brands can fine-tune their content with recommendations for SEO success. Customizable company policies give instant visibility into any violations of brand guidelines for a stronger brand presence.

https://siteimprove.com

CrafterCMS releases version 4.0

June 7, 2022 /

CrafterCMS, and open-source Git-based headless CMS for enterprises, announced the general availability release of its version 4. The new release includes three major new capabilities: 1) a brand new Experience Builder for composing digital experiences from reusable plug-ins and components, and for true in-context editing and preview that supports all front-end technologies and any digital channels, 2) a brand new Crafter Studio content authoring application, built in React on top of CrafterCMS’s API-first headless content authoring platform, that is faster and enables content teams to create, edit, review, and publish more productively than before, and 3) a brand new plug-in framework and expanded marketplace that allows developers to build and easily maintain reusable components and back-end integrations.

Plug-ins may be used by administrators to compose tailored authoring experiences for a variety of content management use cases, and by content creators to compose digital experiences for end users. CrafterCMS v4.0 also improves on its Git-based content repository and support for DevContentOps processes that enable frictionless collaboration between content authors, developers and operations.

CrafterCMS version 4.0 community edition is available under the GPL v3 open source license, and the enterprise edition is available through the CrafterCMS customer support portal.

https://craftercms.org ■ https://craftercms.com

Foxit integrates PDF Editor with Microsoft Teams and Office 365

June 7, 2022 /

Foxit, a provider of PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers increase their productivity with documents, announced integration of the Foxit PDF Editor cloud platform into Microsoft Teams and Office 365, providing users with new ways to collaborate on PDF documents. Features include:

  • High-quality PDF Viewing – Experience quality viewing of high-fidelity PDF documents shared within your Microsoft Teams channel without downloading the PDF document to your device and without leaving the Microsoft Teams application.
  • Accelerated Document Reviews – Efficiently and quickly collect channel members’ feedback on shared PDF documents within the Microsoft Teams application instead of downloading PDF documents, adding a review, and attaching the document again.
  • Increased Document Activity Visibility – View other team members’ comments when they take action on your documents and also when others reply to comments.
  • Secure Document Review – Collaborate securely on documents with trusted members who have access to the Microsoft 365 platform and retain the ability to store document versions to OneDrive.
  • High-quality PDF Creation – Allows Microsoft Office 365 users to convert Office 365 documents (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to a high-quality PDF, and the option to save to OneDrive or download the document .

https://www.foxit.com/pdf-editor/

SimInsights launches no-code XR authoring platform

May 30, 2022 /

SimInsights announced general availability (GA) of HyperSkill, a no-code 3D simulation software for Virtual and Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence powered training. HyperSkill was created to enable instructional designers and subject matter experts to author immersive, interactive and intelligent training content without having to learn programming or technical skills in machine learning and artificial intelligence. HyperSkill enables non-programmers to author VR/AR/AI-powered content, automatically optimize it and publish it across many devices and audiences and collect and visualize experience data for assessment and evaluation. HyperSkill has been used by customers in healthcare, manufacturing and education and has been developed with their close collaboration and feedback. HyperSkill includes:

  • No-code authoring: Faster and cheaper to author compared to programming with 3D game engines
  • Reusable repository: Growing public repository of XR-ready 3D assets, including virtual environments, virtual persons and virtual objects
  • AI-Powered: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision to simplify authoring, enhance experiences and unlock new use cases
  • Cross Platform: Author once, deliver everywhere, including emerging AR/VR headsets as well as web, desktop and mobile platforms.
  • Multiplayer: Enables synchronous learning scenarios, including collaborative and instructor-led training.

HyperSkill is a SaaS (Software as a Service) product available for a free trial.

https://siminsights.com/hyperskill/

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