Powtoon announced the launch of their centralised Visual Communication Platform offering for companies to create, manage, distribute, and track unlimited pieces of visual content. The new Visual Communication Platform by Powtoon is designed to make business employees collaborate more effectively, gain alignment across departments, and increase productivity. Powtoon is best known for its tools to create quick, easy and cost-effective video animations for internal communications, training and development, and marketing and sales. Based on this experience, Powtoon is addressing the pain points felt by companies in the whole lifecycle of video creation and distribution under one platform. Existing clients will continue to be supported through Powtoon’s current offering with new tools augmenting the current platform. New features including screen capture, detailed character (avatar) customisation, advanced management capabilities and detailed analytics will be rolled out.
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Epicor Software Corporation announced that it has released a new DocStar Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Essentials bundle. DocStar ECM Essentials is an out-of-the-box solution bundle that can be deployed quickly for managing documents and processes within a browser. Customers can easily sync content from remote workers to the home office. The solution helps organizations support work from home with cloud or on-premises deployment and automated workflow processing. DocStar ECM Essentials includes the choice of one or more of the following use cases:
- Accounts Payable and related accounting documents
- Human Resources and employee files
- General document management, including but not limited to contracts, client files, and orders
DocStar ECM Essentials is generally available today.
https://www.docstar.com/ecm-essentials
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Gimmal LLC, a provider of information governance software and solutions, has announced the acquisition of Calgary-based ECM Wise Corp, an enterprise content management solutions provider. The acquisition brings enhanced migration capabilities, now known as Gimmal Migration, to Gimmal’s existing solutions suite. With the addition to Gimmal’s existing suite of software products, the company will offer a complete set of information governance solutions that provide the following benefits:
- Complete lifecycle management from the creation of information to its disposition.
- Simplified and expedited migrations from legacy systems, particularly in complex environments.
- A team of experts trained in best practices and methodologies for effective and compliant information governance.
- Streamlined processes that maximize productivity and increase cost savings.
Hyland announced it has completed its acquisition of Alfresco, a content services platform and solutions provider. The acquisition expands Hyland’s global footprint with additional customers, partners and employees with industry experience. The addition of Alfresco’s solutions augments Hyland’s range of content services offerings and provides new opportunities to engage with the open-source community for product innovation. Future Alfresco versions will enable customers to seamlessly leverage other areas of the Hyland portfolio. These include Hyland Experience Platform (HxP) — the recently launched cloud-based platform — and newly developed HxP components, such as Hyland Experience Capture.
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Sensory unveiled VoiceHub, an online portal that enables developers to quickly create wake word models and voice control command sets for prototyping and proof-of-concept purposes. VoiceHub allows users to select languages and model sizes through drop down menus. Sensory’s VoiceHub provides developers with free tools to immediately create custom wake words and voice command sets for their applications. These projects take just moments to put together and some models are trained and downloadable within an hour of submitting them. VoiceHub outputs wake word and voice command set models, compatible with a companion Android application for quick prototyping, or as code for specific target DSPs for more advanced proof-of-concept testing. The tools allow developers to create wake word models, either custom branded or based on today’s most popular voice assistant platforms, and command set models targeting a desired memory footprint. This makes it suitable for all applications, ranging from ultra-low power, resource limited wearables to high-power, high-performance appliances on the edge.
Based on Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree technology, VoiceHub supports numerous languages for testing voice control across global product lines. Since VoiceHub trains voice models similarly to TrulyHandsfree, the wake word and voice control models created in VoiceHub are accurate and in most cases suitable for mass production. VoiceHub users can expect a steady stream of updates and new features, including support for more languages, expanded DSP platform support, and the ability to quickly develop large vocabulary natural language models. At launch, the platform supports DSP platforms from: Ambiq, Analog Devices, Cirrus, Cypress, DSPG, Foretmedia, Knowles, Motorola, NXP, Qualcomm, Renesas, ST Micro and TI.
Episerver announced that it has completed its acquisition of Optimizely. The combined company enables customers to do more testing, in more places, with greater ease. With the combination of creation and optimization, companies can now experiment on every customer touchpoint, from product development and content to digital experience and customer support, along with their go-to-market strategy and related business logic. Episerver’s expanded portfolio helps digital teams be more intentional in their customer engagements as well as more agile in adapting to changing behaviors and markets. As part of Episerver, the Optimizely progressive delivery and experimentation platform continues to support customers as a standalone solution, and will also be available as part of Episerver offerings starting immediately.
https://www.episerver.com/campaign/optimizely
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Companies are moving online and shifting to remote work and teams are required to communicate and collaborate on content virtually. To help ensure smooth and speedy content production, Kentico has introduced several product improvements to its Kentico Kontent headless CMS, including a web-specific add-on called Web Spotlight and a new Collections feature that helps large companies organize and unify their content. In addition, Kontent has announced their new, free virtual event, Kontent Horizons, that will take place on November 17-19 and is inviting those who want to learn more about headless content management or share their experience with others.
Another improvement released in September, Collections, enables enterprises to manage all their content in a single repository, freeing it to be shared across departments, teams, websites, and channels without losing control. Moving all content into a single repository maximizes consistency while catering specific messages for regional markets and business divisions. Moreover, since every piece of content is assigned to a collection, customers can easily create an internal structure for their projects.
In addition, Kontent has announced their new, free virtual event, Kontent Horizons, that will take place on November 17-19 and is inviting those who want to learn more about headless content management or share their experience with others.
https://www.kentico.com/articles/kontent-unveils-major-product-updates-at-horizons
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Acquia announced major updates to the Acquia Open Digital Experience Platform (DXP) at Acquia Engage. The Acquia Open DXP includes Acquia Marketing Cloud and Acquia Drupal Cloud, a unified solution for multi-experience customer journeys. New enhancements allow developers to create digital experiences faster and help marketers make smarter, data-driven decisions across campaigns.
For developers, the latest enhancements to Drupal Cloud focus on decreasing the time to build, design, and run sites and applications. The new Acquia Migrate Accelerate tool reduces the effort tied to a transition from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9. Currently in beta, the tool reduces time to value for Drupal 9 by providing a user-friendly interface to streamline analysis and planning, DevOps, data imports, and content auditing for migrations. Once organizations are migrated, the new Acquia Cloud IDE makes it faster to build Drupal sites and applications, with one-click access to a cloud-hosted development and testing environment. Acquia Cloud IDE integrates with existing Acquia command-line and automated build tools for Drupal.
Acquia CMS, currently in beta, provides a trusted, secure and turnkey distribution of Drupal 9, reduces time from months to days for implementations, and eliminates up to 80% of setup and update costs. Also in the Drupal Cloud family, Site Studio helps marketers reduce their time-to-publish with drag-and-drop experience creation and visual assembly of content, layout, and designs.
Major updates to Acquia Marketing Cloud give marketers the data and analytics they need to drive smarter decisions. New, real-time 360-degree profiles, identity resolution, and unified segment capabilities within the Acquia Customer Data Platform (CDP) help marketers gain holistic insights into their customers.
Finally, new predictive delivery and custom likelihood models for Acquia CDP help marketers with machine learning capabilities with no need for specialized training or expertise, and enable them to fine-tune and customize predictive models to identify the next-best actions and experiences. Acquia’s machine learning models help identify optimal times for campaigns, best channels for delivery, and more.
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