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Bloomreach announces Commerce Experience Accelerator for SAP Commerce Cloud

September 9, 2020 /

Bloomreach announced the availability of a new ‘Commerce Experience Accelerator’ for SAP Commerce Cloud that allows businesses to quickly connect to the Bloomreach Experience Platform (brX) to create personalized digital buying experiences for their customers. This new accelerator consists of three major components:

  1. a Commerce Connector, which is a GraphQL-based front-end integration that enables SAP Commerce Cloud to run headless,
  2. a Product Feed Connector, to utilize the product feed from SAP Commerce and import into the brX Search and Merchandising modules, and
  3. React-based SPA Reference Storefronts for B2B and B2C to enable companies to go-live fast. Bloomreach, through its React, Vue and Angular SDKs, supports SAP Spartacus and other SPAs seamlessly while providing choice and flexibility for enterprise customers.

https://www.bloomreach.com/en/news/2020/bloomreach-announces-new-commerce-experience-accelerator-for-sap-commerce-cloud.html

Hyland enters definitive agreement to acquire Alfresco

September 9, 2020 /

Hyland, a content services provider, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Alfresco, a content services platform and solutions provider for information-rich enterprises with huge volumes of unstructured content. The transaction, expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2020, is subject to usual and customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Headquartered in Boston, Alfresco develops a modern, cloud-native Digital Business Platform that delivers content services solutions to connect, manage and protect organizations’ most critical information. Upon transaction close, the entire Alfresco business is expected to be managed under Hyland Software, Inc.

https://news.hyland.com/hyland-enters-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-alfresco/, https://www.alfresco.com

Agility CMS announces rebuilt Content Modeling software

September 9, 2020 /

Agility CMS has rebuilt its Content Modeling feature, improving the ability for users to create and update content and content relationships quickly and easily. Agility CMS takes a structure-first approach to designing content, creating an organized model that makes content easy to understand and process. Content modeling features:

  • A hub for content – Customize content models right in the CMS using Agility’s visual builder.
  • An optimized editor experience – Group fields together, set required fields, default values and much more.
  • A future-proof platform – Define structured content that is decoupled from the presentation layer.
  • An evolving content model – Switching from editing content to your definition allows for quick updates and promotes iterating on your content models.

https://agilitycms.com

Qlik announces enhancements to Insight Advisor

September 9, 2020 /

Qlik announced enhancements to Insight Advisor, its AI assistant built into Qlik Sense, to deliver augmented intelligence capabilities for cloud analytics. Drawing on Qlik’s Associative Engine, combined with natural language processing (NLP) and cognitive technology. Users can interact with Insight Advisor in a variety of different ways, including search-based visual analysis (NLP-driven), conversational analytics (chat), associative insights to expose hidden data relationships, assistance with creation and data preparation, and advanced analytics calculation and integration. Updated features include:

  • Insight Advisor Chat – A new, fully conversational analytics experience native to Qlik Sense SaaS, available in the Qlik Sense hub in multiple languages. Uses NLP and natural language generation to understand user intent and generate both narrative and visual responses.
  • Business Logic – Ability to create business rules and metadata to customize and guide Insight Advisor’s behavior when generating insights and understanding natural language.
  • Advanced Analytics Calculation – A new function, K-Means Clustering, allows data points to be grouped together based on similarity and is highly useful for customer segmentation, fraud detection and many other use cases. In addition, Insight Advisor will now auto-generate cluster and correlation charts in search-based visual analysis.
  • Search-based Visual Analysis on Mobile – In addition to Chat, search-based insight generation is now available on handheld devices.

https://www.qlik.com/us/company/press-room/press-releases/qlik-expands-insight-advisor-to-deliver-robust-ai-driven-experience

DataStax announces availability of Storage-Attached Indexing (SAI)for Apache Cassandra

September 9, 2020 /

DataStax announced the general availability of Storage-Attached Indexing (SAI) for Apache Cassandra available on Astra and DataStax Enterprise (DSE). DataStax has also opened a Cassandra Enhancement Proposal (CEP) with the Apache Cassandra project to share this with the open source community. With Storage-Attached Indexing, developers now have accessibility to familiar indexing and queries – such as WHERE clauses – in Apache Cassandra. Storage-Attached Indexing is an index implementation that enables users to index multiple columns on the same table without scaling issues. The benefits of Storage-Attached Indexing include:

  • Improved stability
  • Significantly reduces disk usage
  • Improved numeric range performance
  • Releases constraints to data modeling and barriers to scale-out
  • Features modern and expected indexing features on Apache Cassandra

https://www.datastax.com/press-release/datastax-lowers-barriers-nosql-adoption-storage-attached-indexing-apache-cassandra

Translations.com announces GlobalLink Connect integration for Shopify

September 8, 2020 /

Translations.com, the technology division of TransPerfect announced that it has built and launched a new GlobalLink Connect integration with Shopify. The integrated solution allows users to create translation requests within Shopify’s admin panel and take advantage of GlobalLink Connect’s translation workflow management without leaving the familiar interface of the Shopify platform. GlobalLink Connect provides an all-in-one solution to initiate, automate, control, track, and complete all facets of the translation process. By combining the Shopify platform with the extended localization workflow capabilities of GlobalLink, organizations gain enterprise-level multilingual content management and deployment capabilities with minimal project management and virtually no IT burden. GlobalLink Connect supports the following content types within the Shopify ecosystem:

  • Online Store theme, store article, store blog, and store page
  • Product and product variant
  • Shop and shop policy
  • Delivery method definition
  • Payment gateway
  • Email and SMS template
  • Product option
  • Collection, Metafield, and link

https://www.translations.com

Nuxeo updates Salesforce Connector for Content Management

September 4, 2020 /

Nuxeo announced that their updated Salesforce Connector for Content Management enables tighter integration with Salesforce with support for its new Lightning Experience. The integration ensures that appropriate information is available to any authorized Salesforce user, while behind the scenes, this content remains securely managed by Nuxeo. These users are able to fully interact with this content without switching between apps, including viewing, editing, and adding new documents. The Nuxeo Salesforce Connector exposes a wide range of Nuxeo content services. Users can quickly access content in the context of a Salesforce object, either by linking a Salesforce object to a Nuxeo folder or by linking the object to a configurable query. Salesforce users can also execute global searches across the Nuxeo repository and federated content sources to access additional content and other customer information, like emails, SMS messages, and social media content.

https://www.nuxeo.com/blog/salesforce-innovation/

Episerver to acquire Optimizely

September 3, 2020 /

Episerver announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Optimizely. Bringing together Episerver’s ability to create digital experiences through content and commerce with Optimizely’s ability to experiment and optimize across touchpoints lets marketers build experiences that get smarter over time. Subject to customary closing conditions and attainment of regulatory clearances, the acquisition is expected to close in Q4 of 2020. Until such closing, the companies will continue to operate independently. The combination creates a unique system of differentiation to:

  • Inspire Innovation: Running better experiments across both front-end layouts and back-end logic, with easy-to-use tailored recommendations.
  • Increase agility: Gaining real-time answers accelerates collaboration and creates more responsive customer experiences for improved lead generation.
  • Improve outcomes: Measuring outcomes of different options allows digital teams to orchestrate unique digital experiences for each customer.

https://www.episerver.com/company/press-room/episerver-to-acquire-optimizely-the-worlds-leading-experience-optimization-platform, https://www.optimizely.com

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