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Sitecore released version 3.4 of Sitecore Content Hub

Sitecore released version 3.4 of Sitecore Content Hub with new capabilities to help brands accelerate digital transformations. Sitecore Content Hub version 3.4 offers enhanced Digital Asset Management (DAM) capability with artificial intelligence (AI) and video capabilities, and improves workflows and ease of use with extended integration to third-party solutions.

To help brands manage their video content more effectively, Content Hub version 3.4 also includes the ability to automatically generate metadata as well as transcripts for video using AI analysis from Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services. In addition, video management capabilities now include support for time- and range-based annotation, cropping and subtitles, giving marketers more automated capabilities to make their videos more consumable by different audiences.

Workflow includes smarter navigation, mass-edit templates, and on-the-fly tagging. Marketing Resource Management and Content Marketing Platform (MRM and CMP) integration lets DAM users manage both workflows of content items and timeline-based project management workflows from a single location. Content Hub 3.4 also improves workflow for DAM users who use Adobe Creative Cloud. With a DAM search panel, users can upload, check in, and check out assets from InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. They can preview work-in-progress within InDesign documents directly in the DAM without packaging, and package finished assets directly into the DAM from InDesign.

Enhanced Web to Print capabilities with tight integration to CHILI publisher are now available to simplify and automate graphic production across digital and print publishing.

Sitecore has also released a Javascript SDK, making Content Hub more extensible with accelerated and minimized development and integration efforts for third-party solutions.

CoreMedia partners with commercetools

CoreMedia announced a partnership with commercetools. This partnership integrates CoreMedia’s CMS with commercetools’ headless commerce platform to enable marketers, merchandisers and developers to collaboratively create, preview, and optimize digital brand experiences across all channels. CoreMedia Content Cloud is a DXP and content management solution that combines a headless content repository with a Web-based UI. CoreMedia’s integration with commercetools is based on an API layer called the CoreMedia Commerce Hub. This integration includes the editorial interface (the CoreMedia Studio) with preview capabilities and content delivery components, the Content Application Engine (CAE) for server-side rendering, and the CoreMedia Headless Server for client-side rendering. The integration includes:

  • Headless CMS: Augment existing store pages and create hybrid pages that combine rich media and branded content with product information and transactional capabilities.
  • Advanced DAM: Manage master files and renditions; out-of-the-box support for shoppable videos, shoppable image maps, editable text on images, slide shows, and 360 spinners. Edit images and deliver optimized renditions of image assets based on delivery channel and asset use.
  • User Interface: browser-based access with no required plug-ins featuring drag-and-drop support; import date from common external sources, including Word or plain text; Edit content in any language.
  • Real-Time Previews: Visualize the online shopping experience on any device, for any customer segment, across the entire customer journey.
  • Personalization and Dynamic Content: Content created and managed in CoreMedia can be combined with real-time product information, social activity, and contextual data to create personalized stories around any product or collection.
  • Global Publishing: Support multi-brand, multi-region, and multi-language scenarios; compare languages for efficient localization; integrated translation management.

Additional information on the CoreMedia commercetools integration can be found at:

https://www.coremedia.com/en/with/commercetools

TransPerfect releases updated component content management system

TransPerfect announced the release of the newest version of its GlobalLink Vasont Inspire Component Content Management System (CCMS). The new build runs on a .NET Core platform, which has improved overall performance. According to the company improvements in several key areas contributed to the jump in overall performance. Import and export times are reduced by 60%. Publishing process timelines are cut in half. Translation-packaging operations are 75% to 90% faster. When combined, the upgraded .NET Core back end cuts the time it takes companies to get their content to customers by 50%. In addition, users in compliance, marketing, and technology departments experience greater responsiveness even as their content management needs increase. To address challenges created by growing file sizes and content volumes, TransPerfect’s development team decided to refactor and optimize the GlobalLink CCMS back end software around .NET Core.

https://www.transperfect.com/about/press/transperfects-globallink-vasont-inspire-ccms-releases-new-net-core-build-and-surpasses-i

Zype Video CMS now on Google Cloud Marketplace

Zype announced its availability on Google Cloud Marketplace. Google Cloud customers now have access to Zype’s OTT Video Platform of integrated products for building enterprise and media & entertainment ecosystems; products include Video CMS, Video CRM, Encoding, Playout, Content Delivery, and Video Connectors.  Google Cloud customers can now:

  • Engage Zype Connectors to build marketplace-ready OTT apps across all major platforms
  • Access Zype Playout to program, schedule, and deliver VOD to Live Linear HLS or RTMP to vMVPD and FAST platforms
  • Configure Zype CRM to manage flexible monetization models across video marketplaces, with support for SVOD, TVOD, and AVOD
  • Leverage analytics dashboards for insight across revenue and engagement

Organizations that want to try Zype can take advantage of the On Demand Plan that enables users to deploy on-demand transcoding with no commitment.

https://www.zype.com

Kentico announced two product divisions and new managing director of Kontent

Kentico Software has two products that have just recently undergone rebranding—Kontent, a headless CMS, and Xperience, a digital experience platform. Together with the rebrand and visual facelift of each product, two respective divisions were created, each with its own strategy and executive team, that will continue to cooperate closely. Kentico also announced the promotion of a new Managing Director, Bart Omlo, who joined the company in 2015. Petr Palas, the founder and sole owner of Kentico has announced heading to a strategic level and devoting himself fully to his role of the CEO.

https://www.kentico.com

SDL introduces next generation of SDL Tridion

SDL introduced the next generation of its intelligent content platform, SDL Tridion. The platform is designed to assist organizations with their digital transformation by addressing the full spectrum of single source content for employees, partners and customers. Offering content management, combined with SDL’s AI, Translation Management and Neural Machine Translation technologies, SDL Tridion creates a single source of truth for all enterprise information. Customers typically use SDL Tridion as a Digital Experience Hub to drive omnichannel experiences, and as their Enterprise Knowledge Hub to manage in-depth information such as documentation, policies, procedures and other business critical information on an internal portal or intranet. SDL Tridion comprises of four components that can be deployed together – or independently – on premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment:

  • SDL Tridion Sites: SDL’s Web Content Management (WCM) offering centralizes web and mobile sites onto a single platform, connecting people, processes and information across teams, markets and brands for impactful digital experiences across any channel and in any language. A new user experience introduced in SDL Tridion Sites – Experience Space – offers a workspace that helps organizations to build and activate digital experiences with fewer clicks and intelligent, predictive defaults. It also speeds up onboarding of new employees and reduces training needs.
  • SDL Tridion Docs: SDL’s offering for multilingual Component Content Management (CCM) democratizes the process of knowledge creation by making it easier for organizations to author structured content. The user experience – Collective Space – opens up new possibilities for subject matter experts (SMEs) and occasional contributors to collaborate and share knowledge in a controlled way without the need to understand and work directly with the underlying XML.
  • SDL Tridion Delivery: With its single-source publishing, SDL Tridion’s managed content can be delivered in any type of output format – and in any language. Content only needs to be authored once, and is automatically converted into multiple output types. SDL Tridion Delivery supports headless, dynamic, personalized and responsive web delivery, API-based access to content, XML or JSON output, RSS streams, static HTML, Help files, and eLearning – all the way to automatically formatted and accessible PDFs or print output.
  • SDL Tridion Accelerators: Accelerators bring together prebuilt connectors, sample code, and documentation that help unlock enterprise information stored across the business. They connect external content and data repositories to SDL Tridion. By integrating Digital Asset Management, Customer Relationship Management, Commerce Systems and storage repositories with SDL Tridion, organizations benefit from a single source of truth across their information architecture.

https://www.sdl.com/about/news-media/press/2020/Introducing-SDL-Tridion-Intelligent-Content-Platform.html

Smarsh introduces voice capture and archiving for Microsoft Teams

Smarsh introduced voice recording, transcription and archiving support for Microsoft Teams. Already providing text-based capture and archiving for Teams, Smarsh now enables clients to adopt another mode of communication and collaboration to help regulated organizations meet compliance and e-discovery obligations. Teams audio files can be transcribed in over 120 languages and regional dialects. Once ingested into Smarsh Connected Archive solutions, content is automatically indexed, stored in immutable format and accessible at any time in a search-ready state. Customers can play back voice calls (including those made within and outside of Teams meetings), and search voice transcriptions and call metadata alongside all of the content within their archive. They can also extend Supervision and Discovery workflows to include Teams voice content.

Beyond support for voice files and transcription, Smarsh captures content in one-to-one chats, multi-party chats and persistent channels including edits, deletes, replies, emojis, GIFs, files, stickers and links. Smarsh also captures content across other channels, including email, mobile text messages, collaboration platforms, social media and voice channels. Content can be ingested into Smarsh Connected Archive solutions or can be exported to an existing archive or enterprise content management (ECM) system.

https://www.smarsh.com/channel/microsoft-teams/

MarkLogic announces Data Hub Central for simplified data integration

MarkLogic Corporation announced Data Hub Central, the newest capability of MarkLogic Data Hub Service. Data Hub Central provides a simple user interface for self-service data integration where developers, architects, and business analysts can collaborate to integrate, explore, analyze, and share consistent data assets tailored to business needs. With MarkLogic’s built-in search capability, Data Hub Central enables analysts to “shop” for the exact data sets needed to solve business problems. Data sets can be saved, shared, and re-used in popular BI tools – without having to make an IT request.

Data Hub Central spans the integration lifecycle in a single interface. It enables architects who are tasked with overseeing data modeling and governance to collaborate with business analysts to define data models and relationships in the language of the business. Systems analysts, who understand source systems and data, can go to Data Hub Central to look at and adjust the model. As the model is adjusted, data can be loaded from multiple source systems to see how it maps to the target model, as it is changed. Developers have a centralized source of data assets and do not have to wait on lengthy ETL cycles to get access to the data. While Data Hub Central provides no-code capabilities, it is also extensible. While data experts are using it to integrate the data, developers can write re-usable components that extend and customize it. Because Data Hub Central runs as part of MarkLogic Data Hub Service, it has the same enterprise data security capabilities enforced at the data layer.

https://www.marklogic.com/news/announcing-data-hub-central/

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