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Allego releases Allego 6

Allego unveiled Allego 6, the newest version of its learning and enablement platform, which features a user interface refresh that makes it easier for distributed teams to learn critical skills, find the right content at the moment it’s needed, and collaborate more effectively with their peers. The redesigned platform is now an all-in-one solution that makes Allego’s features for learning, content, collaboration, and coaching easier to harness. Enhancements include:

The Lumin Design System debuts in Allego 6 and makes it easier to learn, find sales and time-critical content, and collaborate.

Content Management for sales and marketing collateral, organized in content folders and “channels,” including storing, searching, sharing and usage analytics on presentations, PDFs, videos, office documents, across devices.

Content Enrichment and Personalizations for sellers to customize content for their selling situation by creating videos, embedding messages, questions, calendar links, and visitor forms.

Integrated Training allows enablement teams to produce and link training content to sales content.

Social Stats and Content Analytics show users which content is generating the most engagement and direct them to new beneficial content.

AI Recommendation Feed can now automatically serve up relevant content based on complex relationships between user, peer, and content.

NPS surveys give learning and enablement teams a better understanding of which courses and knowledge assets are effective.

Enhanced CRM contextual recommendations that automatically log seller-shared content and seller call behaviors into an organization’s CRM platform.

Modern Learning Record Store (MLRS) gives organizations xAPI compatibility for traditional and modern learning activities like mandatory compliance training, as well as self-directed learning, coaching, informal and peer knowledge sharing.

User and Course Details Dashboard Enhancements expands on analytics that let managers and administrators access and export information on a particular user, group, sets of content, or courses to easily monitor usage and learning progress down to the individual component level across teams and individuals.

Survey Results Dashboard makes it easy for managers and trainers to gather team feedback.

https://www.allego.com/platform/sales-content-management/

Zoho announces Zoho Workplace

Zoho Corporation announced Zoho Workplace, a single software platform that brings together collaboration, productivity, and communications tools and integrates them into other business processes. Centered around a business mail and cloud office suite, Zoho Workplace includes nine applications, built on a common data model and unified through common search and AI across one dashboard. New capabilities of Zoho Workplace include:

  • Mail (Business Mail) – Users can now make audio or video calls from within the app, edit document attachments in Zoho Writer. ‌Mail includes a control panel with eDiscovery, Backup and Recovery.
  • Cliq (Messaging) – Users can check in or check out and set custom statuses and collaborate with external stakeholders.
  • Meeting (Conferencing) – Now supporting 16 languages, Meeting is integrated with Zoho Projects, Bookings, CRM, and others.
  • Connect (Social Intranet) – Connect integrates with human resource information systems, including Zoho People.
  • Writer (Word Processing) – Users can convert documents to fillable forms, restrict comment visibility, and enable an AI-based writing assistant.
  • Show (Collaborative Presenting) – Show is integrated with ‌Atlassian, Unsplash, and Humaans, and features an organization-wide slide library and data linking.
  • Sheet (Spreadsheet) – Sheet enables users to track changes while collaborating, convert images to spreadsheets, and bring contextual data from both Zoho and non-Zoho applications.
  • Workdrive (Cloud Document Management) – WorkDrive now features unified search and ‌TrueSync.

Pricing starts at $3/user/month for the Standard version and $6/user/month for the Professional version.

https://www.zoho.com/news/zoho-workplace-reimagines-work.html

Bloomreach announces Commerce Experience Accelerator for SAP Commerce Cloud

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

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

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

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

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

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

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