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Adobe expands Frame.io collaboration platform beyond video

Adobe announced they expanded Frame.io’s video collaboration platform to photos and PDF documents, broadening the cloud-based solution to new markets and a wider range of creative professionals and businesses.

Frame.io now fully supports PDF documents to aid teams in reviewing collateral and other project-adjacent materials. New enhancements enable customers to natively open and mark up PDF files on iPhones and iPads, while enabling all PDF and photo annotations to be seen on these devices and the web, just as with videos.

Frame.io now offers users a workflow from content capture to edit, review and approval through one centralized hub, leveraging new Camera to Cloud native integrations with FUJIFILM X-H2S and X-H2 cameras.

Adobe also previewed Forensic Watermark, a forensic watermarking solution, providing media and entertainment studios, global brands and large agencies with a secure collaboration platform for working with sensitive pre-release content. Forensic Watermark is designed to be easy for creators to use and difficult for leakers to circumvent. The security service embeds invisible watermarks on video assets as short as 30 seconds, using pixel-level details that are capable of surviving screen recording, file copying and external recording.

Frame[.]io is on display at 2023 NAB, April 15-19, Las Vegas.

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/Adobe-Expands-Frame.io-Collaboration-Platform-Beyond-Video/default.aspx

Bloomreach unveils SMS marketing updates

Bloomreach announced expansive updates to its Bloomreach Engagement SMS marketing capabilities. Through its ten new features, Bloomreach Engagement is making it easier for marketers to integrate this channel into their omnichannel strategies. From AI content generation to optimal send time prediction, marketers will have access to tools to reach engaged subscribers with personalized SMS campaigns. Features:

  • AI-powered optimal send time: determine the best time to send SMS campaigns for every customer.
  • AI content generator: generate SMS content ideas or fine tune messaging.
  • TCPA List Validation: automatically removes reassigned or deactivated numbers and national Do Not Call registries.
  • SMS Campaign visual builder: create, test, preview SMS messages.
  • Sign-up units: grow SMS lists with sign-up units that include TCPA consent language.
  • Text-to-join keywords: grow subscribers with “text to join” keywords that can be shared across marketing channels.
  • Campaign evaluation dashboard: monitor campaign performance and make real-time adjustments.
  • Pre-built templates: for converting SMS campaigns.
  • Scenario node and visual builder: switch between SMS and MMS message in scenarios.
  • Contact card creator: make every message recognizable by ensuring SMS messages appear from a set contact name.

https://www.bloomreach.com/en/news

Stardog introduces Stardog 9

Stardog, a provider of an enterprise knowledge graph platform, announced Stardog 9, with a range of new features and enhancements that enable organizations to easily connect data, people, and processes, and improve performance, scalability, and security. With this release, Stardog’s knowledge graph powered semantic layer has new integrations for Azure Synapse, Collibra Data Governance and Databricks. Benefits include:

  • Expanded Data Access: Stardog 9 supports federated access to Azure Synapse which enhances connectivity to data in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen-2 (ADLS2), reducing the friction in accessing and connecting data through meaning for self-serve analytics.
  • Activated Metadata: Stardog 9 extends Stardog’s Knowledge Catalog to harvest enterprise metadata with integrations for Collibra and Microsoft Purview Data catalogs (in-preview mode only), and any JDBC-accessible data source. These integrations make it easy to semantically-enrich technical metadata with business concepts and enable Data Governance teams and end users to search, query, and explore data assets with an Enterprise Metadata Knowledge Graph.
  • Smart, Automated Entity Linking Across Data Silos: Stardog 9 can identify and link data associated with business objects across data landscapes for better decisions in support of use-cases from Customer 360 to Digital Twin to Fraud Detection, leveraging Databricks Spark to process data.

https://www.stardog.com/blog/introducing-stardog-9/

Brightspot expands partner program

Brightspot, a provider of content management system (CMS) software, announced the expansion of the Brightspot Partner Program to offer comprehensive implementation and maintenance options for building digital, web and content experiences using Brightspot CMS.

The program is designed to help businesses accelerate their digital strategy by providing access to a network of experienced partners that can help them create and deliver more powerful digital experiences powered by Brightspot CMS. Brightspot’s Partner Program will enable businesses to leverage the company’s comprehensive suite of flexible technology, expert services and partner ecosystem. Partners will have access to a range of benefits, including training and certification, marketing support and co-selling opportunities.

The Partner Program is open to a variety of businesses that specialize in digital experiences, content management and web development, including solution, technology and agency partners. As part of the program, partners will receive in-depth training, online technical resources, co-marketing opportunities, partner support and access to the Brightspot platform for testing and development. Solution, technology and agency partners that have already joined the Brightspot Partner Program, include: AITHERAS LLC, Bannockburn, Deveire, Digital Prism Advisors, Inc., eThinking, Material, SNO CORP, THINKware, WayPath and Wizeline.

https://www.brightspot.com

Expert.ai and Reveal Group partner to combine NLP and RPA

Expert[.]ai and Reveal Group announced a partnership to help organizations extend the value in intelligent automation programs with natural language processing and understanding (NLP/NLU). Robotic process automation (RPA) makes organizations more profitable and responsive, streamlining enterprise workflows and enhancing employee engagement and productivity by removing mundane tasks from their workdays. By adding NLP/NLU to RPA, enterprises now have the ability to increase the flexibility and scalability of automation, expanding deployment to more complex use cases and business processes by making sense of unstructured language data. Unstructured data is critical for organizations to be able to understand, analyze and use it to enable a real intelligent automation across the entirety of an enterprise data assets.
 
The expert.ai hybrid AI platform complements the Reveal Group’s expertise in intelligent automation services. With expert.ai, NLP outputs, including intent, automatic categorization, emotional and behavioral traits identification, entity extraction and sentiment analysis, can be deployed and delivered  by Reveal Group to automate multiple use cases, from common cross-industry use cases (email triage in customer services, data analysis, comparison and extraction in legal departments) to more industry-oriented processes (claims management in insurance companies, loan origination and customer onboarding in banking and financial services.).
  
https://www.expert.ai/https://revealgroup.com/
 

Databricks announces Lakehouse for Manufacturing

Databricks released Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing, a lakehouse platform tailored to manufacturers that unifies data and AI and delivers performance for analytics use cases. Databricks’ Lakehouse for Manufacturing breaks down data silos and is designed for manufacturers to access all of their data and make decisions in real-time.

The industry-specific lakehouse goes beyond traditional data warehouses by offering integrated AI capabilities and pre-built solutions such for predictive maintenance, digital twins, supply chain optimization, demand forecasting, real-time IoT analytics. A partner ecosystem and custom, partner-built Brickbuilder Solution offer customers choice in delivering real-time insights and impact across the value chain at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

With Databricks, organizations can unlock the value of their existing investments and achieve AI at scale by unifying all of their data, regardless of type, source, frequency or workload, on a single platform. The Lakehouse for Manufacturing has data governance and sharing built-in, and enables organizations to deliver real-time insights for agile manufacturing and logistics across their entire ecosystem.

Customers across the manufacturing industry also benefit from vetted data solutions from partners like Avanade, Celebal Technologies, DataSentics, Deloitte and Tredence, which combine of Databricks’ Lakehouse Platform with industry expertise.

https://www.databricks.com/solutions/industries/manufacturing-industry-solutions

Stilo launches Migrate 5.0

Still Corporation, a provider of automated content conversion tools, announced the launch of its latest software product, Migrate 5.0. This new release promises to provide more robust and reliable content conversion capabilities for organizations looking to convert legacy content (such as HTML, Word, and FrameMaker) into structured XML. Migrate 5.0 builds on Stilo’s previous content conversion solutions by incorporating new features and capabilities, including DITA 2.0, that make the conversion process even more streamlined and efficient.

One of the key new features of Migrate 5.0 is the upgraded framework which significantly improves performance and stability. With this new upgrade, Migrate 5.0 becomes a more potent and adaptable tool, making it a useful solution for any organization seeking to optimize its data migration process. A free sample conversion is available on Stilo’s website.

Stilo develops tools to help organizations automate the conversion of content to XML and build XML content processing components integral to enterprise-level publishing solutions. Operating from Canada, Stilo supports commercial publishers, technology companies and government agencies around the world in their pursuit of structured content.

https://www.stilo.com/

Algolia introduces developer-friendly plan

Algolia, a AI Search and Discovery platform, evolved its pricing and packaging to be more developer-friendly with the introduction of two new developer-oriented plans: a “Build” plan that is free and a “Grow” plan that offers easy scalability at affordable prices. The new Build plan increases the number of free records that a developer can store in Algolia from 10,000 to now 1 million records. Additionally, Algolia cut the cost of search requests in its Grow plan by 50% and records by 60%.

Algolia’s “Build” pricing plan provides developers with free access to the entire set of capabilities in its AI-powered Search and Discovery platform. The company’s “Grow” plan, for when a developer is ready to scale their application, enables developers with more developer-friendly usage-based pricing for live production settings.

A designer, creator, or builder, whether they are a casual or fully committed software engineer, can access all the tools, documentation, sample code, educational content, and cross-platform integration capabilities needed to get started with managing their data, building a search front-end, configuring analytics for free. They will have access to a developer community of more than 5 million builders. Algolia pricing and packaging reflecting this change is immediately available.

https://www.algolia.com

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