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iTranslate launches API integration at Snap’s Lens Fest

December 20, 2021 /

iTranslate announced they will be providing their translation API on the latest update to Snap’s Lens Studio platform. The Remote Service Module of Lens Studio allows users to obtain data from external APIs and use them in their Lenses. Specifically, this module provides a scripting API to call the endpoints of an external API, in this case, iTranslate’s translation API. Developers can use the translation API in basically two ways:

  • to translate text in a Text object
  • to translate text in a Text3D object

In both use cases, developers use a provided script that translates Text or Text3D objects. To translate simple Text objects, attach the script to a Scene object that includes a Text component. After that, select the desired source and target language. For 3D objects, use the same script, attach a Scene object that contains a Text3D component, and select the source and target language again. Developers can also extend the script to more use cases.

https://www.itranslate.com/api

Syncro Soft announces Oxygen Feedback version 2.0 for cloud and enterprise editions

December 17, 2021 /

The Oxygen Feedback commenting platform provides a simple and efficient way for your community to interact and offer feedback. It is specialized for technical documentation and can be easily integrated with Oxygen XML Editor/Author to make it more efficient for content authors to manage comments and react to community feedback. Version 2.0 of Oxygen Feedback offers new enhancements for the modern commenting platform, the most significant addition being the introduction of the organization concept in the Oxygen Feedback workflow, offering increased data security, streamlined workflows, and more customization possibilities.

The administration interface was redesigned for more efficient access to its various parts and for aggregating data and UI controls in one place. Improvements were also made to the Feedback commenting component that appears in the output (for example, the presentation of block-level comments was enhanced and there are more personalization options). This release also includes other productivity improvements, bug fixes, and security enhancements.

https://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_feedback.html

Limelight releases GraphQL caching and serverless hosting for headless websites

December 14, 2021 /

Limelight Networks, Inc., a provider of content delivery services and AppOps at the edge, announced general availability of GraphQL functionality for its Layer0 by Limelight web application CDN. GraphQL is an important enabler of microservices-based websites, allowing web builders to make their API layer faster and easier to manage. Layer0 addresses the challenge of caching GraphQL APIs at the network edge, and supports hosting the GraphQL server in a serverless environment.

The GraphQL query language improves on traditional REST APIs and reduces the over-fetching of data, which can improve performance. It also enables teams to iterate their APIs faster without incurring versioning headaches by defining a flexible but strongly typed API between client and server. This has made GraphQL popular with developers, especially enterprise organizations using headless or API-first web architectures.

Layer0 includes everything development and DevOps teams need to implement a headless or Jamstack architecture including hosting, serverless, observability, RUM and CI/CD integration. Teams can be flexible in how they leverage Layer0. They can use it to cache their GraphQL APIs, run their GraphQL server in a serverless environment, or host their entire headless application. Layer0 also has routing options that enable teams to gradually migrate legacy applications to headless or API-first architectures.

https://www.limelight.com

Adobe introduces Creative Cloud Express

December 13, 2021 /

Adobe launched Creative Cloud Express, a unified task-based, web and mobile product that makes it easy to create and share beautiful rich multimedia content – from social media posts and stories to invitations to marketing materials like logos, flyers and banners. Creative Cloud Express enables drag-and-drop content creation, empowering every user to express their creativity with just a few clicks. Creative Cloud Express offers thousands of high-quality templates, 20,000 premium Adobe fonts and 175 million licensed Adobe Stock images. Creative Cloud Express leverages Adobe Sensei, Adobe’s AI/ML framework and the technology behind Adobe’s flagship applications like Photoshop, Premiere and Acrobat. Creative Cloud Express makes it possible for everyone, independent of skill level, to make something great. Creative Cloud Express:

  • is free to start and available immediately to everyone,
  • is available on the web at adobe.com/express and as a free app from the Microsoft Store, Google Play Store and Apple App Store,
  • is included with Creative Cloud All Apps and flagship single-app plans over $20 and is free for K-12.
  • The Creative Cloud Express premium plan with additional features is available for $9.99 per month.
  • Creative Cloud Express for Enterprise and Teams is coming in 2022.

https://www.adobe.com/express

SnapLogic updates Intelligent Integration Platform

December 8, 2021 /

SnapLogic announced new capabilities to its Intelligent Integration Platform. The updates and enhancements enable users across the organization to embrace self-service development, integration, and automation, to improve speed, efficiency, and productivity gains.

The latest improvements include self-service for API consumers, to enable organizations to build applications and microservices faster and manage their API ecosystem more efficiently with upcoming support for third party APIs; the ability to build data products faster and accelerate analytics projects with enhanced support for data warehouse tools; and added features for SnapLogic Flows, the company’s self-service user interface for non-technical business users. To provide the functionality needed to make this process easy for all users, SnapLogic is adding pipeline extensions, and new connections to sales and marketing endpoints such as Microsoft Dynamics for Sales, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft SharePoint.

Customers who use Google BigQuery can now leverage SnapLogic’s visual ELT (extract, load, and transform) capabilities to push down transformations to their cloud data warehouse. Data engineers won’t have to write complex SQLs to transform data. Enhanced Snap Packs for Microsoft Azure, Amazon, and Snowflake have been added.

https://www.snaplogic.com/blog/winter-2021-announcement

MACH Alliance announces MongoDB and Netlify as members

December 8, 2021 /

MACH Alliance announced a new category of “Enabler” membership and MongoDB and Netifly as the first two members. The new category applies to organizations that are heavily utilized by MACH organizations to deliver a MACH service or technology. They are, therefore, enabling a MACH provider but don’t offer a direct MACH solution. As such, they aren’t suited for an Alliance membership in the Vendor or System Integrator categories. While a Vendor member produces an application that enterprises can buy, an Enabler member delivers a service or technology vendors can use as part of a MACH integration.

There are two types of Enabler groups:

  • Technology Enablers are Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that MACH vendors utilize to deliver their service. They are enabling MACH ISVs and aiding the promotion of the MACH architecture.
  • Service Enablers are service organizations that are stakeholders in MACH projects (like a specialized design agency could be) but may not have a direct involvement in implementing a MACH solution.

All Enablers are aligned to the non-functional areas of a MACH architecture. This includes, but is not limited to monitoring, data storage, cluster or container management, tracing, service meshing, API Gateways and orchestration.

https://machalliance.org/newsroom/mach-alliance-announces-mongodb-and-netlify-as-first-members-of-new-enabler-category

Datadobi launches multi-petabyte Starter Packs

December 7, 2021 /

Datadobi, experts in unstructured data management, announced they have released new Starter Packs for DobiMigrate ranging from 1PB up to 7PB. The offering is purpose-built to bolster unstructured data management projects’ success in data-heavy, high-volume environments. The new Starter Packs will enable channel partners and end users to accelerate digital transformation and conduct data management projects to any storage platform or cloud environment.

Datadobi’s newest PB-scale Starter Packs equip customers and partners to have choice, flexibility, and range for projects varying from 1PB to 7PB. The DobiMigrate Starter Packs were originally designed for the lower end of migrations up to 500TB to make it easy for customers to get started quickly on their project. These new Starter Packs will assist customers with larger environments to do the same.

Enterprises looking to take advantage of the new Starter Packs can expect that DobiMigrate will protect customer data during a migration. The product and processes have successfully demonstrated the highest standards for integrity, security, and confidentiality according to Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 1 requirements.

https://datadobi.com/starter-pack

eccenca updates multi-graph platform

December 2, 2021 /

eccenca, provider of automated decision processing technology, released a new version of its eccenca Corporate Memory. The multi-graph platform is a mature solution for data integration and linking, knowledge capture and reasoning. It has been helping companies like Siemens, Bosch and Total to manage their complex data landscapes and to increase their digital maturity. The latest advancements continue eccenca’s roadmap to make knowledge graph technology accessible and manageable to business users.

eccenca has also increased flexibility of data integration and exploration. As a multi-graph platform with many interface options, eccenca Corporate Memory can ingest a myriad of data sources. This includes other knowledge graph solutions that companies might already have in use for limited (and often siloed) use cases. The latest release of eccenca Corporate Memory further simplifies the integration of new sources. I addition to the optimized import automation options for vocabularies, metadata and master data sets, Google Spreadsheets and Excel sheets files can now be integrated via the commonly used share links. The reusability of project artifacts like workflow definitions help further decrease the workload of data scientists and data engineers. While the added regex extraction allows multi-match requests in complex, long strings of data.

https://eccenca.com/products/enterprise-knowledge-graph-platform-corporate-memory

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