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Curated information technology news for content technology, computing, and digital experience professionals. News items are edited to remove hype, unhelpful jargon, iffy statements, and quotes, to create a short summary — mostly limited to 200 words — of the important facts with a link back to a useful source for more information. News items are published using the date of the original source here and in our weekly email newsletter.

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Pitch raises $85 million to build presentation platform

May 20, 2021 /

Pitch, a collaborative presentation platform for modern teams, announced that it has raised an $85 million Series B funding round led by Lakestar and Tiger Global, and joined by existing Pitch investors Index Ventures and Thrive Capital. Pitch plans to use the new funding to develop its core technology and product, grow its global team, and extend its software platform across the entire presentation workflow.

  • A publishing and content ecosystem: Pitch is building a dedicated home for publishing and exchanging presentations and templates. Users will be able to discover content from creators and brands, and publish their own work directly to public profile pages.
  • Advanced presentation analytics: Pitch is building new integrated solutions for users to better distribute presentations and monitor performance. Rolling out this summer, these new features will enable secure sharing and advanced analytics within Pitch, and will give users detailed insights into the reach and readership of a presentation, and engagement levels on specific slides.
  • Narrative recording and playback: Pitch is building new ways to highlight, record, and play back presentations in any context. Designed for a more remote, asynchronous world of work, these tools will ensure presenters and recipients can engage across an expanded range of meeting formats and team workflows.

https://pitch.com

DataStax collaborates with NetApp

May 20, 2021 /

DataStax announced a collaboration with NetApp to deliver full lifecycle management for cloud native data in its DataStax Enterprise database as well as open source Apache Cassandra clusters. As part of this partnership, the two companies have worked together to integrate the NetApp Astra data management service for Kubernetes workloads with DataStax Enterprise and Cassandra to provide a single pane of glass management for Cassandra data in modern containerized environments. With the tested and certified DataStax and NetApp solution, enterprises can automate the implementation of Cassandra clusters as well as simplify operations and lifecycle management processes around applications, data and container images on Kubernetes. The DataStax and NetApp integration provides:

  • Faster delivery of business applications through automatic storage provisioning and storage class setup processes
  • Improved application unit and system testing efficiency with cloning and migration of application clusters
  • Rich data management services, including data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery, active cloning, activity log. This supports rapid recovery from a disaster, or point-in-time copy recovery of DataStax Enterprise or Apache Cassandra clusters
  • Seamless portability and migration for Cassandra clusters, supporting enterprises with moving Kubernetes workloads and data between cloud locations
  • Consistent data management user interface with clear visualization of data protection status.

https://www.datastax.com ▪︎ https://www.netapp.com

Netlify acquires FeaturePeek

May 19, 2021 /

Netlify, a cloud for collaborative web development, has acquired FeaturePeek, a startup that enables developer teams to preview frontend content. Netlify has added FeaturePeek’s developer collaboration product as a core capability in the next generation of Netlify Deploy Previews.  Available today, Deploy Previews make it easy for developers to gather feedback with their web teams, including internal and external business stakeholders, product managers, designers and marketers. Teams share URLs to review a preview of the website or web application and can leave contextual feedback directly on a UI that overlays the site. All feedback is synced in the pull request or productivity tool of choice. Deploy Previews offer:

  • Live automated previews: Netlify automatically builds a new Deploy Preview as a unique permanent URL for each pull/merge, posted as a commit status. 
  • A floating UI that overlays the deploy: Without leaving the browser, reviewers can make comments, take and annotate screenshots, record videos and reply to teammates asynchronously on web projects.  
  • Feedback automatically synced to the Git repo host. 
  • Integration with productivity tools: Progress can be synced to tools like Clubhouse.io, GitHub, Linear and Trello. 
  • Testing and troubleshooting on different devices: Netlify records browser metadata for every review so engineers can reproduce bugs.

https://www.netlify.com/

Google Workspace announces smart canvas

May 18, 2021 /

Google Workspace announced smart canvas, a new collaboration experience that builds on its vision for the future of work. Smart canvas makes it easier for people to stay connected, focus their time and attention, and transform their ideas into impact. With smart canvas, Google Workspace is enhancing Docs, Sheets, and Slides to make them more flexible, interactive, and intelligent. New interactive building blocks connect people, content, and events into one seamless experience, while flexible formats remove unnecessary constraints.

  • Smart chips in Docs allow users to type @ to see a list of recommended files, people and meetings to include in their work.
  • Checklists help users quickly capture tasks in Docs.
  • Table templates in Docs enable users to create topic-voting tables to gather team feedback and project-tracker tables.
  • Pageless format in Docs allows users to remove the boundaries of a page to create a surface that expands to whatever device or screen they’re using.
  • New views in Sheets help users better manage and interact with data. A timeline view will make tracking tasks easier and faster.
  • Additional assisted writing features in Docs will surface warnings about offensive language, and add stylistic suggestions.
  • More assisted analysis functionality in Sheets on the web makes suggestions that help build and troubleshoot formulas.

https://cloud.google.com/press-releases/2021/0518/google-workspace-smart-canvas

Text IQ for Privacy debuts to support Privacy 2.0

May 18, 2021 /

Text IQ announced the launch of Text IQ for Privacy, an AI solution to enable enterprises to proactively manage personal information, particularly hard-to-find sensitive information which otherwise remains hidden in large unstructured data sets. It automatically identifies and categorizes personal and sensitive information from both structured and unstructured sources, enabling redaction and deduplication before presenting the findings for human review.

Enterprises must manage ever expanding amounts of personal and sensitive data, such as a customer’s financial records, precise geo-location, race, religion, and medical history. Traditional search methods typically fall short when it comes to data containing information such as a person’s religious beliefs and medical history, which can be sensitive when seen in context and hard to identify because it is largely found strewn in unstructured data. Text IQ for Privacy zeroes in on this kind of data by deploying an adaptive AI Brain that incorporates a human-centric Socio-Linguistic Hypergraph. Text IQ for Privacy includes:

  • Data Categorization, to identify sensitive information and eliminate manual data mapping.
  • Discovery & Redaction, to identify personal information and reduce disclosure risk.
  • Data Breach Response, to automatically deduplicate and associate data to entities, and reduce response time.
  • DSAR Fulfillment Automation, to meet request deadlines and reduce manual review.

https://www.textiq.com/privacy

Workato introduces Automation HQ and Accelerators

May 18, 2021 /

Workato unveiled a series of products to enable customers to more effectively develop business process automations that drive improvements in the experiences of their customers and employees, and the operational efficiency of their organization.

Automation HQ is a set of capabilities in the Workato platform that companies can use to accelerate the scaling of automation across the enterprise from a single platform. It helps teams across an organization to work with the agility of a startup while tapping into the resources and shared knowledge of the enterprise. It also provides IT teams with the essential centralized tools to manage users, data, connections and recipes across multiple workspaces in an organization.

  • Federated Workspaces – expand the ability of administrators to centrally provision workspaces and control apps, tasks, and other resources.
  • Business Operations Console – improve visibility and reporting for administrators across workspaces.
  • Advanced Lifecycle Management – make it easy for users of varying technical skills to collaborate on lifecycle management.

Workato connectors include: RPA – UiPath, Celonis and Ephesoft; RevOps – Dun & Bradstreet, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn and Eloqua; HR – Greenhouse, Google Workspace, UKG and SuccessFactors.

Workato Automation Accelerators for common critical business processes include: Enterprise Data Hub, LT Pipeline for Snowflake, Autonomous Operations Framework, Intelligent Invoice Processing, Approvals Bot for Slack & Teams, Campaign Launchpad.

https://www.workato.com/

Globaledit adds creative workflow features for automation

May 17, 2021 /

Globaledit, provider of creative workflow management solutions, helps creative teams produce and distribute content. Globaledit’s cloud based digital asset management platform already provided project management for creatives and marketers focused on producing visual Assets. Now, the company announced a way for creative and marketing teams to automate steps throughout the entire creative & marketing workflow. Globaledit’s Marketplace and Workflow Automation Recipes optimize workflow through the complete lifecycle of an asset, ingest to distribution. This allows users to create workflow rules based on business logic to automate tasks within production processes and demonstrate how the entire technology stack can communicate.

Globaledit’s Marketplace allows organizations to choose from hundreds of apps that natively integrate with Globaledit. The Globaledit marketplace encompasses turnkey integrations with partners across project management, digital asset management and content management systems. Globaledit also is introducing iterations of existing features, including:

  • Projects allow for a customizable dashboard so project managers, creative leaders or stakeholders can manage workflows across multiple productions, teams & product lines.
  • Sync 2.0, new additions to Globaledit’s Sync tool allow creatives to automatically sync full capture sessions.
  • Enhanced Search allows users to search for assets via metadata with expandable search terms and asset recommendations.

https://www.globaledit.com/blog/globaledit-introduces-creative-workflow-features-focused-on-automation/

Point72 partners with Cambridge Semantics

May 13, 2021 /

Cambridge Semantics announced a strategic relationship with Point72 to power Point72’s suite of cloud-based compliance applications. Under the agreement, Point72 has licensed Cambridge Semantics’ Anzo, a scalable knowledge graph platform. Anzo offers a broad array of data integration and analytic capabilities including search, business intelligence, and graph analytics.

Anzo’s knowledge graph platform features the embedded, MPP graph engine AnzoGraph. Anzo allows companies to integrate and harmonize data from across their businesses and functions into a single, scalable system while taking advantage of the benefits of knowledge graph technology. The graph can model links and provide users real-time updates of millions of daily events across structured and unstructured data. Using Anzo, Point72’s compliance team will be able to onboard, display, and search data more efficiently.

The collaboration advances the compliance technology at the firm while helping derive insight from the underlying data. This approach, referred to as a data fabric, integrates data across the firm in a reusable way. Along with the platform, Cambridge Semantics provides expert services to assure the success of knowledge graph implementations.

https://www.cambridgesemantics.com ▪︎ https://www.Point72.com/about

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