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Apache announces Apache Gobblin as a Top-Level Project

February 16, 2021 /

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced Apache Gobblin as a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache Gobblin is a distributed Big Data integration framework used in both streaming and batch data ecosystems. The project originated at LinkedIn in 2014, was open-sourced in 2015, and entered the Apache Incubator in February 2017. Apache Gobblin is used to integrate hundreds of terabytes and thousands of datasets per day by simplifying the ingestion, replication, organization, and lifecycle management processes across numerous execution environments, data velocities, scale, connectors, and more.

As a scalable data management solution for structured and byte-oriented data in heterogeneous data ecosystems, Apache Gobblin makes the task of creating and maintaining a modern data lake easy. It supports the three main capabilities required by every data team:

  • Ingestion and export of data from a variety of sources and sinks into and out of the data lake while supporting simple transformations.
  • Data Organization within the lake (e.g. compaction, partitioning, deduplication).
  • Lifecycle and Compliance Management of data within the lake (e.g. data retention, fine-grain data deletions) driven by metadata.

Apache Gobblin software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project’s day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases.

https://gobblin.apache.org/

DataRobot announces Feature Discovery integration with Snowflake

February 16, 2021 /

DataRobot announced the latest integration with Snowflake. Building off of DataRobot’s expanded partnership and existing integration with Snowflake, the new Feature Discovery pushdown integration improves the speed and accuracy of developing models, unlocking new use cases. DataRobot’s Feature Discovery, which has been a part of the DataRobot enterprise AI platform since 2019, automatically discovers, tests, and creates hundreds of valuable new features for machine learning models. This improves models’ accuracy, increasing an organization’s ability to make accurate predictions.

The new Feature Discovery integration with Snowflake delivers this capability to Snowflake users, pushing down data preparation operations into Snowflake to minimize data movement resulting in faster performance and lower operating costs. This allows users to obtain more accurate DataRobot models by accessing more data from Snowflake and leveraging the power of Snowflake’s Data Cloud. With Feature Discovery, the joining, aggregating, and creation of derived features from datasets is done automatically using data science best practices. This lets users build better machine learning models in less time and drive more innovation with AI.

https://www.datarobot.com/news/press/datarobot-announces-feature-discovery-integration-with-snowflake/

Elcom updates digital experience platform

February 15, 2021 /

Elcom, a Digital Experience Platform used to deliver digital-first strategies through intranets, digital workplaces, websites, and portals, announced the launch of Elcom V11.5. The Elcom team has enhanced the design and usability of the platform. Administrators and publishers have more choice and control around the management, delivery, and access of content-related experiences, while audiences will have greater flexibility in how they interact with these sites. The latest version provides:

  • Enhanced publishing and authoring experience. End users can publish articles by filling out a form and selecting new article attributes and metadata options. Publishers can also quickly change layouts and share drafts with external stakeholders securely.
  • Design and usability of dynamic widgets. Highlights include the ability to show featured articles, custom metadata to increase search options, and the ability to favourite content directly from a widget.
  • More flexibility with the forms tool. Highlights include the ability to pull in data from external sources, improved form validation rules and rendering on mobile.
  • Streamlined and automated processes with workflows for forms and content.
  • Additional mechanisms to keep data safe and secure. Including enhanced password security checks, new reports for administrators, and the ability to add reports in dashboards.

https://www.elcom.com.au

TA Digital launches SearchBoost.ai

February 11, 2021 /

TA Digital announced its entry into the cognitive search space with an intelligent search solution, SearchBoost.ai. SearchBoost.ai delivers personalized search results by focusing on the users and their experience. Leveraging user data, SearchBoost.ai serves users with predictive, relevant and personalized search results that cater to the highest clicks and conversions.

SearchBoost.ai works by connecting to both the data source and the search engine in place within the client’s existing infrastructure. It imports user data and search results then trains a Machine Learning model on them to produce better results. Once those results are ready, SearchBoost.ai pushes those results back to the search engine. While SearchBoost.ai can work with any data source or search engine, there is an existing out-of-the-box connectors for Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, Adobe Experience Manager and many others in development. The company has launched its offering with four pricing options.

https://www.tadigital.com/innovation/searchboostai

ThoughtSpot and Microsoft Partner on search and AI-driven analytics

February 11, 2021 /

ThoughtSpot and Microsoft announced a new agreement to help Azure Synapse customers tap into their cloud data through augmented analytics. ThoughtSpot Cloud will be available on Microsoft Azure, giving customers a means to bring analytics and insights from their data in Azure Synapse Analytics and other cloud data warehouses to their entire organization through search and AI. Customers can equip anyone with the ability to analyze data, find insights, and make informed decisions. Customers can also buy ThoughtSpot through the Azure Marketplace. Highlights of the agreement include:

  • ThoughtSpot Cloud on Microsoft Azure. ThoughtSpot Cloud, the new SaaS platform for search and AI-driven analytics, will be available on Microsoft Azure. Customers will be able to leverage their data in Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks and other cloud data warehouses.
  • Enhanced support for Azure Synapse Analytics. Deeper collaboration between Microsoft and ThoughtSpot will bring new support for Azure Synapse.
  • Seamless purchasing experience. Customers will be able to buy ThoughtSpot directly in the Azure Marketplace using Azure credits.
  • Product co-development. Ongoing co-development of solutions will enable joint customers to take advantage of the value of their data in Azure Synapse Analytics with ThoughtSpot.

https://www.thoughtspot.com

Elastic adds new capabilities across solutions

February 10, 2021 /

Elastic announced new capabilities and updates across its Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability and Security solutions. With searchable snapshots, users can retain and search their data on low-cost object stores such as AWS S3, Microsoft Azure Storage, and Google Cloud Storage, which can reduce storage costs. Searchable snapshots support a new cold tier capability, which is now generally available and also available in Elastic Cloud.

Expanded capabilities in Elastic Enterprise Search include a new web crawler for Elastic App Search and support for Box as a content source inside Elastic Workplace Search. The web crawler retrieves information from publicly accessible websites to make that content easily searchable in App Search engines, and the schema is inferred upon ingestion and can be updated in near real time with one click.

New in Elastic 7.11, the beta of schema on read with runtime fields gives users the ability to define the schema for their index at query time. Users can choose between flexibility and cost efficiency with schema on read or fast performance with schema on write. Elastic Observability introduces new topline views for Elastic APM and Elastic Metrics, making it easy for users to quickly spot and triage application and infrastructure performance issues.

https://www.elastic.co

Gatsby announces new JS Plugin for WordPress

February 10, 2021 /

Gatsby, Inc. announced general availability of the Gatsby Plugin for WordPress. The Plugin is available for download and is supported in Gatsby Cloud. Using Gatsby as the frontend and WordPress as the backend CMS organizations can deliver richer, more complex, integrated web experiences that combine content from WordPress and other CMSs and web services. Content creators enjoy the same WordPress authoring experience they already know. After content is published in WordPress, Gatsby sources the updated content and generates the static HTML pages. WordPress developers can now use development tools and technologies like Javascript, Git, and modern APIs to create richer, more performant web experiences.

The Gatsby Plugin for WordPress leverages WPGraphQL to enable organizations currently using WordPress to create performant, secure Gatsby web frontends. WPGraphQL is a free, open-source plugin for WordPress that delivers an extendable GraphQL schema and API, which Gatsby leverages to use WordPress as a headless CMS. The Gatsby content hub architecture built on GraphQL can access content from web services and CMSs, including WordPress, utilizing the library of over 2,500 Gatsby Plugins. This enables organizations to create complex, integrated web experiences based on content from multiple data sources.

https://www.gatsbyjs.com

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Box announces new Box Shuttle

February 10, 2021 /

Box, Inc. announced an all-new Box Shuttle to make it easier, faster, and less costly to migrate large amounts of content, including permissions and metadata, to the Box Content Cloud. With Box Shuttle, customers get access to content management experts for strategy and execution, change management processes to drive adoption, and technology that will enable organizations to accelerate their digital transformation. Box Shuttle is now a full-service content migration program for the cloud content management market. With the new Box Shuttle, customers can:

  • Leverage both on-premises and cloud connectors that allow petabyte-scale migration from more than 15 source systems, including file shares, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Workspace, Egnyte, Documentum, OpenText, and FileNet
  • Partner with content migration experts to plan and execute migration projects
  • Re-map content to different owners, or modify permissions during migration – allowing for restructuring and reorganization
  • Preserve business-critical context about content with simple configurations that migrate existing metadata and file version history into Box
  • Accelerate the pace of migration to hundreds of terabytes per day with automatic optimized network utilization and API volumes
  • Increase confidence with real-time migration reporting, visualization, and event monitoring.

https://www.box.com/products-and-features/shuttle

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