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Category: Computing & data (Page 1 of 103)

Computing and data is a broad category. Our coverage of computing is largely limited to software, and we are mostly focused on unstructured data, semi-structured data, or mixed data that includes structured data.

Topics include computing platforms, analytics, data science, data modeling, database technologies, machine learning / AI, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, augmented reality, bots, programming languages, natural language processing applications such as machine translation, and knowledge graphs.

Related categories: Semantic technologies, Web technologies & information standards, and Internet and platforms.

Sitecore introduces MarketingIQ

November 11, 2026 /

Sitecore, a provider of AI-enabled digital marketing software, introduced MarketingIQ, which connects market insights, brand intelligence, and marketing operations in SitecoreAI, helping brands act with speed and precision on growth opportunities they might otherwise miss. It draws on approved brand knowledge to develop targeted content and campaigns, then coordinates the people and AI agents needed to bring them to market. Marketers direct and approve the work and can measure whether it improves discovery, attracts qualified customers, and increases conversion.

MarketingIQ combines contextual intelligence – an understanding of the brand and its business – with AI agent orchestration, which coordinates the work needed to act.

MarketingIQ gains understanding from connecting activity in AI search platforms like ChatGPT and Google Gemini with the organization’s approved knowledge and content, its objectives, and evidence about customers and previous results. MarketingIQ determines which facts support a claim, which audiences and products they apply to, and what content is suitable to use.

MarketingIQ works across Sitecore and third-party content management, digital experience, and business systems, connecting the content, customer information, and capabilities organizations already have. Teams can act across those systems without replacing their underlying CMS, digital asset management, CRM, or other applications.

https://www.sitecore.com/marketing-iq

IBM and Microsoft announce Imagine Enterprise

November 10, 2026 /

IBM and Microsoft announced Imagine Enterprise, an agentic platform designed to help enterprises build, run, and govern AI agents that help people execute industry-specific processes. IBM Consulting and Microsoft have combined their technologies and expertise with forward-deployed engineering support for qualifying engagements to help enterprises accelerate AI deployment.

Imagine Enterprise aims to help organizations—especially in regulated industries—combine human expertise with AI agents and connect them to unique enterprise data and daily processes. The platform is built to help organizations govern AI agents with controls, observability, and AI-compliance support designed to help secure industry-specific AI deployment.

IBM Consulting brings AI transformation expertise and a fleet of 6,000 AI agents and assets built on IBM Consulting Advantage, the company’s AI-powered delivery platform. Microsoft provides the AI, data, cloud, and security foundation that is designed to help the agents operate securely across the enterprise, while forward-deployed engineers from both companies can help customers move from experimentation to production.

Imagine Enterprise’s industry-specific frameworks initially include financial services, insurance, and retail, and are designed to establish a repeatable blueprint for potential additional industries such as manufacturing, energy, public sector, mobility and more in the future.

https://www.ibm.com/consulting/imagine-enterprise

Adobe integrates agentic CX Enterprise Coworker into AI platforms

November 4, 2026 /

Adobe announced that Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker, an agentic teammate for customer experience orchestration, is available within AI platforms including ChatGPT (as a plugin), Claude, Databricks Genie, Gemini for business and Microsoft Copilot — with availability in Amazon Quick, IBM and Snowflake expected soon. With CX Enterprise Coworker, marketing professionals can better plan, orchestrate and optimize customer experiences using the agentic AI platforms of their choice, right where they work.

CX Enterprise Coworker simplifies how enterprises manage their customer lifecycle, from acquiring and engaging prospects to driving conversion and growing customer lifetime value. CX Enterprise Coworker is built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent2Agent (A2A). It powers the execution of autonomous Customer Experience Orchestration workflows using Adobe CX Enterprise, across AI platforms and enterprise systems with human oversight. CX Enterprise Coworker offers teams data analysis and insights on campaign performance and emerging trends, enables audience forecasting, optimizes customer journeys and resolves conflicts while improving planning, project and work management.

Adobe also launched new connectors for CX Enterprise Coworker, which offer pre-built MCP server integrations with ecosystem technology partners, including Amazon Ads, Databricks Genie, Demandbase, ads MCP server for Meta campaigns, Microsoft Work IQ, RainFocus, Snowflake Cortex AI and more.

https://news.adobe.com/news/2026/11/adobe-integrates-agentic-cx-enterprise-coworker-into-ai-platforms

Gilbane Advisor 10-28-26 — deployment failure, computing limits

October 28, 2026 /

Featured articles from: Justine Hastings, Chad Syverson & Seth Zimmerman, and Volkan Gurses.

Additional reading from: Kate Agena, Hanaa’ Tameez, Anubhav Goyal, and Lila Bailey & Tess Vartanian.

News from: Sprinklr, Couchbase, Franz, and Siteimprove.

Our next issue arrives 11/18/26.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index

Opinion / Analysis

The deployment failure holding back your AI investments

Justine Hastings, Chad Syverson, and Seth Zimmerman share data on the clear gap between enterprise adoption and anticipated return. The unsurprising tl;dr is that cross-functional coordination is where the value is and needs to be planned for in advance of adoption. Their essay will be helpful for advocates. (8 min)

https://hbr.org/2026/10/the-deployment-failure-holding-back-your-ai-investments

How far can we push computing?

Volkan Gurses: “Nowadays big advances are made by scaling up — think more chips packed into ever-bigger data centers. But as we near the ceiling of what we can build, there’s still plenty of room below, at the fundamental physical limits of computing.”

A fascinating article, and readable for anyone with even the slightest interest in computing, physics, and information. “Plenty” doesn’t do justice to the potential. (14 min)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/19/1145904/tr-explains-how-far-can-we-push-computing

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Sprinklr announces availability of VOC Agent Suite in Gemini Enterprise Agent Marketplace

Gemini Enterprise users can discover and interact with specialized Sprinklr AI agents that analyze customer feedback and deliver actionable insights grounded in enterprise data.
https://www.sprinklr.com/newsroom/sprinklr-announces-availability-of-voc-agent-suite-in-gemini-enterprise-agent-marketplace/

Couchbase adds capabilities to AI Data Plane to reduce token costs

Update includes native Amazon Bedrock integration with semantic caching, managed Agent Memory and a managed MCP server on AWS, in addition to vector search within Couchbase Operational Insights.
https://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/couchbase-ai-data-plane-cuts-the-cost-of-running-production-ai-agents-at-enterprise-scale/

Franz announces AllegroGraph 9.1 with GraphTalker 2.0

Advances context-aware AI for enterprise knowledge graphs. GraphTalker builds persistent enterprise memory; expands natural-language analysis to documents and images.
https://allegrograph.com/press-room/

Siteimprove advances its agentic content intelligence platform

Teams can fix accessibility issues directly in Drupal and WordPress with the CMS Remediation Agent and in PDFs with the PDF Remediation Agent, and configure analytics through natural language.
https://www.siteimprove.com/press/siteimprove-advances-its-agentic-content-intelligence-platform/

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Sprinklr announces availability of VOC Agent Suite in Gemini Enterprise Agent Marketplace

October 22, 2026 /

Sprinklr, an AI-native platform for Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified-CXM), announced the availability of the Sprinklr Voice of the Customer (VOC) Agent Suite in Gemini Enterprise Agent Marketplace, allowing organizations to access voice-of-customer intelligence from within their existing Gemini workflows. Through Agent-to-Agent (A2A) connectivity, Gemini Enterprise users can discover and interact with specialized Sprinklr AI agents that analyze customer feedback and deliver actionable insights grounded in enterprise data.

Unlike general-purpose AI assistants, the Sprinklr VOC Agent Suite consists of purpose-built agents, each designed to address recurring business needs. These include:

  • Brand Health Monitoring: Understand brand performance, sentiment drivers, and recommended actions.
  • Crisis Monitoring: Detect emerging issues, assess their spread, identify key amplifiers, and support response planning.
  • Competitive Benchmarking: Compare performance against competitors across share of voice, sentiment, and engagement.
  • Trend Forecasting: Identify emerging conversations and anticipate future momentum.
  • Influencer & Content Strategy: Discover influential voices and understand which content resonates most.
  • Campaign Performance: Measure the impact of launches, campaigns, and sponsorships.
  • Customer Experience Analysis: Surface the most important customer pain points and praise themes across feedback channels.
  • General Listening: Answer ad hoc listening and intelligence questions across customer conversations.

The Sprinklr VOC Agent Suite for Google Gemini Enterprise is available now through Agent-to-Agent integration. 

https://www.sprinklr.com/newsroom/sprinklr-announces-availability-of-voc-agent-suite-in-gemini-enterprise-agent-marketplace

Couchbase adds capabilities to AI Data Plane to reduce token costs

October 20, 2026 /

Couchbase, an Operational Data Platform for AI, announced a major expansion of its AI Data Plane with new capabilities including native Amazon Bedrock integration with semantic caching, managed Agent Memory and a managed MCP server on AWS, in addition to vector search within Couchbase Operational Insights. Together, these updates give enterprise teams a single governed platform to replace fragmented data services that slow agent deployments, reducing both infrastructure burden and the cost of running production AI.

Enterprise teams deploying production AI agents are finding that general-purpose databases and stitched-together data services cannot keep pace with agentic workloads. They need a converged data layer that serves both agents and applications with live, trusted data at scale in the cloud, in a private data center, and at the edge, even offline. Couchbase is an operational data platform built to do exactly that. The new capabilities announced today extend that foundation with managed cloud services and token cost reductions that help enterprises accelerate production AI.

Couchbase’s elastically scalable, distributed architecture serves millions of concurrent low-latency operations without bottlenecks. Its memory-first design and shared-nothing topology mean parallel agent requests resolve at sub-millisecond latency rather than queuing behind each other.

All capabilities listed above are generally available today.

https://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/couchbase-ai-data-plane-cuts-the-cost-of-running-production-ai-agents-at-enterprise-scale/

Franz Inc. announces AllegroGraph 9.1 with GraphTalker 2.0

October 19, 2026 /

Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and supplier of Graph Database technology for Neuro-Symbolic AI solutions, announced AllegroGraph 9.1, featuring GraphTalker 2.0, an advancement of its agentic natural-language interface for enterprise Knowledge Graphs.

The release enables more effective management of contextual knowledge that guides AI interactions, incorporate documents and images into graph-based analysis, and preserve reusable knowledge and analytical workflows in a persistent, learning enterprise memory layer. Through collaborative learning between the context graph and human domain experts, this persistent memory retains feedback, corrections, and insights that inform future analysis.

GraphTalker 2.0 is a new Context Management System that allows organizations to create, edit, version, and reuse domain-specific knowledge that helps AI agents understand enterprise data. This includes ontologies, relationships, business terminology, domain conventions, and proven query patterns. New capabilities:

  • GraphTalker 2.0: An upgrade of AllegroGraph’s agentic natural-language interface, with redesigned user experience and improved management of graph-based analytical workflows.
  • Enterprise Context Management: Create, edit, upload, and manage repository-specific context files that guide GraphTalker’s understanding of ontologies, business terminology, data relationships, and query conventions.
  • Context Versioning and Portability: Track modifications, compare file versions, restore previous content, and export or import context files with their version histories across repositories.

https://allegrograph.com/press-room

Gilbane Advisor 10-14-26 — open weight models, preservation gap

October 14, 2026 /

Featured articles from: Stephen O’Grady, and Monika Dvorackova.

Additional reading from: Aurélie Radom, Amanda Caswell, Kyle Soucy, and Stevie Bonifield.

News from: Madcap Software, Contentstack, Graphwise, and MongoDB.

Our next issue arrives 10/28/26.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index

Opinion / Analysis

How to think about open weight models

The race between open and closed AI models is well underway. Stephen O’Grady asks “But how should artifacts as complex as models be considered? What are the dimensions that will shape this race moving forward? There are many angles to consider, but the following are arguably the most important.” A really helpful piece. (13 min)

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/09/03/open-weight-models/

The preservation gap in the AI stack

Why capability is advancing faster than reconstructability

We all know that managing, governing, and even understanding AI behavior, is a major challenge. In this article Monika Dvorackova is focused on “historical reconstructability”, a missing key capability for governance. Dvorackova clearly explains the problem in the first six paragraphs, then proposes a reference architecture to address it. (10 min)

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-preservation-gap-in-the-ai-stack-why-capability-is-advancing-faster-than-reconstructability/

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Madcap announced the Fall 2026 release of MadCap Syndicate

New version brings AI-driven content visualization, automated content classification, MCP support for AI application and agent access, and expanded support for enterprise content formats.
https://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/syndicate/

Contentstack launches Contentstack Canoe

Shows how a brand is named, described and cited in AI search, benchmarks it against competitors, and ends run with a ranked list of fixes AI agents can act on.
https://canoe.contentstack.com/

Graphwise upgrades its AI Context Platform to help enterprises build context layers

The new release optimizes the creation of a comprehensive context layer for enterprises, which accelerates the integration of AI into multilingual content and data.
https://graphwise.ai

MongoDB launches MongoDB 9.0

MongoDB 9.0 strengthens the foundation MongoDB customers run on, Atlas Infinite removes limits on scale, and Atlas Agent Engine puts AI agents to work.
https://www.mongodb.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/mongodb-launches-mongodb-9-0-the-best-version-ever-built-and-atlas-infinite-for-ai-scale-demand

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