This week we feature articles from Rita Kind-Envy, jreyesr, and Dharmesh Thakker, Danel Dayan, Jason Mendel, Sudhee Chilappagari, Patrick Hsu & Payal Modi. Additional reading comes from Giuseppe Futia, Joel Cunningham, Manuj Dhariwa & Shruti Dhariwal, and Aeree Cho, Grace C. Kim, Alexander Karpekov, Alec Helbling, Jay Wang, Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, & Polo Chau. News comes from […]

Brightcove launched Brightcove Marketing Studio for Sales, for global sales teams to easily create and deploy personalized video content. The video engagement platform gives companies control over brand and quality standards while providing unified measurement and insights across content and touch-points. Sales teams can create personalized video experiences for prospects and customers without needing video […]

Elastic a Search AI Company, announced its AI ecosystem to help enterprise developers accelerate building and deploying their Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. The Elastic AI Ecosystem provides developers with a curated, comprehensive set of AI technologies and tools integrated with the Elasticsearch vector database, designed to speed time-to-market, ROI delivery, and innovation. The Elastic […]

Snowflake announced its modern approach to bring transactional and analytical data together in a single, unified platform with Unistore. Unistore is powered by Hybrid Tables (now available on AWS), a table type that enables fast, high-concurrency point operations to support transactional workloads. With Unistore, customers can simplify their data architectures, while ensuring consistent security and […]

Box, Inc., an Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, announced a new set of AI-powered enhancements to advance how organizations manage content. Box AI, initially an AI assistant that could answer questions or generate content, has evolved into Box AI Studio, a platform enabling enterprises to apply AI to complex use cases. Box customers can now […]

This week we feature articles from Rafe Brena, and Benjamin Brooks.  Additional reading comes from Jenna Ahart, Astasia Myers, Van Chien Nguyen et al, and Joan Westenberg. News comes from OpenAI, Coveo & Shopify, DataStax, and Salesforce. Our next issue will arrive November 20. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis Agents are coming back from […]

Coveo, an enterprise AI platform that brings AI Search and generative AI to every point–of-experience, announced they have partnered with Shopify to bring its commerce AI capabilities to Shopify enterprise customers. Coveo will give Shopify enterprise merchants the ability to manage AI models and strategies for search relevance and semantic precision, personalization, recommendations and generative […]

ChatGPT can now search the web so you can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you previously needed to go to a search engine for. This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes. Chats now include links to sources, […]

This week we feature articles from Melanie Mitchell, and David Weinberger.  Additional reading comes from Chris Messina, David Haber, Chance Miller, and Michael Parekh. News comes from Semantic Web Company & Ontotext, Perplexity, Acquia, and Sitecore. Our next issue will arrive November 6. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis The LLM reasoning debate heats up Three recent papers examine […]

DataStax, a AI platform, announced the enhancement of its GitHub Copilot extension with its AI Platform-as-a-Service (AI PaaS) solution. This extension makes it easier for developers to directly interact with DataStax Langflow and their Astra DB databases’ vector, tabular, and streaming data right from their IDE (integrated development environment) through the DataStax GitHub Copilot Extension.  […]

Salesforce, a CRM (customer relationship management) provider, announced the general availability of Agentforce, a new layer on the Salesforce Platform that enables companies to build and deploy AI agents that can autonomously take action across business functions. Agentforce uses reasoning abilities to make decisions and take action, like resolving customer cases, qualifying sales leads, and […]

Acquia, a provider of digital experience software, announced AI enhancements to the company’s digital asset management solution, Acquia DAM, to help creatives and marketers to increase productivity and extract more value from their digital content. Acquia Video Creator, by Moovly, is now available as an add-on module to Acquia DAM and PIM (product information management) […]

Semantic Web Company and Ontotext today announced the two companies have merged to become Graph AI provider, Graphwise. Semantic Web Company brings expertise in knowledge engineering, semantic AI and intelligent document processing, while Ontotext brings a versatile graph database engine and AI models for linking and unifying information. Combining Ontotext GraphDB’s data management capabilities with […]

From industry professionals to hobbyists, people use Perplexity in ways we never imagined, but we want to give users even more flexibility and control over the types of sources they prompt, which is why we’re excited to introduce Internal Knowledge Search and Spaces. While file upload has been part of Perplexity for some time, one […]

Sitecore, a digital experience software provider, today announced Sitecore Stream to address challenges and opportunities faced by enterprise marketing teams. Built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Sitecore Stream helps orchestrate a seamless marketer experience across Sitecore solutions, including XM Cloud, Content Hub, and Experience Platform (XP). Sitecore Stream leverages generative AI to simplify marketing workflows and […]

This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagel, and Tula Masterman. Additional reading comes from Michal Malewicz, Tari Ibaba, Eugen Rochko, Rachel Andrew, and Sara Fischer. News comes from MongoDB, Magnolia, Movable Ink, and Optimizely. Our next issue will arrive October 30. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis An imperfect Canvas … […]

MongoDB, Inc. released MongoDB 8.0, providing performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, and additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities. MongoDB 8.0 is available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure through MongoDB Atlas, on MongoDB Enterprise Advanced for on-premises and hybrid deployments, and as a free download with MongoDB Community Edition. Capabilities:  https://www.mongodb.com/products/updates/version-release

This week we feature articles from Michael Andrews, and Andréas Saudemont. Additional reading comes from Marta Serra-Garcia & Uri Gneezy, Mike Loukides, and Merve Noyan, Philipp Schmid, Omar Sanseviero, Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Lewis Tunstall, Vaibhav Srivastav & Pedro Cuenca. News comes from Ai2, Contentstack, MindsDB, and Salesforce. Our next issue will arrive October 9. All previous issues are […]

Movable Ink announced the integration of Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Journey Optimizer. This adds to existing Movable Ink built integrations into Adobe Experience Cloud applications, including Adobe Target, Adobe Commerce, Adobe Real-Time CDP, and Adobe Campaign. The new integration of Movable Ink Da Vinci, an AI-powered content personalization solution, and Adobe Journey Optimizer […]

Magnolia announced a new connector to integrate compliant content in Veeva Vault PromoMats with the Magnolia Digital Experience Platform (DXP). The connector allows marketing teams to create and edit healthcare professional (HCP) portals, brand sites, and patient portals in the Magnolia DXP using medical, legal, and regulatory (MLR) approved assets from Vault PromoMats. Mutual life […]