This week we feature articles from Klaudia Ja?wi?ska & Aisvarya Chandrasekar, and Ethan Mollick. Additional reading comes from Ksenia Se, Maxwell Zeff & Kyle Wiggers, Sebastian Raschka, and Huei-Hsin Wang. News comes from Databricks & Palantir, Elsevier, Syncro Soft, and Implicit. Our next issue arrives April 2. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis […]

Databricks, a Data and AI company, and Palantir Technologies Inc. a provider of enterprise operating systems, announced a strategic product partnership that combines Palantir’s AI operating system and Databricks’ platform for AI, data warehousing, and data engineering. The partnership will provide an open and scalable data architecture that combines Palantir’s Ontology System with Databricks’ processing […]

Elsevier, provider of advanced information and decision support, launched ScienceDirect AI, a generative AI tool for researchers. It is designed to transform the way researchers work by enabling them to instantly extract, summarize and compare trusted insights from millions of full-text articles and book chapters on ScienceDirect, a platform for trusted, peer-reviewed research. Users can […]

This week we feature articles from Simon Willison, and Michael Iantosca. Additional reading comes from Stella Jo, Paolo Perrone, David Pierce, and Michael Hunger. News comes from Coveo, data.world, Couchbase, and TransPerfect. Our next issue arrives March 19. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis Content management considerations for generative AI RAG “Few generative AI […]

Syncro Soft, developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, released Oxygen Content Fusion 8.0, the web-based collaboration platform for content creation. Version 8.0 turns Oxygen Content Fusion into an AI-driven tool designed to boost writer productivity by integrating with the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant. This version also consolidates the Oxygen Content Fusion position as […]

Implicit, a AI technology company, announced the launch of its AI platform designed to transform customer experience with AI-driven agent support and knowledge management. With a blend of agent-assist and self-service experiences, Implicit enables organizations to deploy support solutions tailored to their specific needs, improving efficiency and accuracy. The solution includes: Addresses challenges faced by […]

Coveo announced three advancements to augment AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI projects: Coveo for Agentforce, and expanded suite of Coveo APIs and the Coveo Agentic AI Design Partner Program. Coveo for Agentforce natively integrates into Salesforce, grounding AI agents in contextually relevant, enterprise-wide knowledge—wherever it resides. Coveo for Agentforce is focused on enhancing deployments for large, complex […]

This week we feature articles from Alissa Cooper, and Simon Willison. Additional reading comes from Hamel Husain & Greg Ceccarelli, Hannah Mayer, Lareina Yee, Michael Chui, &  Roger Roberts, Daniel Tunkelang, and Project Liberty. News comes from Contentstack, IBM & DataStax, MongoDB, Foxit, and Adobe. Our next issue arrives March 12. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion […]

Couchbase, Inc., a developer data platform for critical applications in our AI world, launched Couchbase Edge Server, an offline-first, lightweight database server and sync solution designed to provide low latency data access, consolidation, storage and processing for applications in resource-constrained edge environments. Edge applications that rely solely on cloud databases can be slowed down due […]

data.world, an enterprise data catalog for the modern data stack, announced the public beta launch of Archie Chat, an AI-powered catalog assistant that improves how users interact with their enterprise data catalog. Archie Chat helps users find answers to their questions quickly through natural language conversation, driving catalog adoption and enhancing data discovery across organizations. […]

TransPerfect, a provider of language and AI solutions for global business, announced its new TransPerfect for Zendesk Support App for translation within Zendesk’s Agent Workspace. The app enables users to easily and instantly translate messages and ticket conversations while integrating seamlessly with the GlobalLink Now API, providing businesses with a solution for cost-effective multilingual content […]

Contentstack, a digital experience platform, announced the launch of Contentstack EDGE, an adaptive digital experience platform built for the AI era. Their next-generation digital experience platform (DXP) unifies the company’s headless CMS, recently acquired real-time customer data platform Lytics, personalization, automation, AI, and front-end hosting capabilities. Together, Contentstack EDGE is capable of delivering adaptive experiences, […]

IBM announced its intent to acquire DataStax, an AI and data solution provider. DataStax’s technology will enhance IBM’s watsonx portfolio of products accelerating the use of generative AI, helping companies unlock value from vast amounts of unstructured data. The acquisition also builds on IBM’s commitment to open-source AI. DataStax is the creator of AstraDB and […]

Foxit, a provider of PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase productivity and do more with documents, today announced the addition of multi-document analysis to its AI Assistant feature within its mobile apps for iOS and Android. This new and unique capability enhances the AI Assistant’s functionality, enabling users to analyze […]

Adobe announced it is bringing Photoshop to mobile and expanding the web experience, with Photoshop on iPhone available today and Android coming later this year. The new mobile app is designed for a new generation of image and design enthusiasts to the potential of Photoshop in an easy-to-use mobile interface. Photoshop’s new app brings existing […]

MongoDB, Inc., a database for modern applications, announced it has acquired Voyage AI, a provider of embedding and reranking models for AI applications. Integrating Voyage AI’s technology with MongoDB will enable organizations to easily build trustworthy, AI-powered applications by offering accurate and relevant information retrieval deeply integrated with operational data. The risk of hallucinations has […]

This week we feature articles from Shayne Longpre, and Hugo Bowne-Anderson & Alan Nichol. Additional reading comes from Deborah Turness, Cory Doctorow, Kurt Cagle, and Michael Andrews. News comes from Perplexity, Sprinklr & Bluesky, Databricks & SAP, accessiBe, and Transperfect. Our next issue arrives March 5. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis AI crawler […]

From the Perplexity blog… Today we’re launching Deep Research to save you hours of time by conducting in-depth research and analysis on your behalf. When you ask a Deep Research question, Perplexity performs dozens of searches, reads hundreds of sources, and reasons through the material to autonomously deliver a comprehensive report. It excels at a […]

Databricks, a Data and AI company, today announced the launch of SAP Databricks, a strategic product and go-to-market partnership with SAP that natively integrates the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform within the newly launched SAP Business Data Cloud. The partnership combines business data that is in SAP with the Databricks platform for data warehousing, data engineering, […]

Sprinklr, a unified customer experience management (Unified-CXM) platform for modern enterprises, today announced a new integration with Bluesky for insights and content publishing. The partnership allows Sprinklr customers to integrate Bluesky into global marketing and insights strategies.  The rapid growth and engagement levels on Bluesky led Sprinklr customers to ask Sprinklr to help them seamlessly integrate […]