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Creating accessible and user-friendly content has never been more critical. For websites, ensuring that images include descriptive alt-text is an essential step toward achieving accessibility standards and improving the user experience. However, manually generating meaningful alt-text for numerous images can be a time-consuming process. That's where the AI Assistant for Optimizely steps in to streamline the process.
As Optimizely solution partners, it is vital to stay updated, particularly in the era of AI. Being informed and gaining hands-on experience with new features is essential. Did you know that partners can install and use the Epicweb AI Assistant on their Optimizely sites for free? A great way to begin with Gen AI is to implement it on your own website, now you have the opportunity to do so.
In our latest update, of the AI-Assistant for Optimizely, the interface has been translated into all of Optimizely's languages! Yay! In this guide, we will show you how to add translations for your custom shortcuts.
Ensuring that content is accessible and comprehensible in multiple languages is essential for any global business. Optimizely, combined with Language Manager and Epicweb AI-Assistant, provides strong translation capabilities, making the process smooth and efficient. The integration of Epicweb AI-Assistant enhances these capabilities, offering a high degree of configurability for customized translation experiences. This post examines the key features and implementations that facilitate straightforward and effective translation work in Optimizely.
We are introducing a new capability in Optimizely CMS: Bring Your Own AI. We call it, CustomAI! This feature, powered by the AI-Assistant for Optimizely developed by Epicweb, allows enterprise companies to integrate any AI vendor directly into the Optimizely CMS and Customizable Commerce platforms. This gives web editors the flexibility to tailor AI capabilities to their specific needs. "Bring Your Own AI" (BYOAI) refers to a practice where organizations, customize, and deploy their own artificial intelligence models and systems rather than relying solely on pre-built or third-party AI solutions.
Azure Functions offer a highly scalable and cost-effective way to run event-driven code in the cloud. However, they come with a challenge that can impact performance - cold starts. In this blog post, we'll explore what cold starts are, why they occur, and how you can mitigate them using different strategies, including Azure's payment plans, external services, and health checks.
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This is a step-by-step developer's guide on how to upgrade your Azure Functions to .NET 8.