Say goodbye to the hassle of managing third-party portals or microsites! With Picturepark's new Guest Portal feature you can unleash the true potential of your content management strategy and elevate your brand's reach like never before.

The power of an anonymous user is at your fingertips. You determine which content to make available. For example:

• Have an important event coming up? Why not create a press kit including logos and key images for journalists to access at their convenience. Use the Picturepark Business Rules and scheduling features to make the content for the event public at the time of your choice.
• Keep your audience up to date at all times by giving them access to the latest news and product brochures.

Additionally – you can tailor a unique dashboard for users that access Picturepark anonymously to provide the perfect experience. And for your registered users, logging in is just a click away if you want it to be.

We have investigated and will put into place various measures that will improve the CDN caching when Picturepark is not available due to maintenance/issues. These include:

• Increased availability:
  • We are now making use of a Fastly-specific mechanism called Shielding which should increase the probability that the embedded content is served from the CDN when the Content Platform is unavailable. It relies on defining a fixed POP (Point of Presence), collecting requests from all the Fastly network. The main advantage of having a shield defined, is a significantly reduced number of requests to the origin server and improved request handling performance.
  • The CDN cache will no longer be cleared while the customer is temporarily deactivated. Now even if the customer is deactivated, previously cached shares/embeds should be still available.
  • We have added the possibility to serve stale content while Content Platform is temporarily down or in maintenance.

• Increased configurability:
  • We have enhanced and made the default caching time configurable per customer.
  • Serving stale content is also configurable per customer.

As you may be aware the migration to Azure is now complete and we once again encourage you to try out the benefits of Azure AI auto tagging. Please contact your customer service representative for more information.

• Image recognition for automatically recognising and adding the correct tags to your content.
• Focal point recognition. Use focal points to let other systems know where to crop your image for example to best display it on your website.
• Text Recognition for OCR-like text extraction. The image below displays a simple English text, however this will also work for multiple languages, including Chinese characters for example. The Azure API can extract text with mixed languages, including from the same text line.