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Are present processes slowing down your global product launches and campaigns? Do you have trouble ensuring global brand consistency across many markets and communication channels? Do you deliver a global customer experience that induces people to come back and encourages customer loyalty?

Join The Gilbane Group, SDL International and Interwoven to learn how Sun Microsystems used a global information management solution to deliver product information, support services, and java.com information in many languages to deliver an enhanced customer experience.

Date: 13th December, 2006
Time: 8:30 Pacific, 11:30 Eastern, 16:30 GMT, 17:30 Central Europe
Duration: 1 hour
Register here.

There's still time to add your voice to our survey on Content Globalization.

Thursday's Content Globalization Workflows panel includes speakers from Idiom Technologies, LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association), LinguaLinx, and General Electric.

Topics to be covered include: globalization business drivers, the impact of market consolidation, achieving process management and project management, defining "unified globalization management," and best practices. Hope to see you there!

The survey on the list of questions for our keynote panel on Wednesday is still open, but we have published the results so far at: http://gilbane.com/gilbaneboston_keynote_survey.html.

There are a couple of different ways to calculate the most popular questions based on a combination of the "important", "interesting" and "not interesting" ratings. You can look at the results and come to your own conclusions, but no matter how you do it the popular questions so far are:

• What are the top 3 technologies that must be considered in any content management strategies in the next 12-24 months?
• Are search 'platforms' going to replace CMSs as the primary user entrance to content repositories?
• How will Blog and Wiki tools be used in enterprise content applications? How are they being used today?
• What is the number one advantage, and the number one disadvantage of each of the approaches represented on the panel (ECM suite, CM application, infrastructure CM, hosted CM, open source CM)?
• Are there any breakthrough classification or metadata tagging technologies on the horizon that will significantly impact content management strategies?
• How is widespread adoption of RSS/Atom going to affect content delivery? And what does this mean to enterprise content management or publishing strategies?
• How will the new SharePoint Server's CM capability affect the CM market?

You still have 2 days to cast your vote, and to get to Boston to hear the keynote panel (which is open to all) debate these and other questions.

CM Pros, the Content Management Professionals Association, has their third annual Fall Summit meeting today in Boston at the Westin Copley Hotel in conjunction with Gilbane Boston (which starts tomorrow). If you are in the Boston area it is not too late to get to the Summit and find out what other content management pros are up to.

Just a short reminder that we are looking forward to seeing you at the Gilbane Conference Boston, November 28-30, 2006 at the Westin Copley Place. If you have not signed up yet there is still time to attend the conference, or to join us just to see the exhibits.

This Year's Conference Highlights Include:

• Dynamic interactive Keynote debate on the Future of Content Management
• Microsoft & Google and others debate Desktop vs. Enterprise vs. Web search
• Dan Bricklin (of VisiCalc fame) to show new wikiCalc
• "Wiki Idol " contest in the Technology Showcase
• Demos from over 65 vendors in the Technology Showcase
• 110+ conference speakers including industry analysts, IT and business practitioners, and leading technologists
• 20% Discount on all CMS Watch reports for conference attendees
• 4 highly popular educational half-day tutorials on Web Content Management, DITA, Web Operations Management, & Taxonomy Development
• Surveys on Globalization and future of Content Management Topics

The 3rd Annual Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies Boston will provide the strategic and market information needed to evaluate content management technologies, select vendors and deploy solutions. The event is designed for business and technology professionals who need to understand how to leverage content management within their organization for managing Web sites and portals, repackaging and syndicating content, collateral and other corporate content. Our presenters are seasoned analysts and professionals from a wide range of companies who will share their insight into content management issues and experiences. For a complete listing of speakers and session descriptions, visit http://gilbaneboston.com

If you have not done so, there is still time to register for the technology showcase – free

Technology Showcase	FREE a $75 Value
Keynote of Your Choice Full Access to the Exhibit Area Sponsor Reception Wiki Idol Contest

Platinum sponsor:	Gold sponsors:

NOTE: This is a re-post from our Analyst Blog.

In preparation for our panel on Content Globalization Workflows on Thursday November 30th at our Boston conference, we have created a survey to gauge how organizations are dealing with increasing market demand for localized content.

We hope to see you at this session. But whether you join us or not, contribute to it by answering our survey questions. We'll publish the results in a blog entry after the conference, including the results from our audience survey. Give us your input and you'll be eligible to win a free conference pass for one of our future conferences!

Here is a short URL to the survey you can share with others: http://tinyurl.com/yjy694

Here's what we'd like to know:
1. Which issue is your most pressing business driver for providing localized content to your customers?
2. Who is responsible for purchasing translation software in your organization?
3. What is the most difficult challenge within your localization processes?
4. Do you have one or more content/document management systems in house?
5. Do you have one or more translation management systems in house?
6. If you do not have a translation management system in house, who do you work with to manage your translation processes?
7. If you have both a content/document and a translation management system in house, are they integrated?
8. If the systems are integrated, select the most appropriate description of the integration.

Choose from our list or contribute your own question, and we'll share your ideas with our keynote panel at Gilbane Boston on November 29. Here is a short link to the questions you can share: http://tinyurl.com/uo3f8

Participate and you might win a free pass to one of our conferences!

We look forward to seeing you at the 3rd Annual Gilbane Conference in Boston, November 28 - 30, 2006 at the Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA.

This Year's Conference Highlights Include:

* Network with hundreds of others building solutions you can learn from
* Special Enterprise Wiki focus with a "Wiki Idol " contest
* Expanded sessions on Enterprise Search including a debate on enterprise,
desktop, and web search with Microsoft, Google, and others
* Demos from over 60 vendors in the Technology Showcase
* Dynamic interactive Keynote debate on the Future of Content Management
* 100+ conference speakers including industry analysts, IT and business practitioners, and leading technologists
* 20% Discount on all CMS Watch reports for conference attendees
* 4 highly popular educational half-day tutorials on Web Content Management, DITA, Web Operations Management, & Taxonomy Development
* The Content Management Professionals Association (CM Pros) Fall Summit

Pre-conference Tutorials: November 28, 9:00am - 12:00pm
http://gilbaneboston.com/06/Conference-Tutorials.html

Main Conference: November 28, 1:00pm - November 30, 5:00pm
http://gilbaneboston.com/Conference-Grid.html

Technology Demonstrations:
November 29, 10:00am - 7:00pm & November 30, 10:00am - 4:00pm
http://gilbaneboston.com/Exhibitors.html

If you have not signed up yet there is still time to do so and save!
Just use the discount code "Gilbane" when registering!
http://gilbaneboston.com/Registration.html

Or

If you don't have time to attend the full conference sign up for the Technology Showcase
and Keynote Panels pass at no cost to you!
http://gilbaneboston.com/Registration.html

$25 billion.
That's the cost of compliance in the U.S. Securities Industry for 2005 according to the Securities Industry Association (SIA).

59 percent.
That's the percentage of respondents to a SearchStorage.com poll that did not know if they were in compliance because they could not figure out what they have to do.

$15 million.
That's the amount Morgan Stanley was fined for failing to produce tens of thousands of e-mails during SEC investigations from December, 2000 through through July, 2005.

No wonder compliance issues today = fear. They don't have to.

Compliance is about recordkeeping. The core issue is surprisingly clear -- focus on the lifecycle of paper and electronic communications – how information is created, routed, managed, accessed and archived.

Join us tomorrow, November 9, 2006 at 11:00am EDT for my panel discussion with Omtool CTO Thaddeus Bouchard and HP Financial Services Solutions Manager Joseph Wagle to discuss how to make compliance practices a seamless part of your business processes. Register here.