Event Offers Alternative to Traditional Tradeshows with Heavy Focus on Providing Independent Research and Insight from Multiple Industry Analyst Firms
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars today announced that last week’s fourth annual Gilbane Boston event (http://gilbaneboston.com) at the Westin Copley Place hotel, drew over 70 exhibitors and had an 18 percent increase in attendance, making it one of the largest and most important annual content management events. Attendees from companies such as Caterpillar, General Motors Corporation, Hilton Hotels, Morgan Stanley and Staples participated in the event to obtain independent analysis of technologies and trends from the large gathering of industry analysts and to view the latest solutions introduced by the exhibitors.
In 2008, Gilbane will build on its recent momentum by hosting two events, one in San Francisco, June 18-20 and one in Boston, December 2-4. The events will continue to focus on a variety of key content management topics including Enterprise Search & Text Analytics; Semantic Web Technologies; Content Technologies & Strategies; Web Content Management; Collaboration & Social Computing; Global Content Management; and Enterprise Publishing Technology. For more information on these events visit: http://lighthouseseminars.com/FutureEvents.html
“The Gilbane conference was one of the best conferences of the year for our company,” said Mark Chartier, sales director, IntelliSearch. “The speakers and the content of the sessions spoke directly to the concept that Content management and Enterprise Search is not just an application but a strategy. The people that showed up for the conference were exactly the people we were looking to talk to about our enterprise search solution. We also liked the exhibition format with respect to the technology demonstrations as there was a constant flow of new faces during the exhibition and a wide range of vendors from content management to enterprise search like ourselves.”
Separating this event from other tradeshows and conferences is the large contingency of industry analysts ready to share research with attendees. At last week’s event, analysts participated from 451Group, CMS Watch, Gilbane Group, Forrester Research, IDC, Outsell, Jupiter Research, and other firms. In particular, the Gilbane Group launched seven research studies at the event covering a variety of topics including Web content management, enterprise collaboration and social computing, enterprise search, enterprise digital rights management and more. To obtain additional information on these reports visit http://gilbane.com.
“Attendees are looking to obtain information that they can use to help them make the right decisions when it comes to purchasing and implementing content management technologies within their enterprise. Our event provides attendees with substance and this is reflected in the rapid growth of the event year over year. We are bringing together industry thought leaders, technology innovators and enterprise users together to learn, share and debate what information technologies will help increase revenue opportunities and improve operational efficiencies both internally and externally,” said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair.
To learn more about 2008 exhibiting or sponsorship opportunities contact Marc Goldstein at 781-821-6652, mgoldstein@lighthouseseminars.com
About Gilbane Group, Inc.
Gilbane Group, Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. We work with the entire community of stakeholders including investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant and analyst firms. We have organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely-read newsletter, consulting & advisory services, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.
About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars' events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and e-catalogs. http://lighthouseseminars.com
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