April 2008 Archives

... and radio! Mary Laplante and I will be on the MyTechnologyLawyer.com radio show this Thursday, discussing the upcoming Gilbane San Francisco conference. We'll be on the air live for an hour starting at 4:00 Eastern, and will be discussing a wide range of topics about the conference, with some focus on the sessions I am coordinating. The host, Scott Draughon, is a great guy and really does an excellent job interviewing his guests on a wide variety of topics. Mary and I have done the show before (this time last year as well) and it was a pleasure. Be sure to tune in!

The deadline for submitting proposals for the Gilbane Boston conference, December 2 - 4, 2008 is June 15. See: http://gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html

Udi Manber, Vice President of Engineering for Search, Google to Kick-Off Annual Gilbane San Francisco Content Management Conference

SAN FRANCISCO--April 22, 2008. The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, today announced that Udi Manber, a Google Vice President of Engineering, will kick-off the annual Gilbane San Francisco conference on June 18th at 8:30am with a discussion on Google's search quality and continued innovation. Now in its fourth year, the conference has rapidly gained a reputation as a forum for bringing together vendor-neutral industry experts that share and debate the latest information technology experiences, research, trends and insights. The conference takes place June 18-20 at the Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco (http://gilbanesf.com).

"Google's success in search is widely thought of as being a result of their use of link activity and PageRank to supplement keyword search. In fact, link behavior is just one of many signals that help provide users with the most relevant results," said Gilbane Group CEO Frank Gilbane, "Udi Manber is the engineering vice president in charge of this ongoing, and necessarily secret effort. What Udi is able to share about improving search will be interesting to all, but especially valuable to knowledge workers whose need for quality search is critical".

Gilbane San Francisco has gained a reputation for helping attendees move beyond the mainstream content technologies they are familiar with, to enhanced “2.0” versions, which can open up new business opportunities, keep customers engaged, and improve internal communication and collaboration. The 2008 event will have its usual collection of information and content technology experts, including practitioners, technologists, business strategists, consultants, and the leading analysts from a variety of market and technology research firms.

Topics to be covered in-depth at Gilbane San Francisco include: Web Content Management (WCM); Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies; Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs; "Enterprise 2.0" Technologies & Social Media; Content Globalization & Localization; XML Content Strategies; Enterprise Content Management (ECM); Enterprise Rights Management (ERM); and Publishing Technology & Best Practices.

Details on the Google keynote session as well as other keynotes and conference breakout sessions can be found at http://gilbanesf.com/conference-grid.html. In addition to the conference portion of the event, there is a technology demonstration area hall where vendors showcase their latest solutions giving attendees the opportunity to talk one-on-one with the industry’s technology innovators.

Media sponsors of the Gilbane San Francisco event include Business Wire, CMSWatch, CMSWire, eContent, KMWorld and MultiLingual Magazine. The event’s Platinum sponsor is FatWire, and the event’s Gold sponsors include CrownPeak, Lionbridge, RedDot, SDL Tridion, and Sitecore. A full list of sponsors and exhibitors to date are listed at: http://gilbanesf.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html

To register visit: http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html

To exhibit or sponsor visit: http://gilbanesf.com/exhibit.html

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

Contacts:
Welz & Weisel Communications
Evan Weisel, 703-218-3555
Cell: 703-628-5754
evan@w2comm.com
or
Lighthouse Seminars
Jeffrey V. Arcuri, 508-759-8180
jeff@lighthouseseminars.com

Thursday, May 8, 1:00 pm ET

Customers expect more than a one-size-fits-all web experience. They want "my-size-fits-me" content every time they interact with your company. Or they don't come back.

In this webinar, marketing managers learn the latest approaches to using knowledge about visitors and behaviors to drive dynamic content delivery. Tony White, Gilbane's lead analyst for web content management, and Brett Zucker, CTO for Bridgeline Software, discuss emerging technologies for serving up analytics-driven content that attracts customers, engenders loyalty, and improves site ROI. The webinar is sponsored by Bridgeline Software.

Registration is open.

For Immediate Release:
Authored by Search Expert Stephen Arnold, report includes practical advice, a "beyond search" market map, profiles of 24 companies, and a glossary.

Cambridge MA, April 8, 2008. Gilbane Group Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a new special report, Beyond Search: What to do When Your Enterprise Search System Doesn't Work, by Stephen Arnold (http://gilbane.com/beyond-search.html). The 270-page study contains a discussion of how-to’s, so you can fix your broken enterprise search system. You will also find a detailed discussion of today’s market for search and content processing systems, with profiles of 24 selected vendors.

Enterprise Search
According to Stephen, "The study - a first in analysis of search and content processing - represents more than a year of research into text processing and information access. 'Enterprise search' has become devalued and is misleading, out-of-date, and a cause of the on-going confusion about information access." He adds, “Who wants a system that is expensive, slow, and makes the employee with a real information need do more work. Shouldn't search should make the employee’s job easier?”

Google
Mr. Arnold’s previous work on Google’s engineering, The Google Legacy (2005) and Google Version 2.0 (2007), provided a foundation for Beyond Search’s most remarkable revelation about Google. Sidestepping the routine description of the Google Search Appliance and Google Apps, Beyond Search reveals important, little-known information about Google’s dataspace technology. This technology - if commercialized by Google - has the potential to transform search and retrieval, adding greater potency to the “beyond search” idea.

Vendor Profiles
In the profiles of up-and-coming vendors, Mr. Arnold provides candid evaluations of each vendor’s technology plus practical comments about what the vendor’s core competency is. Steve says, “Each profile contains what I call a ‘net net’ section. I try to sum up in about 100 words exactly what you need to know about each vendor. There’s no ‘pay for coverage’ in this study. Vendors had a chance to push back on my assessments, but no vendor paid for an inclusion in this report. IT professionals often struggle to figure out if a report is objective. There’s no confusion in Beyond Search - vendors are included on merit alone.” Vendor profiles include: Access Innovations, Attensity Corporation, Bitext, Brainware, Inc., Cognition Technologies, Inc., Connotate Technologies, Dieselpoint Inc., Exalead, Exegy, IBM Corporation, Information Builders Inc., Intelligenx, IntelliSearch Inc., ISYS Search Software, Lexalytics Inc., Linguamatics Ltd., Microsoft Corp., PolySpot SAS, Recommind, SchemaLogic Inc., Siderean Software Inc., Thetus Corporation, Vivisimo Corp., and ZyLAB.

See an abbreviated outline.

Availability
The report is in electronic form in PDF format, and is available for immediate purchase and download. A workgroup license (up to 10) is $895 ($795 if ordered before April 25, 2008); an enterprise site license is $1595 ($1495 if ordered before April 25, 2008). Order and download now on our secure e-commerce site or see more detailed ordering information at http://gilbane.com/beyond-search.html.

There are a small number of review copies available for qualified press. To request a review copy send email to beyondsearch@gilbane.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, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.

Contact:
Sarah G. Dionne
Gilbane Group Inc.
617.497.9443 ext 114
sarah@gilbane.com

When: April 9, 11:00 am ET

What: Inconsistencies in source documentation and their impact on translation costs and downstream processes, and how your company can address the problems

Who: across Systems, language services provider Argo Translation, Inc., Quad/Graphics, and Gilbane Group

How: Register now.

For more information, visit the Gilbane globalization blog.