Gilbane Events & Announcements

This Summit aims to gather the wisdom of content management practitioners and create best practices. Whatever your area of content management expertise, attend the CM Pros Fall Summit if you're genuinely interested in sharing your experience and learning about other people's projects.

We'll kickoff the morning with two keynote speakers: Bob Boiko will address the group on the Complexities of the Content Lifecycle and Tony White will speak on the Future Trends Impacting the Content Lifecycle. Next, quiz the expert panel of senior CMS practitioners with your questions about content management. Then, work with Bob Boiko as he leads the interactive CMS Content Lifecycle Poster Workshop to create a CM Pros Lifecycle Poster.

Attendees will determine the afternoon topics and break into facilitated, interactive roundtable discussions to tackle content lifecycle challenges. Facilitators include

• David Aponovich, ISITE Design
• Mollye Barrett, ClearPath
• Jeff Cram, ISITE Design
• Don DePalma, Common Sense Advisors
• Seth Earley, Earley & Associates
• Seth Gottlieb, Content Here
• Heather Hedden, Viziant Corporation
• Brad Kain, Quoin Inc.
• Bruce Nevin, Cisco Systems
• Stephen Powers, Forrester
• Bryant Shea, Molecular
• Jeff Tarbox, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
• Tony White, Gilbane Group
• Andrew Wilcox, EverAge Consulting

The CM Pros Fall Summit is held in conjunction with the Gilbane Boston
Conference: Where Content Management Meets Social Media.

Register before November 4th and receive a free pass to the Gilbane
Technology Showcase and Sponsor Reception.

Useful Links:

Summit: http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/

Program: http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/program

Presenters: http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/presenters

Registration: http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/register

Gilbane Conference: http://gilbaneboston.com/

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Organizations are faced with critical knowledge management issues including knowledge capture, IP retention, search and discovery, and fostering innovation. The failure to properly address these issues results in companies wasting millions of dollars through inefficient information discovery and poor collaboration techniques. Today's knowledge management systems must blend social media technologies with enterprise search, access, and discovery tools to give users a 360-degree view of their information assets. This blend is the foundation for new generation knowledge management.

Moderated by Andy Moore, Publisher of KMWorld Magazine, join Senior Analyst Leonor Ciarlone and Phil Green, CTO at Inmagic for a discussion on perspectives from Gilbane's report on Collaboration and Social Media 2008, the power of Social Knowledge Networks, and an introduction to Inmagic® Presto.

Space is limited, register here!

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Thursday, October 2, 2:00 pm ET

Second in a series of webinars on developing a strategic roadmap for structured content

This online panel discussion with industry experts focuses on emerging applications that can truly differentiate an organization. Topics are based on the "Leadership" view of the ROI Blueprint developed by JustSystems with support from Gilbane. You might be surprised to hear how structured content is delivering value in unexpected ways in unexpected places within the enterprise.

Participants are:

• Yas Etessam, VMware


• Bill Trippe, Gilbane


• Dale Waldt, aXtive Minds

This webinar is a companion to the first session on September 11, in which we examined applications in wide practice, and the third covering innovation on October 23. The series is sponsored by JustSystems.

Register for one or both of the October webinars. A recording of the first event is available if you want to get up to speed on the larger discussion of enterprise value of structured content.

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Annual Conference to Help Attendees Address Growing Content Management Requirements Generated by Social Media Tools

Boston, September 18, 2008 - “Where Content Management Meets Social Media” is the focus of the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference (http://gilbaneboston.com/), set to take place December 2-4, 2008 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Produced by the Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, this year’s lineup of keynote speakers will be led by the Head of Yahoo! Research, Prabhakar Raghavan and the Smithsonian Institute’s Director of Web and New Media Strategy, Michael Edson. Yogesh Gupta, technology visionary and CEO of FatWire will present a keynote on how to best use the Web to drive business results and rounding out the keynote sessions are an all industry-analyst panel discussion on trends, challenges and opportunities and a panel session on Global Content Value Chain (GCVC) strategies with participants from 3M Company and Jonckers.

The Future of Search
If search engines can make deep use of structured information about content, provided through open standards, then search engines and site owners can together bring consumers a far richer experience. We are entering a period of massive change to enable search engines to handle more complex content. Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research, will address the future of search: how search engines are becoming more sophisticated, what the breakthrough point will be for semantics on the Web and what this means for developers and publishers.

A Smithsonian Commons: Developing the Smithsonian’s Web and New Media Strategy
Michael Edson, Director, Web and New Media Strategy, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution presents the Smithsonian Institution’s current Web and New Media strategy process and the cultural, technical, and organizational implications of the vision of a Smithsonian Commons – a critical-mass of content, services, and tools designed to fuel innovation and stimulate engagement with the world’s scientific and cultural knowledge.

Online Engagement - The Key to Success in Good Times and Bad
With powerful social networking, personalization and web content management capabilities, Web Experience Management (WEM) is the cornerstone of these engagement strategies. FatWire CEO and technology visionary Yogesh Gupta will discuss how online engagement and WEM are transforming how organizations are able to use the web to drive business results - in positive and challenging economic times.

Keynote Industry Analyst Panel
This is an opportunity for conference attendees to hear differing opinions from a wide variety of expert sources. A second, third, fourth or fifth opinion will help attendees avoid making ill-informed decisions about critical content and information technologies or strategies. Analysts from the Gilbane Group, IDC, the 451 Group and The Burton Group will participate.

Foundations for Global Content Value Chain Strategies
A Global Content Value Chain (GCVC) is a strategy for moving multilingual content from creation through consumption. The strategy is supported by practices in disciplines such as content management and localization/translation management. Attendees will hear how a global company, 3M Company, with a widely-recognized brand is building foundational capabilities to execute its GCVC strategies.

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

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Increasing awareness, growth of technology adoption enables Gilbane Group to create landmark study of current ERM practice

Cambridge, MA, Sept 16 - Gilbane Group, Inc., the analyst and consulting firm focused on content technologies and their application to high-value business solutions, today released the industry's first reliable picture of enterprise rights management adoption in its new study, Enterprise Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness. The growth in the number of companies adopting or planning to adopt means that for the first time, enough data exists to produce a study that is meaningful for users and vendors alike. As a result, Gilbane Group's new report presents the most comprehensive publicly available research on the ERM market ever undertaken.

ERM: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness is backed by qualitative and quantitative research on general awareness of ERM, the current state of ERM deployments or plans to deploy (or decisions to avoid the technology), and target applications. According to study data:

• Protecting confidential information from leaking outside the organization is the primary motivation driving ERM adoption.
• ERM is becoming important for supporting information usage regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (accounting) and HIPAA (healthcare).
• Apart from regulatory compliance, client/customer communications and financial processes are other types of business processes involving confidential information that are the most prevalent for ERM implementations.
• 55% of ERM implementations are integrated with content management solutions (including knowledge management and groupware/collaboration).

"The study reports increasing awareness of the significant risks associated with information leakage and the business processes that are most vulnerable. Our research shows that companies are taking more focused steps to address those risks, including implementation of enterprise rights management," said study leader Bill Rosenblatt, Senior Analyst, Gilbane Group, and President, Giant Steps Media Technology Strategies. "At the same time, infrastructure obstacles to implementation are eroding. This is making it easier for companies to adopt solutions, which is certainly good news for ERM vendors."

"The study confirms the steady growth in the ERM market that we have been experiencing ourselves over the past few years," said Dr. Kyugon Cho, CEO of Fasoo.com, one of the study's Platinum Sponsors. "Moreover, the survey respondents cite a breadth of applications for ERM that go beyond what we have seen from our own customers. This makes us even more optimistic about the future of ERM."

"This study reinforces GigaTrust's focus on adding the types of extensions and enhancements for ERM that meet customer requirements and speed deployments. With these findings we think Gilbane will also help spur adoption as organizations see that their situation is not necessarily unique and that there are solutions out there to meet their needs," said Brad Gandee, VP Product Marketing and Management at GigaTrust, also a Platinum Sponsor of the Gilbane study.

Gilbane Group's study methodology included a survey of over 200 senior IT, security, and content management professionals across a range of vertical industries, conducted in cooperation with the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The research also draws on in-depth case studies on ERM deployments at six multinational companies; the case studies are included in the report.

Enterprise Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness is available as a free download from the Gilbane Group website at http://gilbane.com. The report is also available from study sponsors EMC, Fasoo.com, GigaTrust, and Microsoft.

About Gilbane Group

Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of content and information technologies since 1987. Clients include organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. Gilbane works with the entire community of stakeholders including investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant and analyst firms. The firm has organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Its widely read newsletter, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs are available at http://gilbane.com.

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ASIDIC FALL 2008 MEETING: Business 2.0: From Theory to Practice
September 15, 2008, 1:00-2:00, Salem, MA
Senior Analyst, Bill Trippe & Senior Analyst Geoffrey Bock, "Technology 2.0"

ASIDIC FALL 2008 MEETING: Business 2.0: From Theory to Practice
September 16, 2008, 9:30-10:00, Salem, MA
Lead Analyst, Lynda Moulton, "Content 2.0-Getting 'Use' Out of Your IP"

ESS West San Jose
September 24, 2008
Senior Analyst Leonor Ciarlone, "Mastering Multilingual Search"

KMWorld Webinar
October 7, 2008
Senior Analyst Leonor Ciarlone, "Social Knowledge Networks"

Trisoft Day
October 7, 2008, San Jose, CA
VP Consulting, Mary Laplante

Sajan Executive Forum
October 9, 2008, River Falls, Wisconsin
Senior Analyst, Karl Kadie

Localization World
October 13-15, 2008, Madison WI
VP Consulting, Mary Laplante & Lead Analyst, Leonor Ciarlone

2008 RSuite User Conference
October 14-15, 2008, Cira Centre, Philadelphia, PA
Senior Analyst, Bill Trippe

KITES Symposium 2008
October 23, 2008, Kouvola Officer's Club, Kouvola, Finland
CEO, Frank Gilbane, "Multilingualism & New Information Management Technology"

eMarketing Association's eMarketing Conference
October 29-30, 2008, Doubletree Buckhead Atlanta
Tony White, Lead Analyst, "How Much is Your Brand Worth? Protecting and Leveraging Your Brand on the Web"

Mark Logic Digital Publishing Summit
November 6, 2008, Westin Times Square, New York City
Lead Analyst, Steve Paxhia

CM Pros Fall Summit 2008
December 2 2008, 9:15-10:00, Westin Copley, Boston
Tony White, Lead Analyst, "Web Content of the Future: Trends and Opportunities"

NFAIS Conference (National Federation of Advanced Information Services)
The Impact of Digital Natives and Emerging Technology on the Future of
Information Services
February 22-24, 2009, Philadelphia, PA
VP Consulting, Mary Laplante & Lead Analyst, Leonor Ciarlone

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Update: Time Correction!
Wednesday, September 24, 11:00 AM ET

Gilbane's study on multilingual communications confirms that enterprise strategies for creating, managing, and publishing multilingual business communications are often vague, if they exist at all. Without these strategies, companies face significant risk and loss of competitive advantage, especially as pressures to grow revenues, control costs, and satisfy customers increase exponentially. If you don't have a multilingual content strategy in place, how do you get started? If you do, how do you advance your processes and improve performance and quality?

Andrew Thomas from SDL joins us in an online panel discussion on making the case for multilingual content strategies. The webinar draws on new research from Gilbane and real-world experience of SDL's customers. Registration is open. Sponsored by SDL.

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You can now view the conference program, ask for a brochure to be sent to you, or sign-up for the 5th annual Gilbane Boston Conference, Where Content Management Meets Social Media, at the Westin Copley Place, December 2 - 4, 2008.

Content management is an ongoing process that includes multiple technologies and disciplines. As organizations continue to struggle with rapidly growing and increasingly diverse collections of content, new web technologies, especially social media, are providing opportunities to create, manage, share, and deliver richer content more easily, sometimes cheaper, and often quicker. This year we'll focus on helping you move beyondthe mainstream content technologies you may be used to, to enhanced "2.0" versions, that keep your customers engaged, improve internal communication and collaboration, and open up new business markets and opportunities.

Join the conversation with the leading industry experts from technology, enterprise IT, analyst and consulting firms who will keep you engaged and educated on the latest successful strategies, technologies and techniques so you can ensure your organization makes practical investments, well-informed decisions, and doesn't get left behind.

• Web Content Management (WCM)
• Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies
• Social Media & "Enterprise 2.0" Collaboration Technologies
• Content Globalization & Localization
• XML Content Strategies
• Publishing Technology & Best Practices
• Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
• Enterprise Rights Management (ERM)

See the complete conference schedule at:
http://gilbaneboston.com/conference-schedule.html

See the conference session descriptions at:
http://gilbaneboston.com/conference_descriptions.html

See the in-depth pre-conference workshops at:
http://gilbaneboston.com/pre-conference_workshops.html

Sponsors & exhibitors to-date are listed at:
http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html

Don't miss the industry's most popular and respected event.
Registration is now open at:
http://gilbaneboston.com/registration_information.html

Pre-Conference Workshops
Tuesday, December 2: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Conference
Wednesday, December 3: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, December 4: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Exhibit Hours
Wednesday, December 3: 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Thursday, December 4: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

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Gilbane Boston 2008
Where Content Management Meets Social Media
Westin Copley Place, December 2 - 4, 2008

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