September 2009 Archives

For Immediate Release:

Cambridge MA, September 29, 2009. Gilbane Group Inc. today announced that Bill Trippe has been promoted to Vice President & Lead Analyst, Content Strategies. In his new role at Gilbane Group, Bill will be a core part of the management team, and will be focused on continuing to grow Gilbane Group's strategy consulting and advisory business.

Trippe was previously Lead Analyst for Gilbane's XML Technologies and Content Strategies Consulting Practice, where he led efforts helping businesses, publishers and government agencies build successful strategies especially for large and complex content management and publishing requirements. His new role reflects his success and the need to grow the management team to accommodate the growth in consulting business.

"Bill and I have worked together in variety of capacities for many years, and I'm thrilled that we'll be working together even more closely." said Frank Gilbane, CEO of the Gilbane Group. "Bill's expertise and experience combined with his strong interpersonal skills keep him in high demand from both customers and colleagues".

"Clearly articulated content strategies are essential to getting business case funding in today's economic climate," comments Mary Laplante, VP Client Services, Programs and Consulting. "Bill's new role is a response to growing demand by users and buyers for help with developing sustainable content strategies that deliver measurable value."

"I am excited to be taking on this new role at Gilbane. The content management landscape continues to be dynamic and compelling, and I look forward to helping our clients leverage technology for productivity, new product development, and overall growth and success." said Bill Trippe, VP & Lead Analyst, Content Strategies.

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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 60 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Our next event is Gilbane Boston, December 1-3, 2009 - http://gilbaneboston.com/. Information about our widely read newsletter, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.

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Contact:
Gilbane Group, Inc.
Ralph Marto, 617-497-9443 ext 117
ralph@gilbane.com

The dates for our annual San Francisco conference next spring are May 17 - 20, 2010. The event will return to the Westin Market St hotel. Note that these dates are different than the dates we originally posted!

A: How to Select a Web Content Management System
Instructor: Seth Gottlieb, Principal, Content Here

Where: Gilbane Boston Conference, Westin Copley
When: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Selecting a CMS is not like your typical software selection. Unlike other software categories, the CMS marketplace has no clear winners and there are hundreds of viable solutions. You have options of commercially licensed software, software as a service, and open source software and the systems themselves are all highly configurable frameworks so it is difficult to tell what is an aspect of platform and what is an aspect of the demo. There is no one size fits all solution because your content is tightly bound to business processes and structures that are unique to your organization. Unlike accounting and other operational aspects of your business, there are few industry-accepted standards for managing web content. Maybe the problem with the system you are replacing is not the technology but how you are using it. Selecting a CMS is hard but it is not impossible.

In this session Seth Gottlieb will offer pragmatic advice for conducting an effective CMS selection and will walk through a process to help you to:

• Analyze your requirements to the optimal level of detail
• Understand what you need in a software supplier
• Evaluate potential solutions
• Know what to expect through implementation and beyond

All pre-conference worshop descriptions: http://gilbaneboston.com/workshops.html
Main conference program: http://gilbaneboston.com/conference_program.html

Register today!

For Immediate Release:

Gilbane Boston 2009 Conference to Focus on Content, Collaboration & Customers

Boston, September 23, 2009 - Especially because of the difficult economic conditions, companies need to leverage the latest web technologies to maintain a high level of engagement with their customers, and improve employee productivity with collaboration best practices and social software. Holding down the costs of managing the proliferating amount of content can often be most effectively accomplished by implementing new tools and practices. The sixth annual Gilbane Boston (http://gilbaneboston.com), December 1- 3, 2009 at the Westin Copley Hotel in Boston, will focus on these issues with the theme “Content, Collaboration & Customers.”

Produced by The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, the 2009 Gilbane Boston conference will offer enhanced programs tied to competitive business and productivity issues surrounding a company’s content, collaboration & customers. The conference tracks have been organized around the four major areas of how enterprises use web and content technologies and where they are most likely to invest, including:

• Web Business & Engagement
• Managing Collaboration & Social Media: Internal & External
• Enterprise Content: Searching, Integrating & Publishing
• Content Infrastructure

“Our tagline this year is "Content, Collaboration & Customers", and as usual, we'll be discussing a wide range of related topics and covering all the important trends.”, said Conference Chair Frank Gilbane. “Four areas we are paying extra attention to are:

Managing enterprise social content. This should not be a surprise. The increasing use of social software in business and government environments for both internal and customer communications means more content, of a different kind, to be managed.

Managing enterprise mobile content. Smartphones are replacing noteboooks and desktops as clients for many enterprise applications, and complementing them for even more. Mobile is another enterprise channel with unique content requirements.

SharePoint & Office 2010 and web content management. As the SharePoint surge continues with the upcoming release of 2010, early signs point to increased emphasis on web content management and integration between WCM, Office and SharePoint. How will this affect the content management market?

E-government & transparency. We are seeing a lot of activity here among both state and federal agencies, and there are special content management challenges that in most projects mean integrating new technologies and practices (e.g., social software) with established information management approaches (e.g., XML, XBRL).”

The schedule of conference sessions is at http://gilbaneboston.com/conference-schedule.html.

The pre-conference workshops feature thought leaders with in-depth information on: selecting a web content management system, web operations management, taxonomy validation, and managing “smart content”. In addition, the co-located CM Pros Summit includes workshops on open source products and content migration. The full schedule of workshops can be found at http://gilbaneboston.com/workshops.html

Microsoft will be highlighted as the Platinum sponsor at Gilbane Boston Conference. Gold Sponsors include Alterian, Atex, CoreMedia, EPiServer, Jive Software, SDL Tridion and Sitecore. These industry leaders will be joined by many other solution provider exhibitors and sponsors of the conference.

Media sponsors of the Gilbane Boston Conference include Business Wire, CMS Critic, CMS Report, CMS Wire, Damtrends.com, Fierce Content Management, KMWorld and MultiLingual Magazine.

Receive updates and follow the conference on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gilbaneboston

IT and business professionals involved in content creation, management, delivery or analytics wishing to attend the conference can register at: http://gilbaneboston.com/registration_information.html

Technology solution providers wishing to exhibit or sponsor should contact Marc Goldstein at 781-821-6652 or 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 60 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. Twitter handle: http://twitter.com/gilbane.

About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars' events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and publishing technologies. http://lighthouseseminars.com.

Contact
Lighthouse Seminars
Jeffrey V. Arcuri, 508-759-8180
jeff@lighthouseseminars.com

See the updated list of vendors at: http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html

Here is the current list of sponsors and exhibitors as of September 17 focused on web content management, collaboration and content-oriented enterprise applications that will be at Gilbane Boston December 1-3. If you are in the market for a solution, or want to see the latest product updates, this is the largest collection vendors in one location this fall!

Check the site for updates and follow the conference on twitter.

Content, Collaboration & Customers

Gilbane Boston - where even the experts come to keep up-to-date - is focused on the business impact of content solutions that are here now and ready to be implemented today. Every program component is tied to the business issues surrounding your marketing, technical and enterprise content. We've taken the four major areas of how enterprises use Web and content technologies and organized them into tracks that make it easy for you to customize an agenda that meets your business objectives. Along the way you'll have direct interaction - including valuable one-on-one time - with our unique community of enterprise practitioners, analysts, consultants, solution providers and the option to join our new VIP Program.

Learn about the latest strategies, practices and technologies for:

• Web Content Management (WCM)
• Enterprise Social Software
• Enterprise Mobile Content
• Authoring & Publishing
• Content Globalization
• XML & XBRL
• Enterprise & Site Search
• Semantic Technologies
• Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Pre-Conference Workshops & Conference Program just posted!

Make your conference experience even more valuable with one of our in-depth, 1/2-day pre-conference workshops:

• How to Select a Web Content Management System ~ Instructor: Seth Gottlieb, Principal, Content Here
• Managing Smart Content: How to Deploy XML Technologies across Your Organization ~ Instructors: Geoff Bock, Dale Waldt, Bill Trippe, Barry Schaeffer & Neal Hannon, Senior Analysts, Gilbane Group
• How to Validate a Taxonomy ~ Instructors: Joseph A. Busch, Founder & Principal, Taxonomy Strategies LLC & Dave Cooksey, Founder & Principal, saturdave
• Managing the Web: The Fundamentals of Web Operations Management ~ Instructor: Christine Pierpoint, Partner, Welchman Pierpoint

For more details on the workshops visit http://gilbaneboston.com/workshops.html

For more details on the conference visit http://gilbaneboston.com/conference_program.html

Registration is open:
For Early Discounts: Sign up by October 30, 2009 and use discount code GILBANE to save an additional $200!

Save the date and check http://gilbaneboston.com for additional program information ...

Follow Gilbane Boston on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gilbaneboston

We look forward to seeing you in Boston!

The Lighthouse Seminars & Gilbane Group Team
http://gilbaneboston.com/

Gilbane’s 2009 research on multilingual content indicates that global companies are making steady progress towards overcoming language afterthought syndrome – a pattern of treating language requirements as secondary considerations within their content strategies and solutions. This presentation delivers insight into how market-leading companies are adopting content globalization strategies, practices, and infrastructures that position language requirements as integral to end-to-end solutions rather than as ancillary post-processes. The session is designed for content and language professionals and managers who need to know how to bring capabilities like automated translation management, terminology management, multilingual multichannel publishing, and global content management into the mainstream. Takeaways include data and case studies that can be used in business cases to move language requirements out of the back room once and for all.

Localization World Silicon Valley, 20-22 October, Santa Clara Convention Center