Gilbane Events & Announcements

50+ Exhibitors to Demonstrate Latest Solutions at 5th Annual Gilbane Boston Conference

2008-11-19T02:30:17Z

Technology Showcase Offers Attendees Chance to Visit One-On-One with Leading Vendors to Learn Strategies for Managing Content from Any Source Including Social Media

Boston, MA - November 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. The event is focused on helping organizations better understand how to address rapidly growing and increasingly diverse collections of content by implementing the latest technologies to create, manage, share, and deliver richer content more easily, sometimes cheaper, and often quicker. This year, over 50 content management vendors will introduce and show their latest technology innovations.

Mapping to the event's conference tracks, vendors will showcase a wide variety of solutions within the following categories: Web Content Management (WCM); Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies; Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs; "Enterprise 2.0" Technologies & Social Computing; Content Globalization & Localization; Enterprise Content Management (ECM); Enterprise Rights Management (ERM); Publishing Best Practices; and XML Content Strategies.

The following provides a sampling of technologies, services and solutions that will be on display:

FatWire will showcase its Web Experience Management portfolio, including FatWire Content Server, the premier Web Content Management platform; FatWire TeamUp, a market-leading collaboration and community solution; and the FatWire Content Integration Platform, which provides seamless access to content stored across the enterprise for publishing online.

Acumium's easy to use content management platform has achieved "top 3" recognition for a customer by Consumer Reports. Find out how you can do more with less by stopping by for a demo.

Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine is powering the next generation of information access, integrating enterprise search and BI capabilities by combining structured and unstructured data, from internal and external sources, in one universal index.

The Berndt Group will present industry leading intelligence on best practices for CMS selection and implementation, web strategy, web 2.0, and user experience. The company partners with a wide range of CMS vendors.

Blue Hue Interactive is an integrated consulting agency that collaborates with clients to build and sustain online brands by providing world-class solutions in eCommerce, content management, and rich media creation, integration, and delivery.

The Clickability On Demand Web Content Management Platform empowers the world's most innovative companies to reduce costs, increase revenue, build brands and foster stronger customer relationships by delivering content to every Web channel and device.

Content DSI, a system integrators and custom publishing solutions provider, has partnered with TEMIS, provider of Text Analytics Software. Come see how Luxid® 5.0 unlocks the business value across your entire data collection.

CoreMedia will introduce to North America its interactive hosted/SaaS Digital Asset Management Application CoreMedia Web TV along with its long proven content management software CoreMedia CMS 2008 featuring social software extensions.

Coveo will showcase its G2B™ solution, a powerful and radically easy to use enterprise search solution allowing you to seamlessly search and explore across all your multiple repositories - providing a unique information dashboard over your business knowledge. Download a FREE trial now - www.coveo.com/TryG2B

CrossTech Partners helps its clients realize marketing innovation by integrating their online new media marketing, live event marketing, and audience intelligence data platforms. Solutions include digital marketing campaigns, advanced web technology, social media, mobile delivery, event technology and audience master data management.

CrownPeak, the leader in Web content management delivered as a Software-as-a-Service, will display its award winning CMS that allows non-technical users to manage content, not technology. The result is easier and less expensive content management.

Ektron, Inc will showcase version 7.6 of CMS400.NET, recently released with revolutionary Web site synchronization (eSync), advanced SEO tools and Ektron's new personalization portal framework in a native .NET environment.

Ephox software allows creators of web content to be more productive and to collaborate more effectively. EditLive! is a browser-based, rich content HTML editor designed for non-technical business users and integrated into the leading web content management systems.

Fasoo.com will showcase DRM ONE for SharePoint, a packaged DRM solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which provides effective and persistent protection of any digital content in the ECM system developed on MOSS platform, enabling enterprises to complete ECM platform with safe information sharing.

The Geo Group Corporation is a full-service translation and localization agency. We offer translation, in-house desktop publishing (DTP), in-house video editing, voice-over recording in two in-house studios, disk duplication, website and software localization, and technical writing.

Kentico Software, a web content management vendor, will unveil Kentico CMS 4.0 for ASP.NET with a new Social Networking module that enables rapid implementation of community sites.

Lexalytics will be available to discuss text analytics and sentiment solutions that support enterprise search and reputation management efforts within organizations. Lexalytics will also showcase Salience 4.0, their latest software release.

Magnolia-on-Air finally meets the broadcast media's need to capture, repurpose and rapidly publish content on the web. Seamless production workflow significantly cuts costs, gets rich media content to the web first and invites community participation.

MultiLingual Computing, Inc. publishes the magazine MultiLingual -- the resource for doing global business. To celebrate the printing of our 100th issue, we are offering subscriptions at the 1989 cover price.

nSight is a technical and educational content development and publishing services firm. They'll be offering Gilbane Conference attendees a free documentation review and edit based on the principles of structured writing and single sourcing.

PaperThin will showcase its flagship product CommonSpot™ which organizations such as American University, the EPA, Hasbro, Sharp Healthcare, and the United Way have chosen to manage Web content and achieve more from their Web strategies.

Quark Inc. will demonstrate Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution, the enterprise technology that enables publishers to create content, manage workfows, and publish to all media. Quark's Michael Boses will present on DITA for enterprise publishing.

RedDot - The Open Text Web Solutions Group unveils a major new release, the Web Solutions Suite. The Suite provides enterprises with new solutions to rapidly deploy intranets, extranets, and Enterprise 2.0 applications with increased security and control.

Sajan will showcase their Global Content Lifecycle solutions: its guided authoring tool that gives a view into translation memory, and GCMS, its Translation Management System with advanced data management, automation and transparency.

SDL Tridion is the leading provider of Web Content Management Systems. Ranked #1 by industry analysts, our enterprise solutions empower businesses to quickly and easily deliver content to their target audiences.

SYSTRAN will demonstrate its market leading language translation software solutions for the desktop, enterprise and Internet, to facilitate multilingual communication and publishing in 52+ language combinations.

Translations.com announces its cutting-edge website translation solution, OneLink. As a completely hosted solution, OneLink revolutionizes website translation by removing client IT involvement completely while applying existing translation memory to streamline the workflow process.

Vamosa will feature many Fortune 500 references showing attendees how to squeeze the maximum benefit from investments in content management technology using its unique content quality solutions.

Vignette will showcase its Web Experience Management solutions that enable you to use rich media, video, interactivity and social media to engage Web audiences and drive revenue.

XyEnterprise will demonstrate BranchMerge, a powerful extension to its Contenta DITA CMS that allows content developers to create branched versions of content for editing and publishing, while maintaining links to the content's origin.

In addition, the 2008 CM Pros Fall Summit will take place in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Dec 2^nd.

The CM Pros Fall Summit will focus on all aspects of the content lifecycle. This highly interactive day puts attendees in direct contact with senior CMS practitioners. The event kicks off with two keynote addresses followed by a panel of CMS experts that will field questions from the attendees. The afternoon will be devoted to interactive roundtable discussions as participants tackle the challenges of moving content through the lifecycle. For more information, visit: http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/

To view a complete list of exhibitors, visit http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html

For registration information, visit http://gilbaneboston.com/registration_information.html

To learn more about exhibiting or sponsorships, contact Marc Goldstein at 781-821-6652, mgoldstein@lighthouseseminars.com

Media sponsors of the Gilbane Boston event include Business Wire, CMSWire, eContent Magazine, KMWorld and MultiLingual Magazine.

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://www.lighthouseseminars.com

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SharePoint at Gilbane Boston

2008-11-13T20:08:30Z

Everyone in IT needs to understand what SharePoint can do and how it might, or might not, play a role in their content or collaboration strategy. At Gilbane Boston in 3 weeks, we have a half-day intensive workshop, as well as a less time-consuming conference session devoted to SharePoint - and they cover different aspects so you could benefit from both. D: Making SharePoint Work in the Enterprise Instructor: Shawn Shell, Principal, Consejo, Inc. SharePoint has become virtually ubiquitous in many organizations. Whether through inclusion in an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft or a definitive business need that can be satisfied with the technology, SharePoint is popping up everywhere. However, organizations are still struggling with how this technology will complete "integrated" with their environment. Whether it's real integration with other line of business applications like SAP, PeopleSoft or Oracle Financials, or how SharePoint can be used in concert with other portal technologies like PlumTree, WebSphere, Broadvision and others is still a major challenge. To compound these challenges, not all aspects of SharePoint's technology suite are created equal or well understood. During this half-day seminar, Shawn Shell, founder of Consejo and internationally recognized SharePoint expert, will help attendees better understand the latest version of SharePoint. Key Points:

What is SharePoint (it's not just one product)
What are SharePoint's strengths and weaknesses
How can you integrate SharePoint with other Portal Technologies
Performance and Scalability
Governance

CTS-1: Web 2.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Moderator: Shawn Shell, Principal, Consejo, Inc. Blog: http://blog.consejoinc.com Microsoft SharePoint is fast becoming a fixture in many enterprises. At the same time, the very nature of online applications is fast evolving, leaving enterprises trying to understand how to apply new constructs like wikis, blogs, social networking and content syndication in the enterprise. Shawn Shell will explore how SharePoint enables organizations to take advantage of this new platform and integrate many web 2.0 constructs, improving overall information sharing and productivity. In this session, the following topics will be covered:

Brief overview of Web 2.0 in the broader market
What SharePoint provides
Demonstrations on leveraging native Web 2.0 SharePoint features like Wikis, Blogs, & Social Networking
How to effectively implement these capabilities in your enterprise
Best practices

See the Leading Content Technology Suppliers in Boston

2008-11-02T23:09:00Z

Gilbane Boston 2008 sponsors

Now is not the time to let your web site or intranet get in the way of business!

See the latest in web content management - commercial or open source, enterprise-ready social media tools, enterprise search, multilingual technology, and more at Gilbane Boston. Below are some of the technology and service providers you'll find there.

Exhibiting or Sponsorships Questions?
Please Contact: Marc Goldstein at 781-821-6652 or through mgoldstein@lighthouseseminars.com

Don't Miss the Gilbane Boston Discount Deadline - November 7th

2008-10-30T17:15:03Z

If you have not yet signed up to attend the Gilbane Boston Conference at the Westin Copley Place, December 2 - 4, 2008, there is still time to get the early-bird discount! In addition to our in-depth coverage of information technologies and content strategies, we are pleased to once again have the Content Management Professionals Fall Summit co-locate with our event. Both programs are available at http://gilbaneboston.com. You can still sign up for the free Technology Showcase pass, which gives you access to conference keynotes, the exhibit area and the networking reception on December 3rd. Or take advantage of the $200 discount off the already discounted rate for the ConferencePlus, ConferencePlus & CM Pros Fall Summit, Gilbane Conference & Pre-Conference Workshop or the Conference Only options. Just sign up by November ~~4th~~ 7th at http://gilbaneboston.com/registration_information.html and use the discount code - gilbane. Complete conference schedule: http://gilbaneboston.com/conference-schedule.html Pre-conference workshops: http://gilbaneboston.com/pre-conference_workshops.html Conference session descriptions: http://gilbaneboston.com/conference_descriptions.html The complete CMPROS Summit description: http://gilbaneboston.com/cmprossummit.html

Who are the best speakers on content technology? (cont. from San Francisco)

2008-10-16T17:38:46Z

We are honored to to be able to bring you the largest collection of leading practitioners, analysts, and technologists available this year at our San Francisco and Boston conferences. The powerful combination of content technology experts can only be found at Gilbane events. Our faculty at Gilbane Boston, December 2-4th, includes:

Erik Aeyelts Averink, President, SDL Tridion
Nate Aune, President and Founder, Jazkarta
Joseph Bachana, President/Founder, DPCI
Nora Barnes, Professor & Director, Center for Marketing Research, University of MA, Dartmouth
Jay Batson, CEO, Acquia
Geoff Bock, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Noah Broadwater, VP, Information Services, Sesame Workshop
John Carione, Senior Product Marketing Manager for LiveCycle Security Solutions, Adobe
David Carter, Founder & CTO, Awareness Networks
Win Carus, President and Founder, Information Extraction Systems
Jeff Catlin, CEO, Lexalytics Client
Dr. Kyugon Cho, CEO, Fasoo.com
Leonor Ciarlone, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Reid Conrad, CEO, Near-Time
Jeff Cram, Managing Director, ISITE Design
Guy Creese, VP and Research Director, Collaboration and Content Strategies, Burton Group
Andrew Draheim, Principal, Kidd and Draheim Inc.
Patricia Eagan, Senior Manager, Web Communications, The Jackson Laboratory
Michael Edson, Director, Web and New Media Strategy, Smithsonian Institution, Office of the CIO
James Ellis, Web Director, Wisconsin Alumni Association
Ben Elowitz, CEO, Wetpaint
Angela Foster, IT Manager, FedEx.com Development, FedEx
Elizabeth Foughty, Intelligent Data Understanding Research Group, NASA Ames
Aaron R. Fulkerson, CEO and Founder, Mindtouch
Dan Galvez, Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Hedgehog Development
Brad Gandee, VP, Product Marketing and Management, GigaTrust
Chip Gettinger, VP, XML Solutions, SDL Tridion
Frank Gilbane, CEO, Gilbane Group
Paul Gillin, Author and Consultant, New Media Technologies
John Girard, CEO, Clickability
Seth Gottlieb, Principal, Content Here
Yogesh Gupta, President and CEO, FatWire
Heather Hedden, Information Taxonomist, Hedden Information Management
Ulrich Henes, President, Localization Institute
Fred Hollowood, Director Language R&D, Shared Engineering Services, Symantec Corporation
Sophie Hurst, Senior Product Marketing Manager, SDL
Rob Joachim, Info Systems Engineer Lead, MITRE Corp
Karl Kadie, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Ajay Kapur, VP, Product Development, Apps Associates
Ben Kiker, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Interwoven
John Kreisa, Director of Product Marketing, Mark Logic Corporation
Mary Laplante, VP Consulting Services, Gilbane Group
David Lee, eBusiness Manager, 3M Company
David Lipsey, Managing Director, Global Practice, Media & Entertainment, FTI Consulting
Glen McInnis, Practice Lead for Enterprise Content Management Solutions, Nonlinear
Curt Monash, Monash Research
Lynda Moulton, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Gary Muddyman, Managing Director and CEO, Conversis
John Newton, CTO and Chairman, Alfresco
Leslie Owens, Analyst, Forrester Research
Natasja H.M. Paulsen, Partner, Ordina Consulting
Steve Paxhia, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Stephen Powers, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Sid Probstein, CTO, Attivio
Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Research, Yahoo
Kathleen Reidy, Senior Analyst, The 451 Group
Bill Rosenblatt, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Shannon Ryan, Co-Founder, President, and CEO, Nonlinear
Andrew Savikas, GM Tools of Change, O' Reilly Media
Thomas Schaefer, Systems Analyst and Consultant, U.S. General Services Administration
Eric Severson, CTO, Flatirons Solutions
Shawn Shell, Principal, Consejo
Dennis Shirokov, Marketing Manager, FedEx Digital Access Marketing, FedEx
Jerry Silver, Lead Product Manager, EMC/Documentum
Nitish Singh, Assistant Professor of International Business, Boeing Institute of Int. Business, St. Louis University
Marc Solomon, Knowledge Planner, PRTM
Aaron Strout, Vice President of Social Media, mZinga
Dmitri Tcherevik, CTO, Fatwire
Bill Trippe, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Brian Vandeventer, IT Manager, The Hartford
Melissa Webster, Program Vice President, Content & Digital Media Technologies, IDC
Michael Wechner, President, Wyona
Jeff Whatcott, Vice President of Marketing, Acquia
Tony White, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Rob Wiesenberg, President and Founder, Contegra Systems
Aaron Williams, VP, Enterprise Services Community & Co-Innovation Engineering Americas, SAP AG
Nathan Williams, Interactive Director, New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corp

See the speaker biographies.

Conference program

Webinar: Component Content Management in Action

2008-10-15T19:15:57Z

November 3, 1:00 pm ET XML and structured content, by themselves, don't solve business problems. Their true value lies in what's possible once content is structured. The right standards frameworks (such as DITA and S1000D), processes, and technologies can advance XML-based business solutions that enable companies to realize value. Component content management (CCM) is proving to be fundamental in scenarios for success. This webinar is online panel discussion of "threes":

three companies in
three industries using CCM for
three different high-value content applications from
three perspectives: customer, technology supplier, and industry analyst.

You'll hear about business drivers behind CCM, how CCM is deployed, benefits, and lessons learned. Featured speakers are Mark Tiegs, Team Lead, Documentation Systems and Support, Research in Motion; Karen Moser, Manager, Documentation and Localization Services, Research in Motion; Kevin Duffy, XyEnterprise President and CEO; and Bill Trippe from Gilbane. Register and attend the webinar, and you'll be among the first to read the new white paper on Component Content Management: How True CCM Technology Drives the Most Compelling Content Initiatives. Moderated by Gilbane Group. Hosted by XyEnterprise.

Workshop: How to Select a Web Content Management System

2008-10-14T20:39:02Z

There is a lot more to choosing a web content management system than you might think, as you know if you have been through the process before. But even if you are going through the process a second or third time, you will want to get caught up on how much has changed in terms of the players and the technology. This workshop is a great way to get up-to-speed the day before our main conference, and before you visit the major WCM vendors in the technology demonstration area. How to Select a Web Content Management System Instructor: Seth Gottlieb, Principal, Content Here 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 Register today.

Webinar: Structured Content for Innovation: Organize Today to Exploit Tomorrow's Promises

2008-10-09T20:42:03Z

Thursday, October 23, 2:00 pm ET Third in a series of webinars on developing a strategic roadmap for structured content Featured speakers from the first two webinars on the ROI Blueprint discuss how structured content can bring real innovation to business applications throughout the enterprise. Participants are:

Geoff Bock, Gilbane Group
Eric Severson, Flatirons Solutions
Bruce Sharpe, JustSystems
Dale Waldt, aXtive Minds

Registration is open. Recordings of previous webinars are available if you want to get up to speed on the larger discussion of enterprise value of structured content. Moderated by Gilbane Group. Sponsored by JustSystems.

Join the Pros at the Content Management Professionals Summit in Boston

2008-09-26T15:10:03Z

Join CM Pros on December 2nd at The Westin Copley Place in Boston as they explore The Content Lifecycle.

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.

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/

Webinar: New Generation Knowledge Management

2008-09-25T17:42:24Z

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET
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!

Webinar: Structured Content for Leadership: Differentiate with Advanced Practices

2008-09-19T15:41:26Z

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.

Head of Yahoo! Research and Smithsonian Director of Web and New Media Strategy to Keynote Gilbane Boston Content Management Conference

2008-09-18T13:09:33Z

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.

Gilbane Boston brings together industry experts from leading technology, enterprise IT, analyst, and consulting firms who provide attendees with the latest successful content management strategies, technologies and techniques. Topics covered at this year’s event include: Web Content Management (WCM); Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies; Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs; "Enterprise 2.0" Technologies & Social Computing; Content Globalization & Localization; Enterprise Content Management (ECM); Enterprise Rights Management (ERM); Publishing Best Practices; and XML Content Strategies.

Keynote Sessions

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.

To view additional information on the keynotes as well as the entire conference program, visit: http://gilbaneboston.com/conference_descriptions.html

As organizations are working to get their hands around rapidly growing and increasingly diverse collections of content, new Web technologies are providing opportunities to create, manage, share, and deliver richer content more easily, sometimes cheaper, and often quicker. This does not mean organizations need to "rip and replace" existing systems - "content management" is not simply an application, but a strategy that employs a wide range of tools and practices that complement each other.

“The challenge is to figure out what works and what doesn't, and what works together,” said Conference Chair Frank Gilbane. “What are the successful combinations of web content management, enterprise search, social media, infrastructure, etc? This year Gilbane Boston will focus on helping organizations move beyond the traditional mainstream content technologies to enhanced "2.0" versions.”

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

To exhibit or sponsor visit: http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html

Media sponsors of the Gilbane Boston event include Business Wire, CMSWire, eContent, KMWorld and MultiLingual Magazine.

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

New Gilbane Study Indicates Growing Demand for Enterprise Rights Management

2008-09-16T19:33:45Z

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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