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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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The call for papers deadline for Gilbane San Francisco is January 14th, 2009.

See: http://gilbane.com/blog/2008/12/call_for_papers_deadline_gilba.html

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

Decades of experience with XML technologies and content strategies provide unique ability to help organizations make appropriate technology choices and leverage industry best practices. New blog at http://gilbane.com/xml

Cambridge MA, January 29, 2008. Gilbane Group Inc. today announced the launch of a new practice area dedicated to helping organizations of all types utilize XML technologies and best practices. Well-known industry expert and long-time Gilbane associate Bill Trippe will be the practice’s Lead Analyst. Trippe is joined by industry veterans and Gilbane senior analysts Leonor Ciarlone and Mary Laplante.

Gilbane’s XML Technologies and Content Strategies Practice is designed for IT and business managers who need to gain control of critical content, increase collaboration across enterprise applications, improve efficiencies through faster and more flexible information distribution between business partners and customers, and implement new business models that can keep pace with today's internet-speed competitive requirements. The amount of XML content being generated today is staggering, as large infrastructure providers like Microsoft, IBM, Google, Oracle, and others offer tools and technologies that generate and manage XML information, While many organizations are taking advantage of XML within departmental applications, most companies are not even close to taking advantage of the XML information being created and utilized by popular applications including office software and database repositories. Significantly, many executives are unaware of the XML content and data that are untapped assets within their organizations.

“As most of our customers know, XML (and before that SGML) technologies and applications have always been core to our content and information technology consulting and coverage." said Frank Gilbane, Gilbane Group CEO. "Our team has deep expertise that comes from roles in enterprise IT organizations, software development, standards bodies and industry associations involved in development and adoption of markup language technologies for key business and government applications. While XML cuts across all our analyst and consulting activity, today's proliferation of XML content means that many businesses need to consider XML as strategic to their information infrastructure. Our group's experience and market knowledge uniquely qualify Gilbane to provide that expertise. I am thrilled that Bill Trippe, who is always in demand, will be the lead analyst and consultant for the Group."

“Project leaders, IT managers, and business executives have always depended on Gilbane Group to help them understand the value of applying standards and technologies to their businesses,” said Bill Trippe, Lead Analyst, XML Technologies and Content Strategies Practice. “With this new practice, we are bringing together research, best practices, and advice and guidance on XML implementation and technology acquisition that they cannot get from any other single source.”

To learn more about Gilbane Group’s XML Consulting and Advisory Practice, visit the group’s new blog launched today at http://gilbane.com/xml/ or send an email to xml@gilbane.com.

A quick reminder to mark your calendar, and to submit your speaking proposals before the upcoming deadlines:

Gilbane San Francisco - http://gilbanesf.com/
April 10-12, 2007, Palace Hotel
Call for Papers Deadline: January 3rd, 2007

Gilbane Washington DC - http://gilbanedc.com/
June 5-7, 2007, Reagan Building
Call for Papers Deadline: January 15th, 2007

http://gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html

The final results of the survey are at: http://gilbane.com/gilbaneboston_keynote_survey.html. We really appreciate the input from all of you who participated. The winner of the drawing for a free conference pass to a future Gilbane Conference has been notified, so if you contributed, check your email. We'll announce the winner once we receive their permission.

The survey on the list of questions for our keynote panel on Wednesday is still open, but we have published the results so far at: http://gilbane.com/gilbaneboston_keynote_survey.html.

There are a couple of different ways to calculate the most popular questions based on a combination of the "important", "interesting" and "not interesting" ratings. You can look at the results and come to your own conclusions, but no matter how you do it the popular questions so far are:

• What are the top 3 technologies that must be considered in any content management strategies in the next 12-24 months?
• Are search 'platforms' going to replace CMSs as the primary user entrance to content repositories?
• How will Blog and Wiki tools be used in enterprise content applications? How are they being used today?
• What is the number one advantage, and the number one disadvantage of each of the approaches represented on the panel (ECM suite, CM application, infrastructure CM, hosted CM, open source CM)?
• Are there any breakthrough classification or metadata tagging technologies on the horizon that will significantly impact content management strategies?
• How is widespread adoption of RSS/Atom going to affect content delivery? And what does this mean to enterprise content management or publishing strategies?
• How will the new SharePoint Server's CM capability affect the CM market?

You still have 2 days to cast your vote, and to get to Boston to hear the keynote panel (which is open to all) debate these and other questions.

We are repeating our Washington DC conference with CMS Watch on June 5-6, 2007, and the landing page for the event is now live at: http://gilbanedc.com/. We will be returning to the Reagan building.

The deadline for submitting speaking proposals for Gilbane Washington DC 2007 is January 15, 2007. See the Speaker Guidelines page for details on how to submit proposals, and the site landing page to see the topic areas we'll be covering.

Mark your calendars!

We'll be focused on our upcoming Boston conference for the next few weeks, but we are already working on our annual Spring event in San Francisco, April 10 - 13. We will be back at the Palace Hotel. The conference site address is now live at: http://gilbanesf.com/

Thursday, October 12, 2006, 1:00 pm EDT

Gilbane Group's Mary Laplante and FatWire's Jeff Ernst, discuss content, relevancy, and customer experience with invited guests from Endeca and Molecular. Webinar event hosted by FatWire. Register at:

http://www.fatwire.com/gilbanewebinar/