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Event Offers Alternative to Traditional Tradeshows with Heavy Focus on Providing Independent Research and Insight from Multiple Industry Analyst Firms

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars today announced that last week’s fourth annual Gilbane Boston event (http://gilbaneboston.com) at the Westin Copley Place hotel, drew over 70 exhibitors and had an 18 percent increase in attendance, making it one of the largest and most important annual content management events. Attendees from companies such as Caterpillar, General Motors Corporation, Hilton Hotels, Morgan Stanley and Staples participated in the event to obtain independent analysis of technologies and trends from the large gathering of industry analysts and to view the latest solutions introduced by the exhibitors.

In 2008, Gilbane will build on its recent momentum by hosting two events, one in San Francisco, June 18-20 and one in Boston, December 2-4. The events will continue to focus on a variety of key content management topics including Enterprise Search & Text Analytics; Semantic Web Technologies; Content Technologies & Strategies; Web Content Management; Collaboration & Social Computing; Global Content Management; and Enterprise Publishing Technology. For more information on these events visit: http://lighthouseseminars.com/FutureEvents.html

“The Gilbane conference was one of the best conferences of the year for our company,” said Mark Chartier, sales director, IntelliSearch. “The speakers and the content of the sessions spoke directly to the concept that Content management and Enterprise Search is not just an application but a strategy. The people that showed up for the conference were exactly the people we were looking to talk to about our enterprise search solution. We also liked the exhibition format with respect to the technology demonstrations as there was a constant flow of new faces during the exhibition and a wide range of vendors from content management to enterprise search like ourselves.”

Separating this event from other tradeshows and conferences is the large contingency of industry analysts ready to share research with attendees. At last week’s event, analysts participated from 451Group, CMS Watch, Gilbane Group, Forrester Research, IDC, Outsell, Jupiter Research, and other firms. In particular, the Gilbane Group launched seven research studies at the event covering a variety of topics including Web content management, enterprise collaboration and social computing, enterprise search, enterprise digital rights management and more. To obtain additional information on these reports visit http://gilbane.com.

“Attendees are looking to obtain information that they can use to help them make the right decisions when it comes to purchasing and implementing content management technologies within their enterprise. Our event provides attendees with substance and this is reflected in the rapid growth of the event year over year. We are bringing together industry thought leaders, technology innovators and enterprise users together to learn, share and debate what information technologies will help increase revenue opportunities and improve operational efficiencies both internally and externally,” said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair.

To learn more about 2008 exhibiting or sponsorship opportunities contact Marc Goldstein at 781-821-6652, 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 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

If you attended Gilbane Boston last week, you can can access the presentations by using the link printed in your conference guide at the bottom of most of the pages. There are still a few more presentations being added, so if you don't see one you were looking for check back later.

Study Topics Include Web Content Management, Enterprise Search, Collaboration and Social Computing, Digital Publishing, Enterprise Digital Rights Management, e-Books, and “Beyond Search”

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gilbane Group Inc. announced today at the 4th annual Gilbane Boston Conference (http://gilbaneboston.com) that they have seven research studies underway that will be published over the next few months. The research for some of these studies is already complete, and preliminary results will be discussed at this week’s conference at the Westin Copley Place Hotel, Tuesday through Thursday (On-site registration is available).

The 7 studies are:

Survey on the Web Content Management User Experience – From our Web Content Management Practice, led by Tony White. Learn more at the conference. See: http://gilbaneboston.com/session_descriptions.html#wcm1

Enterprise Collaboration and Social Computing: A Report on Industry Trends & Best Practices – From our Social Computing and Collaboration Practice, led by Geoffrey Bock. Learn about some of the preliminary results at the conference. See: http://gilbaneboston.com/session_descriptions.html#csc3

Digital Magazine & Newspaper Editions: Growth, Trends, and Best Practices – From our Cross Media Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice led by Steve Paxhia.

Enterprise Search Markets and Applications: Capitalizing on Emerging Demand – From our Enterprise Search Practice, led by Lynda Moulton.

Enterprise Digital Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness – From our Cross Media Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice. Study led by Bill Rosenblatt.

Digital Platforms & Technologies for Book Publishers: Implementations Beyond “eBook” – From our Cross Media Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice led by Steve Paxhia.

Beyond Search: What to do When you’re Enterprise Search System Doesn’t Work – A study authored by Steve Arnold, from our Enterprise Search Practice, led by Lynda Moulton.

Stop by the Gilbane Group booth at Gilbane Boston to learn more about any of these studies, or send an email to info@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.

CSC-3: Research Results: How Enterprise Customers View Social Computing
What are enterprise customers saying about the impact of social computing solutions? How does ad hoc information sharing transform the way work gets done? We've asked several researchers to summarize their findings about collaborative computing within the enterprise. Come listen to what they have to say and make your own judgments.

Moderator: Geoffrey Bock, Lead Analyst, Collaboration & Social Computing, Gilbane Group
Speakers:
Nora Ganim Barnes Ph.D., Chancellor Professor of Marketing and Director of the Center for Marketing Research, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Rachel Happe, Research Manager, Digital Business Economy, IDC

Global business mandates spell the end of cottage-industry approaches to global content management. It is imperative to rethink content management and translation process management, bringing these practices together effectively with people, process, and technology.

E. Buying and Implementing Content Management and Global Translation Management Systems
Andrew Draheim, Globalization Consultant, President, Dig-IT!

Managing content that will be created, used, and published in many parts of the world can be a daunting task, and companies are frequently faced with questions like:

• What information is needed, and by whom?


• How will information be published around the world and delivered to customers?


• What information should be translated, and into how many languages, and when and how?


• How can content be localized, even if it's not translated?


• How do we make sure the content is ready on time, when and where it's needed?


• Can we streamline the processes we're using today, and save time or money, or do we need new processes?


• What technologies can help us meet our global content needs on a realistic budget, and will they work for real-world applications?


• What lessons have early adopters learned and what solutions have they arrived at? How can new adopters take advantage of this experience?



Insights Into a Better Global Customer Experience at Gilbane Boston 2007

Participants in this workshop will:


• Review application scenarios to define the "must haves" and "wants" for good global content management.


• Learn best practices and implementation techniques from experts in the field, as well as what present technologies can and cannot deliver.


• Share experiences in managing content on a global scale and strategies for managing change and enhancing user acceptance.


• Understand how language-technologies can help manage global content.


• Develop individual requirements and guidelines for procuring and implementing technology for their own companies.

D. So You've Chosen a WCM System. Now What Implementation Best Practices Should You Follow?
Tony White, Lead Analyst, Web Content Management, Gilbane Group, Inc.
Particpants:
Joe Santini, Director,BeFirst Portal Project, Siemens Communications
Doug Miller, Web ProjectsManager, JudsonUniversity
Jeff Cram, Managing Director, ISITE Design

In this workshop, we will examine a set of four implementation best practices by hearing directly from end users who have implemented them. For each best practice, Gilbane WCM Lead Analyst Tony White will describe several common inferior alternatives and then introduce an end-user company whose deployment embodies the best practice. Topics will include:

• Maintaining Global Sites
• Workflow and Business Process
• Personalization
• Site Design and Layout

All presenters will speak candidly about the pros and cons of their approaches.

Register today.

EST-3: Enterprise Search & Text Analytics Track Keynote: Will Web and Internet Search Technologies Drive the Enterprise (Internal) Search Tool Offerings or Will the Markets Diverge?
Search has been elevated to a level of general public awareness as a result of the Internet and adoption of tools from AltaVista, Yahoo and Google over the past ten years. As billions are poured into Internet Web searching, enterprises still struggle to find good, cost effective solutions that bring a value proposition to their intellectual property assets, information within the organization. Three industry experts, who have combined decades of experience with "search," before it became a household word, will share their thoughts about what the enterprise market should expect that technology will bring to their business needs in the next two to five years.

Moderator: Lynda Moulton, Lead Analyst, Enterprise Search, Gilbane Group
Speakers:
Don Dodge, Director, Business Development, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft
Matt Brown, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.
Brian Dirking, Principal Product Director, Oracle

Our most popular pre-conference tutorial returns to Gilbane Boston on Tuesday, November 27. Tony Byrne's morning session is a great way to prepare for the full conference.

Web Content Management Systems: Architectures & Products
Instructor: Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch, Publisher, The CMS Report

Join us for a half-day tutorial that can help you and your team understand Web Content Management technologies, architectures, and the marketplace. CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne leads an intensive, fast-paced introduction to Web Content Management functionality, product categories, and specific vendors. The session concludes with a roadmap for product selection. Learn:

• 16 steps in the Web CMS lifecycle: questions you should ask and how vendors differ in how they achieve basic functionality
• 7 categories of CMS products, including features and typical price ranges
• Specific characteristics of sample vendors in each category
• How to start evaluating and ultimately select suitable technologies for an organization
• The 4 most common CMS pitfalls, and best practices for avoiding them

This session assumes you have developed a business case and at least some semblance of requirements such that you want to get into the nitty-gritty of product functionality and architectures. As a vendor-neutral presentation, this seminar will enable you to sharpen your organization's CMS needs and identify suitable technology choices.

Register today.

Once again we are very pleased to have a premier collection of experts on content and information technologies and the application of these technologies to enterprise business needs lined-up for our Boston Conference. Our speakers are carefully chosen to provide high value educational information. This is an elite group, and we encourage you to check out their linked bios (we have most of them), and join us all November 28-30 for discussion, debate, and networking. Learn what these experts have to say, what your peers are implementing, and see the technologies they are using.

Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair, CEO, Gilbane Group, Inc.
Andrew P. McAfee, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
David Mendels, Senior Vice President, Enterprise & Developer Solutions Business Unit, Adobe
Andy MacMillan, Vice President, ECM Product Management, Oracle
David Boloker, CTO Emerging Internet Technology, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Software Group
Tony White, Lead Analyst, Web Content Management, Gilbane Group
Richard Ferrie, Senior Vice President, Publishing Operations and Content Management, Pearson
Alan Mocksfield, Manager, Web Services & Applied Technology, Baystate Health
Jeff Hickey, Manager of International IT, Choice Hotels
Reed Fox, Director, Editorial Operations, Consumer Reports
Bill Roth, Vice President, Tools, BEA
Stephen Powers, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Kathleen Reidy, Analyst, The 451 Group
Melissa Webster, Program Vice President, Content & Digital Media Technologies, IDC
Don Dodge, Director, Business Development, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft
David Weinberger, Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Jeffrey Beir, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners
Daniel Costello, Founder & CTO, Acumium
Krista LaRiviere, Co-Founder & General Manager, Hot Banana
Dr. Donna L. Cuomo, Chief Information Architect, Center for Information Technology, Mitre Corporation
Mark Arbour, General Manager, Interactive Content & Compliance Software, EMC
Elliott Trice, Vice President of Experience, Avenue A | Razorfish
Judah Phillips, Director, Web Analytics, Reed Business Information (Reed Elsevier)
Jeff Cram, Co-Founder and Managing Director, ISITE Design
Erik Aeyelts Averink, President, Products & Solutions, Tridion
David Nelson Gal, Senior Vice President, Engineering, Interwoven
Christopher Bouton, Pfizer
Detlef Kamps, President, RedDot Solutions
Yogesh Gupta, CEO, FatWire
Dr. Conleth O’Connell, Chief Technology Officer, Vignette
Mary Laplante, Vice President, Gilbane Group, President, CM Pros
Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch
Phil Costa, Director of Product Management, Adobe
Silvio Galea, Development Manager, Harvard Business School Publishing
Simon Mathews, Director of Strategy, Molecular
Andrew Roberts, CEO, Ephox
Leonor Ciarlone, Lead Analyst, Content Globalization, Gilbane Group
Dee Stribling, Project Manager, SAS
Kim Riley, Manager, Endo Surgery Labeling & Lori Kegel, Manager Technical Communications, Boston Scientific
Jim Howard, CEO, CrownPeak
Richard Sikes, Senior Consultant & Advisor, The Localization Institute
Michelle Huff, Product Management Director, Oracle Content Management
Chip Gettinger, Vice President, Services & Sales Support, Astoria Software
Robinson Kelly, Founder & President, Clay Tablet
Eric Silberstein,CTO, Founder & Chairman, Idiom
Dmitri Grenader, Director, Product Management, Lionbridge
Kaija Pöysti, Partner, Blue White Ventures, & Contributor, Gilbane Group
Donald A. DePalma, Founder, Common Sense Advisory
Serge Gladkoff, Standards Committee Chair, GALA
Andrew Draheim, Globalization Consultant, President, Dig-IT!
Brian Shorey, Director, Engineering, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Paul Donegan, Manager, Group Information Services, Rentokil Initial PLC
Lynda Moulton, Lead Analyst, Enterprise Search, Gilbane Group
Dr. Burch T. Kealey, Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Nebraska-Omaha
Alain Heurtebise, CEO, Exalead
Rob Weisenberg, President, Contegra Systems
Toby Ford, CTO, USi (an AT&T company)
Jerome Pesenti, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Vivisimo
Craig Carpenter, VP Marketing and Business Development, Recommind
Matt Brown, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.
Brian Dirking, Principal Product Director, Oracle
Joyce Ward, Executive Customer Solutions Manager, LexisNexis
Matt Kodama, MDEX Engine Group Manager, Product Management, Endeca
Steven Cohen, Vice President, Products, Basis Technology
Mike Moran, Distinguished Engineer and Product Manager, OmniFind Enterprise Edition, IBM Software Group
Gary Carlson, Chief Taxonomist, Schemalogic
K.T. Noerr, CEO, MuseGlobal, Inc.
Colin Britton, CTO & Co-founder, Metatomix
Bruce Molloy, CEO, Connotate Technologies
Sean Martin, CTO, Cambridge Semantics
John Stone, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group
Dan Carmel, CEO, SpringCM
Geoffrey Bock, Lead Analyst, Collaboration & Social Computing, Gilbane Group
Christopher Bouton, Pfizer
Eric Frazer, Psy. D., President, Behavioral Health Intelligence
Steve Paxhia, Lead Analyst, Publishing Practice, Gilbane Group
Stefan Andreasen, CTO, Kapow Technologies
Skip Walter, Managing Director, Factor, Inc
Nora Ganim Barnes Ph.D., Chancellor Professor of Marketing and Director of the Center for Marketing Research, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Rachel Happe, Research Manager, Digital Business Economy, IDC
Ismael Ghalimi, Founder and CEO, Intalio
Lee Buck, CTO, Near-Time
Bill Trippe, Senior Analyst, Gilbane Group
Bob Doyle, Founder, DITA Users, President & CEO, skyBuilders
Don Bridges, Tech Docs Manager, Data Conversion Labs
Roland Brooks, Principal Software Engineer, Raytheon Company
John Parsons, Editorial Director, Seybold Report
Mark Laroche, Director of Production, Digital Media, Random House
Rich Pasewark, Independent Consultant
Linda Burman, LA Burman Associates
Bill Rosenblatt , Senior Analyst, Gilbane Group, Editor, DRM Watch
Nate Aune, Founder & Chief Technologist, Jazkarta
Anne Gonnella & Leigh McCuen, Space Telescope Science Institute
Brett Zucker, CTO & Executive VP, Bridgeline Software

(Cross-posted from my collaboration blog.)

Perhaps it's cyclical -- like the long Indian summer we've been having here in the Northeast. The Web/Enterprise/stuff "2.0" buzz has died down (for now) and we seem to be into the hard business of real application development. Perhaps this is a good thing -- running on hype does little to transform businesses or pay the bills.

Certainly there's been a lot of excitement around Facebook as a collaborative platform for digital natives (and fellow travelers). Yet the long-lasting innovation, I think, is around the APIs and the notion of "open platforms." Of course Google was first to open the komono with its wildly popular Web services API into Google Maps. Now we're trying to make mashups of social networks.

I'm curious but not convinced. Facebook is building out its community -- Google is not far behind, pursuing the notion of social graphing. So far we can do all kinds of useful things in the consumer space. My favorite this week is friend finding -- which also leverages GPS technology. But business applications? I haven't heard of anything really compelling, yet. I'm still looking.

Which brings me to a preview of coming attractions. My colleagues Steve Paxhia, Nora Barnes, and I expect to cut through the Web 2.0 hype next month and shed some light on industry trends. We'll be reporting the results of our industry survey at our Boston conference. We'll have a statistically significant profille of what collaboration and social computing tools are being using in American businesses -- beginning with email and Web sites and assessing many popular forms of social media. We'll snapshot how effective companies rate these tools and also report on what each tool is best suited for. And I expect that before we're done, we'll have a few indicators of next generation collaborative business applications.

So join us, November 27th - November 29th in Boston.