Year: 2005 (Page 62 of 95)

Bill Trippe wrote a white paper recently that has been attracting a lot of readers. He’ll be talking about the content in a Webinar with X-Hive’s Jeroen van Rotterdam. Registration for the webinar, “Meeting the Demands of Complex Content Applications” on Wednesday April 27 1:00 PM EST, is here.
Also check out Dale Waldt’s popular white paper on “Using XML in Databases“.

For Immediate Release:

4/22/05

Astoria joins elite vendor group sponsoring case studies in successful deployment of content technologies

Contacts:
Mary Laplante
Bluebill Advisors, Inc.
+617.497.9443, ext 212
mary@gilbane.com

Eileen O’Rourke
Astoria Software Inc
+1. 650-357-7477 x150
eorourke@astoriasoftware.com

Cambridge, MA, April 22, 2005. The Gilbane Report announced today that Astoria Software Inc, the XML content management solutions company, has become a new sponsor of the Content Technology Works (CTW) initiative, administered by The Gilbane Report. The mission of CTW is to capture, publish and freely distribute in-depth case studies on successful deployments of content technologies. CTW is sponsored by vendors who are committed to working together to educate adopters and help them implement technologies with confidence, based on the experience of other companies.

“We are very excited about our partnership with the Gilbane team,” said Chip Gettinger, Astoria’s Vice President, Technical Sales. “CTW is a great opportunity to demonstrate the success of Astoria’s solution in a hype-free environment that benefits users.” Astoria recently released Astoria 4.4, software that automates “author-to-publish” processes for complex documents throughout their life cycles.

“We are delighted to welcome Astoria to the CTW initiative,” said Frank Gilbane, President and CEO of Bluebill Advisors, publisher of The Gilbane Report. “ Astoria’s success with helping companies deploy content management solutions will be a valuable addition to our library of CTW customer case studies.” Astoria customers will also share their experiences working with the company in user presentations at three Gilbane Conferences on Content Management Technologies in 2005.

CTW case studies are written by Gilbane Report analysts, based on interviews, information, and opinions of the customers. The result is an independent, third-party success story told from the customer’s perspective. Current CTW case studies profile market-leading companies including Avnet, CMP Media, Hewlett-Packard, IDX Systems Corporation, Meredith Corporation, MIT Technology Review, and Wachovia. The studies describe how these companies have successfully deployed technologies such as enterprise content integration, content globalization management, digital asset management, web content management, XML-based single-source publishing, and on-demand (hosted) content management.

About Astoria Software
Astoria Software, Inc. ( www.astoriasoftware.com) is the leading XML content management solutions company. Its powerful applications help enterprises manage and publish the world’s most complex mission-critical documents. Natively architected to optimize XML technology, Astoria manages content at the component-level to deliver simply revolutionary capabilities to an organization’s author-to-publish process. With increased flexibility in how content is authored, shared, managed, re-used, and published, customers benefit with lower total cost of operations, improved content integrity and higher return on investment. Enterprise customers including Texas Instruments, The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, and Cessna Aircraft use Astoria Software to publish business critical content.

About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report 
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. serves the content management community with publications, conferences and consulting services. The Gilbane Report administers the Content Technology Works™ program disseminating best practices with partners Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia Technologies, Atomz, Astoria Software, ClearStory Systems (OTCBB:INCC), Context Media, Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), IBM (NYSE:IBM ), Idiom Technologies, Mark Logic, Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX), Trados, Vasont, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). www.gilbane.com

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For Immediate Release:

4/21/05

San Francisco Event Addresses Most Pressing Content Management Challenges and Opportunities; Boston Event to Take Place November 29-December 1 – Call for Speakers Deadline May 15

Contacts:
Evan Weisel
Welz & Weisel Communications
703-323-6006
evan@w2comm.com
Jeffrey Arcuri
Lighthouse Seminars
781-821-6634
jarcuri@lighthouseseminars.com

Cambridge, MA, April 21, 2005. The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars today announced that the San Francisco Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies (held last week at the Palace Hotel) was an overwhelming success as the event saw a significant increase in end-user attendance (over 20 percent), vendor sponsorships, as well as analyst and media turn out. The event brought together the industry’s top experts to discuss the hottest topics of the day – compliance, XML strategy for information interchange, enterprise use of blog & wiki technology, and much more.

“Conference attendees have again given us high marks for providing an educational and thought provoking event,” said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair. “Our recipe of careful topic and speaker selection and inclusiveness allows for a variety of analyst viewpoints on the important technology and trends, a broad range of tried and true practices and tips from a range of consulting firms and enterprise practitioners, and enlightening debates among vendors and technologists are what sets our educational conferences apart. We will use the same formula at our upcoming Amsterdam and Boston events.”

The event in San Francisco attracted attendees interested in learning, evaluating and purchasing the latest content management technologies. End users came from organizations, including: PG&E, Bay Area Air Quality Management, Mervyns, Blue Shield of California, Ernst & Young, Stanford University, National Cancer Institute, Marriott International, Walmart.com, Visa, Bank of the Orient, Raytheon, Staples, Mastercard, and Thomson Healthcare. They attended the event to see the latest solutions from Interwoven, Open Text, Macromedia, Blast Radius, Quark, Hummingbird and many more. In addition, attendance was driven by the quality of the events 75+ speakers that provided vendor-neutral insight into today’s content management market.

“The level of sophistication of the Gilbane audience was impressive,” said Larry Bouthillier, Director of Educational Technologies and Multimedia Development, Harvard Business School. “I found the attendees, speakers, and vendors to be exceptionally knowledgeable in real-world applications of content technologies. In addition, the conference organization was among the best I have encountered.”

Boston Event Information 
The Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies will host its Boston event November 29- December 1 at the Westin Copley Place. The event will focus on the “what” and “how” – what are the content technologies enterprises should be using/considering, and how can they be applied to and benefit enterprise business applications?

Topics and technologies that will be covered at the Boston event include blogs, wikis, RSS, XQuery, enterprise rights management, and tools to assist with compliance, etc.; underused technologies like taxonomies and categorization; and “traditional” technologies including content management, document management, enterprise search, enterprise/content integration, authoring, and digital asset management.

A brief description of the event and topics is at: https://gilbane.com/Boston_05.html

The deadline for the call for papers for Boston is May 15, 2005. Instructions are at: https://gilbane.com/speaker-guidelines/

Amsterdam Event Information
The Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies is hosted three times a year. In addition to the San Francisco and Boston events, an event is held in Amsterdam, May 24-26. For more information on this event visit: https://gilbane.com/Amsterdam_05.html.

About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report 
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. serves the content management community with publications, conferences and consulting services. The Gilbane Report administers the Content Technology Works™ program disseminating best practices with partners Software AG (TECdax:SOW), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Artesia Technologies, Atomz, Astoria Software, ClearStory Systems (OTCBB:INCC), Context Media, Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), IBM (NYSE:IBM ), Idiom Technologies, Mark Logic, Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX), Trados, Vasont, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). www.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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