There are hundreds of vendors that claim to have the answer to today’s content management challenge. Now it is your opportunity as an end user to attend, for free, CMS Idol. Have your opinion count as you vote for the content management solution you think is most innovative. CMS Idol is taking place at the Palace Hotel on April 25th at the upcoming Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies San Francisco. Not only is CMS Idol free to attend but attendees can visit with over 50 vendors showcasing their latest content management solutions. Vendors registered to participate in CMS Idol include: Hot Banana Software, Interwoven, Paperthin, Refresh Software, and Vasont. Round I – 3:45pm: Help crown the “2006 CMS Idol” in a fast-paced, entertaining set of competitive demos. CMS vendors will present 6-minute demos showing the best features of their systems. An expert panel of judges will offer pithy commentary, but the best part is: you vote for the winner! The top 3 finalists will face off in Round 2 during the reception. Round II – 5:30pm – “The Finals”: Help crown the “2006 CMS Idol” in a fast-paced, entertaining set of competitive demos. Three vendor finalists will present 8-minute demos showing something special about their solution. An expert panel of judges will liven up the show, but it is you the attendee who votes for the winner! The winner will be announced and officially crowned during the reception. Visit with vendors in the exhibit hall before or after CMS Idol. The exhibit hall is open April 25-26. Hours to meet with exhibitors each day are: 10-11am, noon-2pm, and 5-7pm. For conference details, visit: . To register, visit:
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We hope to see you at our upcoming San Francisco conference. But whether you join us or not, you can contribute to the keynote discussion by including questions in a comment on this blog entry. Or you can visit the panelists blogs and make suggestions to them directly. Below is the session description with links to the panel member’s bios and blogs or websites.
UPDATE: You can also now vote a list of questions we have put together. Voting also gives you a chance for a free conference pass to this or a future conference.
The opening keynote panel is open to both tradeshow and conference attendees.
Keynote Panel: New Technologies That Will Influence Your Content Management Strategies
The pace of information technology development continues to increase as organizations develop experience in implementing content applications, and as software vendors vie to incorporate their customer’s feedback into product technologies ahead of the competition. As most enterprise applications become more content-oriented, content technology developments are coming from a broader base of suppliers and developers. In fact, most interesting new computing technologies will, or should, influence your short and long term content management strategies. Our opening panel of industry experts will look at both specific technologies and market trends. This will be a lively interactive panel with plenty of debate.
Moderator: Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair, Editor & Publisher, The Gilbane Report — Blog
Panelists:
Dan Farber, Vice President, CNET Networks, Editor in Chief, ZDNet — Between the Lines Blog
Bill Rosenblatt, Editor, DRM Watch
Charlene Li, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research — Charlene’s Blog
Gene Gable, Gene Gable Industries
Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch
Ed Dodds points us to a short but useful management-level writeup of OpenDocument vs. Office Open XML in Baseline magazine. By the way, if you don’t know Ed’s blog, Conmergence and you are interested in the broad application of XML to IT infrastucture, it is well worth bookmarking or adding to your RSS reader.
ComponentOne released ComponentOne Doc-To-Help 2006 v1. This new version enhances the Help authoring experience with new features and functionality for Documenter and NetHelp. Doc-To-Help helps users author or import documentation in Microsoft Word or any HTML editor to create online Help systems and professional printed manuals. Help systems produced with Doc-To-Help can be created in virtually any popular format including HTML Help, Cross-Platform HTML-based Help, JavaHelp, WinHelp, Visual Studio .NET-style Help, and printed documentation. Current Doc-To-Help subscribers will receive these new features and enhancements via the yearly subscription service as a part of their subscription plan. The Doc-To-Help subscription delivers the latest updates and e-mail support for one full year from the date of purchase. Doc-To-Help is available in two versions, Doc-To-Help Enterprise and Doc-To-Help for Word with respective pricing of $999.95 and $749.95. Competitive upgrades, renewal pricing, telephone support and volume discounts are also available. http://www.componentone.com,
Index Engines announced a significant upgrade to their enterprise indexing platform. Version 2.0 extends unstructured data indexing to include secondary storage and boosts processing speeds to 2 Gigabits per second wire speeds. This new release indexes information throughout its lifecycle as it is backed up, replicated, snapshoted, archived, or vaulted, for more comprehensive search, classification and management of data enterprise wide. Previous versions of the Index Engines solution supported indexing of primary storage data. With Version 2.0, files residing in secondary storage, even backup tapes, are fully indexed allowing comprehensive discovery of this data across the enterprise. Version 2.0 of the Index Engines platform is available immediately for early access clients and generally available on April 28, 2006. Prices start at $29,500 for an environment consisting of 2 million documents. http://www.indexengines.com
Content Management Professionals (CM Pros), the international content management community of practice, announced that the theme of its Spring 2006 Summit, to be held 23-24 April 2006 co-located with the Gilbane San Francisco event, is Content Management and The Customer Experience.
The Spring 2006 CM Pros Summit will kick off with a keynote session on Engaging Customers with Actionable Content by Bill Trippe, Senior Editor of The Gilbane Report. followed by two presentations: A User-Centered Approach to Content Management Design by Theresa Regli; Benefits of a User-Centered Approach to Information Architecture by Joan Lasselle and Mira Wooten of Lasselle-Ramsay. Rounding out the day are two breakout sessions: Microformats and the Future of Syndication from Nate Aune of AdaptiveWave and Portals: From Idea to Reality – the Dangers of the Current State of Portals in the Marketplace, facilitated by Tony Byrne of CMS Watch and Janus Boye of Boye IT. The days closing keynote features an address from James Robertson of Step Two Designs on Content Management in Call Centres: Delivering a Great Customer Experience. Day two of the event begins with two roundtable sessions: interactive development of the Content Lifecycle Poster facilitated by Erik Hartman of Hartman Communicatie BV and Scott Abel of The Content Wrangler, and Best Practices vs. Practicalities: Qualitative Decisions for Delivering the “Best” Content to Customers, facilitated by Rahel Anne Bailie of Intentional Design Inc. and Trevor Paterson of CHC Helicopters. Two parallel breakout sessions The Importance of the Community in Open Source Content Management Systems by Renaud Richardet of Wyona Inc., and Achieving Structure in Enterprise Content from Peter Meyer of Elkera Pty Limited will enable attendees the opportunity to examine in detail these important issues. Ann Rockley, past president of CM Pros and president of The Rockley Group, offers the event’s closing keynote: Developing a Customer-Centric Model for Content Management. Underscoring the many valuable benefits of CM Pros membership, CM Pros members will receive with each USD $145 Summit registration a USD $150 discount coupon for the Gilbane Conference. Individuals who are not currently CM Pros members are eligible for a discounted CM Pros Summit/Membership package. For more information and to register, please visit ,
Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ:IWOV) announced a solution for buy-side financial institutions to automate the incoming confirmations process for Over-the-Counter (OTC) derivatives, extending Interwoven’s solutions within the financial services industry. The new solution, Scrittura BuySide, enables buy-side firms to achieve increased regulatory compliance and reduce trade processing times by automating and validating the confirmation process for OTC derivative instruments such as interest rate, credit, equity, FX, and energy. A Workflow Manager enables the automation of most manual processes, such as routing of incoming confirmations for matching to internal trading records; checking for legal language, approval and signature; and dispatch back to counterparty. Using fax server technology, the solution employs methods such as side-by-side views of received confirms and internal trade records, optical character recognition, and a matching engine to help professionals match inbound counterparty agreements to outstanding trades. Document management capabilities enable all associated trade documents and versions to move together through the workflow process until the trade is confirmed. The solution also enables these documents to be stored where they can be indexed and easily searched. Users can also dispatch trade documents automatically to any recipient via fax or e-mail.
A document generation engine creates and dispatches replies to dealer counterparties pinpointing incomplete or erroneous legal language and trade data. An audit trail allows the user to locate a document in the workflow process at any given time. Interwoven’s Scrittura BuySide Solution is available now.
WebSideStory, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSSI) announced the launch of HBX Analytics 3.5, which expands the dimensions of analysis beyond the tracking of traditional HTML content to include streaming media and mobile device user behavior. These capabilities enable marketers to analyze the activity of an entirely new set of visitor demographics. HBX 3.5, which is currently available to customers at no extra charge, includes: Streaming Media Tracking – Customers can quantify audience levels and interaction with streaming audio and video content served on their own web site or distributed to an external web site via Windows Media Player, QuickTime or RealPlayer; and Analysis of Mobile Device User Behavior – Marketers can now get rich information about visitors who access their HTML and WML web sites through mobile devices. This includes defining active segments for all mobile audiences to better understand their unique navigational behavior and content preferences. HBX 3.5 also provides detailed reporting on the mobile devices used by visitors, including brands, models and service providers.
