Year: 2011 (Page 3 of 12)

Gilbane Boston 2011 Announces Sponsors and New Keynote Format for 8th Annual Web & Enterprise Content Management Conference

September 27, 2011 / Clea Durrell / 0 Comments

Annual Conference Helps Attendees Evaluate the Latest Solutions to Reach and Engage Customers and Foster Collaboration with Customers and Partners

Boston, MA – September 27, 2011 – The eighth annual Gilbane Conference Boston (http://gilbaneboston.com/) to take place November 29 – December 1, 2011, at The Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, MA today announced that EndPlay™ will be the Diamond sponsor of the upcoming conference and Alfresco, CIGNEX and Liferay are this year’s Platinum sponsors. Atex, CrownPeak, OpenText, Percussion, SDL, Sitecore and Telerik are all Gold sponsors. For more information about these companies go to (http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html)

Gilbane Boston also announed today the Opening Keynote presenters and a new rapid-fire format. Keynote presentations, moderated by Frank Gilbane – President, Outsell’s Gilbane Services & Conference Chair will be limited to 10-15 minutes with 5 minutes for Q&A. The new format is designed to inspire, provoke, and provide perspective on the big issues, trends, and shifting foundation of technologies, digital strategies, and channels for communication and engagement. Panelists include Christos M. Cotsakos, Ph.D. – Founding Chairman, CEO & President, EndPlay, Inc.; Christer Johnson – Partner, North American BAO Advanced Analytics Leader, IBM Global Business Services; Georgiana Cohen – Manager, Web Content and Strategy, Tufts University and Co-founder, Meet Content; and Maureen Chew – Chief Applications Officer, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

“In today’s business environment, every organization has one thing in common: the need to engage with multiple customer and partner communities,” said Frank Gilbane, conference chair and moderator of the keynote session. “This year’s keynote and new format share the timely theme of connecting with global customers and colleagues with marketing, product and enterprise content using web and social technologies.”

In addition, the event features six in-depth pre-conference workshops, a main conference program providing in-depth coverage of trends and technologies organized in four tracks: Customers & Engagement, Colleagues & Collaboration, Content Technology, and Cross-Media Publishing, a Technology Showcase made up of the leading vendors offering the latest tools and solutions and many networking opportunities.

For information on keynotes and entire conference program, visit:http://gilbaneboston.com/conference_program.html

IT, marketing, other and business professionals interested in attending the conference may register at: http://gilbaneboston.com/registration_information.html
Technology solution providers interested in exhibit or sponsor opportunities should visit: http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html
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About Outsell’s Gilbane Services
Outsell’s Gilbane Services provides analyst & consulting services focused on content technologies. Whether it involves web content management, digital marketing, multilingual content, enterprise search, enterprise social media, publishing, XML, or related technologies, we can help you make vendor-neutral well-informed decisions. 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 70 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 https://gilbane.com, http://www.outsellinc.com/gilbane

About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars’ events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. This includes content management of all types, digital asset management, enterprise content management, web content management, enterprise search, web and cross-media publishing.

Contact

Lighthouse Seminars
Jeffrey V. Arcuri
508-759-8180
jeff@lighthouseseminars.com

Justifying Enterprise Search: Mitigating Risk and Getting the Right Fit

September 26, 2011 / Clea Durrell / 0 Comments

Today we highlight Workshop C: Justifying Enterprise Search: Mitigating Risk and Getting the Right Fit taking place at Gilbane Boston, November 29, 9:00am – 12:00pm at the Westin Waterfront.

While enterprise search has been debated, maligned, and challenged as a high value infrastructure application over the past decade, it has a place in every enterprise with valuable content. This presentation highlights how to make the right decisions about enterprise search applications. From embedded search to high-end semantic applications, the options are numerous and the technologies solid. However, the right choice is imperative and basing selection on business priorities requires artful analysis and justification. Illustrating the risks of continuing to operate with a faulty search solution is a good way to focus thinking about the search environment in any organization.

Instructor:

Lynda Moulton, Senior Analyst & Consultant, Outsell Gilbane Services

Register today!

Check out the Updated Gilbane Boston conference site

September 22, 2011 / Clea Durrell / 0 Comments

The program for our annual Boston event is about 98% complete. We have a great keynote line-up with more to come, 30 additional conference sessions, 6 pre-conference workshops, and 12 product labs. Other useful links are sponsors & exhibitors, speakers, registration, and hotel. Note that we moved from the Westin Copley to the Waterfront Westin this year to be in the new Boston Innovation District and fast-growing Seaport / Fort Point Channel neighborhoods.

Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to Support iOS 5 Newsstand

September 7, 2011 / NewsShark

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that publishers will be able to use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to create magazine and newspaper applications that appear in the Apple Newsstand section of the iTunes App Store and the Newsstand folder on the iPad. As a cross-platform solution, content owners can use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to target their new digital editions at iPad, Android tablets and BlackBerry Playbook devices. Publishers will be able to use Digital Publishing Suite to create files that are detected by Newsstand and automatically downloaded to the Newsstand shelf, eliminating long downloads times which can present a barrier to reading content on iPad devices. Applications built with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and enabled for Newsstand will allow publishers to better merchandise their content with support for Newsstand push notifications and icon covers displayed on the Newsstand shelf, reflecting the latest issue of the magazine or newspaper. http://www.adobe.com/

Adobe Announces CreatePDF for iOS

August 30, 2011 / NewsShark

Adobe has rolled out the Adobe CreatePDF application for iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touch devices (already available for Android devices). This will allow users to create, view and share high-quality PDF files from anywhere. The app is available in the iTunes store. http://www.adobe.com

Acquia and Lullabot Announce Drupalize.Me

August 24, 2011 / NewsShark

Acquia and Lullabot, a Drupal strategy, training and development company, announced that Lullabot’s Drupalize.Me training is now available through Acquia Network. The Acquia Network provides developers and site builders with answers, tools, and support for creating, extending, and maintaining extraordinary web experiences on Drupal. It will now offer access to Drupalize.Me video tutorials and training presentations as part of the Acquia Professional and Enterprise subscriptions. Basic and Developer level subscribers can try Drupalize.Me for one month for US $1.00. Drupalize.Me is a convenient way to learn Drupal, providing instant access to an unrivaled library of Drupal training from top-tier experts, streamed to your computer, tablet, or smart phone. More than 335 high-quality, in-depth videos are currently available, with over 140 hours of training — and new videos are being added every month. Drupalize.Me offers practical information that both beginner and experienced developers can understand and apply immediately. Acquia also announced the addition of four other new services for Acquia Network: Insight, which provides enhanced Drupal monitoring capabilities; SEO Grader, an SEO analysis tool; Blitz, which tests websites’ abilities to handle high traffic loads; and Acquia Apps Market – an API and store for third-party applications for Drupal available in Q4 2011. http://acquia.com

Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform Now Available

August 19, 2011 / NewsShark

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the immediate availability and free trial of its new Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform and first set of solutions for Customer Experience Management (CRM). The Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform, first unveiled in June, is an open, modular, standards-based offering for delivering engaging digital solutions across social, Web, mobile, and print channels. The platform includes integration with the Adobe Online Marketing Suite to optimize digital marketing campaigns and personalize digital experiences across all marketing, sales and service delivery channels. In addition, integration with Adobe Flash Builder(R) 4.5 and Flex 4.5 helps enterprise IT organizations build highly expressive mobile applications for Android devices, BlackBerry PlayBook, iPhone and iPad. Built on the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform, an initial set of the company’s Customer Experience Solutions are available now‚ Integrated Content Review; Web Experience Management; and Customer Communications. http://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/customer-experience/enterprise-platform.html

HP to Acquire Autonomy

August 18, 2011 / NewsShark

HP and Autonomy Corporation announced the terms of a recommended transaction under which HP will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Autonomy for £25.50 ($42.11) per share in cash. The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both HP and Autonomy. The Autonomy board of directors also has unanimously recommended its shareholders accept the Offer. Based on the closing stock price of Autonomy on August 17, 2011, the consideration represents a one day premium to Autonomy shareholders of approximately 64 percent and a premium of approximately 58 percent to Autonomy’s prior one month average closing price. The transaction will be implemented by way of a takeover offer extended to all shareholders of Autonomy. A document containing the full details of the Offer will be dispatched as soon as practicable after the date of this release. The acquisition of Autonomy is expected to be completed by the end of calendar 2011. Founded in 1996, Autonomy is a provider of infrastructure software for the enterprise with a customer base of more than 25,000 global companies. Positions HP as leader in large and growing space‚Äî Autonomy has a strong position in the $20 billion enterprise information management space, which is growing at 8 percent annually and is uniquely positioned to continue growth within this space. Furthermore, key Autonomy assets would provide HP with the ability to reinvent the $55 billion business analytics software and services space, which is growing at 8 percent annually. Reasons for the acquisition were cited as‚Äî Complements HP’s existing technology portfolio; Provides differentiated IP for services and extensive vertical capabilities in key industries; Provides IPG a base for content management platforms; Enhances HP’s financial profile; as well as Autonomy should be accretive to HP’s earnings. http://www.hp.com/ http://www.autonomy.com/