Author: Clea Durrell (Page 13 of 15)

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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4/5/05

Free Technology Showcase Offers Look at Latest Solutions for Managing Content; Largest Contingency of Industry Analysts Focused on Content Management to Attend Event

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 5, 2005. The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars today announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies, taking place April 11-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, will offer a free technology showcase that will play host to many of the industry’s most innovative developers of content management solutions. In addition to the free technology showcase, the event offers a conference program backed by one of the largest gatherings of industry analysts to provide attendees with independent insight and analysis into content management trends. All keynote sessions are free.

Technology companies that will demonstrate their latest solutions at the event, include: Interwoven, Open Text Corporation, Macromedia, Blast Radius, Quark, Hummingbird, Oracle, Astoria Software, Atomz, AuthorIT, ClearStory Systems, CrownPeak Technology, Datalogics, Day Software, Ektron, Em Software, Endeca, Ephox, Etilize, Exegenix, FatWire Software, GMC Software Technology, Hot Banana, Idiom, Innodata Isogen, Kofax, Mark Logic, Mondosoft, Percussion, Quasar Technologies, RedDot Solutions, Refresh Software, SchemaLogic, Serena, SiberLogic, Translations.com, Vamosa, Weborganic Systems, Xerox, Xyleme, and Xythos. There is no charge to visit the Exhibit Hall; however, a registration badge is required for admittance. On-site registration is available for exhibit-only visitors.

The following is a brief look at what some of the companies will announce and showcase next week:

— Interwoven (Nasdaq:IWOV) will showcase its new Content Provisioning solution, which is the industry’s first ECM solution designed specifically for IT Operations – enabling companies to slash provisioning costs, bring new applications to market more quickly, and meet key compliance requirements.

— Hummingbird (Nasdaq:HUMC) Enterprise(TM) provides an integrated platform for enterprise content management (ECM) and business analytics, offering global organizations solutions to manage business interaction information such as documents, records, virtual deal room discussions, e-mail or financial data.

— Xerox (NYSE:XRX) will showcase the latest version of its Web-based enterprise content management suite, DocuShare 4.0, which provides new collaboration, personalization, and publishing capabilities, and offers ECM at a competitive entry-level price.

— Percussion Software is announcing Rhythmyx 5.6 at the Gilbane conference. Rhythmyx 5.6 provides new multi-site WCM capabilities, new accessibility support for content contributors, broader support for heterogeneous IT environments as well as numerous enhancements to enable easier implementation and administration.

— Ephox is releasing EditLive! for XML 3.0 with a new desktop Visual Forms Designer at the Gilbane Conference. EditLive! for XML enables enterprise-wide authoring of complex XML forms within Web applications in an open-standards-based, multi platform, cross browser application.

— SiberLogic presents SiberSafe, a Semantic Content Management solution for Technical Publications that unlocks the value of technical content for your extended enterprise. Produce, review, reuse, translate, semantically-enable and publish technical content using an integrated state-of-the-art XML/RDF/OWL-based content development platform.

— Atomz announced that it is merging with on-demand Web analytics provider WebSideStory, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSSI). By combining technologies, the companies will create the industry’s first suite of integrated, on-demand digital marketing applications.

— Vamosa launches Vamosa On-Demand, the first real-time, rules based unstructured data standardisation and transformation engine. VOD operates within most portal architectures, allowing the enforcement of corporate publishing and authoring rules to all data stored within document and content management systems

— The Adobe(R) PDF Library(TM) is a developer’s toolkit that allows your application to create, manipulate and display Adobe-compliant PDFs. It is available through Datalogics, Inc. on a number of platforms, including Windows, Macintosh, AS/400, OS390 and eight UNIX environments.

— Macromedia will showcase a new Macromedia Web Publishing System update that includes Macromedia Contribute 3.1 and Macromedia Contribute Publishing Services 1.1. The WPS update offers users additional enterprise control and oversight features as well as expanded web services connectivity and extensibility solutions.

— At the Gilbane Conference, Hot Banana will launch its new Software as a Service – SaaS pricing model, designed to accelerate the market adoption and growth of the Hot Banana Web Content Management Suite – CMS.

— Xythos will announce the company’s WebFile Server implementation at New York Health & Hospital Corporation (HHC). Seeking a cost-effective way to store and handle classified information securely for its 9,000 personnel applications, HHC has taken a paper-based ten week process, converted it to a more secure electronic system and reduced the timeframe to as little as 24-48 hours.

— Day is a leading provider of integrated content, portal and digital asset management software. Day will showcase its technology Communique – offering a comprehensive, rapidly deployable framework to unify and manage all digital business data, systems, applications and processes through the web.

— Xyleme will be demonstrating their solutions and showcasing their customer successes in Financial Services, Media/Publishing, and the Learning Segments in addition to demonstrating their general-purpose XML Content Repository.

— Serena Software will announce that it is integrating Serena(R) Collage(R), its robust web content and change management solution with Macromedia Contribute, a rich web-page editor to help organizations more easily contribute, manage and update website content with minimal support from IT.

The Gilbane Conference is unique in the sense that the backbone of the event is driven by numerous industry analysts. For example, the opening keynote looks at the big issues affecting content management strategies, including trends in the market, technology, and best practices. Frank Gilbane will moderate a keynote panel of analysts covering content management technologies who are thought leaders debating content management vs. enterprise content management, the role of database platforms, application servers, portals, open source, information integration, Web services, and other infrastructure technologies critical to content management strategies.

Participants of this panel include:

— Kyle McNabb, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
— Tony Byrne, Editor & Publisher, CMS Watch
— Tony White, Senior Analyst, Collaboration & Content Management, The Yankee Group
— Geoffrey Bock, Senior Vice President, Patricia Seybold Group
— Mike Maziarka, Director, InfoTrends/CAP Ventures

Full event details can be found at:
https://gilbane.com/San_Francisco_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(TM) 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.

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Leading analysts, consultants, and practitioners from a dozen countries explore the latest content technology technologies, trends, and practices – Preliminary program now available

Contacts:
Joy Blake Scott
Longleaf Public Relations
joy@longleafpr.com
Jeffrey Arcuri
Lighthouse Seminars
781-821-6634
jarcuri@lighthouseseminars.com

Cambridge, MA, February 23, 2005. The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies to take place in Amsterdam at the RAI Centre, 24-26 May 2005, includes an unprecedented gathering of international experts in content management technologies. The preliminary program for the conference is available at:
www.gilbane.com/conferences/Amsterdam_05_program.html.

The Gilbane Conferences provide vendor neutral educational information for IT managers, system architects, and technically oriented business and project managers. At our Amsterdam conference, experts from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, the US, and more, will cover a broad range of content management technologies including:

• enterprise and web content management
• intranets, knowledge management, and collaboration
• enterprise search, categorization and taxonomies
• document management & compliance
• and many other technologies for creating, managing and delivering with enterprise content

“Our educational conferences includes everything IT Strategists and project teams need to know in a hype-free environment and offer insights into existing and upcoming technologies necessary to implement content management applications,” said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair. “Nothing can compare with the rich in-depth learning experience of being surrounded by subject matter experts and industry colleagues from all over the globe who are at various stages of implementing initial, or second or third projects that you can learn from”.

As an added bonus, attendees of the Gilbane Conference will be able to attend sessions at the co-located XTech 2005, giving attendees of both events unprecedented educational and networking opportunities. Formerly known as the XML Europe conference, XTech has widened its scope to incorporate neighboring technologies from the web and business. As well as XML, XTech 2005 will cover web development, browsers, open data, the semantic web and more. www.xtech-conference.org/

Justsystem is the Diamond sponsor of the Gilbane Conference. Adobe Systems, and Blast Radius/XMetal are Gold sponsors. Other exhibitors to date include: Antenna House, Astoria Software, AuthorIT, DataDirect Technologies, Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) Corporation, O’Reilly, Percussion Software, Quark, Quasar Technologies, Syncro Soft/oXygen, and Vamosa.

Additional Gilbane conferences in 2005 include: San Francisco, April 11-13, and Boston November 29 – December 1. For customer testimonials and more information see: www.gilbane.com/conferences/overview.html

About Bluebill Advisors, The Gilbane Report 
Bluebill Advisors, Inc. and the Gilbane Report serve the content management community with vendor neutral publications, conferences and consulting services. They also administer 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), 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. www.lighthouseseminars.com

Opening Day Keynotes: Microsoft & Sun Debate; Forrester, CMS Watch, Yankee Group, Patricia Seybold Group and InfoTrends Analysts Discuss Content Management Trends

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

Cambridge, MA, February 1, 2005. The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars today announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management will take place April 11-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. This event brings together 750 thought leaders and practitioners to provide attendees with actionable advice, techniques, best practices, and case studies to help understand and successfully implement content technologies critical to their businesses.

The Gilbane Conference on Content Management is unique in that the majority of its conference sessions are delivered by industry analysts and researchers to offer attendees a neutral and balanced market perspective related to content technologies and trends. The program is organized into five technology-specific areas: Content Management, Enterprise Search & Knowledge Management, Content Technology Works (case studies), Document & Records Management & Compliance, and Enterprise Information Integration.

The conference has three dynamic keynote addresses: 

— The opening keynote address is an industry analyst panel discussion comprised of experts from Forrester Research, CMS Watch, The Yankee Group, Patricia Seybold Group and InfoTrends/CAP Ventures. This panel will discuss the big issues affecting content management strategies, including market trends, technology, and best practices. The panel will discus the current market environment, but importantly, offer predictions about what to expect in the next 12-18 months.

— The second keynote is titled, “Microsoft & Sun: What is the Right XML Strategy for Information Interchange?” At one level this can be framed as a debate between Microsoft and Sun/OpenOffice.org – and that is a choice organizations will have to make, but it is more complicated than that. Attendees will learn what XML experts consider the best strategy for preserving and protecting critical business content in electronic documents.

— The day two keynote address complements the opening keynote on technology and trends by having end-users share their real-world implementations of content technologies.

In addition, there are four half-day intensive sessions on “Web Content Management Systems: Architectures & Products,” “Using XML in Enterprise Content Management: Technologies & Case Studies,” “Enterprise Search: Principles, Players, Practices & Pitfalls,” and “Taxonomies & Metadata for Business Impact.”

“We are focused on hosting an educational conference that includes everything IT Strategists and project teams needs to know in a hype-free environment that offers insights into existing and upcoming technologies necessary to implement content management applications,” said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair. “Nothing can compare with the rich in-depth learning experience of being surrounded by subject matter experts and industry colleagues in a vendor-neutral environment who are at various stages of implementing initial, or second or third projects that you can learn from. Our event fosters interaction between all stakeholders in the content technology community, with the ultimate goal of increasing the successful implementation and deployment of content technology.”

Full event details can be found at: 

https://gilbane.com/conferences/San_Francisco_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(TM) 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), 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