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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

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Evan Weisel
Welz & Weisel Communications
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Jeffrey Arcuri
Lighthouse Seminars
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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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Writing for XML.com, Ronald Bourret has a nice roundup of how XML databases are gaining traction in large-scale applications. Ronald has been looking at XML repositories for a long-time, and maintains a very useful online resource on XML databases.
This is a drum we have been beating for some time now, of course. There is an important role for XML repositories, and we have written about this most recently in two white papers, one on component content management and one on the related W3C Standards.

The amount of published material (including blog entries) on compliance continues to grow exponentially, which is not surprising given the pervasiveness of the issues. By pervasiveness I mean not only the applicability of at least some compliance requirements on virtually every size and sort of organization, but also that compliance cuts across the breadth of disciplines that we place under the umbrella of Content Management (CM). These disciplines include Digial Asset Management (DAM), Records Management (RM), Digital/Enterprise Rights Management (DRM/ERM), Knowledge Management (KM), et al.

Making sense of this alphabet soup of activities touching and touched by compliance is one of the primary tasks facing legal and content management professionals. It occurs to me that while compliance needs and solutions are reflected in virtually all CM activities, there are certain core concepts that can frame our thinking. Being in an alliterative mood, I offer the Five R’s of compliance. They are perhaps not as fundamental as the Three R’s of learning, but they address many of the challenges surrounding compliance.

1.  Requirements: regulatory, litigation, and internal policie.
2. Roles & Responsibilities: identification of all the various participants, i.e. managers and users, in the organization’s content management process and delineation of the responsibilities of these participants.
3. Risk Management: Compliance requirements, perhaps especially in the area of litigation/discovery, but also in the seemingly structured world of SOX, HIPAA and other regulations, are not black-and-white. There is room for the application of a reasonableness test (which could probably be an “R” unto itself) to many compliance policies and activities.
4. Rights/Rules Management: Balancing requirements, roles and risks, organizations must build a compliance policy infrastructure. This policy infrastructure manifests itself in the form of rules which control ACCESS TO and USAGE OF various types of content in various settings. In essence, this is the function of Digital Rights Management or Enterprise Rights Management.
5. Records Management: In addition to rules governing ACCESS TO and USAGE OF content, the compliance policy infrastructure must also include rules for recordation and retention of various types of records.

By “recordation” I mean the capture and designation of pieces of content as business records. This task is probably playing out most intensely, at least at the moment, in the area of email management policies.

In the end, compliance, in all its forms, requires a relatively sophisticated policy infrastructure enabled and enforced by equally sophisticated technology tools. To effectively apply various policy frameworks, such as the COSO recommendations for internal financial controls or the Sedona Guidelines for legal/litigation compliance, I think we must address the Five R’s.

Is this view too simplistic? Too complicated? Incomplete? Sort of on target but just a little bit off? Totally out in left field? I look forward to your comments.