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Gilbane Content Management Conference to Host CM Professionals’ First Summit
10/19/04

Content Management Technologies Conference and Content Management Professionals Summit co-locate in Boston with coordinated schedule and integrated activities

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

Cambridge, MA, October 19, 2004. The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that CM Professionals organization (CM Pros) (www.cmprofessionals.org) will hold their inaugural Summit in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management to be held at the Westin Copley in Boston, November 30 – December 2, 2004. The CM Pros Summit will take place on November 30 in the same location. The programs for both events have been scheduled and coordinated to complement each other.

The CM Professionals Summit is patterned on other similar professional community summits. The day will focus on peer interaction to help develop and propagate best practices, as well as offer ample opportunities for professional networking. A content management specialist will facilitate each session. The sessions will be interactive meetings with no formal presentations and no vendor pitches.

CM Professionals members receive a $150 discount to the Gilbane conference. For program and registration information for the CM Pros Summit, see

“We are pleased to have the CM Pros Summit take place in conjunction with our conference.” said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair, “The addition of content management experts and practitioners who are members of CM Professionals participating in the Summit will provide even more valuable interaction and enrich the educational experience of all attendees.”

“Our members gather at every opportunity to push forward with our work, and the Summit is a great opportunity for lots of us to gather at once.” said Bob Boiko President , CM Professionals, “Coordinating our first Summit with the Gilbane Conference will offer our members an even richer experience by enabling them to network with the broad content technology community, including vendors, analysts, and industry press.”

The Gilbane conference program is entirely focused on content technologies, and includes 27 educational sessions covering today’s most critical issues for businesses planning or implementing a content management strategy. The program is organized into 6 tracks so attendees with specific interests can easily organize their itinerary. The tracks are: Content Management, Enterprise Search & Knowledge Management and Collaboration; Document & Records Management; Enterprise Information Integration; Digital Asset Management; and Content Technology Works Best Practices and Case Studies. In addition, there are 3 half-day intensive workshops on: “Web Content Management Systems: Principles, Products & Practices”, “ Content Technology Choices for Technical Communicators”, and “Enterprise Search – Principles, Players, Practices, & Pitfalls”.

The Gilbane conference program is available at
www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_program_Boston_04.html.

Sponsors of the Gilbane Content Management conference in Boston include EMC/Documentum (NYSE:EMC), GMC Software, Interwoven (NASDAQ:IWOV), Open Text ( NASDAQ:OTEX), and Stellent (NASDAQ:STEL).

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 (Open Text – NASDAQ:OTEX), Atomz, Context Media, Convera (NASDAQ:CNVR), INSCI (OTCBB:INSS), Trados, Vasont, Venetica/IBM (NYSE:IBM ), 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

About CM Professionals
CM Professionals is the premier community of practice for people involved with managing content for electronic and other media. CM Professionals collects, develops, organizes and provides access to knowledge about content management through online resources, email interaction and face-to-face summits. By identifying, refining, publicizing and advocating for respected content management practices and models, CM Professionals educates and fosters interaction among content management professionals, enterprise leadership, product vendors and university educators. http://www.cmprofessionals.org/

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Interwoven, Inc. announced the fully-integrated Interwoven Records Manager, providing enterprises with a single unified records management (RM) system. Interwoven Records Manager encompasses the complete content lifecycle, from creation to archiving and retention, enabling companies to manage paper documents, electronic documents and e-mail under a single system. The availability of Interwoven Records Manager follows Interwoven’s acquisition in August 2004 of the assets of Software Intelligence, Inc. Interwoven Records Manager is initially integrated with Interwoven WorkSite 8 software, a collaborative document management solution for the legal, accounting and professional services industries. Interwoven Records Manager is generally available now. www.interwoven.com

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that the CM Professionals organization (CM Pros) (www.cmprofessionals.org) will hold their inaugural Summit in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management to be held at the Westin Copley in Boston, November 30 – December 2, 2004. The CM Pros Summit will take place on November 30 in the same location. The programs for both events have been scheduled and coordinated to complement each other. The CM Professionals Summit is patterned on other similar professional community summits. The day will focus on peer interaction to help develop and propagate best practices, as well as offer ample opportunities for professional networking. A content management specialist will facilitate each session. The sessions will be interactive meetings with no formal presentations and no vendor pitches. CM Professionals members receive a $150 discount to the Gilbane conference. The Gilbane conference program is entirely focused on content technologies, and includes 27 educational sessions covering today’s most critical issues for businesses planning or implementing a content management strategy. Gold sponsors of the Gilbane Content Management conference in Boston include EMC/Documentum (NYSE:EMC), GMC Software, Interwoven (NASDAQ:IWOV), Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX), Stellent (NASDAQ:STEL), and Workshare. www.cmprofessionals.org/events/summit.html, www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_program_Boston_04.html

Open Text Corporation introduced a solution for online “communities of practice” which bring together people in an organization with similar responsibilities or interests. The solution allows, for example, marketing professionals or purchasing managers to connect in ways they couldn’t before, providing a forum where they can share information and best practices, and improve processes. Called Livelink for Communities of Practice, the solution provides a central workspace in Livelink where members can publish relevant news, share documents, participate in member Weblogs, arrange online meetings and hold Webcasts. The solution also tracks the contributions of participants to help members identify experts in the community on specific subjects. With Livelink for Communities of Practice, each community workspace offers a newspaper-like front page with syndicated headlines and content sections, where interesting patterns and trends are “bubbled up” for the community. Livelink for Communities of Practice is available immediately and works with Livelink 9.2 or higher on all supported platforms. www.opentext.com

FatWire Software announced the rollout of FirstSite, which is a set of tools and best practices that helps companies using FatWire Content Server get their first Web site or application running quickly while providing a foundation for future expansion. FirstSite includes a collection of standard templates and site components that are common to most sites, combined with documentation, training, a rich developer community, and best practices methodology. FatWire and its solution partners are using FirstSite as the basis for developing content-centric applications for specific vertical markets. With only minor, cosmetic alterations, developers can use the code in FirstSite to implement a first site, while simultaneously learning how to utilize Content Server’s capabilities, such as dynamic content delivery, personalization, caching, and product catalogs. www.fatwire.com

Interwoven, Inc. unveiled an intranet solution, designed to help companies realize the full value of their intranet investments through multi-site management and usability. Powered by Interwoven’s TeamSite software, the Interwoven Intranet solution simplifies intranet publishing and site management. Leveraging the Web Content Management (WCM) capabilities of Interwoven TeamSite, the Interwoven Intranet solution enables enterprises to address the challenge of supporting numerous intranet initiatives by decentralizing content contribution and control while centralizing WCM infrastructure. TeamSite simplifies the intranet content publishing process, helping non-technical subject-matter experts to contribute content quickly and easily. The Interwoven Intranet solution is generally available now and pricing starts at $49K. www.interwoven.com

Verity Inc. announced a new, expanded software download center (DLC), located on the Verity Web site. Along with an improved user interface to simplify the download process, Verity has added two more of its products to the site along with Verity Ultraseek, the company’s enterprise search software. The software products now available in the Verity Download Center site are: Verity Ultraseek, Verity Federator, and Verity KeyView Software Development Kits. In addition to new products to choose from for 30- or 60-day, no-obligation trials, the new Verity DLC now has the capability of presenting its content in either English or Japanese. , www.verity.com

Groove Networks Inc. announced the Groove Enterprise Data Bridge, a product that allows organizations to securely deliver live enterprise data from nearly any source directly to users’ PCs, in the context of their teams, project work and collaborative tools. Integrated with Groove Virtual Office software, the Enterprise Data Bridge speeds business processes by enabling virtual, cross-organizational teams to work together anywhere at any time with both structured and unstructured data from enterprise applications and databases. The Groove Enterprise Data Bridge is a bundle of products developed by Groove Networks and CASAHL Technology. The Groove Enterprise Data Bridge will be available for purchase this week and is $24,995 per unit. The package includes licenses to CASAHL’s ecKnowledge Server, the CASAHL Groove Connector, and the Groove Publisher bot service. The package also includes one of the following CASAHL ecKnowledge connectors to be selected by customer: DBMS, Oracle, XML, Lotus Notes and Domino, Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint Portal. For existing CASAHL ecKnowledge customers, the Enterprise Data Bridge package is priced at $15,995 per unit. www.casahl.com, www.groove.net