Gilbane Events & Announcements

Gilbane Group Releases New Report on Enterprise Search Market and Applications

2008-06-17T16:43:26Z

For Immediate Release:

San Francisco CA, June 17, 2008. Gilbane Group Inc. today announced at the Gilbane San Francisco conference the general release of Enterprise Search Markets and Applications - Capitalizing on Emerging Demand. Gilbane San Francisco takes place at the Westin Market hotel this Wednesday through Friday. Registration is available on site.

The 85-page report summarizes the marketplace in a way that helps buyers map their needs to search products that will deliver the most value in the shortest amount of time, at a reasonable cost. Additionally, buyers will find practical guidance about product evaluation, selection, implementation, deployment and maintenance. A vendor directory and glossary round out the content directed to new buyers. Search users who are expanding or seeking improvements to their current experience will find advice on making incremental adjustments in deployment. Vendors who are developing, selling, marketing, or supporting customers with enterprise search applications will find aids to competitive intelligence in the market landscape, directory and glossary.

"Search technology is moving out of its legacy roots into the mainstream of enterprise applications as scores of products aimed at a "behind the firewall" audience crowd the marketplace. But it is a learning process for early adopters as they work to ensure positive business outcomes.” Said Lynda Moulton, author and Lead Analyst for Enterprise Search at Gilbane Group. “This report is built on important commentary from a survey group, all with recent experience implementing current search products. The variety of approaches underscores that buyers are far from a monolithic group. I was struck by how every story has a different angle on the number of decisions and variables each considers to make "search" a winning business proposition for their key constituents.”

Availability
Enterprise Search Markets and Applications - Capitalizing on Emerging Demand is available at no charge for immediate download at http://gilbane.com/Research-Reports.html and this week at the Gilbane Group booth at Gilbane San Francisco.

Enterprise Search Markets and Applications - Capitalizing on Emerging Demand, was sponsored by Coveo, ISYS, and Vivisimo.

About Gilbane Group, Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. We work with investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant firms, and have organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. http://gilbane.com.

Content Management Heavyweights Discuss the Platform Wars at Gilbane San Francisco: Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, EMC Face Off in Discussion of Dominant CMS Offerings

2008-06-12T13:50:55Z

For Immediate Release:

Cambridge MA, June 12, 2008. Representatives of leading content management companies Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and EMC will convene in San Francisco to discuss, “Platform Pros & Cons.” The session, part of the Gilbane San Francisco Conference on Content Management, will be held on Friday, June 20th, 10:15 - 11:30am, at the Westin San Francisco. Speakers include:

Lubor Ptacek, Senior Marketing Manager, EMC
Michelle Huff, Director, Product Management, Oracle
John Grillos, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, IBM
Evan Richman, Senior Product Manager, SharePoint, Microsoft.

Tony Byrne, Founder and Principal of CMS Watch, will moderate the panel, one of the first of its type to feature senior representatives from each of these companies.

“This is a rare opportunity to hear from all of these important companies at one time,” said Bill Trippe, Lead Analyst at Gilbane and Track Chair for the Content Technologies and Strategies Track. “We can now say that the long-predicted platform wars are upon us. We’re thrilled to have each company represented and to have Tony Byrne moderating the session.”

For more information about the conference, please visit the conference website at http://gilbanesf.com/

About Gilbane Group, Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. 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 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely read newsletter, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://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://lighthouseseminars.com

Contact:
Welz & Weisel Communications
Evan Weisel, 703-218-3555
Cell: 703-628-5754
evan@w2comm.com

Hear 5 Leading Web Content Management Executives Debate

2008-06-10T17:37:19Z

The Web Content Management track at Gilbane San Francisco starts off with a bang! Or at least a discussion, between the leaders of five WCM vendors. WCM-1: WCM Keynote - State of Web Content Management We open this year's Web Content Management track with a keynote panel of technology and market experts who will discuss their perspectives on the three or four most important concerns of business managers and IT professionals in planning for and executing WCM initiatives over the next year. The panelists are chosen based on their depth of knowledge within WCM and their ability to identify, analyze, and articulate what the current key concerns are for WCM customers. This interactive discussion will help attendees to identify and address potential liabilities in their own WCM strategies as well as to understand what leading practitioners and technology suppliers envision in their own project/product roadmaps. Moderator: Tony White, Lead Analyst, Web Content Management, Gilbane Group Speakers: Yogesh Gupta, President and CEO, FatWire Erik Aeyelts Averink, President, Products & Solutions, SDL Tridion Bjarne Hansen, President, Sitecore USA David Graham, CIO, Vignette Detlef Kamps, General Manager, Americas, RedDot Web Solutions Group Register today.

Press Release: New Research Report on Social Media Released

2008-06-09T19:01:10Z

For Immediate Release:

Gilbane Group Releases New Report on Enterprise use of Social Media

Cambridge MA, June 9, 2008. Gilbane Group Inc. today announced the general release of Collaboration and Social Media 2008- Taking Stock of Today's Experiences and Tomorrow's Opportunities, a comprehensive investigation of the growing market for social computing technologies and solutions.

Collaboration and Social Media 2008 shows how social media, based on “Web 2.0” technologies, is approaching the tipping-point. First generation tools now in widespread use, such as text-oriented email, web sites, and shared workspaces, are soon to be supplemented by social media applications that incorporate blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, rich media, and other innovative technologies. The Gilbane research report predicts the transition from horizontal applications to vertical solutions, and offers a number of strategies to help companies with the transition.

Co-authored by Geoffrey Bock Lead Analyst for Collaboration and Steve Paxhia, Director of the Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice, the 130-page report combines a national survey of marketing executives with in-depth case studies of ten companies and a comprehensive vendor catalog. Nora Ganin Barnes, Director of the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, led the survey team that interviewed business leaders in medium and large American companies.

“Compared with the high penetration rates for first generation tools, adoption rates for Web 2.0 applications are still at a low level,” says Bock. “But marketing executives who are using Web 2.0 solutions rate many of these new technologies as being very effective. As word spreads, I believe that companies are going to profit greatly from new ways of doing business.”

The case studies illustrate how social media is used to build brands, generate new ideas, and improve the efficiency of the interactions among all stakeholders including employees and customers. Today, companies achieve measurable business results at a fraction of the cost and time previously required. “The new generation of collaboration and social media solutions are bringing companies closer together as well as closer to their customers,” adds Paxhia. “This often represents a fundamentally new way of doing business.”

“We first found serious enterprise use of blog and wiki technologies, in our report published in March 2005; clearly things have come a long way.”, said Frank Gilbane, CEO of the Gilbane Group. “It will be fascinating tracking enterprise use of social use as it reaches a new scale in 2008.”

Availability
Collaboration and Social Media 2008 is available at no charge for immediate download at http://gilbane.com/Research-Reports.html

Collaboration and Social Media 2008 was sponsored by EMC, SAP, Near-Time, Octopz, Awareness, MindTouch, WetPaint, and Zoho.

About Gilbane Group, Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. 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 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely read newsletter, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.

Contact:
Gilbane Group, Inc.
Ralph Marto, 617-497-9443 ext 117
ralph@gilbane.com

Webinar: Searching for Hidden (Content) Treasure

2008-06-06T17:03:52Z

Thursday, June 26 2008, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

Richly-formatted reports, often automatically generated by enterprise applications, contain a wealth of information that companies can use to accelerate efficient decision-making or quick diagnosis of customer problems. But business managers and users have long been stymied by complicated technology tools. They need simple, specialized search to aggregate content already output in formats they understand, reports hidden because of far-flung enterprise distribution and storage.

Apps Associates, Oracle, and The Gilbane Group join forces to illustrate the potential simplicity for harvesting the value data hidden in rich content that already exists. Topics include:

The pain points involved in harvesting valuable data in enterprise reports.
The technology capabilities that are required to address the pain.
The solutions that combine these capabilities to deliver application-ready report search.

The panel will also discuss real-world business scenarios that illustrate the value of enterprise search solutions that are fine-tuned for reports. Participants are Lynda Moulton, Lead Analyst for Enterprise Search, Gilbane Group; Jinyu Wang, Principle Product Manager, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search; and Ajay Kapur, Principal and VP - Product Development, Apps Associates.

Moderated by Gilbane Group. Sponsored and hosted by Apps Associates. Registration is open at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/176132958

Enterprise Search: How to Successfully Adopt and Deploy Search

2008-06-06T15:01:24Z

We have 5 in-depth workshops at the end of our conference in San Francisco. The workshops take place on June 20th. Learn other organizations' experiences in implementing enterprise search from Gilbane Group's Lynda Moulton. B: Enterprise Search: How to Successfully Adopt and Deploy Search Lynda Moulton, Lead Analyst for Enterprise Search, the Gilbane Group Drawing on a body of research assembled over the past year Lynda Moulton will focus on the search marketplace with a heavy emphasis on what users are currently experiencing, what they want and need, and a myriad of offerings that are vertically positioned in the market. During this three hour session she will share insights into:

Unique aspects of search products and their target audiences in the marketplace
Instructional anecdotes of real but anonymous user experiences that will highlight "dos and don'ts" for how to select, implement and deploy search
Team building for selection, implementation, deployment and use case scenario development
Finally, drawing on her own experiences as a software vendor, she will share ideas for building a long term productive and healthy relationship with your search vendor

You can register for the full conference and the workshop, or just for the workshop, at: http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html

Social Media 101: Building a Social Media Roadmap

2008-06-05T15:59:11Z

We have 5 in-depth workshops at the end of our conference in San Francisco. The workshops take place on June 20th. Get the straight scoop on how social media can be used from IDC's Rachel Happe. E: Social Media 101: Building a Social Media Roadmap Instructor: Rachel Happe, Research Manager, Digital Business Economy, IDC Social media tools are changing the landscape of how we communicate and access information, which is having a dramatic impact on enterprises of all sizes. In this workshop, we will explore the landscape of social media applications and the most typical uses including marketing, customer support, and product development. This session will include:

Discussing participants' needs in the context of a community maturity model
Identifying the major use cases
Articulating expected benefits
Identifying predicted challenges
Collaboratively developing high level requirements and identifying potential gaps
Reviewing the vendor landscape

This workshop is aimed at business and technical professionals who are exploring the uses of social media within their organization. All participants will receive a copy of The Social Enterprise: How Social Networking Changes Everything. You can register for the full conference and the workshop, or just for the workshop, at: http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html

Who are the best speakers on content technology?

2008-06-04T12:32:10Z

We are honored to to be able to bring you the largest collection of leading practitioners, analysts, and technologists available this year. This powerful combination of experts can only be found at Gilbane San Francisco, June 18-20th.

Our faculty includes:

Stephen Arnold, Founder, Arnold IT
Erik Aeyelts Averink, President, Products and Solutions, SDL Tridion
Tim Barker, Senior Director, Product Management, Salesforce Content, Salesforce.com
Mollye Barrett, President, ClearPath, LLC
Simon Bate, Senior Technical Consultant, Scriptorium Publishing Services
Jean Bedord, Findability & Search Consultant, Econtent Strategies
Mark Bennett, CTO, New Idea Engineering
Melissa Biggs, Senior Globalization Business Manager, SUN Microsystems
Geoff Bock, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Michael Boses, CTO, Invision
Denis Brown, Sr Vice President, SAP Labs
Colin Britton, CTO-at-large
Tony Bryne, Founder, CMS Watch
Linda Burman, President, LA Burman & Assoc
Cimarron Buser, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Business Development,Texterity
Dries Buytaert, Co-founder & CTO, Acquia, Drupal
Dan Carmel, CEO, SpringCM
Robert Carroll, VP Marketing, Clickability
Steve Carton, VP Content Technologies, Retrieval Systems Corp.
Lynda Chiotti, President, Chiotti, Inc
Mayank Choudhary, Principal Product Manager, Documentum Information Rights Management, EMC
Leonor Ciarlone, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Jeff Cram, Managing Director, iSite Design
Ed Cuoco, Co-founder, Spathe LLC
Frank A. D'Agnese, Co-Founder & President, Earth Knowledge, Inc.
Karl Darr, Principal, KMD Associates
Andrew Draheim, Globalization Consultant, thebigword
Joshua Duhl, Director of Enterprise Product Marketing, Quark
Keith Fahlgren, Publishing Technology Engineer, O'Reilly Media
Dan Farber, Editor-in-Chief, CNET News
Beth Franssen, Manager, Electronic Corporate Marketing, Hines
Denis Gachot, President, Systran
Brad Gandee, Vice President of Product Marketing and Management, GigaTrust
Evan Gerber, Principal Consultant Experience Design, Molecular
Frank Gilbane, CEO, Gilbane Group Inc.
Prakesh Govind, President, RealTech Inc
David Graham, CIO, Vignette
Dr. Mark Granick, Editor-in-Chief, ePlasty
John Grillos, Senior Product Marketing Manager, IBM
Darren Guarnaccia, VP Product Planning & Management, Sitecore
Yogesh Gupta, President & CEO, Fatwire
Bjarne Hansen, President, Sitecore
Vern Hanzlik, Chief Marketing Officer, Sajan
Rachel Happe, Research Manager, Digital Business Economy, IDC
David Haucke, VP Global Marketing, ISYS
Dave Hersh, CEO, Jive Software
Bonnie Hipp, Health Information Manager, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
Margie Hlava, President and Chairman, Accession Innovation
James Hom, Engineering Program Manager, NetApp
Jim Howard, CEO, CrownPeak
Michelle Huff, Director, Product Management, Oracle
Joanne Jackson, Global Web Technologies, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Jack Jia, President and CEO, Baynote
Rob Joachim, Information Systems Engineering Lead, MITRE Corpotation
Karl Kadie, Contributing Analyst, Gilbane Group
Brad, Kain, Co-Founder and President, Quoin
Detlef Kamps, General Manager, Americas, RedDot Web Solutions
Hyung Yong Kim, IT Security Manager, KTF
Rita Knox, Research VP, Information Infrastructure, Gartner, Inc
Rob Koplowitz, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Mary Laplante, Vice President, Gilbane Group
David Lee, eBusiness Manager, 3M Corporation
Chuck Lenatti, Editor, The Seybold Report
Udi Manber, Vice President, Engineering Google
Ross Mayfield, Founder & CEO, Socialtext
Nic McMahon, Vice President and GM, Jonkers, USA
Sam Mefford, Enterprise Search Practice Lead, Avalon Consulting
Tom Meyer, General Manager, Digital Record Center, Iron Mountain
Mark Morehead, Senior VP, MuseGlobal
Lynda Moulton, Lead Analyst, Enterprise Search, Gilbane Group
Gary Muddyman, Managing Director and CEO, Conversis
Amin Negandhi, Principal, Echelon Consulting
John Newton, CTO & Co-founder, Alfresco
Donna Parrish, MultiLingual Computing, Inc.
Christine Pierpoint, Principal, Senior Consultant, Welchman Consulting
Lubor Ptacek, Senior Marketing Manager, EMC
Venkat Rangan, CTO, Clearwell Systems
Ann Rockley, President , Rockley Group
Marco Rotelli, GCMS Engineer, eBay
Andrew Savikas, Director of Publishing Technology, O'Reilly Media
Eric Severson, Co-Founder and CTO, Flatirons Solutions
Sovan Shatpathy, Manager, Web Infrastructure & Product IT Services, Linksys
Richard Sikes, Principal Consultant, LocFlowTech, Inc.
Laurent Simoneau, President and CEO, Coveo
Walter Smith, Solution Architect, Lionbridge
Keith Snow, Founder and CEO, Harvest Eating
Jason Sohn, Senior Strategic Alliance Manager, Fasoo.com
Jake Sorofman, Senior VP of Marketing and Business Development, JustSystems
David Stabb, Manager of Product and Business Development, Aptara
John Stone, Consultant, CrossTech Media
Rebecca Thompson, VP Marketing, Vivisimo
Bill Trippe, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Brian Vandeventer, IT Manager, The Hartford
Cairo Walker, Consultant, University of Technology, Sydney
Michael Wechner, President, Wyona
Tony White, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Brian Wick, Director, LiveCycle Product Marketing, Adobe
Rusty Williams, VP & Co-founder, Prospero
Randy Woods, Executive VP, Non-linear Creations
Mark Yolton, Senior Vice President, SAP
Brett Zucker, CTO, Brigeline Software

See the speaker biographies.

Conference program

Webinar: Get (and Keep) Customers with Web Experience Management

2008-05-20T21:32:48Z

Thursday, June 5, 12:00 noon ET Customers want more and better. More and better content. More and better capabilities for finding products and services. More and better capabilities for evaluating, trying, and buying. More and better capabilities for collaborating. The trends are clear. Customer engagement is the goal, web experience management the strategy. But how to make it happen? Gilbane's Bill Trippe, FatWire president and CEO Yogesh Gupta, and web experts at Linksys and the Colorado Department of Transportation discuss trends, required capabilities, and real applications in this online panel discussion. Learn how how your company can deliver highly personalized, interactive experiences with a solid WCM foundation and engagement building blocks such as dynamic content, optimization, collaboration and community. Register today for Web Experience Management: Essentials for Engaging Customers and Winning Loyalty. Participation is limited, so sign up early. Sponsored by FatWire.

Gilbane San Francisco discount deadline this Friday

2008-05-14T12:46:46Z

We hope to see you at Gilbane San Francisco. There is still time to take advantage of early registration discounts until this Friday, May 16th. Register for the Conference Plus package, The Conference & Tutorial package or the Conference Only and receive an additional $200 discount - Just use the discount code "Gilbane" Topics to be covered in the conference include: * Web Content Management (WCM) * Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies * Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs * "Enterprise 2.0" Technologies & Social Computing * Content Globalization & Localization * Enterprise Content Management (ECM) * Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) * Publishing Best Practices * XML Content Strategies For more details about the keynotes and conference sessions visit http://gilbanesf.com or Be our guest with a Complimentary Technology Showcase Pass. Your Technology Showcase Pass Includes: * Attendance to one or all Keynotes * Full Access to the Exhibit Area * Attendance to the Sponsor Reception in the Exhibit Area on June 18th Click here to sign up today Main Conference: June 18 - 19, 8:00am - 5:00pm June 20, 8:30am - 11:30am Post-conference Workshops: June 20, 12:00pm - 4:00pm Technology Showcase: June 18, 10:00am - 7:00pm June 19, 10:00am - 2:00pm 2008 Gilbane Conference San Francisco Keynotes: Special Keynote on Search Quality and Continuous Innovation: Udi Manber, Vice President Engineering, Search, Google Beyond Content Management Panel: Denis Browne, Senior Vice President, Business User Imagineering, SAP Labs Dan Farber, Editor-in-Chief, CNET News Industry Analyst Debate: Rita Knox, Research VP, Information Infrastructure, Gartner, Inc. Rachel Happe, Research Manager, Digital Business Economy, IDC Rob Koplowitz, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch Leonor Ciarlone, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group Full List of Conference Speakers CM Pros 2008 Spring Summit: Dynamic Delivery Across Multiple Media Channels The 2008 CM Pros US Spring summit will take place on June 17, the day before the Gilbane Conference in San Francisco. Plan now to attend.

Gilbane San Francisco: We're on the Air

2008-05-08T17:51:40Z

The recording of the Internet radio broadcast that Bill and I did last week with Scott Draughon is now available for listening and download. Scroll down to May 1 on the past programs page on mytechnologylawyer.com. The broadcast focused on hot topics at Gilbane San Francisco, June 18-20. One highlight of the show is the segment with Bill Rosenblatt, recognized authority on enterprise rights management and progam lead on Gilbane's upcoming research on Enterprise Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness. Bill provided an overview of ERM technology and its use for enterprise content, which will be the focus of a panel in San Francisco. Read more about our upcoming report on ERM adoption. There's still time to take the survey. The broadcast also featured a segment with Brad Kain, co-founder and president of Quoin, who's talking about XML content strategies in San Francisco; a summary of our coverage of enterprise search topics; and a nod to the session on software-as-a-service, with senior executives of some of the leading suppliers of SaaS solutions for content management. We'll be doing at least one more Internet radio show prior to Gilbane San Francisco. Please send us an email if there's a topic of specific interest to you and your colleagues.

Press Release: Gilbane Group Announces New Study – “Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Growth, Trends, and Best Practices”

2008-05-07T15:22:55Z

For Immediate Release:

Authored by publishing experts Steve Paxhia and Bill Rosenblatt, report includes market size, 22 case studies, and opinions of industry visionaries

Cambridge MA, May 7, 2008. Gilbane Group Inc. today announced the general release of Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Growth, Trends, and Best Practices, a pioneering and comprehensive study of the growing market for digital editions of periodical publications. The study features statistics that, in an industry first, unify audited data from two sources (BPA and ABC) with data from unaudited publications. Highlights from the statistics include:

The number of business-to-business (B-to-B) publications offering digital editions has increased over 300% from 2005 to 2007, with total subscriptions also increasing over 300%.
The number of consumer publications offering digital editions has increased over 200% from 2005 to 2007, with total subscriptions also increasing over 200%.
Digital vs. print penetration of B-to-B subscribers is up from 13.3 to 15.0%, while digital penetration of consumer publication subscribers is down from 2.2 to 1.4%.

The 130-page report includes 22 case studies of publishers, representing several dozen digital edition titles, which showcase a number of industry best practices identified by the study’s authors. These span a wide range including big-name consumer magazines (Hearst, Playboy), leading B-to-B publishers (Reed Business Information, American Legal Media), daily newspapers (Toronto Sun, The Guardian), and catalog and directory publishers (Welco, Canadian Donors Guide).

The report also includes insights from five publishing technology visionaries on the state of digital editions and ideas for how to make them work for publishers. Visionaries include Gloria Adams of PennWell, Brent Lewis of Harlequin Enterprises, Mike Edelhart of Infovell, Peter Meirs of Time Inc., and Marta Wohrle, formerly of Hachette Filipacchi.

Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Growth, Trends, and Best Practices presents data from leading digital publishing companies. Contributors include Nstein, Nxtbook Media, Olive Software, and Texterity (Platinum Sponsors); Advanced Publishing, YUDU Media, and Zinio (Gold Sponsors); and Audit Bureau of Circulations and BPA Worldwide (Data Sponsors).

Authors of the report are Steve Paxhia, Director of Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice at Gilbane, and Bill Rosenblatt, Senior Analyst. Both are recognized authorities on publishing business and technology strategy and have worked with many different publishing businesses and technology vendors. Said Paxhia, “Our study shows that growth to date of the number of digital publications and the number of digital subscriptions has been impressive. While this paradigm shift is still in its early stages, there are plenty of examples where publishers using today’s best practices have generated impressive results. This is the most exciting time to be in publishing since Gutenberg invented the printing press.”

Frank Gilbane, CEO of the Gilbane Group, said, “This new report on digital publications illustrates our continued thought leadership in the publishing market, which is embracing many of the content technologies that we have been following since 1993. At the same time, it’s only one of several first-of-a-kind market studies that Gilbane Group is releasing this year.”

Availability
The study is available for immediate download at http://gilbane.com/Research-Reports.html

About Gilbane Group, Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. 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 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely read newsletter, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.

Contact:
Ralph Marto
Gilbane Group, Inc.
617.497.9443 ext 117
ralph@gilbane.com

Press Release: CM Pros to Host 2008 Spring Summit in Conjunction with Upcoming Gilbane San Francisco Conference

2008-05-06T14:09:38Z

Summit to Take Place on June 17 Prior to Start of Gilbane Conference; Full-Day Event to Focus on Dynamic Delivery Across Multiple Media Channels

San Francisco, CA – May 6, 2008 – The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, today announced that the 2008 CM Pros U.S. Spring Summit will take place on June 17 to coincide with the fourth Annual Gilbane San Francisco Conference which is June 18-20 at the Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco (http://gilbanesf.com). The CM Pros Summit offers attendees an in-depth forum for discussing the business drivers and technical issues of managing and delivering dynamic content.

Content Management Systems are viewed by many as being comprised of three predominant components: acquisition, management, and delivery. This summit will empower attendees with tangible and tactical real world solutions for the delivery component of content management.

"The Summit program focuses on content management delivery and the increasing demands of content presentation,” said Andrew Wilcox, CM Pros Technology Director and Summit Program Manager. “We have packed a one-day program with sessions that will deliver practical, real-world solutions and provide attendees with a competitive industry edge. The program includes 'Quiz the Experts', a lively game show format offering attendees the opportunity to ask questions of industry experts, and introduces the 'Use Case Challenge' where CMS vendors demonstrate their solutions for publishing content from one source to multiple channels.”

The CM Pros Summit includes users, practitioners and vendors of every aspect of content and digital asset management including: information architecture, usability, implementation, metadata and taxonomy, search, change management, software and tools. At the CM Pros Summit, speakers and attendees will:

Leverage best practices for dynamic delivery
Hear the latest research, case studies, and best practices
Share experiences with others and learn from peers
Network at the event
Identify next steps in content management implementations
Collaborate for solutions. Meet with partners, suppliers, and potential customers
Hear about new aspects of content management; drive new technology development

Keynoting the summit is Steve Powers, Senior Analyst with Forrester Research. Enterprises are increasingly using rich internet applications (RIA) frameworks - such as Ajax, JavaFX, Flex, and Silverlight - to provide more interactive and dynamic customer experiences on their Web sites, and this has prompted many to question their investments in Web content management. In this session Steve will address how usage of RIAs may force organizations to re-think Web content management strategies.

“We are extremely pleased that the CM Pros Summit will take place in conjunction with our annual conference in San Francisco,” said Frank Gilbane, Chair of the Gilbane Conferences. “Partnering with CM Professionals only increases the value we offer attendees in providing actionable information on current content management technologies that attendees can implement immediately.”

Attend the Summit and join CM Pros for $75, a 25 percent discount off the regular fee. To take advantage of this offer, visit www.cmprofessionals.org and enter discount code: GILBSPR2008. Current members who renew before June 17 will also receive the discount with a year added at the date of renewal. Also, CM Pros members receive a $200 discount off the cost of the Gilbane conference.

Program
http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/program?utm_source=Gilbane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Spring%2BSummit%2B2008

Presenters
http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/presenters?utm_source=Gilbane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Spring%2BSummit%2B2008

Register
http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/register?utm_source=Gilbane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Spring%2BSummit%2B2008

Summit Home
http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/?utm_source=Gilbane&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Spring%2BSummit%2B2008

About Gilbane Group, Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. 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 50 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 http://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://lighthouseseminars.com

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Contacts:
Welz & Weisel Communications
Evan Weisel, 703-218-3555
Cell: 703-628-5754
evan@w2comm.com

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

Marketing Trends: Enabling Intelligent, Analytics-Driven Content

2008-05-05T17:42:01Z

(Cross-Posted from the WCM Blog) While many of our clients use analytics applications to support their WCM projects and e-commerce initiatives, other clients not yet using analytics often ask what value can be derived from doing so. The answer depends on the purpose of the client's website. For online commerce sites, analytics functionality can be invaluable in that it allows companies to track user behavior on the site and to correlate user behavior with conversion rates, average sales prices, and other useful sales metrics. The bottom line is that analytics almost always increase online revenues. Analytics can also be of great value to non e-commerce clients by enabling them to monitor content consumption rates and to gauge the relevance and effectiveness of content through the analysis of consumption patterns. This naturally makes analytics (sometimes built into "campaign management" modules) indispensable to marketing professionals interested either in optimizing content dissemination on information-based sites ("content portals") or in maximizing profitability on retail sites. Please join us on May 8, 2008, at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern), for a webinar sponsored by Bridgeline Software entitled: "Marketing Trends: Enabling Intelligent, Analytics-Driven Content."

Stars of Stage and Screen...

2008-04-29T23:53:01Z

... and radio! Mary Laplante and I will be on the MyTechnologyLawyer.com radio show this Thursday, discussing the upcoming Gilbane San Francisco conference. We'll be on the air live for an hour starting at 4:00 Eastern, and will be discussing a wide range of topics about the conference, with some focus on the sessions I am coordinating. The host, Scott Draughon, is a great guy and really does an excellent job interviewing his guests on a wide variety of topics. Mary and I have done the show before (this time last year as well) and it was a pleasure. Be sure to tune in!