Gilbane Boston Conference Sessions Explore Full Range of Content Management Trends, Technologies and Strategies

Business Wire, Oct 16, 2007

Program Underscores Content Management as a Strategy that Uses a Wide Range of Tools and Practices that Are Rapidly Evolving

BOSTON -- The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars today announced that the fourth annual Gilbane Boston event (http://gilbaneboston.com), taking place November 27-29 at the Westin Copley Place hotel, has broadened its conference session topics to keep pace with new content management technologies that address enterprise requirements for creating, managing, finding, sharing and delivering information. This event offers attendees the industry's most comprehensive forum for learning how to implement content management strategies, and which types of information technologies are appropriate.

Attendees can explore both incumbent and new content technologies available for enterprise applications, including Web Content Management (WCM), Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs, "Enterprise 2.0" Technologies & Social Computing, Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies, Content Globalization & Localization, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Enterprise Digital Rights Management (eDRM) and Publishing Technologies.

A few of the "hot" conference sessions include:

-- Analysts Debate the WCM Keynote

   Analysts from Forrester Research, The 451 Group, IDC, The Gilbane
   Group and CMS Watch flex their thought leadership muscles in this
   lively session. Panelists will also provide their perspectives on
   the strategic issues raised in the context of the overall WCM
   market.

-- Quality at the Source: Creating Global Customer Experience

   A satisfying customer experience happens only when communication is
   clear, consistent, error-free, and in the customer's native
   language. Global companies are learning to "bake in" quality during
   the creation of source and translated content. This session
   explores various approaches to reducing costs and increasing time
   to market by focusing on the beginning of the global content
   lifecycle. Topics include terminology management, source content
   reuse, and translator-based workgroup collaboration.

-- What Are the Current and Future Enablers for Natural Language
   Queries to Return Answers?

   Semantic Web enabling technologies are gathering momentum
   stimulated by a lot of Web 2.0 hype and rhetoric, but are their
   solutions that reveal the right content to truly match a query? Our
   speakers will describe features and operational functions within
   two product lines, IBM's OmniFind and Schemalogic that expose more
   relevant results through search.

-- Case Studies: Collaboration in Action

   So what are companies using for ad hoc information sharing these
   days? When do business blogs, enterprise wikis, tag clouds,
   expertise networks, and other kinds of collaborative computing
   services make sense? What are the outcomes and effects? In this
   session, we will hear from several project leaders about their
   experiences deploying social computing environments across their
   organizations.

To get additional details on each of these, and all conference sessions, visit: http://gilbaneboston.com/session_descriptions.html

"No other event brings together the range of content management topics that are covered at this event, and further, delivered primarily via independent consultants, analysts and end users," said Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair. "We strive to bring a program that educates attendees so they can make informed decisions as to what technologies they should consider implementing into their enterprise. It's not about hype and sales pitches. It is about market education and having end users share experiences with one another on what works and what does not work. This is why the Gilbane Boston event is such a big success year over year."

For registration information visit: http://gilbaneboston.com/registration.html

To learn more about exhibiting or sponsorships contact Marc Goldstein at 781-821-6652, mgoldstein@lighthouseseminars.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, 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://www.lighthouseseminars.com