Over 50 Content Management Vendors to Demonstrate Latest Solutions at 5th Annual Gilbane Boston Conference

Business Wire, Nov 24, 2008

Industry Leaders Including FatWire, Sitecore, Clickability, CoreMedia, CrownPeak, Fasoo.com, RedDot, Sajan, and SDL Tridion to Participate

BOSTON -- "Where Content Management Meets Social Media" is the focus of the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference (http://gilbaneboston.com/), set to take place December 2-4, 2008 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. The event is focused on helping organizations better understand how to address rapidly growing and increasingly diverse collections of content by implementing the latest technologies to create, manage, share, and deliver richer content more easily, sometimes cheaper, and often quicker. This year, over 50 content management vendors will introduce and show their latest technology innovations.

Mapping to the event's conference tracks, vendors will showcase a wide variety of solutions within the following categories: 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; and XML Content Strategies.

The following provides a sampling of technologies, services and solutions that will be on display:

Diamond Sponsor

* FatWire will showcase its Web Experience Management portfolio, including FatWire Content Server, the premier Web Content Management platform; FatWire TeamUp, a market-leading collaboration and community solution; and the FatWire Content Integration Platform, which provides seamless access to content stored across the enterprise for publishing online.

On Wednesday, December 3rd, FatWire CEO Yogesh Gupta will deliver a keynote address on Online Engagement - The Key to Success in Good Times and Bad, detailing how companies can use the web as a key channel for converting prospects into customers, and customers into engaged advocates. The following day FatWire CTO, Dmitri Tcherevik offers his perspective in a discussion on a Web Content "Management State of the Industry" detailing the most important concerns business managers and IT professionals face in planning for and executing WCM initiatives over the next year.

Gold Sponsors

* Sitecore, the leading provider of .NET Web Content Management System (CMS) and portal software, is a prominent sponsor of the 5th annual Gilbane Boston Conference. This year's conference focus is on how content management integrates with social media, an area in which Sitecore CMS is at the forefront. Sitecore will be demonstrating how its CMS provides its own and integrates with best of breed web marketing and communications functionality, including newsletter tools, web forums, SEO functionality, blogs, surveys, RSS, page rating, and more.

Sitecore Certified Solution Partner Hedgehog Development will co-panel a session on Integrating Social Media with Content Management. Dan Galvez, Founder and Senior VP of Solutions at Hedgehog will describe his experiences developing several very successful social networking consumer websites with Sitecore, including full multimedia websites which are leaders in lifestyle experience marketing for wedding planning and newlyweds in married life. Dan's panel session is on Thursday, December 4, at 2:00 EST.

* The Clickability On Demand Web Content Management Platform empowers the world's most innovative companies to reduce costs, increase revenue, build brands and foster stronger customer relationships by delivering content to every Web channel and device.

* CoreMedia will introduce to North America its interactive hosted/SaaS Digital Asset Management Application CoreMedia Web TV along with its long proven content management software CoreMedia CMS 2008 featuring social software extensions.

* CrownPeak, the leader in Web content management delivered as a Software-as-a-Service, will display its award winning CMS that allows non-technical users to manage content, not technology. The result is easier and less expensive content management.

* Fasoo.com will showcase DRM ONE for SharePoint, a packaged DRM solution for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which provides effective and persistent protection of any digital content in the ECM system developed on MOSS platform, enabling enterprises to complete ECM platform with safe information sharing.

* RedDot - The Open Text Web Solutions Group unveils a major new release, the Web Solutions Suite. The Suite provides enterprises with new solutions to rapidly deploy intranets, extranets, and Enterprise 2.0 applications with increased security and control.

* Sajan will showcase their Global Content Lifecycle solutions: its guided authoring tool that gives a view into translation memory, and GCMS, its Translation Management System with advanced data management, automation and transparency.

* SDL Tridion is the leading provider of Web Content Management Systems. Ranked #1 by industry analysts, our enterprise solutions empower businesses to quickly and easily deliver content to their target audiences.