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

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--“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 3^rd, 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.

Exhibitors

Acumium’s easy to use content management platform has achieved “top 3” recognition for a customer by Consumer Reports. Find out how you can do more with less by stopping by for a demo.
Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine is powering the next generation of information access, integrating enterprise search and BI capabilities by combining structured and unstructured data, from internal and external sources, in one universal index.
The Berndt Group will present industry leading intelligence on best practices for CMS selection and implementation, web strategy, web 2.0, and user experience. The company partners with a wide range of CMS vendors.
Blue Hue Interactive is an integrated consulting agency that collaborates with clients to build and sustain online brands by providing world-class solutions in eCommerce, content management, and rich media creation, integration, and delivery.
Content DSI, a system integrators and custom publishing solutions provider, has partnered with TEMIS, provider of Text Analytics Software. Come see how Luxid® 5.0 unlocks the business value across your entire data collection.
Coveo will showcase its G2B™ solution, a powerful and radically easy to use enterprise search solution allowing you to seamlessly search and explore across all your multiple repositories – providing a unique information dashboard over your business knowledge. Download a FREE trial now – www.coveo.com/TryG2B
CrossTech Partners helps its clients realize marketing innovation by integrating their online new media marketing, live event marketing, and audience intelligence data platforms. Solutions include digital marketing campaigns, advanced web technology, social media, mobile delivery, event technology and audience master data management.
Ektron, Inc will showcase version 7.6 of CMS400.NET, recently released with revolutionary Web site synchronization (eSync), advanced SEO tools and Ektron’s new personalization portal framework in a native .NET environment.
Ephox software allows creators of web content to be more productive and to collaborate more effectively. EditLive! is a browser-based, rich content HTML editor designed for non-technical business users and integrated into the leading web content management systems.
The Geo Group Corporation is a full-service translation and localization agency. We offer translation, in-house desktop publishing (DTP), in-house video editing, voice-over recording in two in-house studios, disk duplication, website and software localization, and technical writing.
Kentico Software, a web content management vendor, will unveil Kentico CMS 4.0 for ASP.NET with a new Social Networking module that enables rapid implementation of community sites.
Lexalytics will be available to discuss text analytics and sentiment solutions that support enterprise search and reputation management efforts within organizations. Lexalytics will also showcase Salience 4.0, their latest software release.
Magnolia-on-Air finally meets the broadcast media's need to capture, repurpose and rapidly publish content on the web. Seamless production workflow significantly cuts costs, gets rich media content to the web first and invites community participation.
MultiLingual Computing, Inc. publishes the magazine MultiLingual — the resource for doing global business. To celebrate the printing of our 100th issue, we are offering subscriptions at the 1989 cover price.
nSight is a technical and educational content development and publishing services firm. They’ll be offering Gilbane Conference attendees a free documentation review and edit based on the principles of structured writing and single sourcing.

PaperThin will showcase its flagship product CommonSpot™ which organizations such as American University, the EPA, Hasbro, Sharp Healthcare, and the United Way have chosen to manage Web content and achieve more from their Web strategies.
Quark Inc. will demonstrate Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution, the enterprise technology that enables publishers to create content, manage workflows, and publish to all media. Quark’s Michael Boses will present on DITA for enterprise publishing.
SYSTRAN will demonstrate its market leading language translation software solutions for the desktop, enterprise and Internet, to facilitate multilingual communication and publishing in 52+ language combinations.
Translations.com announces its cutting-edge website translation solution, OneLink. As a completely hosted solution, OneLink revolutionizes website translation by removing client IT involvement completely while applying existing translation memory to streamline the workflow process.
Vamosa will feature many Fortune 500 references showing attendees how to squeeze the maximum benefit from investments in content management technology using its unique content quality solutions.
Vignette will showcase its Web Experience Management solutions that enable you to use rich media, video, interactivity and social media to engage Web audiences and drive revenue.
XyEnterprise will demonstrate BranchMerge, a powerful extension to its Contenta DITA CMS that allows content developers to create branched versions of content for editing and publishing, while maintaining links to the content’s origin.

In addition, the 2008 CM Pros Fall Summit will take place in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Dec 2^nd.

The CM Pros Fall Summit will focus on all aspects of the content lifecycle. This highly interactive day puts attendees in direct contact with senior CMS practitioners. The event kicks off with two keynote addresses followed by a panel of CMS experts that will field questions from the attendees. The afternoon will be devoted to interactive roundtable discussions as participants tackle the challenges of moving content through the lifecycle. For more information, visit: http://summit.cmprofessionals.org/

To view a complete list of exhibitors, visit http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html
For registration information, visit http://gilbaneboston.com/registration_information.html
To learn more about exhibiting or sponsorships, contact Marc Goldstein at 781-821-6652, mgoldstein@lighthouseseminars.com

Media sponsors of the Gilbane Boston event include Business Wire, CMSWire, eContent Magazine, KMWorld and MultiLingual Magazine.

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.

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