December 18, 2007

Call for Papers: Gilbane San Francisco 2008

They are now accepting proposals for panel participation and presentations for Gilbane San Francisco 2008, to be held at the Westin Market Hotel, San Francisco, June 17 - 19, 2008.

Join the content and information technology's leading analysts, IT strategists, and technologists at the industry's most popular and important conference this coming Spring. Share your expertise and experience, and network with the forward-thinking implementers and thought leaders.

How to be a speaker

Choose a topic area from the list below and see how to submit a proposal. The deadline is January 15, 2008. Topics to be covered in-depth include:

If you've never been to one of the Gilbane events and want see what we have been covering in our conferences, check-out the programs from the recent hugely successful Gilbane Boston 2007 and Gilbane San Francisco 2007.

Posted by Bill Trippe at 10:14 AM | Comments (1)

December 4, 2007

Meanwhile, Over at Gilbane...

Tomorrow, I will be part of a webinar, What Every Publisher Needs to Know About Content Management. It's being put on by Book Business Magazine and sponsored by Follett Digital Resources. Matt Steinmetz, Special Projects Editor for Book Business will be moderating, and I will be joined on the virtual dais by Jabin White, Vice President for Product Management at Silverchair.

I'm going to be presenting a market overview, offer some definitions, and discuss some recent and emerging trends. I'm going to leave most of the heavy lifting to Jabin, though. He is truly one of the smart guys in the business and an excellent presenter, and I am looking forward to hearing what he has to say.

You can go right to the registration page here.

Posted by Bill Trippe at 8:40 PM

November 15, 2007

Microsoft SharePoint and ECM: Ready for Primetime?

If you are interested in SharePoint for ECM applications, the webinar I recently did for Gilbane is now recorded and available on the website of the sponsoring company, KnowledgeLake.

Posted by Bill Trippe at 8:27 PM

November 6, 2007

Microsoft SharePoint and the Enterprise Content Management Market

On Thursday, I will be doing a webinar on SharePoint and ECM. I wrote a bit about the topic over at Gilbane (and we have a white paper on the topic coming out shortly). If you are interested in attending the Webinar, you can register over at KnowledgeLake, the company sponsoring the webinar.

Posted by Bill Trippe at 8:44 PM

May 6, 2007

Meanwhile Over at Gilbane

I have been in one of those modes where I have been too busy to blog, and yet have been working on a lot of interesting things. My Gilbane colleague Mary Laplante and I did a webinar with Oracle (details here about where to view the recorded webinar and download the associated white paper). If you haven't been keeping a scorecard, Oracle acquired Stellent a few months ago, and while the webinar was more broadly about web content management, it does give you some insight into what Oracle will be doing with Stellent. Hat tip to David Guenette, who co-wrote the white paper, and really did the heavy lifting there.

Also at Gilbane, I wrote a case study about Autodesk and its efforts over the last several years integrating Idiom's globalization management system into its technical documentation workflow. We then did a Webinar with Minette Norman from Autodesk, and she did a fantastic job of explaining the project at both the technical and management level. The recorded webinar and presentation slides can be found here.

Finally, David Guenette and I recently updated a Gilbane white paper on Digital Asset Management. The paper, sponsored by DAM vendor ClearStory systems, asks (and answers) the question, has digital asset management “crossed the chasm” from a technology used only by early adopters to one that is more part of the IT mainstream?

Posted by Bill Trippe at 7:41 PM

January 9, 2007

The Search Continues for Steve Arnold

Steve Arnold weighs in on search in the government sector.

Steven Arnold, a search engine consultant with a government focus, discusses how to get enterprise search to work and the benefits of FirstGov’s approach to indexing. Steven Arnold got an early start on search engines. In 1971, his employer, Halliburton Co., assigned him to digitize the company’s technical reports in order to make them searchable. He has worked in the field ever since. In the past decade, he has moved over to consultancy, starting his own practice, Arnold IT. In 2000, he helped generate the technical plan for the first iteration of the General Services Administration’s FirstGov government search engine. (His son, Erik Arnold, currently works on FirstGov.) More recently, he launched the Google Government Report, a newsletter and electronic information service offering tips on how to be better recognized by Google. We caught up with Arnold to get his views on what is happening with both enterprise and Web search.

Posted by Bill Trippe at 5:32 PM

January 3, 2007

XForms for UBL

Micah Dubinko highlights a new XForms for UBL project at SourceForge.

The Universal Business Language (UBL) provides standard XML formats for business documents. This project is to provide XForms which allow creation, processing and editing of UBL documents and XLST stylesheets to generate such forms.

Posted by Bill Trippe at 3:02 PM

December 28, 2006

Content Management Books

I spent some time today updating my CMS Resources page, and in the process unearthed three books on content management that I hadn't listed previously.

The first two are published by a vendor, OpenText. While the second two are published by two independent consultants who work a lot with Filenet technology.

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December 27, 2006

Goodbye 2006, Welcome 2007

Apoorv Durga says goodbye to 2006 and welcome to 2007 in the world of portals and content management.

2006 has been an exciting year for content technologies. Based on some of the interesting happenings, the following themes (in no particular order) have emerged that might have an impact on this space in coming years: Standards, or the lack of them was evident.

Posted by Bill Trippe at 9:00 AM

December 14, 2006

Drupal with Ad Serving and Web Analytics

A client is interested in adopting Drupal, but is simultaneously looking at Web analytics and ad serving software, mainly commercial packages. I would like to put together a snapshot of some Drupal sites that use different analytics and ad serving packages, including Drupal modules. Would anyone be willing to share what they are currently using? You can post here or email me. Thanks.

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September 19, 2006

Meanwhile, Over at Gilbane

The Gilbane Group announced they have launched a blog for Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) who are involved in enterprise content applications, whether vendor, integrator, or enterprise implementer. The content technology CTO Blog is hosted by the Gilbane Group as a service to the content and information technology community. The purpose of the blog is to facilitate ongoing discussion and debate on technologies, approaches and architectures relevant to enterprise content applications. CTOs have a wealth of critical information about technologies that is not always accessible to enterprise customers. CTOs also have demanding jobs, and have limited time available to meet with each other with customers, or with other industry influencers. This blog is intended to encourage communication both between vendor CTOs and between enterprise customer CTOs and vendor CTOs. All CTOs are invited to participate as an author, and to comment. Two CTO Blog charter authors have already contributed posts during the pre-launch testing. John Newton, a Documentum founder and now founder and CTO of Alfresco, provides a provocative take on "content management 2.0". Vern Imrich, CTO of Percussion Software, shares insights into the apparent contradiction of content management technology moving up and down the technology infrastructure stack at the same time. Additional charter authors of the Content Technology CTO Blog include: Bill Cava, Ektron; James Gonthier, Refresh; Jason Hunter, Mark Logic; Vern Imrich, Percussion; John Newton, Alfresco; Bjrn Olstad, FAST; Eric Severson, Flatirons Solutions; and Carl Sutter, CrownPeak.

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