The Gilbane Group is an analyst & consulting firm focused on content technologies. Whether it involves web content management, multilingual content, enterprise search, social media, publishing, or related technologies, we can help you make vendor-neutral well-informed decisions. To learn more, explore our site, or email us.

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Mark your Calendar for Gilbane San Francisco
June 2-4, 2009, Westin Market St., San Francisco.

Call for papers deadline for Gilbane San Francisco is January 14! More info...

Reports for sale at the Gilbane Store

• "Open Source Web Content Management in Java", by Seth Gottlieb (New special price!)
• "Beyond Search: What to do When Your Enterprise Search System Doesn't Work", by Stephen Arnold

New reports published - these are all free:

• "Enterprise Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness", by Bill Rosenblatt, David Guenette, & Bill Trippe
• "Multilingual Communications as a Business Imperative: Why Companies Need to Optimize the Global Content Value Chain", by Leonor Ciarlone, Karl Kadie, & Mary Laplante
• "Enterprise Search Markets and Applications - Capitalizing on Emerging Demand", by Lynda Moulton
• "Collaboration and Social Media - 2008", by Geoffrey Bock & Steve Paxhia
• "Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions - Growth, Trends, and Best Practices", by Steve Paxhia & Bill Rosenblatt

Gilbane Group blogs are authored by our analysts and a few guest contributors. You can access content by category, tags, date, and analyst name. Here is a sampling of recent posts:

• Leonor Ciarlone: Web Globalization Management: Got Certification?
• Fred Dalrymple: Footnotes, which way is the point?
• Frank Gilbane: Conferences, Twitter and the economy
• Fal Sarkar: Inspect 'yer Gadget
• Lynda Moulton: Enterprise Search is Everywhere
• Karl Kadie : On Multilingual Communications and Open Source: An Interview with Jahia's Emmanuel Garcin
• Bill Rosenblatt: Digital Editions Market Research
• Tony White: Clickability's cmPublish Platform: Improved Marketing Campaign Management
• Bill Trippe: DITA for Blogging?
• Mary Laplante: Communities, Engagement, and Web Experience Management

Welcome Senior Consultant Dale Waldt!

Cambridge, September 18, 2008 - Head of Yahoo! Research and Smithsonian Director of Web and New Media Strategy to Keynote Gilbane Boston Content Management Conference. Annual Conference to Help Attendees Address Growing Content Management Requirements Generated by Social Media Tools Gilbane Boston... more

Cambridge, September 16, 2008 - New Gilbane Study Indicates Growing Demand for Enterprise Rights Management. Increasing awareness, growth of technology adoption enables Gilbane Group to create landmark study of current ERM practice.... more

Welcome Senior Analysts Karl Kadie & Fal Sarkar, and Contributor Fred Dalrymple!

We're growing and looking for experts and contributors.
Find out more...

NewsGator Announces Social Sites 2.5 for Enterprise Social Computing
NewsGator unveiled a new version of Social Sites, its enterprise social computing solution. Social Sites lets companies activate a "Facebook for the Enterprise". Social Sites 2.5 gives organizations new insights into their enterprise social networks in order to fine-tune them... more

Percussion Introduces Marketing Services
Percussion Software announced the unveiling of its first three Marketing Services - the ORBIT Report, Web 2.0 Competitive Audit and the Web 2.0 Executive Briefing. The services provide the marketer with an understanding of their industry's Web 2.0 landscape... more

Clarabridge Partners with Teradata
Clarabridge announced a partnership with Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC). This partnership brings together technologies in unstructured text mining/analytics and enterprise data warehousing. The complementary capabilities of Clarabridge and Teradata help business users to integrate structured and unstructured information in a single data warehouse... more

You can always visit our offices, and you can find many of us at Gilbane conferences, but you can also hear and meet us at other industry events such as:

CM Pros Fall Summit 2008
December 2 2008, 9:15-10:00, Westin Copley, Boston
Tony White, Lead Analyst, "Web Content of the Future: Trends and Opportunities"

SDL Global Information Management Thought Leadership Conference
January 21, 2009, Chicago
VP Consulting, Mary Laplante, Analyst Keynote

SIIA Information Industry Summit
January 26, 2009, Cipriani 42nd Street 110 42nd Street, New York City
Lead Analyst, Bill Trippe

SDL Global Information Management Thought Leadership Conference
February 5, 2009, London
VP Consulting, Mary Laplante, Analyst Keynote

NFAIS Conference (National Federation of Advanced Information Services)
The Impact of Digital Natives and Emerging Technology on the Future of
Information Services
February 22-24, 2009, Philadelphia, PA
VP Consulting, Mary Laplante & Lead Analyst, Leonor Ciarlone

Innovate 2009: SDL Technology Conference
March 2-4, 2009, Orlando
VP Consulting, Mary Laplante, Keynote

BookNet Canada Technology Forum
March 12, 2009, Radisson Admiral Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
Steve Paxhia, Lead Analyst, Publishing