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Burton Group Launches New Research Service Covering Communication, Collaboration and Content Management Technologies

Posted on: Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:06 CDT

Burton Group, Inc., an IT research firm focused on in-depth analysis of enterprise infrastructure technologies, today announced a new service that focuses on helping enterprise technologists understand the planning, application, integration, infrastructure, and governance impacts associated with use of enterprise communication, collaboration, and content management technologies.

Collaboration and Content Strategies (CCS) offers IT organizations a suite of analysis tools, including a Reference Architecture decision-making framework that is based on the CCS team's extensive industry knowledge and field experience. These analysis tools help enterprise technologists optimize their collaboration and content infrastructure and deliver collaborative applications that improve business performance while adhering to enterprise policies regarding content lifecycle management.

Peter O'Kelly, research director for CCS points out: "Historically, these markets have been a chaotic mess with an often counterproductive mix of software products and hosted solutions. Now, expanding compliance mandates, recent trends regarding instant messaging, web conferencing, blogs, wikis, and XML-oriented content/document management tools, are moving the industry toward compelling convergence -- creating a new, simpler, and seamlessly integrated model for communication, information sharing, and collaboration in the enterprise."

Burton Group has assembled a team of highly respected industry analysts to provide practical insight for CCS:

Peter O'Kelly, research director -- O'Kelly has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. His focus areas include collaborative application metamodels, hypertext, and XML services in database management systems.

Craig Roth, service director -- Roth has 18 years of experience in the IT industry. His focus areas include enterprise portal products and collaborative applications.

Mike Gotta, principal analyst -- Gotta has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. His focus areas include social software (e.g., blogs and tagging), realtime collaboration, knowledge management, and XML channel syndication (RSS/Atom, subscription, and feed management).

Karen Hobert, analyst -- Hobert has 16 years of experience in the software and collaborative applications industries. Her focus areas include enterprise messaging and collaborative application development environments.

Guy Creese, analyst -- Creese has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry. His focus areas include content management, search, and web/content analytics.

"The lines between communication, content, and collaboration technologies are blurring rapidly," says Jamie Lewis, CEO and research chair. "Convergence holds both potential risk and reward for today's enterprises. On one hand, powerful new tools will enable 'virtual' enterprises to work with employees, partners, suppliers, and customers in new and exciting ways. On the other hand, convergence can lead to turf battles as previously distinct telecommunications and e-mail organizations come to grips with these technologies. And enterprises must make the right technology bets to avoid costly mistakes. We have assembled a team of highly respected industry analysts to provide practical research that our enterprise clients can use to build their solutions."

Technology umbrella themes and topics that are covered in CCS:

 Communication --    Real-time: instant messaging, presence, web conferencing    Asynchronous: e-mail messaging, calendaring Collaboration --    Virtual workspaces, blogs, wikis    Organizational productivity    Social software    Knowledge management Content Management --    Office suites    Forms, document formats    Document management    Web content management    Enterprise and desktop search    Records management    XML in database management systems 

Resources with a one-year license to CCS include 24 in-depth research reports, 12 TeleBriefings, unlimited analyst dialogues, Catalyst Conference tickets, and access to Burton Group's Reference Architecture.

To learn more about Burton Group's vision to help enterprise technologists better understand and manage these technology areas, download a Burton Group Inflection Point podcast by Peter O'Kelly at http://inflectionpoint.burtongroup.com/. Also visit www.burtongroup.com for a complimentary CCS research report, " Communication, Collaboration, and Content: Compelling Convergence."

About Burton Group

Burton Group (www.burtongroup.com) helps technologists make smart enterprise architecture decisions in increasingly complex environments. Burton Group is an IT research and advisory services firm focused on offering in-depth analysis of infrastructure technologies relating to security, identity management, web services and service-oriented architecture, network and telecom, and collaboration and content.

Burton Group's corporate roots are anchored in an uncompromising allegiance to the enterprise technologist and grow far outside the shadow of vendor agendas. This independence stems from Burton Group's mission to produce honest, meaningful research -- created by technologists, for technologists.

 Contact: Amie Johnson PR Manager Burton Group 801-304-8136 Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=88125A7EFAB4F45D  

SOURCE: Burton Group

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