AGENDA

09:30      Registration & Coffee

09:55      Welcome and Introduction

10:00      The Content Management Conundrum
Stephen Way , Johnson Matthey
As eCommerce manager for Johnson Matthey, Stephen is responsible for 15 different web-sites and a whole raft of extranets and internets, all with different content management issues. As an introduction to the day, he will present a Users Guide to managing content in a web environment.
 

10:30      Industrial Strength Content Management (Vignette)
In this session, we will look under the covers of the class leading content management tool, Vignette, and with the aid of a case study review the implantation and management of this type of tool.

11:15      Coffee

11:30      Intranet Portals with Domino and Websphere
John Taylor, Typex
Getting started with your Intranet portal? What applications and tools are required? Are they available off the shelf? How do you integrate the back-end? How do you extend this to an Extranet? Can Domino and/or WebSphere do the hard work for you? Which IBM portal is right for you? What is a portal anyway? By the end of this session, attendees will be able to select suitable products and make a start on an Intranet portal
 

12:15     OpenSource Portals and Content (Zope and Plone)
Matt Hamilton, NetSight
Portal and Content Management software comes with a variety of price tags. But there is one flavour which is ‘free’, and gaining market share – the open source software, Zope and Plone. In the presentation Matt Hamilton will look at the implementation and  management of an open source solution.

13:00     Lunch

13:30      Access Enablement with Terminal Services 
Tony Spring , Citrix
During the session we will cover the need for access infrastructure, demonstrate MetaFrame Access Suite, and then show how the MetaFrame Access Suite plays a fundamental role in portal solutions

14:15      Writing Portlets 
Martin Richards, MediaApps
How do you go about assembling the components of a portal? In this session, Martin Richards of portal provider Mediapps will look at how various components of a portal are constructed, and how customor portlets are created to user requirements.

15:00      Plumtree Enterprise Web
Andrew Bromley, Plumtree
Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications, and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences. Based on what we have learned through implementing our technology at over 600 customers worldwide, we will provide best practices and ROI examples for portal implementation.

15:45      Close & tea