JA-SIG Named in Top 100 Companies, Top Eight Intranets and Portals

EC100 Introduction & Category Descriptions By Michelle Manafy - December 2007 Issue, Posted Nov 16, 2007 http://www.econtentmag.com/?ArticleID=40187 All Content Copyright © 1998-2007 EContentmag.com - All Rights Reserved

Welcome to the seventh annual EContent 100—our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.

It seems like the whole world is creating, tagging, and delivering content these days. Once the domain of trained professionals, content is now everybody’s business. In many ways, the general public leads the publishing industry in its comfort with, and usage of, digital content tools—from blogs to podcasts to wikis.

However, this does not make these consumer-only tools. Those of us in the industry well know we need to tap into the iterative process that characterizes Web 2.0—which means we need to play on the same field, using many of the same toys and tactics.

For us at EContent, that can blur the lines between professional and consumer, but in a way it simply reflects the digital content continuum, with a fluid nature that makes content difficult to control, yet imbues it with limitless possibilities.

Indeed, today our industry cannot be focused on control, but rather on fueling possibility. As we once feared the cannibalization of print revenue by digital distribution, we now face the rise of the empowered user as content creator. Will we suffer inertia while questioning our value? Or will we evolve, continuing to demonstrate that content professionals deliver high-value information—be it created by professional writers, end users, customers, or CEOs?

The EContent 100 list represents the best and the brightest digital content companies as selected by a dozen judges who follow different aspects of our vast and varied industry—from vantage points all over the map (literally and figuratively). We offer this list not just to recognize companies that lead our industry, but to inspire organizations of all kinds to join in the content conversation online.

Our judges spent more than a month reconsidering last year’s 100 and vetting new contenders, collaborating in a Socialtext wiki. The process is always a challenging one, but the rewards are great. Each year we are reinvigorated about our industry, from the continued prowess of some

1 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 of the industry’s inveterate leaders to the renewed vigor of others to the startling innovation of the newcomers.

While we can’t invite all of you to participate in the process, we are pleased to present you with the results. We welcome your feedback and are excited to see what you do with the tools in the year to come.

—Michelle Manafy Editor-in-chief, EContent

2007 EContent 100 Categories

Classification & Taxonomy Taxonomy is one of those words that just sound hard. Well, it is. But the good news is that it is simply a way of classifying things. When it comes to classifying content, tools range from auto- categorization algorithms to pre-packaged taxonomies, and find themselves woven into many other content categories, from services to search. All to make it easier to find what you need exactly when you need it.

Collaboration Everyone knows they should play well with others. But frankly, that’s tough enough for a lot of folks. Now when those others span the globe and never meet, things get a whole lot more complicated. Collaboration tools enable teamwork, web-style, which emphasizes shared knowledge and member-contribution, regardless of proximity.

Content Commerce Grease must be applied to the wheels of commerce lest they squeak—nay, grind—to a halt. When what is being bought and sold is measured in bits and bytes, solutions that enable the buying and selling of digital content are there to keep the transactions humming smoothly along.

Content Creation, Production, and Digital Publishing Formerly the purview of the privileged few with access to a printing press, creating content is everyone’s business today. Luckily, tools keep cropping up that help us make it, convert it, use it, and—most importantly—reuse it in ways as varied as the people creating the content in the first place.

Content Delivery The paperboy may never get the daily news onto your porch, but you can count on the digital delivery infrastructure and tools to help all the news that’s fit to, uh, print find its way to you: online, in your inbox, or in line at the grocery store.

Content Management CM and its kin—ECM, WCM, DAM, MAM, TCM, and so on—are the darlings of technology acronyms. CM’s predecessors, document management and knowledge management, along with new buddies like globalization and localization tools, nip at its heels as it leads the pack as the end-all and do-all for managing today’s amorphous information masses. Yet while content management purports to be all things to all people, its true power may actually lie in its flexibility to change shape to fit each new business problem set before it.

2 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Content Security Over and above the trafficking in entertainment, business, and academic content, our very identities are being transacted online. Thus, beyond digital rights management tools (which guard our content like bouncers at the backstage door), we must have tools that bring a more subtle approach to the nuances of corporate content, which is also in need of safekeeping.

Fee-Based Info Services While many say, “the web wants to be free,” or at least that most people want their content to bear that price tag, another old saying goes, “you get what you pay for.” Gutenberg-era dinosaurs and social media whippersnappers alike vie for information-seeking dollars by flexing the power packed in the “e” of econtent.

Intranets & Portals Infusing organizations with an internal knowledge and information hub might not be as hot as portals that purport to proffer every piece of content on a given subject. Yet intranets—despite their un-sexy image—bear many similarities to their more outgoing cousins. So it goes that these unlikely kin share some powerful tools and technologies to suffuse content in and outside the enterprise.

Mobile Content These days, content gets around. See all those cell phones? Yep, people are doing a lot more than talking on them today: From stock tickers to subscription services and web research to mini-movies, content has got places to go and people that want to see.

Search Engines & Technologies There’s a lot more to searching than the G-word. Be it through algorithms, bots, spiders, metatext, and more, people are using more than single- keyword searches to find ever-more- targeted information on the web or behind the firewall.

Social Media While many bemoan the erosion of human interaction in the wake of the internet age, still others extol the virtues of the extension of community to all corners of the globe—if only virtually. Yet, without a doubt, the web has opened up a world of opportunity for readers to become the writers, reviewers, and producers. Here we look at the tools that help proliferate the vox populi.

JA-SIG www.ja-sig.org Category: Intranets & Portals Founded: 1999 Employees: none Chief Officer: Jonathan Markow, Board Chair Key Product(s): uPortal, Central Authentication Service, HyperContent CMS

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37signals www.37signals.com Category: Collaboration Founded: 1999 Employees: 8 Chief Officer: Jason Fried, CEO Key Product(s): Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire, Writeboard, Ta-da List, Getting Real, Ruby on Rails, Highrise

Adobe Systems, Incorporated www.adobe.com Category: Content Creation, Production, and Digital Publishing Founded: 1982 Employees: 6,427 Chief Officer: Bruce Chizen, CEO Key Product(s): Creative Suite, Acrobat, LiveCycle, Flex, Flash, Production Studio, Integrated Runtime, Media Player

Akamai Technologies, Inc. www.akamai.com Category: Content Delivery Founded: 1998 Employees: 1,260 Chief Officer: Paul Sagan, President & CEO Key Product(s): Digital Asset Solutions, Dynamic Site Solutions, Application Performance Solutions, Business Performance Management Solutions

Alacra, Inc. www.alacra.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1996 Employees: 60 Chief Officer: Steven Goldstein, Chairman & CEO Key Product(s): Book, Compliance, Concordance, Connections, Current Awareness, Premium, Portals

Alfresco www.alfresco.com Category: Content Management Founded: 2005 Employees: 55 Chief Officer: John Powell, CEO Key Product(s): Web Content Management, Document Management, Records Management, Image Management 4 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Apple, Inc. www.apple.com Category: Mobile Content Founded: 1976 Employees: 10,000 Chief Officer: Steve Jobs, CEO Key Product(s): Hardware, Software, Peripherals

Astoria Software www.astoriasoftware.com Category: Content Management Founded: 2003 Employees: 25 Chief Officer: Alan Fraser, President & CEO Key Product(s): Astoria On-Demand

Automattic www.automattic.com Category: Social Media Founded: 2005 Employees: 13 Chief Officers: Toni Schneider, CEO, and Matt Mullenweg, Founder & President Key Product(s): wordpress.org, wordpress.com, akismet.com, bbpress.org

Autonomy Corporation www.autonomy.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 1996 Employees: 1,400 Chief Officer: Dr. Michael Lynch, Co-founder & CEO Key Product(s): Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) Server

Awareness www.awarenessnetworks.com Category: Social Media Founded: 1998 Employees: 30 Chief Officer: John Bruce, CEO Key Product(s): Awareness

Bango www.bango.com Category: Mobile Content Founded: 1999 Employees: 70 Chief Officer: Ray Anderson, CEO & Founder Key Product(s): Target, Pro, Focus, Starter

Basis Technology Corp. www.basistech.com 5 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 1995 Employees: 55 Chief Officer: Carl Hoffman, CEO Key Product(s): Rosette Linguistics Platform

BEA Systems, Inc. www.bea.com Category: Intranets & Portals Founded: 1995 Employees: 4,200 Chief Officer: Alfred S. Chuang, Founder, Chairman & CEO Key Product(s): AquaLogic, WebLogic, Tuxedo, JRockit

BitTorrent, Inc. www.bittorrent.com Category: Content Delivery Founded: 2004 Employees: 60 Chief Officer: Bram Cohen, CEO & Co-founder Key Product(s): Delivery of high-quality files and media over the internet

Brightcove, Inc. www.brightcove.com Category: Content Delivery Founded: 2004 Employees: 120 Chief Officer: Jeremy Allaire, CEO Key Product(s): Internet TV Service

Business Objects SA www.businessobjects.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 1990 Employees: 5,428 Chief Officer: John Schwarz, CEO Key Product(s): BusinessObjects XI

CentralDesktop, Inc. www.centraldesktop.com Category: Collaboration Founded: 2005 Employees: 8 Chief Officer: Isaac Garcia, Co-founder & CEO Key Product(s): Central Desktop

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) www.cas.org Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1907 6 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Employees: 1,300 Chief Officer: Robert J. Massie, President & CEO Key Product(s): Chemical Abstracts, Caplus, CAS Registry, SciFinder, STN, Science IP, STN AnaVist

ClearStory Systems, Inc. www.clearstorysystems.com Category: Content Management Founded: 1989 Employees: 50 Chief Officer: Henry F. Nelson, President & CEO Key Product(s): ActiveMedia, ActiveMedia Essentials, Enterprise Media Server, and PowerDeck

Code Green Networks, Inc. www.codegreennetworks.com Category: Content Security Founded: 2004 Employees: 50 Chief Officer: Sreekanth Ravi, Founder, Chairman & CEO Key Product(s): Content Inspection Appliance

Connectbeam, Inc. www.connectbeam.com Category: Classification & Taxonomy Founded: 2005 Employees: 17 Chief Officer: Puneet Gupta, Founder & CEO Key Product(s): Social Bookmarking and Social Networking Applications

Copyright Clearance Center www.copyright.com Category: Content Commerce Founded: 1978 Employees: 205 Chief Officer: Tracey L. Armstrong, President & CEO Key Product(s): Rightslink, Rightsphere

Coveo Solutions, Inc. www.coveo.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 2003 Employees: 50+ Chief Officer: Laurent Simoneau, CEO Key Product(s): Enterprise Search 5.0 (CES), Audio Video Search (CAVS)

D&B www.dnb.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1841 7 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Employees: 4,400 Chief Officer: Steven W. Alesio, Chairman & CEO Key Product(s): Risk Management, Sales & Marketing, E-Business, and Supply Management Solutions

Day Software Holdings AG www.day.com Category: Content Management Founded: 1993 Employees: 130 Chief Officer: Michael Moppert, CEO Key Product(s): Communique - CQ WCM, CQ DAM, CQ AC, Content Repository Extreme, JCR Connectors

Digg www.digg.com Categories: Classification & Taxonomy, Social Media Founded: 2004 Employees: 35 Chief Officers: Kevin Rose, Founder & Chief Architect, and Jay Adelson, CEO Key Product(s): Online user profiles, Content ratings

Dow Jones & Company www.dowjones.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1882 Employees: 7,000 Chief Officer: Richard Zannino, CEO Key Product(s): The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com, eFinancialNews, Newswires, Factiva, Client Solutions

Drupal www.drupal.org Category: Social Media Founded: 2001 Employees: none Chief Officer: Dries Buytaert, President Key Product(s): Drupal 5.2 dtSearch Corp. www.dtsearch.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 1991 Employees: WND Chief Officer: David Thede Key Product(s): Spider, Web, Desktop

EBSCO Information Services www.ebsco.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service 8 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Founded: 1944 Employees: 5,100 Chief Officer: F. Dixon Brooke, President & CEO Key Product(s): EBSCOhost, EBSCONET, EBSCO A-to-Z, E-Journals, MetaPress, Book Services

Ektron, Inc. www.ektron.com Category: Content Management Founded: 1998 Employees: 85 Chief Officer: William Rogers, Founder & CEO Key Product(s): Ektron CMS400.NET, eWebEditPro+XML, eWebEditPro

EMC Corporation www.emc.com Category: Content Management Founded: 1979 Employees: 30,000+ Chief Officer: Joseph M. Tucci, Chairman, President & CEO Key Product(s): EMC EmailXTender, Celerra, Centera Content Addressed Storage, Clariion, eRoom, EMC Captiva, Enterprise Content Management, ApplicationXTender, Infoscape, Centera, Symmetrix

Endeca Technologies, Inc. www.endeca.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 1999 Employees: 500 Chief Officer: Steve Papa, CEO Key Product(s): Information Access Platform 5.x

Entriq Corporation www.entriq.com Category: Content Commerce Founded: 2000 Employees: 150 Chief Officer: Jan Steenkamp, CEO Key Product(s): Download Manager, Commerce, Security, Digital Store, Internet TV eZ Systems www.ez.no Category: Content Management Founded: 1999 Employees: 80 Chief Officer: Aleksander Farstad, CEO Key Product(s): Open Source Enterprise CMS

Fast Search & Transfer www.fastsearch.com 9 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 1997 Employees: 633 Chief Officer: John M. Lervik, Co-founder & CEO Key Product(s): ESP, PSP, ImPulse, Unity, Radar, Data Cleansing, AdMomentum

Google, Inc. www.google.com Categories: Search Engines & Technologies, Collaboration Founded: 1998 Employees: 7,942 Chief Officer: Eric Schmidt, Chairman & CEO Key Product(s): Search, News, Answers, Earth, Blogger, Froogle, AdSense, AdWords, Docs, Video, Gmail, Maps, SketchUp

Groxis, Inc. www.grokker.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 2001 Employees: 20 Chief Officer: Randall Marcinko, President & CEO Key Product(s): Grokker

IBM www.ibm.com Category: Intranets & Portals Founded: 1911 Employees: 329,000 Chief Officer: Samuel Palmisano, Chairman of the Board & CEO Key Product(s): Domino, Web Content Management, Collaboration Services, Managed Client, Informix data server, UniVerse, UniData iCopyright, Inc. www.icopyright.com Category: Content Security Founded: 1998 Employees: 15 Chief Officer: Michael O'Donnell, Founder & CEO Key Product(s): iCopyright for Publishers, iCopyright for Creators, Clip&Copy

Ingram Digital Group www.ingramdigital.com Category: Content Delivery Founded: 2006 Employees: 75+ Chief Officer: James Gray, President & CEO Key Product(s): Content Aggregation, Repurposing, Distribution, Digital Rights Management

Innodata Isogen, Inc. www.innodata-isogen.com 10 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Category: Content Creation, Production & Digital Publishing Founded: 1988 Employees: 5,000 Chief Officer: Jack Abuhoff, Chairman of the Board, President & CEO Key Product(s): Content-Related IT and BPO Services, Editorial and Composition Services, Content Management and Publishing Systems, Digitization and XML Data Conversion

Interwoven, Inc. www.interwoven.com Category: Content Management Founded: 1995 Employees: 780 Chief Officers: Joe Cown, CEO, and Max Carnecchia, President Key Product(s): TeamSite, LiveSite, OpenDeploy, MetaTagger, MediaBin, WorkSite, ControlHub, Interwoven Universal Search

Intranet DASHBOARD www.intranetdashboard.com Category: Intranets & Portals Founded: 1995 Employees: 40 Chief Officer: Campbell Dobbin, President & CEO Key Product(s): Intranet DASHBOARD & ViewBI

ISYS Search Software www.isys-search.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 1988 Employees: 25 Chief Officer: Ian Davies, Founder & Managing Director Key Product(s): ISYS:desktop, ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk

JA-SIG www.ja-sig.org Category: Intranets & Portals Founded: 1999 Employees: none Chief Officer: Jonathan Markow, Board Chair Key Product(s): uPortal, Central Authentication Service, HyperContent CMS

Jive Software www.jivesoftware.com Category: Collaboration Founded: 2001 Employees: 70 Chief Officer: Dave Hersh, CEO Key Product(s): Clearspace, Openfire, and Jive Forums

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. www.wiley.com 11 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1807 Employees: 4,800 Chief Officer: William J. Pesce, President & CEO Key Product(s): Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journals; Encyclopedias; Books; Online Products and Services

JustSystems, Inc. www.justsystems.com Category: Content Creation, Production & Digital Publishing Founded: 1979 Employees: 1,000 Chief Officer: Kazunori Ukigawa, President & CEO Key Product(s): XMetaL and xfy

Liferay, Inc. www.liferay.com Category: Intranets & Portals Founded: 2000 Employees: 40 Chief Officers: Bryan Cheung, CEO, and Brian Chan, Chief Software Architect Key Product(s): Enterprise Portal, Journal CMS, Connect Collaboration Suite

LinkedIn Corporation www.linkedin.com Category: Social Media Founded: 2003 Employees: 160 Chief Officer: Dan Nye, CEO Key Product(s): Professional Network, Answers, Jobs, Hiring

LTU Technologies www.ltutech.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 1999 Employees: 20 Chief Officer: Alexandre Winter, Ph.D., Key Product(s): Image-Seeker, Image-Filter

Macrovision Corporation www.macrovision.com Categories: Content Security, Content Commerce Founded: 1983 Employees: 750 Chief Officer: Alfred J. Amoroso, President & CEO Key Product(s): RightAccess, RightCommerce, Content Access Control Solution, and Distribution Commerce Solution

Mark Logic Corporation www.marklogic.com Category: Content Delivery Founded: 2001 12 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Employees: 75 Chief Officer: Dave Kellogg, CEO Key Product(s): MarkLogic Server

MarketResearch.com www.marketresearch.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 2000 Employees: 110 Chief Officer: Robert Granader, Chairman & CEO Key Product(s): Alert-Me Service, Academic, Enterprise

The McGraw-Hill Companies www.mcgraw-hill.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1909 Employees: WND Chief Officer: Harold McGraw III, Chairman, President & CEO Key Product(s): Custom Publishing, Professional, Education

Mediasurface www.mediasurface.com Category: Content Management Founded: 1996 Employees: 200 Chief Officer: Lawrence Flynn, CEO Key Product(s): Morello, Immediacy, Pepperio

Medio Systems, Inc. www.mediosystems.com Category: Mobile Content Founded: 2004 Employees: WND Chief Officer: Brian Lent, CEO Key Product(s): Mobile Search, Mobile Merchandising, Mobile Advertising

Microsoft Corporation www.microsoft.com Category: Intranets & Portals Founded: 1975 Employees: 71,172 Chief Officer: Steven A. Ballmer, CEO Key Product(s): SharePoint, Groove

MindQuarry www.mindquarry.com Category: Collaboration Founded: 2006 Employees: 9

13 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Chief Officer: Stephan Voigt, CEO Key Product(s): DO, GO, PRO

Mondosoft A/S www.mondosoft.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 1998 Employees: 42 Chief Officer: Kent Mousten Sorensen, President & CEO Key Product(s): MondoSearch, BehaviorTracking, Information Manager, Ontolica for SharePoint

Near-Time, Inc. www.near-time.net Category: Collaboration Founded: 2003 Employees: 17 Chief Officer: Reid Conrad, CEO Key Product(s): Near-time.net

NewsGator Technologies, Inc. www.newsgator.com Category: Content Delivery Founded: 2003 Employees: 72 Chief Officer: J.B. Holston, President & CEO Key Product(s): Enterprise Server, Widget Framework, FeedDemon, NetNewswire, Enterprise On Demand, and Online

Newstex, LLC www.newstex.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 2004 Employees: 16 Chief Officer: Larry Schwartz, President Key Product(s): Content On Demand, Blogs On Demand

Nexidia www.nexidia.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 2000 Employees: 87 Chief Officer: John Willcutts, President & CEO Key Product(s): Phonetic Search Engine

Nokia Corporation www.nokia.com Category: Mobile Content Founded: 1865 Employees: 66,092 14 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Chief Officers: Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President & CEO, and Jorma Ollila, Chairman Key Product(s): Mobile Phones, Gaming Devices, Enterprise Architecture, Networks, Wireless Systems, Wireless Data Devices

OCLC www.oclc.org Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1967 Employees: 1,200 Chief Officer: Jay Jordan, President & CEO Key Product(s): WorldCat, NetLibrary, FirstSearch, QuestionPoint

Open Text Corporation www.opentext.com Category: Content Management Founded: 1991 Employees: 3,000 Chief Officer: John Shackleton, President & CEO Key Product(s): Livelink ECM Solutions

Oracle www.oracle.com Category: Intranets & Portals Founded: 1977 Employees: 70,000+ Chief Officer: Lawrence J. Ellison, CEO Key Product(s): WebCenter, Portal, Universal Content Management, Information Rights Management, Imaging and Process Management, Digital Asset Management

O’Reilly Media, Inc. www.oreilly.com Category: Content Delivery Founded: 1978 Employees: 225 Chief Officer: Tim O’Reilly, Founder & CEO Key Product(s): O’Reilly.com, Safari Bookshelf, SafariU

Pando Networks, Inc. www.pando.com Category: Content Delivery Founded: 2006 Employees: 20 Chief Officer: Robert Levitan, CEO Key Product(s): Publisher

Pearson www.pearson.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1844 Employees: 30,000 15 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Chief Officer: Marjorie Scardino, CEO Key Product(s): Educational Publishing, Testing, PenguinConsumer Publishing, Financial Times Publishing

Percussion Software, Inc. www.percussion.com Category: Content Management Founded: 1994 Employees: 100 Chief Officer: Barry Reynolds, CEO Key Product(s): Rhythmyx WCM

Plone www.plone.org Category: Content Management Founded: 2001 Employees: 200+ Chief Officers: Alexander Limi and Alan Runyan, Co-founders Key Product(s): Open Source CMS

ProQuest www.il.proquest.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1938 Employees: 1,250 Chief Officers: Marty Kahn, CEO, and Matt Dunie, President Key Product(s): ProQuest, CSA, UMI, Chadwyck-Healey, Serial Solutions

PTC www.ptc.com Category: Content Creation,Production & Digital Publishing Founded: 1985 Employees: 4,300 Chief Officer: C. Richard Harrison, CEO & President Key Product(s): Windchill, Pro/ENGINEER, Arbortext, and Mathcad

Quattro Wireless www.quattrowireless.com Category: Mobile Content Founded: 2006 Employees: WND Chief Officer: Andrew Miller, CEO Key Product(s): Quattro Virtual Browser

Recommind, Inc. www.recommind.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 2000 Employees: 70 Chief Officer: Robert Tennant, CEO 16 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Key Product(s): MindServer Enterprise Search, MindServer Categorization, Axcelerate eDiscovery, Decisiv Email

Reed Elsevier www.reedelsevier.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1993 Employees: 36,000 Chief Officer: Sir Crispin Davis, CEO Key Product(s): Scirus, Scopus, LexisNexis, Engineering Village2, Reed Business

Research in Motion www.rim.com Category: Mobile Content Founded: 1984 Employees: 6,200 Chief Officers: Jim Balsillie, Chair & Co-CEO, and Mike Lazaridis, President & Co-CEO Key Product(s): Wireless Platform, Handheld Products, Business Phones, Enterprise Server, Connec

SDL www.sdl.com Category: Content Management Founded: 1992 Employees: 1,500 Chief Officer: Mark Lancaster, Chairman & CEO Key Product(s): Translation Management System, AuthorAssistant, Enterprise Translation Server, MultiTerm, Trados, PhraseFinder, Synergy

Siderean Software, Inc. www.siderean.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 2001 Employees: 25 Chief Officer: Michael Schmitt, President & CEO Key Product(s): Seamark Navigator, MAPP Metadata Assembly Processing Platform (MAPP), Analytics

Sitecore A/S www.sitecore.net Category: Content Management Founded: 2001 Employees: 80+ Chief Officer: Michael Seifert, CEO Key Product(s): CMS, Intranet Portal

Six Apart www.sixapart.com Category: Social Media Founded: 2002 Employees: 150 17 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Chief Officer: Christopher J. Alden, CEO & Chairman of the Board Key Product(s): Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal, Vox

Socialtext, Inc. www.socialtext.com Category: Collaboration Founded: 2002 Employees: 50 Chief Officer: Eugene Lee, CEO Key Product(s): Socialtext Wiki Appliance, Hosted Service, Open Source

Springer Science+Busines Media www.springer-sbm.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1842 Employees: 5000+ Chief Officer: Derk Haank, CEO Key Product(s): eBook Collection, CD-ROMs, Online Services, Databases, Journals

Swets www.swets.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1901 Employees: 850 Chief Officer: Arie Jongejan, CEO Key Product(s): SwetsWise Subscriptions, Online Content, Title Bank, Linker, Searcher, ALPSP Learned Journals Collection, SUSHI

Tagsearch Technologies www.tagsearchtech.com Category: Classification & Taxonomy Founded: 2006 Employees: 6 Chief Officer: Kurt Lyall, CEO Key Product(s): Tagseasy

Technorati, Inc. www.technorati.com Category: Social Media Founded: 2003 Employees: 35 Chief Officer: Richard Jalichandra, President & CEO Key Product(s): Social media tagging and tracking

Teragram Corporation www.teragram.com Category: Classification & Taxonomy Founded: 1997 Employees: 50 Chief Officer: Yves Schabes, Ph.D., President

18 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Key Product(s): Taxonomy Management, Automatic Categorization, Entity Extraction, Metadata Generation, Email Alerts, Direct Answers, Linguistic Suite

The Thomson Corporation www.thomson.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1989 Employees: 40,500 Chief Officer: Richard J. Harrington, President & CEO Key Product(s): ISI Web of Knowledge, Dialog, DataStar, Derwent, Micromedex, Physician’s Desk Reference, Westlaw, Sweet & Maxwell, FindLaw, TradeWeb, Thomson Gale

TikiWiki CMS/Groupware www.tikiwiki.org Category: Social Media Founded: 2002 Employees: 0 Chief Officer: Marc Laporte, Sylvie Greverend, Mose, Lukas Masek, Oliver Hertel, Florian Gleixner, and Luis Argerich, project administrators Key Product(s): TikiWiki 1.9.8

TYPO3 www.typo3.com Category: Content Management Founded: 1997 Employees: 211 Chief Officer: Kasper Skarhoj, Chairman Key Product(s): CMS

Vasont Systems www.vasont.com Category: Content Management Founded: 1997 Employees: 60 Chief Officer: Richard B. Schiding, CEO Key Product(s): CMS, Universal Integrator

VeriSign, Inc. www.verisign.com Category: Content Delivery Founded: 1995 Employees: 5,086 Chief Officer: William A. Roper, Jr., President & CEO Key Product(s): Three-Screen Solution, Intelligent CDN, Kontiki Delivery Management Solution, Mobile Delivery Services, Intelligent Content Storefront

Vignette Corporation www.vignette.com Category: Intranets & Portals Founded: 1996 Employees: WND 19 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 Chief Officer: Mike Aviles, President & CEO Key Product(s): Web Content Management, Portals, Collaboration, Document and Records Management

Vivisimo, Inc. www.vivisimo.com Category: Search Engines & Technologies Founded: 2000 Employees: 100 Chief Officer: Raul Valdes-Perez, Co-founder & CEO Key Product(s): Velocity 6.0

Wikia www.wikia.com Category: Social Media Founded: 2004 Employees: 35 Chief Officer: Gil Penchina, CEO; Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, Co-founders Key Product(s): Wiki Hosting & Development

William S. Hein & Co., Inc. www.wshein.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1961 Employees: 105 Chief Officer: William S. Hein, Jr., CEO Key Product(s): HeinOnline, Hein’s Electronic Green Slips

Wolters Kluwer www.wolterskluwer.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service Founded: 1987 Employees: 18,450 Chief Officer: Nancy McKinstry, CEO Key Product(s): Information Products and Solutions

20 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 In Focus: Liferay, Inc.

Brian Chan considers himself one lucky man.

What started as a website project for his church has turned into a leading open source enterprise portal framework for integrated web publishing and content management, an enterprise service bus, and service-oriented architecture, all compatible with major IT infrastructures.

Chan, one of Liferay’s founders and its chief software architect, created Liferay for the nonprofit sector after finding no viable budget-conscious solution while trying to build a website for his church. The product turned out to be surprisingly robust, so Chan launched it in the open source space in 2002. Liferay’s popularity quickly grew beyond the nonprofit sector, and Chan discovered that the Liferay Portal could also make a significant impact on the business community as a for-profit business.

Development of the product is in its eighth year, and Liferay has more than 40 employees at its Los Angeles headquarters and locations in Europe and Asia, including a new Asian headquarters in Dalian, China. Liferay leads the open source Java portal space, with an average of 40,000 downloads a month, according to Sourceforge.net, a figure that eclipses the combined downloads of other Java-based portal software providers. The company has more than 80 active open source community contributors and was expected to reach the 1 millionth- download mark by November 2007.

Liferay is open source because management believes it is the next step in the evolution of software development. Management deliberately chose the liberal Massachusetts Institute of Technology license, which means no license fees or reciprocity clauses for users.

The company’s flagship Liferay Portal has more than 60 prebundled portlets and more than 20 community-contributed themes. It runs on all major application servers, databases, and operating systems in more than 700 deployment combinations. The product is billed as the only portal that can run in either application server or servlet container, and it has been benchmarked among the most secure portal platforms using LogicLibrary’s Logiscan suite.

Liferay Journal, the company’s built-in content management system, features publishing workflow, versioning, structured content, XSL and Velocity templates, a document library and image gallery, separation of content from layout, and roles-based permissioning. It integrates with Alfresco, and its web publishing, portal publishing, and staging tools allow users to edit website content and multiple working copies at the same time, without disrupting live pages.

“We’ve announced several new integration and services partnerships in the past year and are working with these relationships to bring even more value and functionality to our users,” says Chan. “A lot of time and effort still goes into enhancing our user interface, which has already earned us a good deal of industry recognition.”

21 From www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticlePrint.aspx?ArticleID=40187 9 December 2007 All of Liferay’s products are supported by a robust community of users who share bug fixes and modifications with Liferay so others can more easily upgrade to the latest version of Liferay without spending time and energy to reintegrate their own custom changes. Contributors often improve the modifications created by others, creating a steamroller effect of quality open source software.

“Liferay has come a long way since I started development on it,” says Chan. “We’ve become a de facto portal standard among enterprises worldwide and have been expanding our talent quickly to meet the demand for work.”

Open source software empowers developing economies because zero acquisition cost allows viable businesses to be created with rates appropriate to local economies. Chan set out to leverage business as a way to form relationships, learn, and, ultimately, make a positive impact across cultures. Profits from Liferay’s professional services have been used toward quarterly donations to world charities.

Notable partners in Liferay’s business and product development have included the Madrid school system, whose education portal enables more than 1 million students to learn collaboratively, and Goodwill, Inc., whose portal is used to deliver online job training to disadvantaged individuals across the United States. Currently, Liferay is working with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations that works to enable the rural poor to overcome poverty. Liferay is customizing the www.ruralpovertyportal.org website to empower collaboration and cooperation among the global community of rural poor and agencies involved in this work.

That spirit of cooperation is evident among Liferay employees. Company culture is laid-back and casual, which makes for a positive working environment. The company maintains an approachable, grass-roots feel despite triple-digit revenue growth, rising adoption, and an expanded global presence.

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Fun Fact: Brian Chan, creator of the Liferay portal, was offered a job illustrating comic books out of high school.

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