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, 2007http://www.econtentmag.com/?ArticleID=40187All 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

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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 ManafyEditor-in-chief, EContent

2007 EContent 100 Categories

Classification & TaxonomyTaxonomy 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.

CollaborationEveryone 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 CommerceGrease 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 PublishingFormerly 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 DeliveryThe 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 ManagementCM 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.

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Content SecurityOver 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 ServicesWhile 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 & PortalsInfusing 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 ContentThese 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 & TechnologiesThere’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 MediaWhile 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-SIGwww.ja-sig.org Category: Intranets & PortalsFounded: 1999Employees: noneChief Officer: Jonathan Markow, Board ChairKey Product(s): uPortal, Central Authentication Service, HyperContent CMS

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

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

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

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

Alfrescowww.alfresco.com Category: Content ManagementFounded: 2005Employees: 55Chief Officer: John Powell, CEOKey Product(s): Web Content Management, Document Management, Records Management, Image Management

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Apple, Inc.www.apple.com Category: Mobile ContentFounded: 1976Employees: 10,000Chief Officer: Steve Jobs, CEOKey Product(s): Hardware, Software, Peripherals

Astoria Softwarewww.astoriasoftware.com Category: Content ManagementFounded: 2003Employees: 25Chief Officer: Alan Fraser, President & CEOKey Product(s): Astoria On-Demand

Automatticwww.automattic.com Category: Social MediaFounded: 2005Employees: 13Chief Officers: Toni Schneider, CEO, and Matt Mullenweg, Founder & PresidentKey Product(s): wordpress.org, wordpress.com, akismet.com, bbpress.org

Autonomy Corporationwww.autonomy.com Category: Search Engines & TechnologiesFounded: 1996Employees: 1,400Chief Officer: Dr. Michael Lynch, Co-founder & CEOKey Product(s): Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) Server

Awarenesswww.awarenessnetworks.com Category: Social MediaFounded: 1998Employees: 30Chief Officer: John Bruce, CEOKey Product(s): Awareness

Bangowww.bango.com Category: Mobile ContentFounded: 1999Employees: 70Chief Officer: Ray Anderson, CEO & FounderKey Product(s): Target, Pro, Focus, Starter

Basis Technology Corp.www.basistech.com

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Category: Search Engines & TechnologiesFounded: 1995Employees: 55Chief Officer: Carl Hoffman, CEOKey Product(s): Rosette Linguistics Platform

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

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

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

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

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

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)www.cas.org Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1907

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Employees: 1,300Chief Officer: Robert J. Massie, President & CEOKey Product(s): Chemical Abstracts, Caplus, CAS Registry, SciFinder, STN, Science IP, STN AnaVist

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

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

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

Copyright Clearance Centerwww.copyright.com Category: Content CommerceFounded: 1978Employees: 205Chief Officer: Tracey L. Armstrong, President & CEOKey Product(s): Rightslink, Rightsphere

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

D&Bwww.dnb.com Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1841

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Employees: 4,400Chief Officer: Steven W. Alesio, Chairman & CEOKey Product(s): Risk Management, Sales & Marketing, E-Business, and Supply Management Solutions

Day Software Holdings AGwww.day.com Category: Content ManagementFounded: 1993 Employees: 130Chief Officer: Michael Moppert, CEOKey Product(s): Communique - CQ WCM, CQ DAM, CQ AC, Content Repository Extreme, JCR Connectors

Diggwww.digg.com Categories: Classification & Taxonomy, Social MediaFounded: 2004Employees: 35Chief Officers: Kevin Rose, Founder & Chief Architect, and Jay Adelson, CEOKey Product(s): Online user profiles, Content ratings

Dow Jones & Companywww.dowjones.com Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1882Employees: 7,000Chief Officer: Richard Zannino, CEOKey Product(s): The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com, eFinancialNews, Newswires, Factiva, Client Solutions

Drupalwww.drupal.org Category: Social MediaFounded: 2001Employees: noneChief Officer: Dries Buytaert, PresidentKey Product(s): Drupal 5.2

dtSearch Corp.www.dtsearch.com Category: Search Engines & TechnologiesFounded: 1991Employees: WNDChief Officer: David ThedeKey Product(s): Spider, Web, Desktop

EBSCO Information Serviceswww.ebsco.com Category: Fee-Based Info Service

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Founded: 1944Employees: 5,100Chief Officer: F. Dixon Brooke, President & CEOKey Product(s): EBSCOhost, EBSCONET, EBSCO A-to-Z, E-Journals, MetaPress, Book Services

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

EMC Corporationwww.emc.com Category: Content ManagementFounded: 1979Employees: 30,000+Chief Officer: Joseph M. Tucci, Chairman, President & CEOKey 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 & TechnologiesFounded: 1999Employees: 500Chief Officer: Steve Papa, CEOKey Product(s): Information Access Platform 5.x

Entriq Corporation www.entriq.com Category: Content CommerceFounded: 2000Employees: 150Chief Officer: Jan Steenkamp, CEOKey Product(s): Download Manager, Commerce, Security, Digital Store, Internet TV

eZ Systemswww.ez.no Category: Content ManagementFounded: 1999Employees: 80Chief Officer: Aleksander Farstad, CEOKey Product(s): Open Source Enterprise CMS

Fast Search & Transferwww.fastsearch.com

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Category: Search Engines & TechnologiesFounded: 1997Employees: 633Chief Officer: John M. Lervik, Co-founder & CEOKey Product(s): ESP, PSP, ImPulse, Unity, Radar, Data Cleansing, AdMomentum

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

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

IBMwww.ibm.com Category: Intranets & PortalsFounded: 1911Employees: 329,000Chief Officer: Samuel Palmisano, Chairman of the Board & CEOKey Product(s): Domino, Web Content Management, Collaboration Services, Managed Client, Informix data server, UniVerse, UniData

iCopyright, Inc.www.icopyright.com Category: Content SecurityFounded: 1998Employees: 15Chief Officer: Michael O'Donnell, Founder & CEOKey Product(s): iCopyright for Publishers, iCopyright for Creators, Clip&Copy

Ingram Digital Groupwww.ingramdigital.com Category: Content DeliveryFounded: 2006Employees: 75+Chief Officer: James Gray, President & CEOKey Product(s): Content Aggregation, Repurposing, Distribution, Digital Rights Management

Innodata Isogen, Inc.www.innodata-isogen.com

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Category: Content Creation, Production & Digital PublishingFounded: 1988Employees: 5,000Chief Officer: Jack Abuhoff, Chairman of the Board, President & CEOKey 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 ManagementFounded: 1995Employees: 780Chief Officers: Joe Cown, CEO, and Max Carnecchia, PresidentKey Product(s): TeamSite, LiveSite, OpenDeploy, MetaTagger, MediaBin, WorkSite, ControlHub, Interwoven Universal Search

Intranet DASHBOARDwww.intranetdashboard.com Category: Intranets & PortalsFounded: 1995Employees: 40Chief Officer: Campbell Dobbin, President & CEOKey Product(s): Intranet DASHBOARD & ViewBI

ISYS Search Softwarewww.isys-search.com Category: Search Engines & TechnologiesFounded: 1988Employees: 25Chief Officer: Ian Davies, Founder & Managing DirectorKey Product(s): ISYS:desktop, ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk

JA-SIGwww.ja-sig.org Category: Intranets & PortalsFounded: 1999Employees: noneChief Officer: Jonathan Markow, Board ChairKey Product(s): uPortal, Central Authentication Service, HyperContent CMS

Jive Softwarewww.jivesoftware.com Category: CollaborationFounded: 2001Employees: 70Chief Officer: Dave Hersh, CEOKey Product(s): Clearspace, Openfire, and Jive Forums

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.www.wiley.com

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Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1807Employees: 4,800Chief Officer: William J. Pesce, President & CEOKey Product(s): Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journals; Encyclopedias; Books; Online Products and Services

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

Liferay, Inc.www.liferay.com Category: Intranets & PortalsFounded: 2000 Employees: 40Chief Officers: Bryan Cheung, CEO, and Brian Chan, Chief Software ArchitectKey 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

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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 Companieswww.mcgraw-hill.com Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1909Employees: WNDChief Officer: Harold McGraw III, Chairman, President & CEOKey Product(s): Custom Publishing, Professional, Education

Mediasurfacewww.mediasurface.com Category: Content ManagementFounded: 1996Employees: 200Chief Officer: Lawrence Flynn, CEOKey Product(s): Morello, Immediacy, Pepperio

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

Microsoft Corporationwww.microsoft.com Category: Intranets & PortalsFounded: 1975Employees: 71,172Chief Officer: Steven A. Ballmer, CEOKey Product(s): SharePoint, Groove

MindQuarrywww.mindquarry.com Category: CollaborationFounded: 2006Employees: 9

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Chief Officer: Stephan Voigt, CEOKey Product(s): DO, GO, PRO

Mondosoft A/Swww.mondosoft.com Category: Search Engines & TechnologiesFounded: 1998Employees: 42Chief Officer: Kent Mousten Sorensen, President & CEOKey Product(s): MondoSearch, BehaviorTracking, Information Manager, Ontolica for SharePoint

Near-Time, Inc.www.near-time.net Category: CollaborationFounded: 2003Employees: 17Chief Officer: Reid Conrad, CEOKey Product(s): Near-time.net

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

Newstex, LLCwww.newstex.com Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 2004Employees: 16Chief Officer: Larry Schwartz, PresidentKey Product(s): Content On Demand,  Blogs On Demand

Nexidiawww.nexidia.com Category: Search Engines & TechnologiesFounded: 2000Employees: 87Chief Officer: John Willcutts, President & CEOKey Product(s): Phonetic Search Engine

Nokia Corporationwww.nokia.com Category: Mobile ContentFounded: 1865Employees: 66,092

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Chief Officers: Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President & CEO, and Jorma Ollila, ChairmanKey Product(s): Mobile Phones, Gaming Devices, Enterprise Architecture, Networks, Wireless Systems, Wireless Data Devices

OCLCwww.oclc.org Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1967Employees: 1,200Chief Officer: Jay Jordan, President & CEOKey Product(s): WorldCat, NetLibrary, FirstSearch, QuestionPoint

Open Text Corporationwww.opentext.com Category: Content ManagementFounded: 1991Employees: 3,000Chief Officer: John Shackleton, President & CEOKey Product(s): Livelink ECM Solutions

Oraclewww.oracle.com Category: Intranets & PortalsFounded: 1977Employees: 70,000+Chief Officer: Lawrence J. Ellison, CEOKey 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 DeliveryFounded: 1978Employees: 225Chief Officer: Tim O’Reilly, Founder & CEOKey Product(s):  O’Reilly.com, Safari  Bookshelf, SafariU

Pando Networks, Inc.www.pando.com Category: Content DeliveryFounded: 2006Employees: 20Chief Officer: Robert Levitan, CEOKey Product(s): Publisher

Pearsonwww.pearson.com Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1844Employees: 30,000

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Chief Officer: Marjorie Scardino, CEOKey Product(s): Educational Publishing, Testing, PenguinConsumer Publishing, Financial Times Publishing

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

Plonewww.plone.org Category: Content ManagementFounded: 2001Employees: 200+Chief Officers: Alexander Limi and Alan Runyan, Co-foundersKey Product(s): Open Source CMS

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

PTCwww.ptc.com Category: Content Creation,Production & Digital PublishingFounded: 1985Employees: 4,300Chief Officer: C. Richard Harrison, CEO & PresidentKey Product(s): Windchill, Pro/ENGINEER, Arbortext, and Mathcad

Quattro Wirelesswww.quattrowireless.com Category: Mobile ContentFounded: 2006Employees: WNDChief Officer: Andrew Miller, CEOKey Product(s): Quattro Virtual Browser

Recommind, Inc.www.recommind.com Category: Search Engines & TechnologiesFounded: 2000Employees: 70Chief Officer: Robert Tennant, CEO

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Key Product(s): MindServer Enterprise Search, MindServer Categorization, Axcelerate eDiscovery, Decisiv Email

Reed Elsevierwww.reedelsevier.com Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1993Employees: 36,000Chief Officer: Sir Crispin Davis, CEOKey Product(s): Scirus, Scopus, LexisNexis, Engineering Village2, Reed Business

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

SDLwww.sdl.com Category: Content ManagementFounded: 1992Employees: 1,500Chief Officer: Mark Lancaster, Chairman & CEOKey Product(s): Translation Management System, AuthorAssistant, Enterprise Translation Server, MultiTerm, Trados, PhraseFinder, Synergy

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

Sitecore A/Swww.sitecore.net Category: Content ManagementFounded: 2001Employees: 80+Chief Officer: Michael Seifert, CEOKey Product(s): CMS, Intranet Portal

Six Apartwww.sixapart.com Category: Social Media Founded: 2002Employees: 150

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Chief Officer: Christopher J. Alden, CEO & Chairman of the BoardKey Product(s): Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal, Vox

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

Springer Science+Busines Mediawww.springer-sbm.com Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1842Employees: 5000+Chief Officer: Derk Haank, CEOKey Product(s): eBook Collection, CD-ROMs, Online Services, Databases, Journals

Swetswww.swets.com Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1901Employees: 850Chief Officer: Arie Jongejan, CEOKey Product(s): SwetsWise Subscriptions, Online Content, Title Bank, Linker, Searcher, ALPSP Learned Journals Collection, SUSHI

Tagsearch Technologieswww.tagsearchtech.com Category: Classification & Taxonomy Founded: 2006Employees: 6Chief Officer: Kurt Lyall, CEOKey Product(s): Tagseasy

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

Teragram Corporationwww.teragram.com Category: Classification & TaxonomyFounded: 1997Employees: 50Chief Officer: Yves Schabes, Ph.D., President

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Key Product(s): Taxonomy Management, Automatic Categorization, Entity Extraction, Metadata Generation, Email Alerts, Direct Answers, Linguistic Suite

The Thomson Corporationwww.thomson.com Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1989Employees: 40,500Chief 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/Groupwarewww.tikiwiki.org Category: Social Media Founded: 2002Employees: 0Chief Officer: Marc Laporte, Sylvie Greverend, Mose, Lukas Masek, Oliver Hertel, Florian Gleixner, and Luis Argerich, project administratorsKey Product(s): TikiWiki 1.9.8

TYPO3www.typo3.com Category: Content ManagementFounded: 1997Employees: 211Chief Officer: Kasper Skarhoj, ChairmanKey Product(s): CMS

Vasont Systemswww.vasont.com Category: Content ManagementFounded: 1997Employees: 60Chief Officer: Richard B. Schiding, CEOKey Product(s): CMS, Universal Integrator

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

Vignette Corporationwww.vignette.com Category: Intranets & PortalsFounded: 1996Employees: WND

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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 & TechnologiesFounded: 2000Employees: 100Chief Officer: Raul Valdes-Perez, Co-founder & CEOKey Product(s): Velocity 6.0

Wikiawww.wikia.com Category: Social MediaFounded: 2004Employees: 35Chief Officer: Gil Penchina, CEO; Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, Co-foundersKey Product(s): Wiki Hosting & Development

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

Wolters Kluwerwww.wolterskluwer.com Category: Fee-Based Info ServiceFounded: 1987Employees: 18,450Chief Officer: Nancy McKinstry, CEOKey Product(s): Information Products and Solutions

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In Focus: Liferay, Inc.

By Matt Bolch - December 2007 Issue, Posted Nov 14, 2007http://www.econtentmag.com/?ArticleID=40201All Content Copyright © 1998-2007 EContentmag.com - All Rights Reserved

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.”

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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.

(www.liferay.com)

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