Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Principal Strategist & Consultant
Alan is a Principal Consultant with Wipro Technologies in its Global Product Strategy and Architecture Practice. Alan is recognized as a world expert on content, document and web content management issues.
He has published numerous papers and articles on these topics, and is the co-author of the book Web Content Management: Strategies, Technologies and Markets (published in 2000). A book credited as being of seminal importance in the emergence, and for the identity, of this industry sector.
Alan is often quoted in trade press and business press, including Businessweek, CIO, USA Today, Profit, PC World and eWeek, and he has appeared as an expert guest on CNN, CNBC, BBC, BBC World and ABC News.
Alan has given keynote speeches across the US, Europe and Asia and has a very high profile within the Content Management industry.
Prior to joining Wipro, Alan spent six years with Ovum, the largest industry analyst firm in Europe, serving for 3 years as Vice President and Research Director for the North America region. Prior to joining Ovum, Alan worked with Andersen Consulting and prior to that, he worked as an independent consultant to the Oil & Gas sector.
Keynote: Making sense of the market for managing content
Thursday, November 9th, 13.00
Understanding the market can be as complex as choosing and using the right product. In this session, we will take a look at what the enterprise content management market really means, from the perspective of vendors, consultants, and buyers: Where is the market now? And we will have an educated guess at where it may be in five or ten year's time.
If we are to believe many of the industry analysts and journalists, the market will soon belong to just a handful of major vendors (EMC, Oracle, SAP, IBM and Microsoft for example). Yet in fact, there is a much more vibrant and dynamic market than most people imagine, one made up of a multitude of players and technology options.
In fact, now the options are broader than ever and include ASP's, open source, outsourced and industry specific tools along with challenges from the likes of Google. Often developers and providers of solutions are as just as confused as buyers over the best ways of meeting users' needs!
This session provides some future watching beyond the next calendar year. It will show that this industry is in its infancy, and that huge changes and challenges still lie ahead. Hopefully, the session will offer some guidance on how to make sense of and navigate the options that face you.
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