Profile: Janus Boye

Janus is founder and managing director at Boye IT, a vendor-neutral Danish consulting company specialising in content management and portals. Janus is also founder of the Danish Content Management Forum, an initiative that was formed together with several local users.

Janus has had several articles and blog entries published on content management, including on CMS Watch and is a contributor to the CMS Report, and principal author of the forthcoming Enterprise Portals Report.

In a previous life Janus worked several years at an enterprise CMS vendor in various roles with clients across Europe based in Frankfurt, Germany.

Presentation: Introduction to content management, intranet, portals and search

Wednesday, November 9th, 07.45

Attend this early session if you are new to the field or would like a reminder of the basics.

In one hour you will be introduced to the main topics enabling you to benefit more from the rest of the conference. Avoiding technical jargon, the following questions will be answered:

• What is content management?
• The forgotten difference between CMS and content management
• What role does portals play?
• What is enterprise search and how does it relate?
• Does the intranet require a different approach?

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Presentation: Portals - from idea to reality - the dangers of the current state of portals in the marketplace

Thursday, November 10th, 11.00

Track: Project Management

A look at what the current use of portals is with reference to the hidden dangers. It's easy to like the idea of a portal but what exactly are you getting?

There are much confusion in the young and immature portal market. The presentation will cover:

• The business case
• Key portal areas
• What do you get?
• An example
• Weaknesses
• Recommendations

Joint session with case prestented by Lars Bech from TDC Kabel TV.

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Links

Personal Website: Janus Boye

eWEEK.com: Plenty of Choice in Open-Source CMS (September 1st, 2005)

CMS Watch: Portal Software: Passing Fad or Real Value? (January 18th, 2005)

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