Content Management: XyUser Group Conference Shares Best Practices, Customer Input, Open Communication, And Business Strategy
XyEnterprise, the leading developer of award-winning XML content management and multi-channel delivery solutions, in conjunction with the XyUser Group announced another successful fall conference. This annual conference provides an opportunity for attendees to share their best practices, learn about product enhancements and future releases, and collaborate with colleagues from around the world It is not a typical user conference, because not all user groups are created equal. Unlike many groups that are quasi-marketing arms of the technology company, the XyUser Group (www.xyug.org), is autonomous from XyEnterprise. Now in its seventeenth year, the XyUser Group consists of a volunteer board of directors that represents several markets, geographic regions, and the full suite of XyEnterprise products. While the user group is autonomous it does, however, sustain a unique relationship with XyEnterprise, one based on openness and collaboration.
The XyUser Group provides communication, networking and educational services to users of XyEnterprise products through a host of activities, including an annual US and European conference, an active and searchable list-serv, and unique access to product development and engineering teams at XyEnterprise through their Strategic Planning Committee (SPC).
The conference provides the added opportunity to network with peers, some of whom have been attending the conferences since their inception. The users are the ones that drive the content of the conference, participating in the delivery of best practices presentations along with training and education sessions by XyEnterprise and Xy Partners and Consultants. Some of the liveliest discussions involved content standards, automating delivery channels and multilingual publishing. In addition to product wish list sessions, there were focus groups on documentation, mini training clinics for each of the products and demonstrations of new and emerging technology.
XyEnterprise Experts At Fall Conferences, Trade Shows Page 2 of 2 Larry Porter of Underwriters Laboratories in Northbrook, IL says XyUsers keep coming back to the conference because of the value it delivers. The case studies, product training, and vendor sessions help enhance technology and business aspects for attendees. "It's part training session, part strategy session," says Porter.
He says it's a very interactive process, particularly the "wish list sessions" where XyUsers and XyEnterprise representatives meet to discuss trends in the industry, along with customers' needs and wants. XyUsers have seen the company respond to their desires through added capabilities and features in the product development cycle. In fact, one attendee was overheard commenting that he had nothing to add to the wish list because XyEnterprise had addressed all of his needs.
The Spring User Group Conference will take place in Nice, France from April 20 - April 22, 2008 and is open to any user of XyEnterprise products.
About XyEnterprise
XyEnterprise helps simplify and expedite the automated creation and delivery of content across the enterprise. Named one of KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management" for the second consecutive year, XyEnterprise offers configurable and scalable XML content management and publishing solutions that maximize content reusability and repurposing. XyEnterprise's unmatched XML expertise, the result of hundreds of successful deployments, is built upon a 20-year heritage of partnership with our customers. XyEnterprise's content management and delivery solutions have been implemented by companies in publishing, financial services, government, manufacturing, high tech and aerospace/defense. The company's headquarters is in Wakefield, Massachusetts, with locations throughout North America, Europe, Pacific Rim and Latin America. For additional information, contact XyEnterprise at 781-756-4400 or visit www.xyenterprise.com
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