This year’s Traction User Group sessions will be held on October 6th and 7th. Prior to this there is optional golf outing (at 2:00 PM) and reception (at 7:00 PM) on Sunday, October 5. It will be held at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa & Marina in Cambridge, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay.
In addition to presentations and discussions led by Traction Software team members, the following customers and partners will lead sessions on their own use case, best practice, lessons learned and, insights and innovations. I am impressed that they got so many to present. I would be hard to choose which to attend.
Andrea Baker (Director of Technology for Navstar, Inc. and Social Web Evangelist for the Intelligence Community) will speak with us about her experiences with and lessons learned from the Intellipedia project.
Peter O'Kelly (Industry Analyst) will lead off with an opening presentations on "A Hypertext Reality Check: Hypertext's Expanding Role in Enterprise Information Architecture." His talk focuses on the complementary nature of (beyond-the-basics) hypertext as it relates to extended relational database management systems and then explains benefits inherent in the Traction model.
Wyeth: Christine Bates on Training for Traction
Avery Dennison: Carol Stickley on Community Driven Knowledge Management in IT and Marketing
Ipsen: Stuart Knight on Converting a Lotus Notes Contact and Document Database to Traction
Fidelity: Eric Robinson offers a bird's eye view of their use case and zoom in on how they are using Release 4.0 moderation features to support a status reporting process.
Boston Consulting Group: Clay Romeiser on which types of use cases seem to succeed, and how planning and people come together as an essential ingredient. He'll also give us a window into the 2nd order issues and challenges which come up as the deployment becomes successful.
Food & Drug Administration: Paul Fisher
Sanofi: Joe Mundi
Wellington Management - Jim Coleman
Applied Knowledge Company, Japan - "Best of Traction Japan"
Integrating with SunBird Calendering: Epson Schedule Management
Text Mining TeamPage Articles: A Manufacturing Company
Tracing Clinical Trials: A Pharma Company
QL2: Trevor Anderson and Matt Cole will show the latest integration between their automated content capture system, WebQL, and Traction. It's an excellent example of how you can use Traction to gain leverage on enterprise (and outside the enterprise) information resources.
FAST Search & Transfer: Jeff Fried, VP Product Management, from FAST will explore how Traction metadata can be leveraged to deliver a better search experience enterprise wide.
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