Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Principal, Real Story Group

Biography

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Alan Pelz-Sharpe is a Principal with The Real Story Group, covering and advising on ECM technologies and practices. He oversees all research on EIWatch.com, and focuses his own research in the areas of document management, enterprise collaboration, SharePoint, and e-mail archiving

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 Worldand 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.

Real Story Group

Real Story Group

Real Story Group is a buyer's advocate for enterprises looking to invest in content technologies. They publish independent research that helps customers sort out suitable technology choices for their specific needs. The company's research is known for its technical depth, readability, and absolute neutrality.

Tutorial

Assessing SharePoint 2010

Tutorial Day, Tuesday May 4th, 1.00 pm - 4.00 pm

Microsoft plans to release its long-awaited next version of SharePoint in June, 2010. The new platform brings significant changes in some areas, and more cosmetic enhancements in others. As an enterprise customer, how should you respond? If you have not yet made an enterprise-wide commitment to SharePoint, should you wait until the 2010 release to evaluate your options? If you already widely deployed SharePoint 2007, when and why should you upgrade? How does SharePoint 2010 address key shortcomings in the current platform around governance, performance, and interoperability?

This intensive workshop offers a critical, independent evaluation of SharePoint 2010, detailing the platform's strengths and weaknesses culled from customer experiences with the beta version and hands-on testing. Through presentations and discussion, the workshop helps you figure out how, where, when, and why to deploy SharePoint 2010 -- and reviews how well it "fits" into different types and sizes of enterprises with different business objectives.

Presentation

Why projects so often fail

Web project management, Conference Day #2, Thursday May 6th, 10.30 am - 12.00 am

The sad truth is that the majority of online projects fail or fall short of expectations.  Raising your chances of success is though not a particularly difficult or complex thing to do. To provide you with practical and actionable advice, this session will explore solid strategies for online success, and examine in some depth the most common reasons for failure.

NOTE: warm up for the session with a free WEBINAR, also focusing on why projects so often fail on 27th April, 11am EDT.

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