Squiz And Funnelback Announce First Joint Industry Briefing With Featured Gartner Analyst

Following the recent acquisition of Funnelback, Squiz has announced that it will be holding a registration-only event in Sydney on 27th August, 2009. The event will feature Gartner Research Vice President Brian Prentice, Squiz Managing Director John-Paul Syriatowicz and Funnelback Chief Scientist David Hawking. The theme of the briefing is ‘Open Source Software - Unavoidable, Beneficial and Coming To An Application Near You’.

Sydney 20^th July, 2009 – On the back of the recent acquisition of Funnelback from the CSIRO, Squiz has announced an exclusive industry briefing in Sydney for senior IT professionals to explore the benefits of open source software and experience real world case studies in open source functionality.

Featured keynote speaker, Gartner Research Vice President Brian Prentice will be presenting a session on why adopting open source software is not a matter of if – it’s a matter of when. Brian will describe why this trend is occurring and how organisations can benefit and be prepared. Getting time with a Gartner Research VP is rare, and this event should be popular with industry professionals grabbing this opportunity.

Squiz Managing Director John-Paul Syriatowicz will describe how the supported open source software model provides new opportunities for reducing cost and risk in enterprise web content management projects. He will also demonstrate MySource Matrix, the most popular open source content management system within Australian government as a case study.

Funnelback Chief Scientist David Hawking will be presenting a session on why effective search is a vital ingredient of successful content management and how to successfully help customers, clients and employees succeed in information and service seeking activities. Funnelback employs open source technology and attendees will experience a case study of their flagship product, Funnelback Enterprise.

"Squiz has 10 years of experience deploying and supporting open source software. I'm pleased to say that we've observed a significant upswing of mainstream acceptance of supported open source solutions in the last 12 months, a trend also observed by Gartner ", says Syriatowicz.

Attendees will have an opportunity to interact with the three presenters in a roundtable debate/Q&A as part of the agenda.

About Gartner

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. Gartner delivers technology-related insight for CIOs and senior IT leaders to make the right decisions, every day. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 4,000 associates, including 1,200 research analysts and consultants in 80 countries.

About Squiz

Squiz is one of the world’s largest privately owned content management companies with offices throughout Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Europe and also the United States later this year. Squiz is the author of MySource Matrix, a fully supported enterprise class supported open source content management system used by governments, universities and corporations around the world. For more see www.squiz.net.au.

About Funnelback

Funnelback creates a powerful search engine of the same name used to search many web sites and data collections including all Australian Government websites through www.australia.gov.au and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s iconic portal www.abc.net.au. For more see www.funnelback.com.

Agenda

Event Details

Date: 27th August, 2009

Time: 8.30am till noon

Location: L’Aqua, The Roof Terrace, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Park in Sydney

Cost: FREE

Please register by completing the form at http://www.squiz.net.au/

For further details contact Chris Ford, Squiz National Sales & Marketing Manager, on 02 8507 9900 or cford@squiz.net.

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