Picture of Janus BoyeJanus Boye

Author of the Enterprise Portals Report, co-author of Wiki in the Enterprise and Web CMS Report and jboye08 conference chair

Managing Director, J. Boye

Janus is based in Denmark and managing director at J. Boye a vendor-neutral analyst firm. Janus is also the jboye08 conference chair and responsible for putting together the conference program, which he is doing for the 4th year in a row.

He is known as co-author of the Web CMS Report, and as principal author of the Enterprise Portals Report. Currently he is working on a new Portal Project Starter Kit.

Janus has recently co-authored Best Practices for Using SharePoint for Public Websites - A Business Person's Guide and Wiki in the Enterprise together with Dorthe Jespersen.

As a frequent blogger at CMS Watch he regularly writes on the fascinating and young portal market.

As one of the few locals, Janus enjoys life in Aarhus all year round. Still he enjoys collecting frequent flier miles, visiting family in the US and spending time at home in the old townhouse with his fiancée and son.

View his profile on LinkedIn and Xing.

J. Boye

J. Boye is an independent, vendor-neutral analyst firm focusing on several aspects of digital media, including web strategy, governance, intranet, portals, social media and CMS.

With a mission to help mature a young market our main activities are:

  • The J. Boye Community of Practice
    Knowledge sharing in a vendor-neutral, professional and stimulating environment.
    The core idea or “foundation” of our Community of Practice is knowledge sharing among members with comparable roles and challenges. The aim is sharing of best practice, experiences and state of the art solutions, raising the bar for online content, processes and products. We have more than 200 members in 10 European countries.
  • J. Boye Conferences
    We host user conferences with tutorials, discussions and topical tracks. Our unique position as facilitators of the J. Boye Community of Practice means we are in constant dialogue with many interesting companies and organisations. We feed the challenges, problems and success stories of all our members into the planning of the conferences. This ensures that our conference programs are relevant. jboye08 is our biggest and most ambitious conference thus far with 8 daily tracks, over 75 speakers and upwards of 300 delegates. Our next conference is in Philadelphia, US in early May.
  • Reports
    J. Boye regularly publish own analyst briefings, most recently Best Practices for Using SharePoint for Public Websites and Wiki in the Enterprise. We also contribute to several CMS Watch reports, including the recognized Web CMS Report, the Enterprise Portals Report and the Enterprise Social Software Report.
  • Services
    We can assist at all stages and during all phases of project scoping, development and execution. We lead organisations safely through web and intranet projects, and help them ensure they make the right decisions every step of the way.
  • Events
    We organise and host a wide variety of events:
    • Half and full day seminars
    • Courses
    • Master Classes
    • Community of Practice meetings
    • Conferences
    Our seminars and conferences are open to anyone interested in the topic on the program. Members of our experienced team host, present, chair and moderate the events, ensuring appropriate levels of expert input and time for questions and answers.

J. Boye Blog

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Tutorial

Tuesday, November 4th: 13.00 - 16.00

Presentations

Thursday, November 6th: 10.30 - 12.00

Track: Enterprise Portals 2009

Portals in 2009

Going into 2009 the portal marketplace is in flux, as older technologies and platforms become deprecated while new use cases around social computing emerge. Meanwhile, the rise of Microsoft SharePoint has led to divergent reactions among traditional enterprise portal suppliers – like IBM, Oracle, and SAP – while open source portal projects continue to expand vigorously.

Please join noted analyst Janus Boye to learn more about where the enterprise portal marketplace is headed so you can carefully plan your 2009 investments in this critical area.

What you will learn by attending: