Profile: Jonathan Downes
Jonathan is founder of Prokata Ltd. He is helping enterprises meet the challenges and reap the benefits of Content Management.
He led the Content Management and Knowledge Management programmes for MG Rover, characterised by tactical delivery in a strategic context. Projects attracted media and industry attention with strong business cases and pioneering solutions. He has shared his insights and experiences with audiences in the UK and US.
Consistent with his maxim of Innovation and Empowerment, Jonathan is also working closely with leading developers to bring 'In-page replacement' or 'Content Injection' web technology (AJAX) as showcased by Google, into common usage through open source projects like DWR (Direct Web Remoting).
Tutorial: My first AJAX application
Tuesday, November 8th, 13.00
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Presentation: Making Content Management pay
Wednesday, November 9th, 11.00
Track: Project management
Case: MG Rover
Embarking on a genuinely enterprise wide content management implementation can be a daunting prospect.
This case study shows how tactical projects when delivered in the context of a strategic ECM approach can yield not just immediate savings, but long term benefits. Hear how MG Rover built an in house ECM competence, cancelled expensive hosting contracts and deployed Internet, Extranet & Intranet sites in under 2 years, with DAM, DM and Collaboration in the pipeline.
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Presentation: AJAX: Next generation websites, an introduction
Thursday, November 10th, 16.00
Track: Technology
AJAX represents the biggest change to the Internet since it's invention 15 years ago. It's sparking huge investment by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and many others and altering what is possible on the web.
Find out what's behind the innovation.
Co-presented with Joe Walker.
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Links
Prokata: Jonathan Downes blog
CNET News.com: AJAX gives software a fresh look (October 4th, 2005)
Computing: MG reverses on web operations (September 24th, 2003)
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