MarkLogic Keynote Address

(I originally took notes on my BlackBerry, which is not an ideal note taking device. I'm going back through and updating the notes to make them more usable for the future.)

This was the initial KeyNote presentation, the initial speaker was Andy Feit, but he was quickly replaced on stage by Dave Kellogg and finally by Ron Avuner

Keynotes cover the market, product, enterprise aspects of using MarkLogic

Later there are panels that will supply a more interactive venue for discussions about agile development, user generated content, and interviews with MarkLogic directors.

Use the Blog tag MLUC08 when posting blogs about the user conference to make them easeir to find.

If you're a Twitter user, use #MLUC08 as the tag.

Dave will be blogging and twittering during the conference as will many other MarkLogic employees.

The MarkLogic User Blog is available at http://ucblog.marklogic.com

Dave Kellogg's History:

In the past he had lots of experience with RDBMS, employee of Ingress. Now has 4 years at MarkLogic.

Unlock Content

Mashup of database and search engine.

MarkLogic in 3 words: Big Fast Xquery

Content is not data because there is no fixed structure.

Customers reflect todays usage of xml

Dave expects to see a huge increase in the market for XML and XML databases with the introduction of Microsoft Office XML and the standardization of OOXML.

Andy Feit and Ron AvMur

ML 4

Authoring is changing:

• User generated
• Business process
• Content explosion
• Get to it / Get it to me
• Real content applications
• Medical apps
  

MarkLogic Version 4.0

• Disclaimer no features are guaranteed to be there, some changes are expected, nothing officially decided yet, etc.
• Early access now for partners
• Expected to be released in 3Q08
• Easier content load
• 4 automatically deconstructs Ms Office documents
• Entity enrichment - licensed with a single vendor now, but pluggable.
• More ways to query
• Automatically process xinclude
• Alert function layered arch. Subscriptions
  

Analytics:

• Heat maps
• Finding pattens
• Composability
• Geospatial
  

Security

• Auditing
• CCSC (Government certification)
  

Automation

• All admin is scriptable

MS Office / Sharepoint CMS

• Dynamic enterprise publishing
• Light workflow
• Mirror content
• Making word into an XML authoring CMS
• JSR170
  

Faster app development:

• Shipped UI
• Quickstarts
• Content aggregation
• RSS
  

MarkLogic After Version 4

• Other authoring environments
• Languages
• Delivery SAN \ virtual
• Trending