MarkLogic Experts David Worlock, Ernst Kallus, Jen Shorten, James Wonder and me, Matt Turner

Today at our Frankfurt Book Fair stand, we hosted the first of our Office Hours. Having experts around who have been there and done that, means that we, the customers, partners, attendees and the MarkLogic team learned a few things:

• “The

At the MarkLogic stand the conversation has been about adding data as a core asset for publishers. There is so much that can be done around the content to improve user experiences and products – and much of it starts with data.

• “Everyone is innovating at the end of the content production process. It’s a surprise that it hasn’t got further upstream. Publishers are

The Georgian alphabet, called the Anbani, is made up of unique, flowing characters and is “an integral part of the country’s expressive language” according to Simone Buhler, Head of the Guest of Honor Program at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Her overview of this year’s Guest of Honor, Georgia, is here.

The exhibit, called Georgia Made

The insurance industry faces many of the same challenges that the publishing industry faced over a decade ago. Back then, Amazon disrupted the publishing industry when it shifted from being a retailer of books to being a platform for self-publishing, content distribution and advertising—a move that put many smaller and specialized media and publishing companies out of business and impacted the profit margins of larger publishers.

The insurance industry is starting to feel the same pressures

Data took the lead at first full day of the Frankfurt Book Fair.

While virtually everyone at the show agreed with the two world leaders who set the tone yesterday on the importance of content and culture, but today on Day 2, conversations were all about how data is the vital asset that makes that impact possible in today’s digital world.

We opened the MarkLogic Stand (what a booth is called at the Fair) in Hall 4.2 with the theme of Go Beyond Your Content: Use All