Burlingame-Based Outsell Acquires The Gilbane Group

Burlingame, Calif. -- Outsell, a Burlingame-based research and advisory firm for the information and publishing industries, said that it has acquired The Gilbane Group, a Massachusetts-based provider of market analysis on content and information management technologies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1987, Gilbane provides coverage of trends in such areas as web content management, multilingual content, enterprise search, enterprise social media, publishing, XML and XBRL. It also sponsors conferences on content and information management technologies in North America and Europe, including the upcoming Gilbane San Francisco conference. With the acquisition, Outsell will now have a professional staff of 50, in addition to nearly two dozen affiliate analysts and consultants.
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