IBM is a leader in the invention and development of the industry's most advanced information technologies. We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our collaboration solutions, services and consulting businesses worldwide. The IBM Web 2.0 platform adds a new dimension of imagination and innovation with advanced collaborative tools that enable the creation of new and unique applications to address your specific business needs.Advanced collaborative solutions such as IBM Lotus Connections, IBM Lotus Quickr, and the new IBM Mashup Center form the foundation of this platform to empower you to work the way you want. www.ibm.com/
Microsoft Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Microsoft provides an integrated platform and suite of online services that enables a seamless experience for developers, consumers and businesses across platforms, applications, and devices. We are committed to our customers and partners and have a passion for technology. We take on big challenges, and pride ourselves on seeing them through. We hold ourselves accountable to our customers, shareholders, partners, and employees by honoring our commitments, providing results, and striving for the highest quality. www.microsoft.com
Open Text, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), combines the expertise and solutions to help customers embrace Enterprise 2.0 within the context of their ECM strategies. With Open Text’s solutions, customers can transform their organizations with powerful social computing tools – blogs, wikis, forums, tagging, moderation, communities and real-time collaboration – delivered behind the firewall as a natural extension of current ECM initiatives or to Web 2.0-enable public websites, intranets and extranets. Open Text offers customers two decades of ECM expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. For more information, visit www.opentext.com
Oracle’s business is information—how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), the world’s largest enterprise software company, has provided software and services that enable organizations to get the most accurate and up-to-date information from their business systems. Today, Oracle has over 275,000 customers—including 98 of the Fortune 100—in more than 145 countries. www.oracle.com
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) helps dynamic enterprises worldwide interconnect their networks, people, processes and knowledge for competitive advantage through strengthened relationships, simplified communications, and improved performance. Alcatel-Lucent has operations in more than 130 countries, the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications field. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent at www.alcatel-lucent.com
EMC Corporation is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions. We help organizations of every size around the world keep their most essential digital information protected, secure, and continuously available. We are among the 10 most valuable IT product companies in the world. We are driven to perform, to partner, to execute. We go about our jobs with a passion for delivering results that exceed our customers’ expectations for quality, service, innovation, and interaction. We pride ourselves on doing what’s right and on putting our customers’ best interests first. We lead change and change to lead. We are devoted to advancing our people, customers, industry, and community. www.emc.com
Horn Group Horn Group is a strategic
communications firm specializing in PR and digital marketing. The agency represents
technology companies at every stage of growth to help them engage with key audiences
through print, in person and on the web. Services include brand and message development,
creative design, media strategy, public relations, and web development.
Horn Group was ranked best-mid sized agency in PRSourceCode 2005 survey of reporters
and the firm continues to be noted as a Best Agency to Work For in the Holmes Report.
The company was founded in 1991 and is based in San Francisco, New York and Boston.
www.horngroup.com
Lithium Technologies provides market-leading, Web 2.0 solutions by building successful, on-demand enterprise communities that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, improve the customer experience, and decrease customer care costs. Backed by our community management expertise, Lithium communities engage and reward customers through forums, blogs, chat, and other social networking tools and transform them into loyal advocates who buy more and more frequently. Successful communities inspire customers to share their excitement and knowledge about your products or services, so they get timely, relevant, and trusted information from the community. For more information, visit www.lithium.com.
Novell is a leader in enterprise infrastructure software, offering an open platform and fully integrated security, identity and systems management solutions. From desktop to data center, we help customers add the power and flexibility of open source to their existing IT investments. These solutions lower cost, complexity and risk, giving customers more time to focus on innovation and growth. www.novell.com
Acquia is a ground-breaking open source software company providing value-added products and services for the wildly popular Drupal social publishing system. The Acquia team are motivated by the belief that the open source development approach and social publishing technology have the power to connect people and unleash their collective creative potential in order to achieve great things. Company founders are Dries Buytaert, original Drupal creator and project lead, and Jay Batson, previously founding CEO of open source VOIP software company Pingtel. http://acquia.com/
Alfresco Software is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Alfresco is a simple and intuitive system featuring a familiar interface that reflects existing tools and environments which business users understand: shared file drives and Web search engines. Designed for a federated world, rather than centralized, it meets the needs of departments or individuals, while still providing full audit control of enterprise content. Alfresco can be downloaded from www.alfresco.com
Connectbeam is the leading provider of enterprise social bookmarking and social networking software - an innovate solution for businesses for solving their information discovery and sharing challenge. It enables organiza¬tions and their employees to connect and collaborate in real time. Connectbeam features include social bookmarking and tagging, expertise location, and professional social networking. Using Connectbeam, enterprise workers locate and manage information together while discovering and connecting effortlessly with each other’s knowledge, interests and skills. It allows users to create views of information based on the wisdom and collective intelligence of their colleagues. Delivered as a turnkey Appliance, it is setup within minutes behind company firewall. Privately held and venture backed, Connectbeam is located in California’s Silicon Valley. www.connectbeam.com/
Empower your employees and unleash the collective intelligence residing in your organization with IGLOO Corporate Social Networking software. IGLOO delivers a fully integrated suite of collaboration, content management and community features, powered by employee-driven content—RSS, wikis, blogs, broadcasts, forums, and other Web 2.0 tools. Across divisions or across continents teams can effortlessly engage in online discussions, post relevant videos, photos, documents and presentations—all while building a professional community based on driving business objectives. Over 300 organizations in business, government, education and not-for-profit sectors use IGLOO software to connect people and information to improve productivity, increase efficiency and ignite innovation. Visit us: www.igloosoftware.com.
InQuira, Inc. improves the quality of customer and employee interactions through contact centers and websites with integrated applications for knowledge management, intelligent search, analytics and user experience. InQuira’s software platform allows enterprise organizations to enable their business units to create, retrieve, and analyze content to answer intuitive questions and drive positive user experiences. When empowered by InQuira, global enterprise business are realizing dramatic decreases in support costs, fast more effective service resolutions and increased revenues. Blue-chip enterprise customers of InQuira include: Bank of America; AVIS Group; Pitney Bowes; Sun Microsystems; BEA Systems; Fidelity Investments; Honda; and Nokia. www.inquira.com
Jive Software believes that work is broken. Jive delivers social productivity software that brings together employees, partners and customers in a unified collaboration system, allowing them to create better products, faster processes and improved relationships. Its flagship products, Clearspace and Clearspace X, are used by over 2,000 customers worldwide, including over 15% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Jive has been cash flow positive since its inception. For more information, visit Jive Software online at http://www.jivesoftware.com.
LiquidPlanner is the only project management software that gives teams the power to manage change and uncertainty. Today, most key business objectives are project-based, but available tools haven’t kept pace with the way information workers use and share project information. And inherent uncertainty kills projects, costs millions, and undermines teams. LiquidPlanner tackles both problems head-on: it uses ranged estimates and probabilistic scheduling to generate accurate schedules, and provides all team members with a complete, collaborative project environment. LiquidPlanner is a hosted, SaaS solution. Key features include task management, probabilistic scheduling, automatic tracking, personalized dashboards, and integrated commenting and project documentation. www.liquidplanner.com
nGenera Corporation is an on-demand platform for business innovation that provides a suite of subscription-based offerings to enable the Next Generation Enterprise. Powered by software and people, nGenera’s on-demand offerings give organizations sustainable, breakthrough capabilities in leadership performance, talent management and development, and customer experience. Customers that subscribe to the company's on-demand solutions include a marquee list of Global 2000 companies in a range of industries. www.ngenera.com
The Remy Corporation is a leader in integrated staffing, recruiting, and consulting solutions for the Web 2.0 world! Remy understands the dynamics of Human Capital, becoming the premier provider of human capital needs for companies seeking fulltime placements, staff augmentation, and consulting services. www.remycorp.com
As the first wiki company, Socialtext leads the industry in applying
next-generation Web 2.0 technologies to the critical challenges facing
businesses. Web 2.0 holds the promise of dramatically increasing business
productivity, stimulating greater innovation, and creating tighter
connections between employees, and with partners, suppliers and customers.
With the most flexible deployment options in the industry - including
appliances, hosted services, software and open-source Socialtext
wiki-centric social software solutions are designed for any organization
that wants to accelerate team communications, better enable knowledge
sharing, foster collaboration, and build online communities. Over 4,000
organizations use Socialtext: Epitaph Records, Humana, IKEA and Intel. www.socialtext.com
Popular opinion rules web 2.0, but does not accurately reflect real world decision making – the most popular things are often not truly the best. Spigit brings advanced metrics to social networking to create truly relevant methods of decision making and ranking. A symbiotic relationship between human judgment and our analysis elevates the best ideas and people to the top. Our algorithms calculate real-time user reputations and rankings to determine how much "weight" a person’s votes receive. spigit’s calculations of conversation levels, buzz, and weighted ratings result in a true measure of value, relevance and clarity. http://innovation.spigit.com
Sun Microsystems Inc., a creator and industry leading advocate of emerging technologies, is revolutionizing and redefining system-wide management of rich, standards-compliant, Internet applications for the next generation Web. A singular vision — "The Network Is The Computer" — guides Sun in the development of state-of-the-art, power-efficient servers and storage systems to award-winning, open-source based software offerings. When it comes to Web 2.0 technologies, Sun provides best-of-breed solutions to enterprises and startups worldwide for developing, deploying, and managing the next wave of computing. sun.com
Telligent is a leader in enterprise ready, secure, scalable and fully supported solutions for online communities and social networks. Telligent's flagship offering, Community Server, provides a fully integrated platform utilizing social media to enhance customer relationships, brand engagement, increased ROI and provide channels for valuable customer insight and feedback. With its software solutions and extensive development and customization service offerings, Telligent empowers collaboration, community and social networking implementations for many of the world's largest brands. Clients include: Associated Press, Conde Nast, Dell, Electronic Arts, GlaxoSmithKline. Honda, Intel, Mazda, Microsoft, MSNBC, MySpace.com, National Geographic, NFL, Visa. For more information, visit Telligent.com.
Trampoline Systems is social intelligence for business. Trampoline’s SONAR Suite provides 360° enterprise social computing for employees and managers. SONAR Dashboard is intelligent social networking for the enterprise and SONAR Flightdeck provides organisational diagnostics for managers. Both are powered by SONAR Server, which analyses the relationships and expertise hidden in corporate data by connecting to email, wikis and blogs, contact databases and more. Trampoline’s clients include the Raytheon Company, a top 5 global management consultancy and the UK Foreign Office. Trampoline is headquartered in London, UK. www.trampolinesystems.com
WorkLight™ Inc. develops and markets a line of server products that consumerize the corporate computing experience, by making popular consumer services like iGoogle, MS Live, Netvibes, and Facebook "enterprise-ready." Through WorkLight, employees and consumers connect to protected enterprise data (and to each other) using Web 2.0 services. A venture-backed company with offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Yakum, Israel, WorkLight has received prestigious industry accolades: "Five Enterprise 2.0 Startups to Watch," (Information Week Magazine); CIO Magazine's Web 2.0 Product Suite; Computerworld's "10 Cool Cutting-edge Technologies on the Horizon”; "Stay Organized" Award (Microsoft's Under the Radar Conference); Red Herring 100 International finalist. http://www.myworklight.com/
IntelliEnterprise is the ideal Intranet 2.0 for organizations creating a social, agile and truly collaborative enterprise. It delivers a highly interactive environment that leverages folksonomy, transparency, user-driven information flow and provides better access to collective intelligence. With more than 100 ready-to-run modules, applications and tools, IntelliEnterprise is an unbelievably complete Intranet 2.0 Portal Suite. Distributed organizations around the world are using IntelliEnterprise to quickly implement and maintain a vivid Intranet to liberate their employees for increased innovation, productivity and agility. www.adenin.com
AIIM is a community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information. The AIIM E2.0 Certificate program provides in-depth education on Enterprise 2.0, from technologies to best practices to drive innovation and collaboration across the enterprise. For more information: www.aiim.org
Built upon same world-class technology that powers Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides developers with a reliable, easy-to-scale, low-cost computing platform “in the cloud.” Companies of all sizes, from all around the globe use AWS to build websites, store data, manage business processes and more. http://aws.amazon.com
Aragon Consulting Group is a technology consulting firm that designs and delivers IT solutions to complex business problems. Our experienced consultants have deep knowledge of a wide range of software solutions, including the latest open-source, SaaS, and PaaS offerings. We work with you to understand your existing technology environment, we make smart, cost-effective, and actionable recommendations, and we deliver on our recommendations using trained and highly skilled software engineers. http://www.aragonconsultinggroup.com/
Atlassian develops affordable, lightweight software that helps enterprises collaborate better. Products include Confluence, recognized as the most widely-used enterprise wiki, and JIRA, one of the world's most popular issue trackers for IT project management. The company has 10,000 customers worldwide, including 30 of the world's top 50 corporations. For more information, visit: http://www.atlassian.com
The Attensa Managed RSS Platform gets the right information, to the right people at the right time and provides a secure, clutter-free communications channel that makes it easy to effectively receive, act on and collaborate around highly relevant information. For more information visit http://www.attensa.com
Aventiv's NomaDesk ensures that businesses never stumble because a file is out-of-date or out of reach. We do this by making business file networks radically easier to create, share and manage. As a managed-service provider, we make it simple for small, mobile, non-technical teams to create, share and extend their file networks: beyond geographic or corporate boundaries; without VPN or additional servers; and with OFF-LINE continuity.
NomaDesk is the first solution built on Enterprise 2.0's Virtual File Networking (VFN) architecture, erasing the distinction between "web" and "local" files, so that – regardless of where they originated – files automatically remain; fresh (updated and synchronized); at-hand (replicated across team PCs and web-servers); secure (encrypted and theft-proof); and trusted (authorized access only). www.nomadesk.com
Awareness helps companies build and operate branded Web 2.0 communities. These online communities let customers, prospects, employees, or partners connect with each other and share content. At the core of the Awareness solution is an on-demand social media platform that combines the full range of Web 2.0 technologies - blogs, wikis, discussion groups, social networking, podcasts, RSS, tagging, photos, videos, mapping, etc. - with security, control, and content moderation. Awareness builds these features into complete communities for companies, or customers use the Awareness API and widgets to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into their own web properties. Major corporations such as McDonald's, Kodak, the New York Times, Northwestern Mutual, and Procter and Gamble use Awareness to build brand loyalty, generate revenue, drive new forms of marketing, improve collaboration, encourage knowledge-sharing, and build a "corporate memory." www.awarenessnetworks.com
Blogtronix, the Enterprise Social Platform; is a privately held, venture-backed, Web 2.0 company with a unique set of integrated collaboration, communication, knowledge management and social networking tools. These include blogs, wikis, document management, RSS aggregation, and user notification options. Our tools are supported by extensive administration management features and options including a fully customizable user interface & security system. Current clients using the platform include Red Herring and Reuters. www.blogtronix.com.
Founded in March 2005, Box.net is a leading provider of tools for managing and sharing data online. The service enables users to share, access, and collaborate on files of any type from anywhere. With more than 1.5 million users, over 1 million files served every day, and more than 1000 developers in the Box Enabled Network, Box.net is the first web-native system and is used by individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 1000 companies. In December 2007, the company launched its OpenBox platform which connects data from Box.net to other web-based applications and services providing users the ability to do more with their data. Box.net is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and is backed by venture capitalist firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson and U.S. Venture Partners. Box.net
Day Software is a leader in technology innovation and standards adoption, providing fully standards-based Content and collaboration applications and infrastructure. Day's solutions enable companies to implement compelling, future-proof Enterprise 2.0 solutions, while reducing the complexity and cost if their information systems, making valuable content accessible throughout the enterprise and beyond. www.day.com
eXpresso brings Excel® to the Web 2.0 world, where users have come to expect on-demand interaction with current, “living” data. With eXpresso, people can store, edit, or instantly share Excel® spreadsheets online in real-time. No more emailing spreadsheets or juggling who has which version. Registration is free. www.expressocorp.com
GoLightly provides an integrated suite of hosted online community tools, including groups, forums, wikis, blogs, and file sharing, for enterprise, associations, non-profits, government and OEM. Our software-as-a-service platform is used for knowledge management; market research; staff, member and customer communities; product user groups; intranets, trusted social networks, and more. www.golightly.com
GroupSwim is a SaaS Social Collaboration solution. We radically improve productivity by helping companies connect with their customers and employees to share effectively. The secret is our proprietary semantic technology that automatically categorizes and rates content (discussions, emails, files, wikis) and identifies experts by topic. We make your knowledge smarter. www.groupswim.com
HeadMix's mission is to help employees discover the valuable knowledge trapped inside their colleagues heads. HeadMix achieves this by delivering a lightweight, on demand, easy to use messaging platform that promotes intuitive knowledge sharing inside a company. www.headmix.com
ikordo takes the pain out of meeting planning by negotiating the most suitable date with attendees on your behalf, like a real assistant. ikordo interprets plain English email responses, building a picture of everyone’s availability then sets a meeting date followed up with e-mail and SMS reminders before the start. www.ikordo.com
Mindjet makes software that helps people visualize and use information. Its leading product, MindManager software, enables individuals and teams to work smarter, think creatively, and save time every day. There are over 1 million licenses of MindManager software used globally by 85 of the Fortune 100 companies and more than 50 percent of the Global 2000. www.mindjet.com
Mzinga‘s business social media solutions drive growth, innovation, and learning. Marketing, customer service, and HR professionals deploy Mzinga’s “pervasive community” solutions to increase revenues and lower costs. With 14,000 communities under management, Mzinga services more than 1 billion monthly page requests from 27 million users in 160 countries worldwide. For additional information, visit http://www.mzinga.com.
NewsGator Technologies is a pioneer in delivering social computing products and services for businesses. More than a million people, including some of the world’s largest and most recognized companies, rely on NewsGator’s enterprise RSS and social networking platforms to deliver timely, relevant content via Web, desktop, mobile devices and e-mail clients. www.newsgator.com
Openwater Networks provides business solutions that connect people and information in ways that - collectively - they act more intelligently and productively than ever before. Openwater goes beyond social networking to provide collaborative, search-based solutions for customer service, IT and corporate shared services that grow revenue, cut project costs and increase corporate savings. http://www.openwaternet.com/
QuickBase, from Intuit, provides on-demand, customizable business applications. With QuickBase, IT has the control they need and users have the flexibility they desire. Used by 56 of the Fortune 100, QuickBase applications organize, track, and share information in areas as diverse as project, sales, IT helpdesk and supply chain management. quickbase.intuit.com
A recognized leader in the global IT marketplace, Rackspace® delivers a diverse suite of enterprise-class hosted IT services. Customers choose Rackspace for its hosting specialization, backed by their award-winning Fanatical Support®. By integrating the industry’s best technologies and delivering them as services, Rackspace serves as an extension of its customers’ IT departments. Because Rackspace removes the burden of infrastructure management, customers can focus on their core business. http://www.rackspace.com
Small World Labs is dedicated to helping organizations harness the power of social media to drive key initiatives through our online community and social networking solutions. Our goal is to help clients navigate the rapidly evolving world of Web 2.0, providing both the technology and expertise needed to succeed. http://www.smallworldlabs.com/
Socialcast puts your entire company's brain to work. We develop on-demand corporate social networking software for organizations of all sizes. Our SAAS platform unites traditional intranet features with social networking functionality to foster collaboration and corporate culture enrichment. With a Socialcast community, employees don't just share knowledge - they create it. www.socialcast.com
ThoughtFarmer is the ultimate intranet. Forget the impossibly complex, seldom-used corporate intranets of days gone by. ThoughtFarmer is a simple, social way for employees to collaborate, share ideas and find information. Customers include BMW ORACLE Racing, eHarmony, IDEO, and Guardian News & Media. www.thoughtfarmer.com
Tomoye is the Community of Practice company. Tomoye communities work inside, across and outside the enterprise. These Sharepoint ready communities are designed to link employees, the supply chain and customers. Tomoye’s technology and proven process are trusted by some of the largest organizations in the world. Learn more at www.tomoye.com
InfoWorld: “Best Enterprise Wiki.” Beyond blogs and wikis, Traction TeamPage delivers Enterprise 2.0 reality with the leading platform for authoring, threaded discussion, linking, social-tagging, document versioning, notification, and search. TeamPage is easy to install and manage. Traction Software is funded by In-Q-Tel (venture arm of the CIA). Download a free version at www.tractionsoftware.com.
Veodia's Video Platform as a Service allows organizations to broadcast and manage live and on-demand high quality (MPEG-4/h.264) video over the Internet. Businesses can instantly leverage the power of video with employees, clients and partners. IT groups can provide a scalable, secure and reliable online video solution to all departments. www.veodia.com
Vignette helps organizations improve how they connect online with key audiences by providing software for building great online experiences and managing the content that fuels those experiences. Vignette invented Web Content Management over a decade ago, and our customers include some of the world’s most prominent brands in virtually every industry. http://www.vignette.com
Zoho offers an online office suite with a wide range of applications such as: word processors, spreadsheets, presentations and Wikis. It also includes CRM; project management; and other additional applications. It is an affordable option for business users, and is free for individuals. Zoho is located in Pleasanton, California and a division of AdventNet. www.zoho.com
