NewsGator Celebrates All-Star Social SharePoint Ecosystem

DENVER, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- For many companies, it takes a village to create a stellar social computing environment.

That's why NewsGator, the company making SharePoint social, is showcasing "go to" NewsGator Partners who can deliver any and all necessary social computing needs to any SharePoint customer. All of these companies are Microsoft National Systems Integrators (NSIs) using NewsGator Social Sites 2010 to fortify their own value-added custom solutions.

"We're working tirelessly to make SharePoint social by constantly innovating and partnering with companies who understand and can immediately deliver on our customers' social computing needs," said J.B. Holston, NewsGator's President & CEO. "This 'Who's Who' list of partners is made up of some of the world's most accomplished SharePoint professionals. Together, we are making the world's businesses more productive by making them more social."

Below are just a few examples of ecosystem partners that can provide immediate help to SharePoint customers. For a complete list of all-star partners please visit: http://www.newsgator.com/partners.aspx.

Extranets – For robust external communities and extranets on SharePoint, consider Seattle-based interactive marketing agency Ascentium.

"Ascentium is on the bleeding edge of technology and while we specialize in a number of key platforms, our SharePoint capabilities are particularly noteworthy. We have a long history of successful extranets and public-facing web sites on the SharePoint platform, such as the one we built for People to People, which earned near perfect marks by the Interactive Media Awards. Our top technologists are dedicating much of their time to Rocket Labs, an investment in innovation to create effective marketing solutions for our clients where SharePoint plays a very significant role."

Unified communications and collaboration – To harness the potential of unified communications and collaboration for powerful business productivity gains, consider Massachusetts-based Aspect, which helped develop the strategy and deploy the worldwide social network for Fleishman-Hillard. Aspect is a global software and IT services firm specializing in applying Microsoft® unified communications and collaboration to help customers achieve optimal results through enhanced business processes across the enterprise and in the contact center. Aspect provides IT consulting, integration services and business applications.

"Since the launch of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 earlier this year, we have seen strong demand, particularly from clients wishing to take advantage of SharePoint's impressive new set of collaboration and content management capabilities. Our extensive expertise with SharePoint, combined with the capabilities of Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners such as NewsGator, help us meet these customer needs quickly and efficiently. NewsGator provides the additional proficiency required to rapidly deploy social computing experiences on SharePoint within an enterprise."

Worldwide – For global scale implementations, consider HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a leading global IT services provider. HCL has a dedicated practice on Enterprise Portal and Collaboration with several large scale program implementation experiences.

"More and more organizations are looking at SharePoint to create enterprise wide social networks. In our experience NewsGator provides SharePoint the agility to realize these experiences in a better, faster and more efficient way."

Hosting – For social SharePoint solutions in the cloud, consider California-based Neudesic, delivering hosted global solutions across many industries. Neudesic is the technology leader in business innovation providing managed services, implementation services and solution/product offerings to empower enterprises. Neudesic helps customers close the gap between technology and the desired business outcome by bringing together the best talent, innovative products and a broad array of services. Established in 2001, Neudesic is a global leader, Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on Microsoft's technology platform.

"Neudesic's Portals and Collaboration practice along with its Managed Services division provide the latest SharePoint technologies rapidly with ultimate flexibility. In order to fill the gaps between SharePoint out-of-the-box functionality and our clients desired business outcome, Neudesic brings industry leading talent, nearly one million hours of SharePoint consulting experience and over 300 SharePoint deployments. By leveraging partners and solutions such as NewsGator, we bring even more value to our customers driving results and the business value they desire."

SharePoint Usability & Social Intranets - Rightpoint delivers highly usable social intranets and collaboration solutions that fuse the art of design with the science of psychology and human factors usability. Rightpoint helps organizations bring a strategic user-centered approach to SharePoint collaboration and social computing projects to maximize adoption and ensure success.

"Partnering with NewsGator enables us to enhance our SharePoint service offerings with what we consider to be the best corporate social networking platform out there. We believe that NewsGator has created the leading edge technology platform that will change the face of corporate enterprise social networking. With the addition of NewsGator's software to our repertoire, we can design extraordinary custom enterprise solutions for our SharePoint clients using this very successful tool."

Customized user experience – For a customized user interface, consider California-based speakTECH specializing in interactive design and technology, including mobile collaboration solutions. speakTECH delivers innovative solutions in the areas of web-based, enterprise wide collaboration and social computing. Through uniting technology, riveting design and interactive experience, speakTECH creates world-class intranets, extranets and communities that not only provide exceptional functionality, but also showcase a company's unique look and feel. Established in 2005, speakTECH has grown to become a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, National Systems Integrator, and has been honored with numerous design awards.

"speakTECH works closely with NewsGator to deliver customized user experiences for SharePoint customers. Enterprises looking to maximize their social computing initiatives need partners that not only know SharePoint but excel in their given area of expertise. NewsGator's Social Sites software combined with speakTECH's implementation skills provides a complete and engaging solution for these companies."

Intranets - Tillakum transforms static intranet environments into vibrant communities: building collaborative environments and coaching through the cultural change required to leverage emerging social tools. The Social Web is changing how people connect with each other -- sharing interest and news, exchanging thoughts and ideas. Tillakum applies the concepts of the Social Web and turns them back inside the enterprise.

"As a social layer for intranets, NewsGator adds an enterprise event store into the SharePoint platform. Extending the store through the NewsGator API lets companies grow their activity stream beyond status, connections and content changes to any system of record in the business. NewsGator lays the foundation for sharing and adding commentary to activities occurring in any system. The activity stream becomes the nerve center of the business."

To find out how you can become involved in the SharePoint social ecosystem please visit: http://www.newsgator.com/partners.aspx.

About NewsGator

NewsGator makes SharePoint social. Our Enterprise 2.0 software suite, Social Sites, boosts any organization's performance with the power of innovation management, collaboration and knowledge-sharing both inside the enterprise and out. Customers achieving results with Social Sites include Accenture, Biogen Idec, CME Federal Credit Union, Deloitte, Fujitsu, Novartis, The United States Air Force and The United States Army. Get social at www.newsgator.com.

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