Strong Exhibitor and Attendance Numbers Predict Largest Gathering of Those at the Forefront of Enterprise 2.0 SAN FRANCISCO, June 2
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Enterprise 2.0 Conference,
produced by TechWeb (formerly CMP), today announced a lineup of next
generation social networking products that will debut at the event this year.
An increase in attendance and expansion of the show floor demonstrate this is
the most important event of the year for anyone involved in the transition to
Enterprise 2.0. The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is taking place June 9-12, 2008
at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel. Registration is open at
http://www.enterprise2conf.com.
"There is a tremendous amount of innovation in the space," said Steve
Wylie, General Manager and Conference Director of the Enterprise 2.0
Conference. "We're thrilled with the announcements being made by those at the
forefront of the shift to Enterprise 2.0 and are excited about what's to come
next week."
The list of exhibitors making announcements or demonstrating their new
products for the first time at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference currently
includes:
Aventiv is introducing NomaDesk 2.4, a virtual fileserver (SaaS) letting
business teams manage, store and exchange documents intuitively, in a secure
and professional way. Enhancements for the new version include bullet-proof
stability, Outlook contact integration, better access for mobile users,
automated software updates, faster performance, improved scalability, and
easier installation.
Awareness, Inc., the leader in enterprise social media, will announce a
major new release of its platform as well as an important partnership on June
9. Awareness helps companies build and operate branded Web 2.0 communities
that allow customers, prospects, employees and partners connect with each
other and share content.
Blogtronix is releasing BTX Enterprise, a next-generation secure and
robust high performance Social Media platform integrating collaboration,
knowledge sharing and innovation between business users, customers and
partners. BTX Enterprise was built from the ground up and customized with
specific components for three key markets -- Financial, Social Enterprise, and
Social Publishing.
GroupSwim will announce the availability of two innovative products,
GroupSwim Collaboration and GroupSwim Forums. Both products leverage semantic
technology to enhance the content users add to the system (emails,
discussions, files, wikis) automatically. The result is a well organized,
easily searched knowledge pool saving customers 100s to 1,000s of hours.
LiquidPlanner will officially launch its groundbreaking online project
management software at Enterprise 2.0. The first solution of its kind to
combine probabilistic scheduling and team collaboration in a complete project
environment, LiquidPlanner will introduce a slew of new features including
scheduling enhancements, email notifications, and other key usability
improvements.
NewsGator improves behind-the-firewall social networking in the enterprise
with its release of Social Sites 2.0. Improvements to NewsGator Social Sites
2.0 include creating easy, cross-organization collaboration and discussion,
improving expertise discovery and internal networking, and energizing portals
with relevant, dynamic content, tagging, tag clouds, pop-up profiles and more.
ThoughtFarmer Intranet is a simple, social way for employees to
collaborate. At Enterprise 2.0, ThoughtFarmer will announce ThoughtFarmer
Intranet 3.0 Multilingual. It includes a localizable interface, easy language
switching, and multilingual search. Pages automatically display in your home
language, if available, or intelligently fall back on your secondary language
preference.
Tomoye will be introducing Tomoye Ecco 2.0 which is designed to provide
enterprises with proven technology and process to roll out communities, social
networking and collaboration functionality. Tomoye Ecco is SharePoint ready,
and offers the fastest way for workers to get answers, network and
collaborate.
Traction Software announces TeamPage 4.0 -- adding innovative moderation,
page name management, and social networking to Traction's award- winning
product. Rated Best Enterprise Wiki by InfoWorld, TeamPage delivers blog,
wiki, social tagging, threaded discussion, moderation, document management,
context based search and more capabilities using its secure, simple, scalable
hypertext platform.
Veodia, an agile video platform-as-a-service that enhances daily work
communications, will announce a partnership with a leading enterprise
collaboration software company. Veodia will bring its high-quality, streaming
video capabilities into the company's flagship product, allowing its users to
interact more effectively with video-enriched collaborations.
Bringing together the world of consumer tools and Sharepoint for the first
time, "WorkLight for Sharepoint" delivers secure access to Sharepoint through
consumer-like web-based gadgets. Employees can now perform daily business
tasks like approve purchases using gadgets. Furthermore, enterprise- grade
collaboration combining Facebook and Sharepoint is now possible through
WorkLight.
About Enterprise 2.0 Conference
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference explores the integration of Web 2.0
technologies in the enterprise, from both strategic and tactical perspectives.
This annual conference and demo pavilion focuses on the tools and techniques
that best leverage the technical, productive and social aspects of IT and
workgroup environments to build a cohesive collaboration strategy and empower
a connected workforce. For more information visit:
http://www.enterprise2conf.com.
About TechWeb (formerly CMP)
TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative
business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and
marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media
brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3 million*
business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created
around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and
VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading,
Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial
Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek,
TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb
also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance
marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a
division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and
specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5
billion.
*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on # of monthly connections
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