Introducing Tomoye Ecco 2.0
Sharepoint Ready Communities of Practice Deliver Proven Process and Technology for Collaboration and Social Networking
Boston (Enterprise 2.0 Conference Booth #404) - Tomoye today announced the launch of 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 the fastest way for workers to get answers, network and collaborate both inside and outside of the enterprise. This new offering is SharePoint ready, enabling organizations to build on existing investments and fully integrate the system with widely used document management and collaboration tools.
According to leading industry analysts, the enterprise social software market is expected to hit $707.7 million by 2011. While this market is growing rapidly, enterprises are looking for ways to practically incorporate new technologies into their organizations, with a focus on security and ensuring the success of these initiatives. Tomoye technology is deployed worldwide, enabling enterprises to deliver workers with advanced communities for collaboration and social networking using a proven process and technology.
Product Features
Tomoye Ecco 2.0 includes the following features:
- Powerful questions and answers: Email participation, ask anywhere, best answers (quality), recognition, thematic based with multiple level drill down, top ranked, smart notifications.
- Find experts and network: Personal profiles, people search, most helpful people, most relevant people, peer networking, internal and external participants.
- Sharepoint ready: Tight integration with SharePoint using .NET and using Windows authentication users can go back and forth seamlessly between the two products.
- Share and collaborate around community content: Videos, documents, SharePoint documents, social tags, personal file sharing, social bookmarking, simple wikis, blogs, social search.
- Leader and technical administration: Deep metrics, community content management, simple security, multilingual, customizable, open API, scalable.
"Communities of practice offer enterprises a powerful way to leverage the power of new technologies, including social networking, using a framework that works," said Eric Sauve, CEO and Co-Founder, Tomoye Corporation. "The latest generation of Web-based technology offers an incredible opportunity, but only if organizations can ensure it is productive and generating real value. Tomoye communities of practice drive innovation and deliver tangible" results
Tomoye Communities of Practice break down the bottleneck between applications and information by directly connecting peers that produce information with those that use it. Time and time again, we've seen that peer connections formed in communities become more valued than any other information source in the organization, leading to tremendous innovation and tangible results that contribute to the bottom line of the organization."
Tomoye Community Growth Model
Tomoye has developed a framework to help implementers move from ideas to implementation - It is based on nearly a decade of experience working directly with communities of practice in the world's leading organizations.
Pricing and Availability
Tomoye Ecco 2.0 is available immediately through Tomoye Corporation and its reseller partners.
The company offers a number of pricing options, with seats starting at $35. Currently, the company is offering 50 seats for free for organizations who want to get communities up and running today. Tomoye also offers a Get Started Community Package for rapid deployment which includes a complete package of software and services delivered using an On-Demand model. More information on pricing and deployment options is available at here.
Entreprise 2.0 Conference
Tomoye is exhibiting in booth 404 at this year's show which takes place June 9th to 11th in Boston. The company also announced further details on its SharePoint integration, more details available here.
About Tomoye
Tomoye, the Community of Practice Company, has focused exclusively on communities of practice since 1997. Tomoye communities are the engine for informal learning in the enterprise, bringing together proven techniques with innovative approaches to leveraging the insight of learners to help each other. Fostering informal learning through Tomoye communities delivers real business value — it increases productivity, creates competitive advantage and drives innovation. The community driven approach to informal learning is currently being used in leading organizations around the world including the Army, John Deere, Network Appliance, Jacobs Engineering, Bose, Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Education, Canada School of the Public Service and UNESCO. . Tomoye is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information please visit: www.tomoye.com
Corporate Contact:
Eric Sauve
(819) 246-9007
esauve@tomoye.com
Media Contact:
Maggie Patterson
(613) 989-1866
mpatterson@ripnet.com