Tomoye Recognized by Gartner as Key Player in Social Software Market

Who's Who in Enterprise Social Software Report Profiles Key Vendors

Ottawa, ON - September 19, 2007 - Tomoye, the Community of Practice Company™ (COP) today announced that it was included in the recent Who's Who in Enteprise Social Software report from leading industry analyst firm Gartner. The report highlights key vendors in this rapidly growing market from across the industry including technologies such as wikis, social tags and expertise location.

Gartner defines enterprise social software as software that encourages, captures, filters and organizes informal user interactions. Awareness of these technologies is growing rapidly with the growing popularity of consumer social networking offerings such as Facebook and MySpace. Tomoye communities of practice provide enterprises with a powerful platform which combines proven community techniques with innovative approaches to learning which promote informal learning and training on a day-to-day basis.

"Consumer social software is really changing the rules for the enterprise as knowledge workers come to expect similar approaches to be used in their day-to-day work," said Eric Sauve, CEO and Co-Founder, Tomoye. "Our platform takes the best elements of consumer social networking and brings them together more than 10 years of experience in Communities of Practice. The end result is an enterprise-ready social software offering which fosters informal learning while increasing productivity, driving innovation and creating a true competitive advantage."

About Tomoye

Tomoye, the Community of Practice Company, has focused exclusively on communities of practice since 1997. This specialization has enabled Tomoye to develop a strong and thorough level of expertise in terms of software design, training and support. Tomoye solutions and services embed the best practices, processes and social architecture unique to communities of practice enabling organizations to reduce the time it takes to build a community, get results and scale to meet the growing demands of the organization. Tomoye community of practice solutions are used by hundreds of thousands of people in large corporations and government agencies throughout the world. Tomoye customers include John Deere, Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of Education, Canadian Heritage 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