Tomoye Customers Win Knowledge Management Awards

April 26, 2006

U.S. Army HQDA G4 and Combined Arms Center Recognized for Leadership and Innovation Using Tomoye Communities of Practice

Ottawa, ON - - Tomoye, the Community of Practice Company (CoP) today announced that two of its customers, the U.S. Army HQDA G4 and the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center won 2006 Knowledge Management (KM) Awards. The awards, presented by the FCW Events team at the annual KM Conference and Exhibition, recognize innovative KM best practices in public sector agencies.

Under the category of Knowledge Management Initiative Delivering High Value to a Broad User Community/Supporting Agency Mission, the U.S. Army HDQA G4's Battle Command Knowledge System (BCKS) LOGNet was recognized for its success in ensuring broad adoption across a large user community. LOGNet is an online Professional Forum, similar to a Community of Practice, where logisticians can share Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), software tools, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), documents, conversations, and experiences, as well as find Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). The forum connects logisticians around the globe, including active and reserve component soldiers that are on a continuous rotation cycle to support Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan. LOGNet has over 12,000 members who amassed over 27,430 knowledge objects in just one year .

The U.S. Army Combined Arms Center's Battle Command Knowledge System (BCKS) received an award for Initiative Successfully Using Innovative Knowledge Management Practices, which is designed to recognize an organization or initiative that promotes the practice of knowledge management and information sharing to the benefit of an organization. BCKS is designed to provide unique collaboration capabilities for knowledge generation, storage and rapid retrieval. BCKS enhances every soldier's ability to collaborate with peers, functional area members, and SMEs using a wide spectrum of professional forums and a focused repository XML query capabilities that supports the full spectrum of U.S. Army operations. U.S. Army Professional Forums currently have over 80,000 members and are growing at a rate of approximately 2,500 per month.

"These two Tomoye customers are clear leaders with the public sector in their innovation in implementing Communities of Practice," said Eric Sauve, CEO and Co-founder, Tomoye. "The successful implementation of CoPs within these two areas of the U.S. Army demonstrates the power of collaboration and knowledge sharing between peers and the true value it creates for organizations."

A Tomoye community of practice enables organizations to leverage the intelligence gathered from collaboration by capturing the critical context around the work and decisions of the project team. This context is then stored in a place where people who trust each other and who are passionate about that practice can steward and build on that knowledge for the long-term benefit of the organization. Thousands of government and enterprise organizations worldwide rely on a community of practice to connect experts and practitioners in order to identify and close gaps in performance, bring groups of people together to develop new ways of solving old problems and retain organizational knowledge. Tomoye communities of practice are used by hundreds of thousands of people in large corporations and government agencies throughout the world.

Corporate Contact:
Eric Sauve
(819) 246-9007
esauve@tomoye.com

Media Contact:
Maggie Patterson
(613) 614-2053
mpatterson@ripnet.com