Tomoye Launches Tomoye Ecco 1.5
June 13, 2006
Tomoye, the Community of Practice Company, today announced the launch of Tomoye Ecco 1.5, the industry's first truly peer-driven community of practice offering. Tomoye Ecco is specifically designed to meet the growing need for true innovation and streamlined decision making among information workers in large enterprise and government organizations. Tomoye Community of Practice solutions enable organizations to quickly and successfully plan and implement a peer-focused community in order to leverage trusted professional relationships and trusted knowledge within the organization.
While most large organizations have deployed collaboration or knowledge management solutions, these systems tend to be highly formalized and are driven by a hierarchal, company-centric approach. Based on years of experience in deploying successful communities of practice - with hundreds of thousands of users currently using Tomoye solutions - Tomoye Ecco takes a peer-driven, horizontal approach which empowers users and facilitates true social networking with the organization. By bridging the gap between formal and informal networks, Tomoye Ecco enables organizations to increase productivity and drive greater innovation, as enterprise-wide knowledge transfer can take place in a matter of days.
"The US Army/West Point Team recently transitioned its PlatoonLeader Community of Practice to Tomoye Ecco 1.5, " said Major Steve Schweitzer, U.S. Army*. "Tomoye Ecco is right on track and is by far the best product I've seen for building Communities of Practice in an enterprise environment. It is clear that Tomoye is dedicated to delivering on the vision and values of Communities of Practice."
Often peers are unable to connect across the enterprise even though they may be doing the exact same job in a different location or business unit. With Tomoye Ecco, organizations have the power to create a collaborative, ongoing peer network that quickly connects and transfers ideas across all organizational and geographic boundaries. As a result, information workers are able to engage in better decision making based on advice from trusted experts and experienced peers as well as documented organizational intelligence.
"Peer networks are critical sources of innovation and best practices within any organization, yet current IT infrastructure fails to address the need for peer-to-peer communication," said Eric Sauve, CEO and Co-Founder, Tomoye Corporation. "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."
Benefits of Tomoye Ecco 1.5
The organizational benefits of Tomoye Ecco include:
- Increased Productivity: With Tomoye Ecco organizations can quickly increase overall productivity by leveraging trusted professional relationships and trusted knowledge.
- Leverage existing technologies and steward corporate knowledge assets for sustainable advantage: Tomoye Ecco is designed to quickly integrate with other portal or collaboration technologies and enable the organization to capture the knowledge gathered by these other systems and steward it across the organization.
- Stronger Organizational Communication: The creation of a sharing environment between trusted peers facilitates stronger organizational communication, as well as increased organizational use of best practices, which significantly contributes to stronger overall excellence and professionalism.
- Agility and Efficiency: By capturing valuable intellectual property of experts within the organization, employees have the information they require to efficiently make critical business decisions and respond quickly to new issues.
- Stability: Communities of practice foster knowledge generation and professional development contributing to stability within the organization.
- Reduced Time to Community: Tomoye Ecco is built based on years of experience and best practices in implementing successful communities of practice, and has been created to ensure even non-technical staff can get the community up and running quickly.
Pricing and Availability
Tomoye Ecco 1.5 is available immediately through Tomoye Corporation. Please contact us for pricing.
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*Views expressed are that of the individual and do not represent any official stance of the US Army or the US DoD