Tomoye Launches Tomoye Ecco 1.6
New Generation of Communities of Practice Designed to Drive Informal Collaboration and Learning in the Enterprise
Ottawa, ON - January 29, 2007 - Tomoye, the Community of Practice Company™, today announced the launch of Tomoye Ecco 1.6, which introduces a new generation of communities of practice designed to leverage the latest workforce and technology trends including collective intelligence and social computing. Built on 10 years of experience actually designing and implementing communities of practice, Tomoye Ecco 1.6 enables organizations to improve productivity, promote informal learning and drive innovation.
Time and time again, it has been proven that a large group of peers is more effective at solving complex problems than a small group of experts. Tomoye Ecco 1.6 enables organizations to tap into this Collective Intelligence, by harnessing the "Long Tail" of learning and collaboration in the enterprise. The Collective Intelligence features in Tomoye Ecco 1.6 provides organizations with a diversity of perspectives and aggregates the group view of people, knowledge and conversations, all at a low cost cost per transaction.
"Traditional collaboration and training programs in the enterprise are simply missing the opportunity when it comes to scaling peer to peer learning," said Eric Sauve, CEO and Co-Founder, Tomoye Corporation. "Tomoye Ecco 1.6 brings together the best of Web 2.0 technologies with collaboration and learning best practices to build a new generation of communities of practice. This innovative approach changes the rules of informal knowledge transfer and learning to create tangible value on a daily basis for community users and the organization itself."
Tomoye Ecco 1.6 is much more than a portal solution or add-on to an existing system. Built for communities and based on actual community leader and member feedback, Tomoye Ecco 1.6 enables organizations to improve productivity by providing knowledge workers with access to peer knowledge, peer conversations, and the experts they need to help them deal with complex, non-routine situations. Increasingly, learning in the enterprise is happening on an informal basis, and a Tomoye Community of Practice enables organizations to promote informal learning and training on a day-to-day basis while driving innovation.
Tomoye Ecco 1.6 includes the following new features:
- Improved member connections and expert location - Connecting members across boundaries involves making them findable. With Tomoye Ecco 1.6 users can search members by the content and discussions they have added.
- Improved access to peer insight and expertise - What makes a community of practice unique is that peers steward the knowledge and discussions of a community, instead of the institution. Tomoye Ecco 1.6 increases the use of ranking as a way to display content and discussions by what peers find most useful and interesting. Tomoye Ecco's ranking also includes the activity of participants who may only be looking at content and not adding knowledge to the community so that you can start to drive value from these people's participation.
- Compliance with Canadian Government CLF standards - Tomoye Ecco 1.6 will support bilingualism as well as CLF standards for layout and display.
- Multi-language capability with translation support - Reaching across the enterprise and/or extended enterprise can often mean support for individuals in different languages. Tomoye Ecco 1.6 will support French, English and Spanish out of the box, with Portuguese enabled. Other languages may be added on a services basis.
- Improved support for the extended enterprise - Many organizations are starting to blur the boundaries between themselves, their clients and other partners. Being able to welcome these individuals to internal communities can drive further innovation and ensure everyone is on the same page. Tomoye Ecco 1.6 offers new support for external participants so it is easy to welcome these members while having the peace of mind that areas with sensitive or confidential information are kept secure.
- Upgraded member, leader and administrator features - Improved discussion subscriptions, multi-select move and delete of discussions and contributions, simplified security administration and task-based roles, extended system text configuration capability, and import/ export.
Pricing and Availability
Tomoye Ecco 1.6 is available immediately through Tomoye Corporation. Please contact the company for pricing.
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