Tomoye™ Becomes Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
Community of Practice solutions receives ISV/Software Competency
Ottawa, ON - February 13, 2007 - Tomoye, the Community of Practice Company™, today announced that it has achieved Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status with an ISV/Software Solutions competency, which certifies Tomoye Ecco™ to run on Microsoft-based infrastructure. Tomoye's community of practice solutions enable organizations to extend existing investments in Microsoft-based productivity and collaboration tools including the Microsoft® Office System and Windows® SharePoint® Portal Server.
Tomoye Ecco delivers enterprises with a powerful community of practice offering to improve productivity, promote informal learning and drive innovation. The latest version of Tomoye Ecco introduces a new generation of communities of practice designed to leverage the latest workforce and technology trends including the increased need for informal training, collective intelligence strategies and social computing. Built on the .NET-based platform, Tomoye Ecco can be rapidly integrated with existing Microsoft-based solutions to extend the value of existing collaboration and productivity tools.
The Microsoft ISV/Software Solutions Competency recognizes the skill and focus partners bring to a particular solution set. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners that have obtained this competency have a successful record of developing and marketing packed software based on Microsoft-based technologies.
"Microsoft's Gold Certified Partners demonstrate a high degree of skill in working with Microsoft-based technologies. This achievement further demonstrates Tomoye's commitment to delivering high quality, fully integrated software solutions for the collaboration, training and development market," said Lora Gernon, Director of Partner Group, Microsoft Canada Co. "Today, Microsoft is pleased to recognize Tomoye as a Gold Certified Partner."
Tomoye's Unique Approach to Communities of Practice
Built for communities and based on actual community leader and member feedback, Tomoye Ecco 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.
The latest version of Tomoye Ecco provides enterprises with the power to take advantage of proven consumer social computing technologies to tap into the collective intelligence of community participants as a group. At a low cost per transaction, Tomoye Ecco aggregates the group view of people, knowledge and conversations to create ongoing value for the enterprise.
"As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner we are able to ensure that our community of practice offering is tightly integrated with Microsoft-based productivity and collaboration tools which the majority of our customers already rely on," said Eric Sauve, Co-Founder and CEO, Tomoye. "With a Tomoye community of practice, enterprises are able to take collaboration to the next level by changing the rules of informal knowledge transfer and learning. The end result is greater productivity and innovation both of which are critical in a highly competitive global marketplace."
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