TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conference Exhibitors Make Big Announcements With New Products and Services

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference, produced by TechWeb (formerly CMP), today announced a lineup of next generation social networking products that will debut at the event this year. An increase in attendance and expansion of the show floor demonstrate this is the most important event of the year for anyone involved in the transition to Enterprise 2.0. The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is taking place June 9-12, 2008 at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel. Registration is open at http://www.enterprise2conf.com/.

"There is a tremendous amount of innovation in the space," said Steve Wylie, General Manager and Conference Director of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. "We're thrilled with the announcements being made by those at the forefront of the shift to Enterprise 2.0 and are excited about what's to come next week."

The list of exhibitors making announcements or demonstrating their new products for the first time at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference currently includes:

Aventiv is introducing NomaDesk 2.4, a virtual fileserver (SaaS) letting business teams manage, store and exchange documents intuitively, in a secure and professional way. Enhancements for the new version include bullet-proof stability, Outlook contact integration, better access for mobile users, automated software updates, faster performance, improved scalability, and easier installation.

Awareness, Inc., the leader in enterprise social media, will announce a major new release of its platform as well as an important partnership on June 9. Awareness helps companies build and operate branded Web 2.0 communities that allow customers, prospects, employees and partners connect with each other and share content.

Blogtronix is releasing BTX Enterprise, a next-generation secure and robust high performance Social Media platform integrating collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation between business users, customers and partners. BTX Enterprise was built from the ground up and customized with specific components for three key markets -- Financial, Social Enterprise, and Social Publishing.

GroupSwim will announce the availability of two innovative products, GroupSwim Collaboration and GroupSwim Forums. Both products leverage semantic technology to enhance the content users add to the system (emails, discussions, files, wikis) automatically. The result is a well organized, easily searched knowledge pool saving customers 100s to 1,000s of hours.

LiquidPlanner will officially launch its groundbreaking online project management software at Enterprise 2.0. The first solution of its kind to combine probabilistic scheduling and team collaboration in a complete project environment, LiquidPlanner will introduce a slew of new features including scheduling enhancements, email notifications, and other key usability improvements.

NewsGator improves behind-the-firewall social networking in the enterprise with its release of Social Sites 2.0. Improvements to NewsGator Social Sites 2.0 include creating easy, cross-organization collaboration and discussion, improving expertise discovery and internal networking, and energizing portals with relevant, dynamic content, tagging, tag clouds, pop-up profiles and more.

ThoughtFarmer Intranet is a simple, social way for employees to collaborate. At Enterprise 2.0, ThoughtFarmer will announce ThoughtFarmer Intranet 3.0 Multilingual. It includes a localizable interface, easy language switching, and multilingual search. Pages automatically display in your home language, if available, or intelligently fall back on your secondary language preference.

Tomoye will be introducing Tomoye Ecco 2.0 which is designed to provide enterprises with proven technology and process to roll out communities, social networking and collaboration functionality. Tomoye Ecco is SharePoint ready, and offers the fastest way for workers to get answers, network and collaborate.

Traction Software announces TeamPage 4.0 -- adding innovative moderation, page name management, and social networking to Traction's award- winning product. Rated Best Enterprise Wiki by InfoWorld, TeamPage delivers blog, wiki, social tagging, threaded discussion, moderation, document management, context based search and more capabilities using its secure, simple, scalable hypertext platform.

Veodia, an agile video platform-as-a-service that enhances daily work communications, will announce a partnership with a leading enterprise collaboration software company. Veodia will bring its high-quality, streaming video capabilities into the company's flagship product, allowing its users to interact more effectively with video-enriched collaborations.

Bringing together the world of consumer tools and Sharepoint for the first time, "WorkLight for Sharepoint" delivers secure access to Sharepoint through consumer-like web-based gadgets. Employees can now perform daily business tasks like approve purchases using gadgets. Furthermore, enterprise- grade collaboration combining Facebook and Sharepoint is now possible through WorkLight.

About Enterprise 2.0 Conference

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference explores the integration of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise, from both strategic and tactical perspectives. This annual conference and demo pavilion focuses on the tools and techniques that best leverage the technical, productive and social aspects of IT and workgroup environments to build a cohesive collaboration strategy and empower a connected workforce. For more information visit: http://www.enterprise2conf.com/.

About TechWeb (formerly CMP)

TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on # of monthly connections

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