Why NewsGator
Microsoft 2011 US Partner of Year
“We are pleased to recognize NewsGator of the United States as Microsoft’s Country Partner of the Year for 2011. NewsGator demonstrates a commitment to serving its customers, and our strong partnership is core to us winning together.”
- Jon Roskill, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp.
After Evaluating the Competition, NewsGator Always Rose to the Top
"We evaluated some other social networking tools like Jive. We played around with Yammer, as I mentioned. We tried Ning and Chatter as well. But NewsGator just kept rising up to the top of our scoring. So we decided the social networking tool for eBay was going to be NewsGator built on SharePoint.” Read the full article >>
- Ramin Mobasseri, Enterprise Portal Solutions Manager, eBay
Increased SharePoint Usage and Adoption
"We implemented NewsGator and immediately saw a 3X increase in our SharePoint usage and user adoption. NewsGator quickly became THE collaboration platform for our entire organization. Similarly, at some of our clients, we have seen SharePoint deployments become practically viral because of NewsGator. One customer even added over 10,000 active users in less than two months!"
- Brandon Ebken, Chief Technology Officer, Cardinal Solutions
USAID's Capitalizing Knowledge Connecting Communities (CK2C) Initiative
"In conjunction with NewsGator Tomoye, FRAMEweb.org has successfully contributed to a dramatic shift in the paradigm of natural resource management that would have never been achieved with traditional development channels such as reports and face-to-face meetings."
- Sarah Schmidt, DAI, Participation and Outreach Manager
Talent Innovation at Deloitte
“In 18 months, D Street [powered by Social Sites] has become a very popular application at Deloitte. An average of 2,300 of the 26,000 active profiles are viewed by over 850 visitors per day. D Street now hosts 3,000 blogs, 60,000 photos and 11,000 resumes and is the place to connect at Deloitte.“
- Patricia Romeo, VP
Defense Acquisition University
“The NewsGator Tomoye-powered Acquisition Community Connection (ACC) provides broad access to resources and knowledge sharing and supports the real-time needs of our acquisition workforce. The systems’ advanced security and content editing features make it easy for my team to maintain and support ACC. And its user friendly interfaces allow acquisition professionals to quickly find the resources and experts they need to more effectively do their jobs. In addition, NewsGator provides top-notch support and incorporates our feedback and feature requests into their product roadmap.”
- Jill Garcia, ACC Program Manager
Denver Art Museum
“While out of the box, SharePoint is pretty good, NewsGator Social Sites just makes it awesome. We're finding that Social Sites is the critical glue in making it easy for our users to find information, share ideas, and collaborate with their peers. At the end of the day, Social Sites is wildly improving the ways we communicate across all parts of the organization.”
- Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology
Fleishman-Hillard
“With the combination of SharePoint Server 2010 and Social Sites 2010, we can more effectively apply the power of social computing to our most important business objective –delivering great results for our clients. This technology will make it much easier for our global team to access the very best of our firm’s experience and expertise and transform those assets into winning solutions for our clients.”
- Jonella Donius, CIO
Defense Acquisition University
“NewsGator Tomoye, from my experience, clearly understands communities of practice (CoPs) first, and builds the application second. Each version continues to evolve to support the needs of CoPs first and foremost.”
- LTC (Retired) Mike Dorohovich, Chief Editor, Acquisition Community Connection
Accenture
“[Using Social Sites] increased awareness as people were able to join communities and interact. We’ve received explicit feedback from our users like:
I didn’t even realize there was a community of practitioners in that particular area.”
- Kevin Dana, Director of Social Computing & Collaboration
Bersin and Associates
"Tomoye knows how to guide companies in cultivating new communities."
PepsiCo
“Newsgator has added cohesiveness to the community by incorporating another level of communication to bind us all together. The discussion forums are very helpful in that you do not need to know specifically who to pinpoint when posting a question or idea. Having an established community of experts exposed at the first point of contact limits the forwarding of emails and keeps the communication flowing.”
- Participant in a NewsGator Social Sites Pilot
The U.S. Army - U.S. Government Procurement
“Now logisticians have access to advanced knowledge, the price of which we just can't quantify. Before LoGNet,the reality is that knowledge transfer was taking years. Now, valuable first-hand experience and information is transferred in a matter of days. Any given member has a network of thousands of mentors, which gives them the experience they need and helps us to drive innovation within the logistics profession in the U.S. Army.”
- Bob Dalton, LOGNET Facilitator
Microsoft Corporation
"Tomoye’s communities of practice is a strong compliment to SharePoint, creating a seamless platform where knowledge workers can create true business value."
- Deb Bannon, Sr. Product Manager for Microsoft’s SharePoint Server Partner Group