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Tillakum

“As a social layer for intranets, NewsGator adds an enterprise event store into the SharePoint platform. Extending the store through the NewsGator API lets companies grow their activity stream beyond status, connections and content changes to any system of record in the business. NewsGator lays the foundation for sharing and adding commentary to activities occurring in any system. The activity stream becomes the nerve center of the business.”

Dan Larkin
Founder & CEO
Tillakum

“Since the launch of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 earlier this year, we have seen strong demand, particularly from clients wishing to take advantage of SharePoint’s impressive new set of collaboration and content management capabilities. Our extensive expertise with SharePoint, combined with the capabilities of Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners such as NewsGator, help us meet these customer needs quickly and efficiently. NewsGator provides the additional proficiency required to rapidly deploy social computing experiences on SharePoint within an enterprise.”

Ted Perrotte

National Practice Manager, SharePoint Solutions
Aspect

 

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“More and more organizations are looking at SharePoint to create enterprise wide social networks. In our experience NewsGator provides SharePoint the agility to realize these experiences in a better, faster and more efficient way.”

Shantanu Baruah
Enterprise Content Management, Portal, and Search (ECMP)
HCL America Inc.

PointBridge

“Our partnership with NewsGator has been a critical part of our social strategy at PointBridge. Social Sites’ ability to deliver a consumer-grade social experience on SharePoint has resulted in important wins for the Microsoft platform at some of our clients, and has helped to drive end-user adoption and organizational excitement. One of our primary goals as a SharePoint practice is to take the spotlight off of technology and aim it squarely on the needs of the user; NewsGator is a solution that helps us to accomplish just that.”

Matt Morse,
Practice Manager, SharePoint Solutions
PointBridge

Slalom Consulting

"Slalom believes that unlocking the social dimension of information management and collaboration is critical to the next iteration of enterprise software platforms. NewsGator and Slalom work together to implement enterprise-wide deployment programs and create compelling user experiences that enable our customers to deploy next generation collaboration, ideation, and knowledge management solutions using SharePoint. Our clients win by combining Slalom’s technical expertise and change management leadership with NewsGator’s Social Sites for SharePoint 2010."

Robert Toro
Director, Chicago SharePoint Practice
Slalom Consulting

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“speakTECH works closely with NewsGator to deliver customized user experiences for SharePoint customers. Enterprises looking to maximize their social computing initiatives need partners that not only know SharePoint but excel in their given area of expertise. NewsGator’s Social Sites software combined with speakTECH’s implementation skills provides a complete and engaging solution for these companies.”

Aaron Sloman
President and Chief Executive Officer
speakTECH

“NewsGator transforms how SharePoint can be used, greatly enhancing successful user adoption and allowing our customers to truly reap the benefits that enterprise social networking can deliver.  In our own organisation, NewsGator Social Sites has helped connect our distributed workforce, break down organisational hierarchy, and ensure information is captured, shared, and discoverable (on a personal note I have experienced a 40%+ drop in email!). NewsGator has proven to be agile, flexible, and professional and is now one of our most important strategic partnerships.”
 
Simon Tyrrell
Consulting Manager
nSynergy

Technical Certification Training Program for Partners

NewsGator offers a breadth of training options for partners to build their skills and ensure you have what it takes to make a Social Sites implementation a success. Each of the sessions below is geared to be highly interactive so that you can get your questions answered on the spot (when possible). They run from 1-3 hours in duration.

To sign up for an upcoming training class, please visit the Partner Training Program Registration Page. If you have any questions about the training program, please email partners@newsgator.com.

Training Session Overviews

  • API training – 1.5 hours
    If you are interested in developing on top of Social Sites or extending it to reach into 3rd party solutions, this is the session for you. It will include an overview of the Social Sites API, a discussion around type of new capabilities which can be developed as well as several lab practice exercises which can be done afterwards.
     
  • Application training – 3 hours
    This session is an in-depth walk through the latest version of the core Social Sites solution and focuses on the features and how they work. This session does not include the add-on modules.
     
  • E2.0 use case and adoption training – 1.5 hours
    This session covers the basic problems E2.0 solves in your customers’ companies and exactly how companies are using NewsGator to solve those problems. In addition we will discuss adoption best practices to help make your customers successful with social business.
     
  • Installation and configuration training – 1.5 hours
    This session will walk you through our install documentation, a basic install as well as a walk-through of our architecture.
     
  • Module Training – 2 hours
    Learn the ins and outs of NewsGator add-on module options: Spotlight, IdeaStream, NewsStream, and VideoStream

To see the training schedule and register for an upcoming class, please click the link below: