Congratulations to NewsGator customers CA Technologies and Bryan Cave on being named CIO 100 winners!

Last night at the prestigious CIO 100 awards ceremony held at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, NewsGator customers CA Technologies and Bryan Cave were each honored for their innovative E2.0 solutions within their companies. The 23rd annual award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT).

Receiving a CIO 100 award is an impressive feat as hundreds of companies vie for the attention of the CIO 100 judges and ultimately the distinction of being named an innovator by CIO Magazine, one of the trade’s most respected IT publications. The recipients of this year's CIO 100 awards were selected through a three-step process. First, companies filled out an online application form detailing their innovative IT and business initiatives. Next, a team of judges reviewed the applications in depth, looking for unique practices and substantial results. Finally, CIO editors reviewed the judges' recommendations and voted on the final 100.

Below are brief descriptions of each winning project.

• CA built on its Microsoft SharePoint platform to revamp its corporate intranet. The new platform uses a Facebook-style interface to allow employees to construct their own profiles and quickly sort through those of others to find someone with the expertise they need. It also offers wikis, workflow management, and document management and version control, which has changed the way CA employees write and edit documents. CA plans to extend the platform to share information with its customers.
  
• Bryan Cave, a law firm with 1,000 lawyers, developed a global knowledge exchange that uses social media tools to makes it easier to develop, use and re-use attorney's work. Since eCave2 was implemented, more than 90 knowledge communities have sprung up within the workforce, addressing such questions as the intricacies of art law, best practices for corporate finance and model language for legal documents. By making 2,000 success stories more accessible to clients, the system is also partly responsible for more than 10 successful large engagements, the law firm says. At last count, more than 1,600 employees were using the system every day, and more than 600 were contributing content.

A big shout out to our NewsGator teams for helping to make these E2.0 success stories happen and to our customers for leading the charge internally at their respective companies. There are likely many more CIO 100 caliber companies within our customer roster – don’t be shy - drop us a line as we’d love to promote your success story!