Connectbeam Expands Atlassian Confluence's Organizational Reach, Establishes Expertise Location
Mountain View, CA (December 4, 2008) -- Connectbeam, Inc. today announces the availability of Spotlight Connect for Confluence. Atlassian Confluence is a leader in enterprise wiki and team collaboration software. Employees use Confluence to create content faster and work better as teams on research, projects and innovations.
Connectbeam leverages Confluence's plug-in framework to automatically pull in valuable employee-generated content. Connectbeam then puts this content in-the-flow of employees' daily work, ensuring that organizations get the maximum value from it. For an example of how this benefits companies, see our blog post Tangible ROI: How Connectbeam Saved $50,000 for a Company.
This integration is one of a series of steps that Connectbeam is undertaking to provide businesses with a centralized repository of employee generated content. Connectbeam maintains the enterprise social graph, and this repository automatically tracks updates to employees' social networks. In addition it seamlessly generates an updated skills database for each worker. Connectbeam aggregates users' contributions in Confluence with employee generated content from other social software applications. This living, automatically-updated "centralized me" becomes the basis for locating colleagues who can answer questions and help with projects.
"Confluence leads the market in enterprise wiki technology, and is a cornerstone for many organizations' social software strategy," said Jay Simons, Vice President of Marketing for Atlassian. "The Connectbeam integration is a valuable complement to Confluence -- mixing content from Confluence with other content and activities, and organizing it all smartly around people and teams for easy discovery."
"As both a customer of and a partner with Atlassian, we understand the value of the Confluence wiki," said Farsheed Tari, Senior Director of Product Management for Connectbeam. "Spotlight Connect for Confluence is an important milestone in our mission to bring the benefits of social software to each and every employee of a company, whatever application they use."
About Connectbeam
Founded in 2006, Connectbeam is the first and leading provider of an integrated set of enterprise social software applications. Connectbeam is the first company to successfully combine the features of social bookmarking, tagging, and social networking to deliver an integrated information access and discovery application. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Connectbeam is privately held and venture backed. For more information visit www.connectbeam.com.
Connectbeam's major awards include:
- “SiliconIndia 100 for 2008“ (SiliconIndia)
- “Trend Setter Product of the Year 2008“ (KMWorld)
- “Trend Setter Product of the Year 2007“ (KMWorld)
- “EContent 100 for 2008“ (EContent)
- “EContent 100 for 2007“ (EContent)
- “Top Five Enterprise 2.0 Companies to Watch in 2007“ (InformationWeek)
- “Rising Star of 2007“ (InfoWorld)
- “Cool Vendor for 2007“ (Gartner)
Contact
Connectbeam, Inc.
605 Ellis Street
Mountain View, CA 94043
Main: (650) 980-5080
http://www.connectbeam.com
