Connectbeam News
Honeywell chooses Connectbeam for Social Bookmarking and Social Networking
New social software allows enterprise users to connect and collaborate on demand
Redwood City, CA - March 30, 2007 - Connectbeam, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise social software, announced today that it has been chosen by global technology company Honeywell (HON) to provide social bookmarking and tagging, expertise location, and enterprise social networking capabilities to Honeywell employees. Using Connectbeam software, Honeywell knowledge workers will be able to locate and manage information together while easily networking with each other's knowledge, interests and skills in a secure, behind the firewall implementation.
Honeywell's implementation is based on Connectbeam's Social Bookmarking & Networking Appliance, a pre-configured appliance server deployed behind the enterprise firewall, and Connectbeam's Application Connector for Google Enterprise Search.
Honeywell's Rich Hoeg has posted about the Connectbeam implementation at http://econtent.typepad.com/econtent/2007/03/tagging_inside_.html.
Puneet Gupta, Connectbeam's CEO, commented, "Connectbeam solves two key problems facing every enterprise worker: how to find information that they can be certain is current, accurate and significant, and how to locate and connect with knowledgeable colleagues."
"Connectbeam's integration with Google (GOOG) Enterprise Search was important to Honeywell," added Connectbeam Vice President of Sales, Charles Pendell. "By making Google search results more useful, Connectbeam helps Honeywell employees do better, more efficient work, while improving the company's ROI on its Google search investment."
Integration with enterprise search, from Google and a number of other vendors, allows Connectbeam to provide social search. Search results now highlight information from your colleagues' searches, especially the information that they have found most useful. Connectbeam also points the user to related searches that can extend knowledge. Most important, Connectbeam social search instantly and effortlessly identifies and connects enterprise workers with colleagues whose interests and knowledge enhances theirs. Connectbeam integration means that every enterprise search increases collective intelligence and makes it easily available to enterprise workers.
About Connectbeam: Connectbeam is a leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 social software, bringing Web 2.0 information-sharing and ease of use to the enterprise, so that organizations and their employees can connect and collaborate on demand. Privately held, Connectbeam is located in California's Silicon Valley. More information about Connectbeam and its offerings can be found at http://www.connectbeam.com.
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