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NewsGator Sees Continued RSS and Enterprise 2.0 Adoption From Businesses
More Than 100 Companies Have Embraced NewsGator's Social Media Platform, Including Leading Brands Such as Biogen Idec, Willis Re and Woman's Day
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DENVER, CO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- May 1, 2007 -- NewsGator Technologies, Inc., the leading RSS
company, continues to see wide adoption by some the world's largest and
most prominent businesses for its enterprise and online publisher
solutions. More than 100 enterprises, media companies and leading brands
are now using NewsGator
Enterprise Server and NewsGator
Private Label Platform to improve the way their employees, customers
and site visitors find, share and interact with relevant information.
"Businesses are rapidly adopting NewsGator's RSS technology to improve
information delivery and increase engagement with their audiences, both
internally and externally," said J.B. Holston, president and CEO of
NewsGator. "As the world of information and entertainment continues to
evolve toward personalization, immediacy and interactivity, NewsGator is
defining this revolution, and our growing and diverse list of customers
clearly demonstrates our leadership in helping global enterprises and
brands take advantage of emerging Web 2.0 technologies."
Enterprise Solutions
Fortune 1000 companies and leading small- and medium-sized businesses alike
are adopting the
award-winning NewsGator Enterprise Server (NGES) to improve the
effectiveness of internal communications, increase knowledge worker
productivity and drive greater adoption of Enterprise 2.0 technologies. In
the last three months, NewsGator's enterprise customer list has grown to
more than 70 companies, and licensed users have grown more than 50 percent
and now exceed 400,000. Recent NGES deployments and wins include Fortune
1000 companies such as, Procter & Gamble, Rohm and Haas, Willis Re and
Biogen Idec, as well as some of the largest commercial banks, aerospace and
defense contractors, semiconductor manufacturers and media and
entertainment conglomerates. Other new and repeat customers include NHS
Orkney, Patterson Belknap Webb and Tyler LLP, Silverpop, and the Rendon
Group.
Willis Re, one of the world's premier reinsurance brokers, and a unit of
Willis Groups Holdings, knows the importance of disseminating
up-to-the-minute company and competitive information to its associates.
"NewsGator Enterprise Server has helped us achieve this goal," said Elaine
Lee, Business Analyst for Willis Re. "It has also improved the speed and
effectiveness of our internal communications efforts."
NewsGator introduced NewsGator Enterprise Server 2.0 today (see
NewsGator Unveils New Platform for Managing and Delivering Enterprise 2.0
Information for more details) and in recent months, NewsGator has also
demonstrated significant traction in the enterprise market through
additional product releases and strategic partnerships. The company
announced
NewsGator Enterprise On-Demand, extending the value of NewsGator
Enterprise Server to small- and mid-sized companies and departments without
ready access to IT resources, as well as
NewsGator Plug-In for Lotus Notes, an RSS reader for IBM's Lotus messaging
and collaboration environments. The company also has a number of
partnerships that are advancing the use of RSS with major business
applications, including deals with /n
software, makers of RSSBus, to enable enterprises to access content
from databases, business applications, spreadsheets and directories, and
Spanning Partners, to enable enterprises to deliver updates from
Salesforce.com via NewsGator Enterprise solutions.
Private Label Platform
NewsGator Private Label Platform, which powers solutions at USA Today,
Newsweek and the Denver Post, has seen the number of deployments double
over the last six months and is in use at more than 35 organizations across
more than 100 Web properties to drive audience engagement and site traffic.
NewsGator's branded RSS
readers which provide full or in-page content from the publisher and
third-parties, and the recently announced
NewsGator Widgets, which present topical, relevant information both on-site
and off-site, are being used by some of the world's largest media
companies, including USA Today, Newsweek, the Denver Post, New York Times
Regional Media Group (The Ledger and Spartanburg
Herald-Journal/GoUpstate.com) and Woman's Day. Other recent NewsGator
Private Label wins and deployments include AziaCity.com, EarthKnowledge,
East Valley & Scottsdale Tribune, Grocery Game, InTouch Business Inc.,
LexBlog, Suddenlink, SunHerald.com and YP.com.
About NewsGator Technologies, Inc.
NewsGator Technologies is the world's leading RSS company. Headquartered in
Denver, CO, NewsGator develops and markets RSS aggregation solutions for
individual end users, enterprises and online content providers. Using
NewsGator products and solutions, businesses and consumers can subscribe to
news, information, podcasts and other relevant content more efficiently and
effectively than with traditional channels. With NewsGator, users have
access to RSS information via the Web, Microsoft Outlook, mobile devices
and both Windows- and Mac-based desktop clients. All NewsGator products
synchronize seamlessly, enabling users to read their RSS feeds anywhere,
anytime, with any device. For more information, visit www.newsgator.com.