HiveLive Named a "Cool Vendor" for Collaboration and Social Software
Vendors selected for the "Cool Vendor report" are innovative, impactful and intriguing
Boulder, Colorado, May 7, 2008 - HiveLive™, Inc., a leading enterprise social software platform provider, today announced it has been included in Gartner's "Cool Vendors in Collaboration and Social Software" report for 2008.1
"We're pleased to have our customer community platform selected for inclusion in a Cool Vendor report," said John Kembel, CEO of HiveLive. "Communities are rapidly becoming a vital part of the marketing mix, connecting customers directly to each other and to the company sponsoring the community. Our LiveConnect Platform is powerful, flexible, and intuitive, allowing businesses to custom-fit a community to their unique social thumbprint in days rather than months."
The fundamental advantage of the HiveLive LiveConnect Community Platform lies in its flexible "building block" approach to community design. The LiveConnect platform building blocks, or Hives™, support familiar community activities such as discussing, blogging, and collaborating. In addition, communities can be tailored to allow members to innovate and iterate in custom social media applications, supporting activities such as sharing images, brainstorming ideas, polling users, tallying votes, submitting questions, or building consensus. Hives are built by menu-driven clicking instead of coding, so community customization is quick and efficient. LiveConnect also provides fine-grained permissions that give administrators unprecedented control.
About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
The report is available to Gartner clients at www.Gartner.com.
About HiveLive
HiveLive, Inc. is the first company to deliver an enterprise social software platform that integrates social networks with information networks for business-focused communities. The company's on-demand, web-based platform is powered by a new Web 2.0 building block called a "Hive," which can be configured to support a nearly infinite range of community activities such as concept brainstorms, product feedback, design reviews, voting centers, and more. The patent-pending technology uniquely enables companies to build communities of depth, and forge tighter bonds with their customers, partners, and employees to foster innovation, creativity, loyalty, and trust. HiveLive is privately held with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, visit www.hivelive.com.
1) Gartner, Inc. "Cool Vendors in Collaboration and Social Software, 2008" by Nikos Drakos, Carol Rozwell, David Mario Smith, April 4, 2008
