Tomoye Announces New Community and Social Networking Platform for SharePoint

Tomoye announced a new community and social networking platform for Microsoft SharePoint. The platform combines capabilities to fuel communities and social networking combined with an open source approach intended to deliver customers and partners with flexibility and extendibility. The product is available for both Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) enabling organizations to leverage their SharePoint infrastructure and data. This platform is installed as a SharePoint _layout application, deployed via SharePoint central administration, and utilizes SharePoint search and authentication provider. This means no additional costs to organizations as is deployed on existing SharePoint servers. Integrated search and authentication gives unprecedented access to security trimmed SharePoint data. As users explore and mark-up content, the software tracks implicit behaviour and aggregates explicit user actions to present data to community members by what their peers are using and liking. Delivering a dynamic roster of expertise in the organization's communities and across the enterprise, Tomoye tracks and reveals experts by their online activities and by the votes of others. Changing on a daily basis, expertise rosters becomes real-time. Tomoye aggregates content across communities and SharePoint data so users can now identify the best information assets from across the enterprise, in a single place. This is done by tracking user behaviour and explicit user endorsements. Along with open source licensing, Tomoye is offering partners a series of incentives including free deployments of 50 seats or less. Tomoye Community Software v 3.0 is available immediately through the company and its partners. Pricing starts at $35 per seat, with discounts for volume and externally facing deployments. http://www.tomoye.com