(DALLAS, TX) June 25, 2012 — Today, Telligent proudly announced it has won the 2012 Microsoft Digital Marketing Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Microsoft’s social software vendor of choice for the Microsoft Digital Marketing Platform, Telligent is the answer for companies that want to add social communities or social networks to their investments in Microsoft. Telligent delivers one of the only standalone full enterprise social platforms. It powers customer-, partner- and employee-facing communities for some of the world’s leading brands. For Microsoft SharePoint customers, Telligent’s Social Suite for SharePoint adds best-in-class social capabilities to their existing Microsoft investments to create engaging and dynamic social user experiences. 

“Telligent is committed to delivering exceptional customer experience and real business value through enterprise social technology. This recognition by Microsoft of our unique combination of social software, education and services for Microsoft customers is a tremendous affirmation.” – Patrick Brandt, CEO, Telligent

Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of nearly 3,000 entrants worldwide. Telligent was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Digital Marketing.

The Digital Marketing Partner of the Year Award recognizes an exceptional partner who has excelled in developing rich Internet solutions that are highly functional, scalable, flexible, and secure through a unified platform for intranet, extranet, and Internet sites. The winner developed innovative solutions that helped create engaging user experiences, cut costs, increased business agility, and delivered familiar authoring tools and processes for customers. Other attributes include solutions that help customers develop a compelling web presence including social marketing, rich media and applications, search, digital marketing integration, and analytics. Submitted using SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2010 and FAST technologies, and highlight their ability to solve a customer’s needs for a fully integrated web presence.

“Telligent has become a market leader through the integration of their social community platform with our best-in-class web content management and search functionality. We are pleased to recognize Telligent’s success by naming them the Microsoft Digital Marketing Partner of the Year.” – Kirk Gregersen, General Manager, Microsoft Office Division

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the past year.

About Telligent

One of the pioneers in enterprise social community and workforce collaboration software, Telligent helps companies worldwide to implement social communities for their employees, customers and partners. Its powerful community development platform allows customers and partners to customize their community experiences and build award-winning applications on top of the platform.

Telligent differentiates itself with an ease of business and a level of confidence to which seasoned and successful organizations are accustomed. With a customer-focused culture, Telligent sets the social enterprise standard for positive business outcomes. With Telligent, thousands of organizations worldwide have created successful communities that drive collaboration, communication, innovation, networking and support, including American Marketing Association, Dell, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Megan Yunker
myunker@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1348

UK       
Elena Savvides      
esavvides@telligent.com
+44 (0) 203 178 3012

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