Press Releases

Telligent Introduces New Guide for Bringing Social Media into Business

Tiffany Henry — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:00:00 GMT

eBook kickstarts the education of social media & online communities and how they fit together

(DALLAS, TX) May 3, 2012 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced the release of its newest eBook, “Social 101: Your Guide to Social Media & Online Communities for Business.”

Social has become the new normal, but the incredible array of options available can be overwhelming. That is why Telligent created this eBook as a resource to help demystify the social jargon and shed light on how organizations use the combination of social networks, applications and communities together in order to accomplish real business objectives.

The new Social 101 eBook is packed with advice, research and statistics from leading industry analysts and social media experts. The eBook also includes key insights from Telligent’s customers who have solved various business problems through the implementation of social communities. Essentially, this eBook is a primer for newbies to social business that encompasses everything from the basics of what social media is to advice on how to create a social business strategy that aligns with the goals of your organization.

“We want to take the fear factor out of social media for newcomers and help businesses understand that there is enormous potential to deliver value to your organization through social media and online communities,” said Wendy Gibson, Telligent Chief Marketing Officer. “No matter what industry your organization falls into, this new Social 101 eBook is a must read for anyone wanting to learn how social networks and communities can be used to create or accelerate their social strategy.”

The first section of the publication is open online at http://telligent.com/resources/p/social-101-ebook.aspx. For more information about Telligent visit www.Telligent.com.

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
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Telligent Delivers a Full Social Community Experience Inside Sitecore

Tiffany Henry — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Telligent Connect for Sitecore easily integrates Telligent Community inside Sitecore and allows users to view and engage in social and community content directly within a Sitecore-powered site

(DALLAS, TX) April 24, 2012 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced Telligent Connect for Sitecore v2.5. Telligent Connect for Sitecore easily integrates Telligent Community and Sitecore by providing a full social community experience within a Sitecore-powered website.

Telligent Connect for Sitecore provides companies with the tools needed to quickly integrate two leading applications – Web Content Management (WCM) and social community platform. Using the Sitecore components, site visitors may view and engage in social and community content directly from Sitecore pages. Satisfying both the needs of marketers as well as the IT department, this allows companies to socialize their brand and web experience while removing infrastructure barriers.

Telligent Connect for Sitecore provides best-of-breed technologies for delivering both WCM and Social including:

Faster integration and decreased implementation time resulting in higher cost savings
Easier maintenance and peace-of-mind around keeping products synchronized for future upgrades through deep integration between Sitecore and Telligent
Rich social capabilities and comprehensive integration points including 25+ Sitecore components that have been created from Telligent’s social functionality
Ability for business users to quickly add new social functionality to enhance their web experience

Rob Howard, founder and CTO of Telligent explains, “Since 2008, Telligent and Sitecore have been working together to help our joint customers provide award-winning web and social experiences. Based on customer feedback, Telligent Connect for Sitecore offers complete product synchronization and smooth integration resulting in a best-of-breed solution that our customers can depend on to create a comprehensive social community experience."

Foundation 648 is a Telligent partner that has built its business on providing web solutions for companies that use the web to reach customers. “Telligent Connect for Sitecore helps our customers enhance their websites, simplifies future upgrades and increases the overall value we deliver to the business,” said Patrick Poer, founder and president, Foundation648.

“Telligent Connect for Sitecore was driven by marketing and IT’s need to blend social community capabilities with existing web experience. As social media continues to permeate all aspects of business communication, companies need this type of solution to bring together their existing best-in-class web content management system with an advanced social community platform like Telligent,” says Darren Guarnaccia, senior vice president of product marketing, Sitecore.

For more information about Telligent Connect for Sitecore v2.5 visit http://telligent.com/solutions/p/sitecore.aspx.

# # #

About Telligent

Learn more about Telligent by visiting telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Guidance Software Selects Telligent Social Support for Microsoft SharePoint Package

Tiffany Henry — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Dallas, Texas — April 11, 2012 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced that Guidance Software, a world leader in digital forensics, cyber security and e-discovery solutions, has chosen the Telligent Social Support for Microsoft SharePoint package to support customer engagement.

The new joint offering from Microsoft and Telligent integrates best-in-class web content management from Microsoft SharePoint for Internet Sites 2010 and FAST Search for SharePoint with Telligent’s leading social community platform.

“At Guidance Software, when it came to customer driven support, we were looking for a standard platform for all of our web properties that also integrated the community experience,” said Robert Johnson, Guidance Software Senior Web Systems Architect. “What drew us to select the Telligent Social Support for Microsoft SharePoint package was its unique pre-integrated solution that contained all the essential components that we were looking for to enable us to accomplish our business objectives.”

“We are thrilled to have Guidance Software as a customer,” said Steve Poncini, Telligent SVP of Sales. “We look forward to helping Guidance Software deliver enhanced customer driven support through a seamless social and collaborative experience.”

# # #

About Guidance Software

Guidance Software is recognized worldwide as the industry leader in digital investigative solutions. Its EnCase® platform, with more than 40,000 licenses distributed worldwide, provides the foundation for government, corporate and law enforcement organizations to conduct thorough, network-enabled, and court-validated computer investigations of any kind, such as responding to e-discovery requests, conducting internal investigations, responding to regulatory inquiries or performing data and compliance auditing - all while maintaining the integrity of the data. The EnCase® Enterprise platform is used by numerous Federal Civilian and Defense agencies, more than half of the Fortune 100, and thousands attend Guidance Software's renowned training programs annually. For more information about Guidance Software, visit www.guidancesoftware.com.

About Telligent

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Telligent adds Ideation and Innovation Management

Tiffany Henry — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:50:00 GMT

Extends capabilities with exclusive partnership to offer InnovationCast, an end-to-end ideation and innovation management solution developed on Telligent’s enterprise social platform

(DALLAS, TX) February 22, 2012 — Telligent, a leader in social community software, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive arrangement to deliver and support an ideation and innovation management solution for customers called InnovationCast™.

Innovation is a growing priority for many companies. According to the Boston Consulting Senior Executive Innovation Survey, approximately three-fourths of survey respondents stated that innovation is one of their company’s top three priorities. Companies are putting their closed innovation mentality and methods in the rear-view mirror and moving forward with more collaborative methods that deliver value faster back to the organization.

InnovationCast addresses the entire innovation cycle, from harvesting ideas to implementing them. It is the only ideation and innovation management solution built on top of an enterprise-grade platform for social collaboration. It takes ideation to the next level, not only with social media applications, but also with a full project management toolset to transform an organization’s ideas into business value, all with an award-winning user experience.

Available InnovationCast options include:

InnovationCast Ideation – supports ideation with an organization’s customers, partners and employees by stimulating ideas and nurturing them; it’s perfect for getting started and enabling open engagements across organizational boundaries.
InnovationCast Suite – supports both the front-end and back-end of ideation and innovation management; it builds on top of InnovationCast Ideation with tools to devise tangible opportunities to innovate and to manage projects in order to transform ideas into action.

InnovationCast Analytics and Rewards & Recognition are both included in the above options. Additionally, Telligent offers a wide range of experience in ideation and innovation management, which is available to assist and support customers.

“Organizations require end-to-end tools to enable them to harness collaborative ideation and innovation with customers, partners and employees,” said Rob Howard, Telligent Founder and Chief Technology Officer. “Built on top of Telligent’s enterprise social collaboration platform, InnovationCast leverages the social collaboration platform to help organizations take advantage of this untapped customer and employee knowledge and enable them to sell more products or reduce expenses.”

Customers including, Mota-Engil, Nextplora, ANA Aeroportos, MarketSqr and Delta Cafés benefit heavily from using InnovationCast to support their open innovation activities. Listed below are highlights of benefits that many InnovationCast customers are receiving:

Drive idea generation with challenges to address both problems & opportunities that are aligned with strategy
Raise the probability of success of innovation projects with the collaboration between the project team and other people
Create an innovation hub with news, documents & updated information about the latest developments
Generate stronger ideas with higher potential
Recognize the most innovative employees, customers and partners
Reduce costs in R&D by leveraging networked resources
Monitor the innovation process to spot bottlenecks
Measure the return on innovation through winning strategies

Business solutions provider, weListen, and Telligent worked together to bring to market the only enterprise ideation and innovation management software built on a platform that was designed for social collaboration. “We are very pleased to be working directly with Telligent to market, sell and support our award-winning InnovationCast application”, said Carlos Mendes, co-founder of weListen and product owner. “InnovationCast enables our customers to capture the insights that happen in daily social interactions, pick up great ideas and take them to the finish line, while also realizing incredible business value.”

Visit Telligent.com to learn about InnovationCast and how it can accelerate your organization’s ability to innovate.

About Telligent

About weListen - Business Solutions

weListen delivers tools for sustainable innovation. Its advisory services and technology empower businesses with integrated, end-to-end innovation management that turn ideas into real business value. weListen’s award-winning software, InnovationCast, drives open innovation among customers, partners and employees.

Learn more about weListen by visiting welisten.eu.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Save the Date: Telligent Announces The Big Social 2012

Tiffany Henry — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:15:00 GMT

Annual User Conference Gears up to Give Dallas its Second Big Taste of Social

Dallas, TX – February 13, 2012 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, announced today that September 17-19, 2012 will be the date for this year’s user conference, The Big Social.

The Big Social is a three-day worldwide gathering where Telligent’s customers, partners, social industry professional, friends and enthusiasts will be able to share insights, ideas and community solutions. Over the course of the three days, dozens of Telligent customers share first-hand the impact implementing an online community has had at their respective organizations. The learning was so impactful during last year’s user conference that 100% of surveyed customers noted that they would recommend this event to their peers.

Highlights from last year’s user conference included keynotes from Telligent CEO Patrick Brandt and Telligent Founder & CTO Rob Howard, where they shared company highlights, industry insights and future product visions. In addition to hearing from Telligent executives, customers were given the option to attend technical or business sessions, usability labs, developer jams and workshops that shared best practices and case studies.

“Last year was an incredible success, and we look forward to making sure that The Big Social this year continues to live up to its name by creating an unforgettable world-class experience for the community enthusiasts who will be in attendance,” said Patrick Brandt, Telligent CEO. “This year’s event will have even more opportunities for customers to share best practices, tips and gain insight on how to further their business strategies with social community software.”

Scheduled to take place at the W hotel in downtown Dallas, this year’s customers, partners and social friends can once again look forward to an educational and collaborative conference that will be stacked with valuable content, learning experiences, exciting ways to get social with peers, networking opportunities, customer successes, insightful keynotes and exclusive Telligent announcements. Those attending the conference will witness first-hand Telligent’s on-going dedication to providing a great customer experience.

Any organization looking to gain a solid understanding of the benefits of social community software or guidance on how to achieve business objectives with online communities will not want to miss The Big Social 2012.

Save The Date
What: The Big Social 2012
When: September 17-19, 2012
Where: The W Hotel – 2440 Victory Park Lane, Dallas, TX 75219

Details on registration will be forthcoming. For more information about The Big Social 2012, please contact Shaunna Villareal at 214-420-1377 or via email at svillareal@telligent.com.

###

About Telligent

Learn more about Telligent by visiting telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

American Institute of CPAs Partners with Telligent to Increase Membership with Online Social Networking

Tiffany Henry — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT

AICPA improves membership recruitment via a unified social marketing campaign with Telligent Community and Telligent Analytics

Dallas, TX – February 6, 2012 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, partnered with American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to create the leading social networking site for aspiring accountants, This Way to CPA, which is designed to increase awareness of and drive recruitment efforts for AICPA.

“We are expanding our reach with social networking to encourage talented students to invest in becoming a CPA and eventually a member of the AICPA,” said Scott Moore, Sr. Manager, College and University Initiatives, AICPA. “This Way to CPA is a one-stop shop for accounting students to network with peers and discuss career-related topics.”

This Way to CPA is a first-of-its-kind online community that supports the personal development of accounting students and the profession by giving students a place to network with professionals and peers and discuss important topics such as how to land internships, what the accounting career path is like and advice for passing the CPA exam . Almost 23,000 people visit the community each month and over 57% return to the site to stay connected to the community and build relationships with peers.

“This Way to CPA weaves a conversational, fun personality into a creatively-designed community that provides immense value to students,” said Justin Couto, CEO of Couto Solutions, an elite design development firm that designed and implemented AICPA’s online community.

AICPA integrates its community website to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to ensure that members know how and where to stay involved with AICPA. AICPA encourages discussions on popular social media sites and drives potential and current members to its community for more in depth accounting conversations and access to exclusive opportunities, like scholarship opportunities and group accounting competitions.

With this unified social media strategy, AICPA creates more meaningful, manageable interactions that it can measure and evaluate. 19% of visitors return five times or more each month, which shows that community members are actively digesting content and becoming highly engaged with AICPA’s messaging.

“AICPA is a model for organizations trying to figure out how to create a unified, manageable strategy for social media and technology,” said Wendy Gibson, Chief Marketing Officer, Telligent. “AICPA is positioned to increase its member base because it is building strong bonds with the incoming Generation Y workforce and delivering value.”

Read the full case study here.

Telligent Community is social community software designed for flexibility in building customer-facing communities that achieve your business objectives for improving customer support, building brand loyalty and strengthening member networks.

Telligent Analytics is social intelligence software that analyzes and measures community activity so that you can glean valuable insights about how your community is succeeding and uncover areas that need improvement.

###

About AICPA

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (www.aicpa.org), founded in 1887, is the world’s largest association representing the accounting profession, with nearly 377,000 members in 128 countries. AICPA members represent many areas of practice, including business and industry, public practice, government, education, and consulting; membership is also available to accounting students and CPA candidates. The AICPA sets ethical standards for the profession and U.S. auditing standards for audits of private companies, non-profit organizations, federal, state and local governments. It develops and grades the Uniform CPA Examination.

The AICPA maintains offices in New York, Washington, DC, Durham, N.C., Ewing, N.J. and Lewisville, Texas.

About Couto Solutions

Telligent is what we focus on! Telligent Help is what we provide to you! Telligent Solutions are what we are made of! Couto Solutions is a design development firm that specializes in creating enterprise class community solutions on the Telligent Platform. Couto Solutions is the leading Telligent Partner building custom Telligent Themes, Custom Telligent Modules, and selling the best Telligent Add-Ons and Telligent Widgets available today. Simply stated, Couto Solutions ROCKS the Telligent! For more information, visit www.CoutoSolutions.com.

About Telligent

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, Intel, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Microsoft and Telligent Offer Joint Digital Marketing Solution that Fuses Social + Websites Together on a Single, Unified Platform

Tiffany Henry — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:15:00 GMT

To Support Offering, Telligent and Microsoft Announce the Get Social Tour + Social Workshop Days that will Equip Customers with the Foundation and Tools to Get Social in 2012

DALLAS, Texas — January 31, 2012 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced educational programs and a unique product offering to help its customers accelerate their social strategy in areas where their organization can benefit the most. As Microsoft’s vendor of choice to bring social community into its Digital Marketing Platform, Telligent worked with Microsoft to integrate Microsoft’s best-in-class web content management and search functionality into its leading online social community platform offerings.

“Businesses across the board are scrambling to understand social technology’s place in the enterprise, and how to implement and receive the most value from a social strategy. To support this need, Microsoft has partnered with Telligent to create a unique package that includes educational programs, events and an exclusive product offering called Telligent Social Suite for SharePoint that integrates Telligent Community with Microsoft’s web content management and search capabilities,” said Jon Allen, Microsoft Partner Manager at Telligent.

This strategic relationship with Microsoft presents social community in a unique package that will be of significant value to customers in terms of ease of implementation, cost efficiency, and leveraging their existing SharePoint investment. The package simultaneously accelerates social activates in areas where companies will benefit the most which include, social support, social marketing, and social extranets. These packages can be viewed on Telligent’s website.

To introduce organizations to social concepts and help them get started with accelerating their social activities, Telligent is offering one, three and five day Social Workshops. The Social Workshops are designed to explore ways to optimize customer engagement using social. As an additional asset to understanding the benefits of social, organizations will also be able to choose from several handpicked partners that have expertise developing strategies and implementing Telligent and Microsoft investments together.

Specifically, these workshops will educate organizations on the basics of social and how to design and implement an online community. Current SharePoint customers can use SharePoint Deployment Planning Services to schedule a workshop with Telligent, or companies can work directly with Telligent to schedule workshops.

Additionally, to further help organizations understand the growing importance of social and how online communities can be beneficial if executed correctly, Telligent is kicking off its Get Social Tour. This six-city tour will start on March 6, 2012 in Dallas. The tour will then move to New York, Irvine, Paris, London and will conclude in Munich.

The Get Social Tour will educate attendees on the key characteristics of a world class community, give organizations insight into how corporate-owned communities differ from, but also complement, popular social networking sites, and explain how organizations can enhance their existing SharePoint investments to provide a social offering that will be most beneficial to their organization.

“Social is the new normal. Customers and partners have come to expect social engagement from the companies they work with, and its adoption will only continue to increase moving forward,” said Rob Howard, Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Telligent. “The Get Social Tour outlines the importance of online communities and Telligent’s workshops educate companies, not on technology, but instead on how social is a key component for generating more leads, increasing the number of products sold, enabling customers to provide self-service support and connecting employees within an organization.”

Visit telligent.com to register for an upcoming Get Social City Event or Social Workshop and learn more about Telligent Social Suite for SharePoint.

# # #

About Telligent

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Telligent Invests in Customer and Partner Development with Its Newly Debuted E-Learning Community; Pathway to Obtain Certification Offered as Additional Benefit

Tiffany Henry — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:15:00 GMT

Telligent helps customers and partners get the most out of social with the launch of Telligent University

(DALLAS, TX) January 25, 2012 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced the launch of its first online training program, Telligent University.

As part of Telligent’s commitment to customer and partner support, the new community offers on-demand e-learning for both administrators and developers. Through Telligent’s comprehensive courses, developers and administrators will be trained in building world-class communities uniquely tailored to their brands’ specific business requirements.

“We are so happy to offer our customers and partners a new learning environment that will take them beyond our on-site training; with Telligent University we can provide social learning anytime and anywhere,” said Randy Skinner, Chief Operating Officer at Telligent. “The valuable content included in the e-learning community will allow Telligent customers and partners to maximize the full potential of our products and gain exclusive knowledge from our team of experts.”

Telligent University, an e-learning community built on the Telligent Evolution platform, boasts 250 modules, lessons and training videos. Customers can review what they want, when they want, because there is no limit to how many times coursework or Telligent’s searchable content, training videos, and three-to-five minute lesson plans can be accessed. The program also offers learning checkpoints where students can test their understanding of key topics.

The learning experience includes extensive coverage of Telligent’s core products - Telligent Community, Telligent Enterprise and Telligent Evolution. This means faster, more convenient training for customers and a streamlined path to certification for partners.

An additional benefit of the learning environment is that it offers the option to obtain certification on Telligent software. There are two types of certified programs offered – developer and architect. Both certification programs include the training sessions and online certification.

Contact a specialist to learn more about Telligent University, the certification programs or to sign up today.

About Telligent

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Telligent Acquires Leverage Software; Furthering Telligent’s Leadership in Enterprise Social Software

Tiffany Henry — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:13:00 GMT

Telligent’s Acquisition Signals Social Market Consolidation and
Fuels Company Growth

(DALLAS, TX) December 19, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced its acquisition of San Francisco-based Leverage Software, a leader in enterprise social networking.

“We are particularly thrilled to gain the leading cloud technology, people-centered design, prestigious customer list and employee talent that Leverage brings,” says Telligent CEO Patrick Brandt. “Telligent and Leverage have roots as pure-play social community providers; consolidation in the market is natural and it’s how we grow together.”

Leverage is recognized as a pioneer in social on-demand (SaaS) with well-known customers including The Home Depot, Redken, Wells Fargo, and Stanford University that rely on its cloud-based social networking capabilities for outward customer as well as internal employee uses including field sales and marketing enablement.

“It’s becoming more and more obvious that social is the new norm. Just look at the extraordinary adoption rates of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter,” says Brandt. “We continue to see proof that companies are experiencing enormous real benefit with social; evident by the sheer number of success stories illustrating how businesses are reaping benefit by engaging customers, facilitating partners and enabling employees.”

According to Forrester Research, the social enterprise apps market will approach $6.4B by 2016. (1) Moreover, Forrester recognized Telligent as a leader in its “The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011” report earlier this year. (2)

Telligent and Leverage management anticipate a seamless integration. “Both Telligent and Leverage share a similar business culture around devotion to customer success, and both are built on Microsoft technology. Our respective customers will reap the benefits of our shared services, talent and technology,” says Leverage founder Joe Kleinschmidt.

Kleinschmidt, who will join the Telligent team as Vice President of Cloud Products, adds that Telligent will expand services and functionality for existing Leverage customers in the following ways:

The ability to tap into a large customer community of brands that are industry pioneers and innovators in adopting social across their global organizations
Access to highly rated customer experience and support as well as Telligent’s expanded services offerings around implementation, training and educational programs
Becoming part of a larger partner ecosystem comprised of application developers, digital agencies and system integrators

“We are shaping the next decade of social,” explains Rob Howard founder and CTO of Telligent. “Telligent and Leverage are expanding our platform capabilities, delivering social anywhere – on your website, smartphone, or your corporate intranet – and we are accelerating our ability to do it in the cloud.”

Catapult Advisors LLC acted as exclusive financial advisor to Leverage Software on the transaction.

(1) Social Enterprise Apps Redefine Collaboration, Forrester Research, Inc., November 30 2011.

(2) The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011, Forrester Research, Inc., August 24, 2011.

# # #

About Telligent

Learn more about Telligent by visiting telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Telligent Appoints Scott Kirkland as Vice President of Product Management

Tiffany Henry — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:01:00 GMT

(DALLAS, TX) December 12, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced that Scott Kirkland will join the company as Vice President of Product Management. In his new role, Kirkland will be responsible for product management, solution engineers and Telligent’s customer advisory board.

Kirkland brings more than 15 years of experience in technology marketing, sales and product management. Prior to joining Telligent, Kirkland served as Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Apptricity. Kirkland also served as Vice President of Product Management for Global 360. At Global 360, he drove the product strategy for the company’s industry-leading suite of Business Process Management (BPM) solutions. He also held leadership positions at Cisco Systems and the United States Air Force.

“Because of Scott’s experience and leadership, I see him contributing knowledge and expertise that will help our company gain efficiencies in execution, provide break-through social community software, while also enhancing the experiences of our current and future customers, says Rob Howard, Telligent Founder & CTO.

“I am honored to be a part of such a customer-focused company,” states Kirkland. “I look forward to helping Telligent continue to build on innovation by working with the Product Management team and customers to provide industry-leading social software.”

Kirkland obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy (West Point) and an MBA from Auburn University.

###

About Telligent

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://www.telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

CORE4 Research Transforms Market Research with Telligent

Tiffany Henry — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

CORE4 Research improves retail marketing campaigns and sales with Telligent Community

Fayetteville / Dallas – November 22, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced that CORE4 Research leverages Telligent Community as its technology of choice for conducting consumer market research in an online community.

“Companies are looking for ways to tap into their customer base and discover what consumers think about and expect from their brands,” said Suzanne Clark, Operations Manager, CORE4 Research. “We enable our clients to improve their marketing strategies and sales tactics by engaging retail consumers and capturing their feedback on new products, packaging and shopping habits in our Livebranch community.”

Compared to traditional research methods, conducting market research in online communities is a quick and cost-efficient method for researchers to gather and analyze consumer feedback. Companies identify higher quality feedback from shoppers because they are more open and honest with their opinions online. In addition, companies can act on customer feedback rapidly now that research projects take days and weeks, rather than weeks and months.

“Understanding what customers want is critical to a company’s success,” said Wendy Gibson, Chief Marketing Office, Telligent. “CORE4 Research creates an engaging and effective way of gathering market insight that equips organizations to exceed customer expectations.”

Constellation Research recently selected Henry Ho, Partner at CORE4 Research, as a SuperNova award winner for its 2011 SuperNova Awards. Nominated in the social business category, Constellation recognized CORE4 Research as a pioneer in emerging and disruptive technologies based on its use of the Livebranch research community.

“We are impressed by the level of passion and commitment by the award winners for not only applying disruptive technologies but also sharing in how they’ve overcome the odds inside their organizations to create a climate for innovation and success”, stated R “Ray” Wang, Principal Analyst & CEO, Constellation Research, Inc.

Hear from the experts directly and register for CORE4 Research’s free webinar to sharpen your market research skills on Wednesday November 30, 2011.

Telligent Community is social community software designed for flexibility in building customer-facing communities that achieve your business objectives for improving customer support, building brand loyalty and strengthening member networks.

###

About CORE4 Research

CORE4 Research is a full-service research provider specializing in qualitative and quantitative shopper research. Our experienced staff helps clients better understand their shoppers' desires, needs, motivations, and behaviors to better market their products in the retail space.

About Telligent

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, Intel, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Issaquah School District Selects Telligent for Education Community

Tiffany Henry — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Issaquah School District Looks Forward to Enhancing Learning With

Telligent Community

Dallas, TX – November 3, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, announced that Issaquah School District has decided to expand its pioneering online community that connects educators, parents and students in its district with Telligent Community.

“We’re excited to expand our interactive educational community as our school district grows,” said Colleen Dixon, Executive Director of Educational Technology. “Our online community expands the educational process to include an interactive, ongoing dialogue among students, parents and teachers that helps us prepare students for an evolving world.”

Students, parents and teachers are learning to use Issaquah School District’s innovative online community to share information, post upcoming events, track school assignments and discuss curriculum. An online community offers additional choices to parents and students by centralizing school updates and homework for students and can increase parent-teacher involvement.

“Issaquah School District is pushing the boundaries of education through online engagement,” said John Rabara, VP, Customer Care at Telligent. “We are thrilled to support the platform that creates a transparent, collaborative learning experience and gives students a competitive edge in the global economy.”

###

About Issaquah School District

The Issaquah School District is educating the innovators, entrepreneurs, and civic leaders of tomorrow. Students here set the state and national high-water mark for standardized test scores, but Issaquah teachers aim for more. They create passionate lifelong learners who want to achieve their personal and professional potential in a rapidly changing world.

The district has grown with Issaquah over the past 100 years as the city transformed from a sleepy mining town to the heart of a vibrant economic and cultural region. Over 17,000 students are now enrolled in the district’s 24 schools, which cover a span of 110 square miles in seven municipalities.

About Telligent

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, Intel, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Tyler Technologies Selects Telligent for Online Support Community

Tiffany Henry — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Tyler Clients to Benefit from Enhanced Online Communications, Information-Sharing

DALLAS – November 2, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, today announced that Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL) has selected Telligent Community to provide an online support community centered on Tyler’s information management solutions and services for local governments.

“With Telligent Community, we have created an online support community that’s available to our clients 24/7, empowering them to interact with their peers in common functions, and find product and support information whenever they need it,” said Dane Womble, chief operating officer of Tyler’s Local Government Division. “A vibrant online community creates a channel for client collaboration, feedback and suggestions that ultimately can help improve the solutions and services Tyler provides to our public sector clients.”

Telligent Community is social community software designed for flexibility in building customer-facing communities that achieve enterprises’ objectives for improving customer support, building brand loyalty and strengthening member networks.

“We look forward to helping Tyler Technologies deliver enhanced product support as part of the overall client experience,” said Cecilia Edwards, Senior Vice President, Client Services at Telligent. “Tyler’s strategy for incorporating Telligent Community into its client services is a testament to how online communities add value across business units within an organization.”

###

About Tyler Technologies, Inc.

Based in Dallas, Tyler Technologies is a leading provider of end-to-end information management solutions and services for local governments. Tyler partners with clients to empower the public sector — cities, counties, schools and other government entities — to become more efficient, more accessible and more responsive to the needs of citizens. Tyler’s client base includes more than 10,000 local government offices throughout all 50 states, Canada, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. Forbes has named Tyler one of “America’s Best Small Companies” four times in the last five years. More information about Tyler Technologies can be found at www.tylertech.com.

About Telligent

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, Intel, Microsoft, Psion, U.S. Department of Defense - All Partners Access Network (APAN) and more.

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Telligent Builds on Microsoft Integration Momentum – Scheduled to Exhibit Telligent Enterprise and Microsoft SharePoint Integration at KMWorld 2011

Tiffany Henry — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:26:00 GMT

Telligent Founder & CTO Named a Leading, Influential SharePoint Thought Leader

(DALLAS, TX) Oct. 27, 2011 — Telligent, a leader in social community software for the enterprise, announced today that it will be exhibiting at the upcoming KMWorld 2011 Conference in Washington DC. Telligent will showcase its latest Telligent Enterprise 3.0 suite including how it integrates with Microsoft SharePoint to provide a unified social platform for employee collaboration. KMWorld recently recognized Telligent Enterprise by naming it as a Trend-Setting Product of 2011.

Three other conferences will be co-located and happening concurrently with KMWorld. Among these is SharePoint Symposium, an intensive, two-day conference designed to enable attendees to determine how, when and why to use SharePoint. Attendees of the SharePoint Symposium will have access to Telligent’s booth, where they can learn more about how to combine the best people-centric social community software from Telligent with the powerful document-centric collaboration from SharePoint.

“We design our software to fit seamlessly within our customers’ and prospective customers’ existing technology infrastructures,” explains Rob Howard, Telligent Founder & CTO. “With Microsoft’s more than 100 million SharePoint licenses sold worldwide, providing integration with SharePoint is a major focal point for our company.”

Howard’s focus on SharePoint is evidenced by him being recently named one of the “Top 25 Most Influential SharePoint Thought Leaders in Social Business Today” by social email software provider harmon.ie®. According to harmon.ie® the SharePoint Most Influential (SMI) formula measures influence using a weighted average across a range of metrics including Alexa, Klout Influence, Google Page Rank, PeerIndex, HowSociable and Twitter Followers.

Earlier this month, Howard attended Microsoft’s SharePoint 2011 conference where the big story was integration. Reflecting on the conference Howard says, “Enterprises are reevaluating their corporate strategies and, as a result, social is quickly becoming a C-level priority.” Howard continues, “There’s a sense of urgency and realization that social needs to be incorporated with corporate strategy and fit with the internal tools and departmental processes companies already have in place. Telligent brings to the table the ‘social glue’ that does exactly this. Companies that understand and execute a clear social strategy will be the ones that define the next generation of business,” sums Howard.

# # #

About Telligent

Learn more about Telligent by visiting http://telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contacts

US
Tiffany Henry
thenry@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1350

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

Telligent Receives Strategic Investment from Investec

Tiffany Henry — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:00:00 GMT

Johannesburg, South Africa and Dallas, Texas – October 25, 2011 — Investec Bank Limited (JSE: INL, LSE: INVP), an international specialist banking and asset management group, announced today it has made a strategic investment in Telligent Systems, Inc., a leading provider of social community software for the enterprise.

“The Investec brand is incredibly strong internationally and gives Telligent another truly global partner.” said Patrick Brandt, CEO of Telligent. “To have Investec as a customer is exceptionally rewarding, but to have Investec join with Intel Capital, our primary investor, as a key strategic investor in Telligent validates the strong interest in enterprise social community software and the spreading adoption across all key verticals and global markets.”

###

About Investec

Investec is an international specialist and asset managment group, providing a range of financial products and services to a select client base in three principal markets: the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia. Listed on the London and Johannesburg Stock Exchange Investec is a FTSE 100 company.

Investec's South African headquarters are at 100 Grayston Drive Sandown, Sandton.

Investec's UK headquarters are at 2 Gresham Street in Central London.

For more information about Investec please visit their website.

About Telligent

Learn more about Telligent by visiting telligent.com.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Telligent Media Contact

Wendy Gibson
wgibson@telligent.com
+1 (214) 420 1354