Rightpoint, a national IT consulting and digital marketing firm, announced today a strategic partnership with NewsGator, a Denver-based social computing company that creates Facebook-style networks for businesses. Under the terms of the agreement, Rightpoint will implement NewsGator's social networking computing software for various clients to create dynamic corporate communities and enhance collaboration across geographic boundaries, brands and departments.

"Partnering with NewsGator enables us to enhance our SharePoint service offerings with what we consider to be the best corporate social networking platform out there," said Ross Freedman, Director at Rightpoint. "We believe that NewsGator has created the leading edge technology platform that will change the face of corporate enterprise social networking - similarly to how Facebook has impacted the world of personal social networking. With the addition of NewsGator's software to our repertoire, we can design extraordinary custom enterprise solutions for our SharePoint clients using this very successful tool."

NewsGator's Social Networking Platform integrates with Microsoft SharePoint to provide capabilities similar to consumer-based social networks but tailored to business purposes. NewsGator Social Sites integrated into the SharePoint environment provides makes it easier for employees to find colleagues and subject matter experts, enhance collaboration, and facilitate information sharing within the context of a business, while also following corporate security protocols and keeping internal information within the protected environment of the firewall. Features include: Profile Pages, Groups & Communities, Social Network Graphs, News & Activity Feeds, RSS, Social Bookmarking and Clipping/Sharing.

With several projects already underway, the partnership between Rightpoint and NewsGator has already begun to take off. Currently Rightpoint and NewsGator are working together to implement social communities that encompass every brand at a major Pharmaceutical company, bringing together thousands of people within the company to share knowledge, ideas and information. Rightpoint is also implementing this technology for software company and a medical device company.

Rightpoint's broad experience with SharePoint and social networking implementations combined with NewsGator's advanced software solution creates a win-win for our companies and more importantly for our customers. Together the two companies will work with our customers and to help them understand how they can leverage the use of social networking technology to drive business value within the Enterprise.

For more information, please contact Rightpoint at (312) 920-8383 / media@rightpoint.com.

About Rightpoint

Rightpoint creates world class digital solutions that drive profitable growth and sustainable competitive advantage. Driven by the firm’s passion for pragmatic thinking, Rightpoint’s business philosophy is to rethink the "typical" consulting model, combining attributes of management consulting, IT consulting, and creative agency services to help clients drive business results by solving strategic problems. Rightpoint’s pervasive “intrapreneurial” spirit, which ensures that clients "get it right" the first time, is the foundation by which Rightpoint has built a strong, national reputation for excellence.

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