Telligent highlighted for its social platform, analytics and partner network

(LONDON) 25th August 2011 - Telligent, a leader in social community software, is recognised by Forrester Research as a leader in its “The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011” report.

According to the report, “client interest in social platforms is fueled by three factors: the desire to capture and re-use knowledge, the need to maintain human connections across a disparate workforce and the pressure to modernise systems to meet new workforce demands.”[1] 

This report, which evaluates companies based on their strategy, current offering and market presence, considers nine of the top enterprise social software vendors.

Telligent highlights include:

•“Telligent maintains a razor-sharp focus on analytics, a platform designed from the ground up for extension, and a growing and impressive stable of partners.”

•“Telligent maintains a very strong tie to its customers and prospects that translates into highly relevant investments in features and functionality.”

•“Telligent maintains a strong relationship with Microsoft and offers deep integration with Lync for real-time collaboration, SharePoint for document management, and Outlook for user-level integration.”

•“Through Telligent Marketplace, it has built an ecosystem that extends the value of the core platform.”

“We are very pleased to be recognised as a Leader in Forrester’s Enterprise Social Platform report,” said Telligent Founder and CTO Rob Howard, who helped develop the company’s cutting-edge platform. “We created our innovative enterprise software based on our customers’ needs for a social community to engage employees. Our customers use community to unify communications throughout the enterprise, shorten sales cycles, improve R&D and enable employee teams to collaborate across departments and locations. Telligent Enterprise takes engagement and business value to the next level.”

Telligent’s enterprise solutions can improve the value of an organisation’s existing IT investments and deliver successful business outcomes, including companies with significant Microsoft assets looking to integrate social throughout their organisation.

Since the research for this report was conducted, Telligent released an enhanced version of its social platform for employee engagement. Telligent Enterprise 3.0, which debuted this summer, provides clients with improvements in key areas including social search and discovery, social context, design, mobility and integration. These enhancements help to improve workplace productivity and efficiency and build upon the features Forrester highlights in its report.

In addition to Telligent’s products for employee social networking, Telligent offers advanced social community software for public-facing communities. Telligent recently announced new innovations for external communities with its Telligent Community 6.0 suite.

More information about “The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011” report can be found on Telligent’s website.

[1] The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011, Forrester Research, Inc., August 24, 2011.