Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing

 

 London, 10th April, 2008 – Trampoline Systems is one of five vendors featured in the April 2008 “Cool Vendors in Collaboration and Social Software, 2008” report by Gartner, Inc. and authored by Nikos Drakos, et al. 

The report profiles innovative technology companies providing collaboration tools and social software. It focuses on vendors with “innovative approaches to collaboration support” and notes that “although it is too soon to say which will be rewarded with long-term market success, we can expect to see several of these approaches becoming part of successful collaboration support environments”. 

 "Trampoline is thrilled to be included in this report," says Charles Armstrong, CEO of Trampoline Systems. "Gartner was ahead of the curve in realising that social software was going to be transformative in the enterprise. Now as we see enterprise social computing emerge as a mainstream technology sector, businesses of all kinds are looking to Gartner to provide insight on the key issues and the marketplace players. Trampoline is delighted to be highlighted in this evaluation."

 SONAR Suite is Trampoline’s enterprise social computing platform for employees and managers. SONAR Dashboard provides social computing for employees to locate experts, connect and collaborate. SONAR Flightdeck and Dashboard are powered by SONAR Server, which identifies the social networks, information flows and topics within electronic information. SONAR Suite provides enterprise-class security, privacy and integration. Metascope is Trampoline’s specialist software for organisational network analysis of large networks.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

 Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

 About Trampoline Systems

Trampoline Systems is a London-based developer of enterprise social computing software. Trampoline’s SONAR Suite provides tools for employees to locate experts, connect and collaborate and for managers to understand their organisation’s networks and information flows. Metascope is Trampoline’s software for organisational network analysis of large networks.

Trampoline’s clients include the Raytheon Company, a top 5 global management consultancy and the UK Foreign Office. Accolades include Oracle’s EMEA Innovation Award 2007 and Finalist for CNET UK’s Enterprise Software Product of the Year 2007. Trampoline raised $6m in Series A investment from the Tudor Group in March 2007. For more information please visit www.trampolinesystems.com.