In 2010 US based company NewsGator launched Social Sites – MS SharePoint based platform that provides the companies with a wide range of social computing advantages. To date corporate social networks are used to provide information exchange within the company and include such notions as user and department profiles, forums, activity/news fields, tags, favorites, blogs, analytics and message service. NewsGator Social Sites 2010 is developed to provide maximum integration with support of team work and another SharePoint functionality. Social Sites enhances SharePoint basic functionality that allows companies to build professional social networks, add colleagues, search for experts and attract talents.

“Market analysis has demonstrated that social computing has been one of the hottest corporate IT trends in American and European companies for the past year that’s why we suppose that these services will be very demanded in Russia in the nearest future”, comments Denis Romanovsky, Artezio CTO.

Artezio as the first official partner of NewsGator in Russia provides various services in deployment and customization of Social Sites corporate platform for large and medium companies with different industry focus. For more than 12 years in operation Artezio specialists have gained rich experience in SharePoint based projects and are capable to provide cost-effective services that include basic implementation of the corporate platform, integration with corporate email and portals, customization of the platform’s design according to the Customer’s standards or particular requirements as well as development of the additional functionality and integration with all of the Customer’s business systems based on the company’s security policy.

“By integrating Social Sites with SharePoint Portal 2010, you can provide your employees with new possibilities for improving efficiency. You don’t need to discover new technologies as you will be using a familiar SharePoint technology thus unifying your IT-infrastructure. Using Social Sites helps increase communication speed, hold talents and attract new ones as well as increase the company’s efficiency in general”, adds Mr. Romanovsky.

Today Artezio is implementing Social Sites services in a number of large Russian corporations including the largest Russian bank and one of the leading mobile service providers.