Ingeniux Bridges Gap Between Social Networking and Web Content Management for Businesses

Cartella Delivers Unified Social Content Management System to Manage Content and Collaboration on Public or Secure Websites -- First Commercial Application Built on Microsoft ASP.NET MVC

Ingeniux Corporation (http://www.ingeniux.com) today announced Cartella, an application for managing enterprise social content and online collaboration. Cartella is the first unified social content management application that integrates social networking, Web 2.0 tools, analytics and content management into a single solution. The application includes modules for managing documents, wikis, blogs, rich media and social networking at a feature-price balance not available in the market today. In addition, Cartella is the first commercial software product that leverages Microsoft ASP.NET MVC and represents a major leap forward for ASP.NET development.

"For social software to work in the enterprise, employees, partners, and customers have to be willing to participate. To collaborate across the network in a business environment, there needs to be a framework for sharing," said Geoffrey Bock, senior analyst for the Gilbane Group's Collaboration & Social Computing Practice. "For many companies, this forces a trade-off between IT control and end-user ease of use. Cartella solves this problem by ensuring IT best practices while making it easy to launch, moderate, and optimize communities for active participation."

Gap Between Social Software and Web Content Management

With the demand for social business software on the rise, many established Web CMS and Portal vendors have attempted to bolt social features onto their legacy applications. However, these solutions don't address the distinct technical and business requirements for managing the social Web. While many social software point products have emerged to fill the usability gap, they lack IT best practices for managing and controlling social content and do not address compliance and workflow processes. To bridge the gap, Ingeniux has developed Cartella which uses proven content management principles to manage and control social content, while also making it extremely easy for end-users.

"Granular permission, access control, workflow, and content management integration are critical for managing a dynamic and effective Website," said Danny McKeever, senior Web marketing manager at Workday, the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for human resources and financial management. "Cartella provides these things out of the box, plus a host of intuitive social networking features like social profiles, tagging, commenting, ratings and membership management that makes it easy for our end-users and administrators."

Fast Time-to-Value for Business Social Software

Cartella can be white labeled as a stand-alone social content management platform for companies without existing Web CMS investments or injected into any Website using a simple Web services API. Organizations can be up and running with Cartella in a matter of days to deliver immediate business value.

"We've worked very closely with our existing customers to develop Cartella," said Jim Edmunds, CEO of Ingeniux. "Over the course of a 14-month pilot program they've helped us develop an application that fits the needs of business and IT as well as transforms the way that social content is managed. Just like Web content, documents, or records management, social content is first class business information. With Cartella there is now a solution for successfully managing social content in the enterprise."

Built on Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Cartella makes it easy for .Net developers to customize existing Cartella business social software modules or build new modules and applications on top of the Cartella platform to meet their unique business requirements using commercial development tools and technologies they already know and trust. Microsoft .NET MVC also provides a streamlined implementation approach for Cartella similar to Microsoft SharePoint. Cartella-powered communities are rapidly developed using ASP.NET Master Pages and Web technologies like HTML and CSS. All content in Cartella is available through REST Web services, allowing social content to be "mashed" with other applications or accessed by any Website.

Although Cartella can be used for a wide range of business needs, the software provides pre-built solutions aimed at addressing common requirements for collaborative intranet, extranet, and social networking sites.

The Cartella Solution Sites include:

--  Cartella Enterprise: Superior employee collaboration and communication
    for enterprise business information. Cartella Enterprise provides a
    complete solution for intranets and workspaces, and for integrating social
    content with back office applications. Cartella key features include
    Microsoft SharePoint integration, document management, identity
    integration, auditing and compliance, and workflow.
--  Cartella Connect:  A Web 2.0 extranet solution for business
    collaboration with customers and partners. Cartella Connect features secure
    workspaces with group, role and user permissions, team collaboration,
    notifications and analytics.
--  Cartella Community: Customer-facing collaboration and social
    technologies to drive deeper engagement, active participation, and brand
    loyalty. Cartella Community includes social networking and profiles,
    notifications and alerts, commenting, ratings, and rich media transcoding
    for publishing videos and podcasts.
    

Pricing and Availability

Available immediately, Cartella is offered as licensed software or as Software as a Service (SaaS). Pricing starts at $5,000 for a workgroup of 100 users or $18,000 for a community with as many as 30,000 members. Software-as-a-Service programs start as $1,200 per month for software, support, and hosting.

About Ingeniux Corporation

Ingeniux's Web and social content management software provides a unified platform to manage Web content, social publishing, collaborative communities, and rich media. Its XML-based CMS and ASP.Net-based social content management technology empowers Web developers and content creators to build the next generation Internet with products acclaimed for ease of use, rapid deployment, extensibility and low total cost of ownership. Ingeniux delivers quality software with unparalleled customer service to customers in a broad range of industries, including enterprise business, higher education, trade associations, e-government, and financial institutions.