Teleplace
IDC
"[Teleplace] 2.0 provides a rich 3D collaboration environment that makes virtual meetings, presentations, training sessions, and other interactions as real as possible without getting on a plane."
- Mark Levitt, program VP, Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 Strategies at IDC from Teleplace press release 4/20/2009
News Room
[Teleplace] Named “Cool Vendor” by Leading Analyst Firm
Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing
PALO ALTO, CALIF. – April 28, 2008 – Teleplace, Inc. has been included in the April 2008 “Cool Vendors in Collaboration and Social Software, 2008” report† by Gartner, Inc.
The report, which covers five vendors, cites that “collaboration support is a multi-faceted and fertile area for innovation; each of the products or services mentioned…embodies some fresh thinking that can add business value.” The firm goes on to state 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 environments.”
“We are excited that [Teleplace] was included in the Cool Vendors report,” said Greg Nuyens, CEO of Teleplace. “Teleplace’s secure virtual workspaces significantly improve the effectiveness and productivity of distributed teams by enabling new methods of collaboration and social interaction.”
[Teleplace] are highly interactive and persistent environments that enable users to work together as if they are in the same physical location, easily collaborate with others and identify and solve problems. With [Teleplace], teams can work together to establish workflow steps, create or review information in software applications, and evaluate designs in 2D and 3D, all while discussing topics using built-in text, voice and desktop (webcam) video. To further enhance productivity, [Teleplace] are always available so users can return to a forum at any time to access and view changes that have occurred since they last visited the virtual workspace.
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 have done 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 Teleplace, Inc.
Teleplace, Inc. is creating virtual spaces for the enterprise that enable collaboration in ways that were not possible before. [Teleplace], the company’s flagship product, is a secure virtual workspace application that significantly increases the productivity of distributed teams by bringing critical resources together in virtual places as if they were in the same physical location. A highly interactive and persistent environment, [Teleplace] enables users to work, collaborate with others, and identify and solve problems.
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Spencer Communications
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† Gartner, Inc. "Cool Vendors in Collaboration and Social Software, 2008" by Nikos Drakos, Carol Rozwell and David Mario Smith, April 4, 2008.
