SaaS Platform Enables Companies to Add Spigit''s Powerful Innovation Management Capabilities to Microsoft SharePoint for Profitable, Sustainable Innovation

PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 22 /-- Spigit, the leader in social productivity software for the enterprise, today announced the availability of Spigit for SharePoint, an integrated collaboration and innovation management platform that combines the power of Spigit''s award-winning innovation management platform with the efficiency of Microsoft''s market-leading collaboration suite to provide a single-source, enterprise-wide environment to drive profitable and sustainable innovation.

"Quite naturally, collaboration and innovation go hand in hand. Spigit for SharePoint enables these two vital components of leading business environments to co-exist within a single platform to simultaneously leverage the project-team collaborative functions of SharePoint with Spigit''s idea management tools," said Paul Pluschkell, CEO and founder of Spigit. "The result is an enterprise-wide environment that allows decision makers and stakeholders to gain better visibility and greater awareness of the best ideas shared inside the company."

Consistently ranked as the market leader, Microsoft SharePoint is the collaboration engine of choice for many businesses, according to a recent survey by Information Architected. SharePoint plays a major role in the knowledge management and collaboration of some 47% of those who have deployed the platform - including some of the largest companies in the world.

SharePoint team sites enable employee collaboration on projects throughout multiple local environments across the enterprise. However, convenient and efficient as they are, SharePoint sites have limited capabilities for creating a sustained innovation program.

"No doubt many great ideas are generated on SharePoint team sites, but it can be hard for decision makers and distributed employees to learn about them, especially when there are multiple sites within a single organization," Pluschkell said. "Spigit for SharePoint provides a common platform for efficient and effective idea contribution, management and evaluation to facilitate and accelerate innovation."

With a flexible deployment model delivered as web components, Spigit for SharePoint can be setup as a tab for enterprise-wide access within SharePoint, or as a single instance embedded in specific team sites to provide multiple access points.

Spigit for SharePoint integrates the powerful functions of Spigit''s innovation management platform that enable idea contribution, visibility and evaluation, including:

-- an intuitive and engaging user interface that makes participation simple and fun;

-- an easy-to-navigate dashboard that provides real-time updates on activity, hot topics and employee contributions;