NEW YORK AND BOSTON — Front End of Innovation US (Booth #25) — Arc90, Inc., a leading provider of business technology tools and strategic consulting services, today announced the integration capability of Kindling, their flagship product, with Microsoft SharePoint and Outlook to drive idea management and collaboration across the enterprise.
“Kindling strives to engage as many users to collaborate and share ideas as possible,” said Richard Ziade, President, Arc90. “By bringing Kindling into the workflow of these prominent enterprise systems, members of the organization can participate and enhance the conversation through bringing in relevant information and resources from within SharePoint. The opportunity to integrate with Outlook will enable more people to join in the collaboration process within their native email environment for a more seamless experience.”
By bringing Kindling into the SharePoint environment, users can:
- Integrate ideas with existing workgroup and employee directory systems
- Enable integration of relevant documents, materials and reports for idea discussions
- Access core Kindling features from within SharePoint
- Utilize single-sign on to seamlessly work across environments
Through integration with SharePoint, Kindling can offer enterprise clients with enhanced collaboration opportunities that complement existing resources within their collaboration toolkit while bringing the idea management strengths of Kindling to the organization. With a 77% of client engagement in 2009, Kindling is the leading solution for organizational idea management and innovation initiatives. Using Kindling, businesses have been able to identify new market opportunities, reduce costs and foster an innovation-friendly environment across the enterprise.
Dedicated to providing a compelling experience for users to have a productive conversation around ideas, Kindling integration with Outlook brings the collaborative nature of Kindling into Outlook for participation via a separate, clean and intuitive folder that highlights the latest ideas, comments and campaigns relevant to the employee.
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