Yakabod Named 'Cool Vendor' by Leading Analyst Firm
Selected companies are “innovative, impactful and intriguing”
FREDERICK, Md., May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Yakabod, developer of the Yakabox™ knowledge sharing system, announced today it is included in the “Cool Vendors in the High-Performance Workplace, 2010” report published by Gartner, Inc. Gartner defines a cool vendor as “a company whose solutions are innovative, impactful and intriguing” for a specific market category.
“A big cheer broke out around here when we got the news,” says Scott Ryser, Yakabod CEO. “We’ve been building the Yakabox™ for nearly ten years, always driven by the desire to help people do stuff that matters. In our book, that’s a high-performance workplace. This is welcome recognition.”
The Cool Vendor report highlights a handful of companies that “deliver value by improving the connections between people and the information they need, and doing so more easily and often less expensively than in the past.”
The Yakabox™ is an ultra-secure knowledge sharing appliance certified for use in top-secret environments, including the U.S. intelligence community. The system, which integrates search, social networking, collaboration and content management, is so straightforward users are productive the first time they log on. The Yakabox™ is deployable in days (comparable systems require months of integration and customization), and lifetime ownership costs are up to 90 percent less than other enterprise software.
About Gartner's Cool Vendor Selection Process
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that enable users to do things they couldn't do before; has, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); and has caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months. 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.
About Yakabod
Founded in 2001, Yakabod is headquartered in historic Frederick, MD, just outside the Capitol beltway. The Yakabox™ knowledge sharing system is used worldwide by security-conscious professionals who are serious about capturing, creating and sharing stuff that matters without plowing through stuff that doesn’t. Visit www.yakabod.com, email [email protected], or call 301-662-4554 x 2101.
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