Portals+ announce Social Networks addition to market-leading website platform

London, UK, 29th August 2007 : Portals + announce the launch of a full-feature Social Networks extension to SITEFORUM the "all-in-one" application platform for successful online business.


New addition extends the uniquely powerful platform providing latest publishing, marketing and ecommerce capabilities in a single integrated solution.


A recent survey of over 300 businesses by The Institute for Corporate Productivity revealed that workers are quickly gravitating toward leveraging social networks to improve staff collaboration and to connect with new and potential clients. Key benefits of Social Network tools include improved internal knowledgeshare and learning, and enhanced customer communications and relationships.

SITEFORUM comes with a complete set of Social Network and Web 2.0 functionality allowing you to build communities where members can setup and maintain their personal networks and use many applications and tools. Communities can be created for special interests, vertical industries, specific products, companies or markets or any other purpose.

The SITEFORUM Social Network functions range from creating and managing member profiles, attending webcasts, personal rating of content, messaging with other members, user/affinity groups to support specialized areas of interest, personalised surveys and discussion forums. Other features include tagging & bookmarking, personal content management & favourite documents, targeted advertising, wikkis and of course blogs.

Built on SITEFORUM's feature-rich platform the communities can be international and/or multi-language from day one and seamlessly support sub-groups and/or premium/paid-for members and events. The full range of content management, e-marketing and e-commerce capabiliities are fully integrated and immediately accessible to community builders.


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ABOUT SITEFORUM
www.siteforum.com

SITEFORUM is an integrated platform for Web-based enterprise solutions, combining marketing, sales, support and resource management, delivered as an online service. It provides full Content Management, Personalisation and Collaboration as well as powerful eMarketing and eCommerce capabilities. The software is fully user-managed online with an easy to use administration "back-office" accessible globally, 24 x 7.

Developed from inception using an advanced ´Software-as-a-Service´ architecture, SITEFORUM enables quick off-the-shelf portals, lower costs and fully-integrated functionality over the web. Customers can buy and deploy the service in an easy and modular approach with no software or hosting concerns and with immediate global accessibility for managers/administrators as well as users.  The portals are fully managed with automated software upgrades and feature management allowing seamless expansion and growth as required.

SITEFORUM has more than 200 customers worldwide and is used by major corporations and small firms in Europe, USA and Asia. SITEFORUM Europe is headquartered in Germany, with subsidiaries, resellers and integration partners across Europe, North America and South-East Asia.


ABOUT PORTALS +
www.portalsplus.co.uk

Portals + was founded in 2005 with a view to changing the way business use the web to communicate with customers, partners and employees. In the last two years Portals + has helped large, medium and small companies improve their web delivery. Having selected SITEFORUM as technology partner, Portals+ enlisted the help of industry advisors MDT (Major Deal Team Limited) develop and grow the UK business.  Portals+ customers span many sectors and include High Tech (Citrix, AT&T), Financial Services (Catalyst Investment Fund Management), Automotive (Henley TVR, MaranelloKart UK) and Leisure (BucksSports and SportsJunction).


For more information, please contact:

Portals+             :      +(44)1491 629980
info[at]portalsplus.co.uk


SITEFORUM     :        +(49) 3681 39400
sale[at]siteforum.com



Portals+ announce Social Networks addition to market-leading website platform