SOURCE: RollStream

 

FAIRFAX, VA--(Marketwire - March 27, 2009) - RollStream, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise community management solutions, announced today that top analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has named RollStream a "Cool Vendor" in the "Cool Vendors in Platform and Integration Middleware, 2009" report by Benoit J. Lheureux, Massimo Pezzini, and Paolo Malinverno. The March 2009 report focuses upon emerging solutions that address the challenges of deploying and collaborating on large-scale multi-enterprise B2B and software-as-a-service (SaaS) projects.

"We are delighted to be named one of this year's 'Cool Vendors,'" said Kristin Muhlner, CEO, RollStream. "Our on-demand collaboration platform allows IT managers to reduce the time and effort required to collaborate with suppliers or customers on large B2B projects. In my opinion, being recognized by Gartner is a tremendous honor and validation of our mission and approach."

RollStream delivers an innovative solution for enterprise community management. Unlike systems that simply deliver business transactions between trading partners, RollStream creates powerful social supply chains that optimize business-to-business relationships. Utilizing the latest in Web 2.0 technologies, companies can establish secure, online communities of suppliers or customers in a matter of hours. Within these communities, RollStream delivers ROI-based solutions that span the entire partner lifecycle, including profile and credential capture, communications and compliance, dispute resolution, and performance management. Intuitive features and extreme usability empower supply chain managers and marketing executives to execute critical projects without draining scarce IT resources.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do 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.

For more information about Gartner or the Cool Vendor report, visit www.gartner.com.

About RollStream®, Inc.

As the leader in enterprise community management, RollStream's business-to-business collaboration platform is transforming business networks in the same way that social software has transformed personal networks.

Fortune 500 market leaders, including Walgreens, McKesson, Owens & Minor, and Ethicon/Johnson & Johnson, are using RollStream to revolutionize their partner relationships and achieve multi-million dollar returns on their investment.

Visit www.rollstream.com to learn more.

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