SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Rooster (www.bluerooster.com), an interactive technology consulting firm specializing in collaborative internal- and external-facing Web sites for large corporations, today announced the availability of ‘Sepulveda,’ a pioneering social enterprise solution framework that enables employees and stakeholders within large organizations to more effectively collaborate and communicate online. Developed to go far beyond ‘Facebook-like’ experiences, Sepulveda is unique to the social business marketplace by combining an array of powerful social features and capabilities for the enterprise with the familiarity and stability of being built upon Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
Having worked with clients such as FedEx, Eli Lilly, Abbott Labs, Chevron, and Microsoft, Blue Rooster developed Sepulveda to initially focus on enterprises within four key vertical segments: global logistics; oil/natural gas; pharmaceutical; and financial services. Named for Sepulveda Boulevard, a 42-mile street that connects numerous communities in and around Los Angeles, Sepulveda enhances workplace collaboration by embracing social networking tools that workforces know and trust. As a solution framework developed on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Sepulveda empowers client organizations to easily foster virtual work groups and communities where employees and teams can share documents and ideas, track updates and leave comments, all in real-time – helping to drive the worker productivity in the enterprise. Sepulveda’s features include:
- Complete and seamless integration with Microsoft Office 2010 and Office Web app: Employees can easily create and collaborate based on systems and software they already know; invaluable for document and project collaboration;
- Flexibility: Sepulveda can be deployed both inside the enterprise (intranets) and outside of the firewall (extranets, Internet) to enable interaction with employees, customers and business partners by using the same set of capabilities and tools;
- App Store: Users can easily add content and applications specific to their needs and tastes;
- Ability to easily connect in Outlook via an Outlook add-in –seamlessly bringing SharePoint, Content and Communities into Information Workers common email portal;
- The ability to easily create dynamic profiles, work groups and communities;
- Superior document sharing and management tools built-in: No need to email documents internally, as Sepulveda provides secure repositories where stakeholders can access them;
- Powerful search tools: Sepulveda enables users to easily locate relevant content across file shares, Web sites, or line-of-business applications and subject matter experts
- Data ownership: Sepulveda clients own all of their data, as opposed to many other solutions in the marketplace in which companies don’t have this basic but very important element of control;
- Leverages all features of SharePoint, but with a distinct and tailor-able user experience, capability set, and interface;
- Cost effective: No yearly subscription fees or other persistent charges associated with most of the solutions currently on the market: no per user per-month fees or annual licensing fees.
“Social collaboration is clearly transforming the way the businesses communicate and we developed Sepulveda specifically to provide companies with the most useful and productive elements of a solution framework built upon proven and familiar software,” said Kevin Conroy, Blue Rooster founder and president. “With so much hype and conjecture in the social business space, it is especially important for businesses to have easy access to the tools that workers know, the ones they use constantly when they’re not at work, and the tools they prefer. We developed Sepulveda to help companies work smarter, faster, and better, without any of the concerns that surround unproven enterprise solutions or accelerated ‘freemium’ models where the original cost escalates as basic features come online and expensive monthly user fees accumulate.”
Sepulveda users benefit from the combined core elements of SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Office 2010 and Outlook 2010 enabling users to be more productive while using products and tools they know:
Communities: Users can easily access expertise and interact with other people in new and creative ways across the enterprise through both formal and informal networks.
Electronic content management: Sepulveda supports the creation, review, publication, and disposal of content, including conforming to defined compliance rules, whether the content exists as traditional documents or as Web pages. Content-management capabilities include document management, records management, and Web-content management.
Insights: Users can only rapidly deliver and share information that is critical to the success of the business, but also to turn raw data into actionable conclusions and to drive business results through sharing data-driven analysis.
Applications: Sepulveda facilitates the ability to quickly create solutions without involving corporate IT in each request. At the same time, the IT staff needs the capability to empower business users to create these applications while ensuring the environment’s stability and availability.
About Blue Rooster
Blue Rooster (www.bluerooster.com) is an interactive technology consulting firm specializing in collaborative internal- and external-facing social enterprise Web sites for large corporations. Since 2002, the company has worked with a growing list of Fortune 500 clients to formulate development strategies for their respective sites, and has then deployed a unique blend of expertise in user experience and technology to maximize adoption and collaboration throughout the client organizations. In short, Blue Rooster creates and builds interactive experiences that produce real results through integration into the daily lives of users.