Sococo Announces Virtual Enterprise Environments and Instant Video Communications at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011

Award-winning Sococo Team Space Helps Enterprises Improve Workforce Productivity While Reducing Communications Costs

ORLANDO, Fla. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo -- Sococo, the social communications company, today announces virtual enterprise environments and a new instant video communications capability for Sococo Team Space at Gartner Symposium / ITxpo 2011. Virtual enterprise environments are specially designed Team Spaces that can be customized to facilitate the many ways enterprises look, work, and communicate, while instant video communications joins a suite of real-time communication tools integrated into Team Space that do not require advanced setup, calling, or dialing.

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Sococo Team Space is an award-winning virtual work environment for distributed enterprises that has a fully integrated suite of communication tools within a spatial user interface. Individual workspaces can be designed with specific layouts, looks, and properties to optimize for unique communication and collaboration needs. Collectively these interlinked Team Spaces form a virtual enterprise that is customized to the way an enterprise looks, works, and communicates. Team Space will be able to incorporate corporate branding and design standards to insure the virtual enterprise is at once familiar, natural, and conducive to highly productive interactions.

In addition, Sococo is announcing a new instant video communications capability which leverages Team Space's always-on, real-time infrastructure. Unlike other video calling or conferencing solutions, Sococo's video communications capability does not require any setup or dialing. Within the Team Space work environment, video communications are established in real-time and switch instantaneously depending on a user's virtual location and with whom the user is meeting.  One-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many video communications can now take place in either an ad hoc or scheduled manner, allowing teams to efficiently utilize the power of video communications to solve problems.

"Sococo is dedicated to making virtual workspaces as intuitive and familiar as possible so customers spend less time training and more time working in Team Space," said Chris Wheeler, president, Sococo.  "In today's difficult economic and hiring climate, Sococo helps companies bring together world-wide resources into a single virtual enterprise environment with unique features and capabilities that increase productivity while reducing costs."

What are Sococo Virtual Enterprise Environments?

At the center of the Sococo Team Space experience is a unique spatial user interface that provides everyone a shared experience. This human dimension to distributed communications provided by Sococo virtual environments is missing from all other communication services.

In collaboration with enterprise customers, Sococo will design spaces with the unique look, feel, and functionality needed to meet specific communication demands.  Examples of the types of work environments possible include:

• New employee orientation rooms
• Auditoriums and amphitheaters
• Training rooms
• IT help desk and other service areas

Connected together with offices and conference rooms, Sococo is able to provide companies for the first time a complete virtual enterprise environment that reflects their brand identity and the way they work.  The result is a more cohesive, productive, and cost efficient distributed workforce.

About Sococo Team Space with Instant Video Communications

Instant video communications will join a suite of communication tools -- voice, phone, chat, and multi-screen sharing -- that are fully integrated into Team Space to enable the ad hoc and scheduled interactions at the heart of team problem solving. What sets Sococo's video capability apart from other video calling or conferencing solutions is its integration into an always-on, real-time communications environment.  This integration will allow video conversations to switch and adjust dynamically and instantaneously depending on the user's virtual location, with whom the user is meeting, and whether users enter or exit rooms. One-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many video communications can now happen naturally, even in an ad hoc manner, and the expectation is that distributed teams will be able to make greater use of Team Space video communications to maximize efficiency, productivity, and cost savings.

What is Team Space?

Team Space is a virtual work and communications environment that enables teams to solve problems more quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively.  By integrating people, applications, processes, and communications within a unique spatial user interface, Team Space provides a socially aware work experience that improves team productivity and enables both ad hoc and scheduled interactions that occur naturally and are at the heart of team problem solving.

Sococo Team Space is a visual, always-on work environment, providing users integrated information on team availability, workplace activity, and expert credentials.  As a result, teams can assemble the right expertise at the right time to address issues as they arise.

Team Space is available on a subscription basis.  A complimentary trial is available by visiting www.sococo.com/enterprise.php or calling +1 650 265 7013.

About Sococo

Sococo is the social communications service company. Sococo's flagship product, Team Space, is a virtual work environment enabling teams to communicate and solve problems more quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively. Team Space is used in 64 countries by over 3,400 teams. Founded in 2007, Sococo is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Sococo has been named a Gartner Group Cool Vendor, 2011, a TiE50 Award Winner, 2011, a Start Up to Watch by CIO Magazine, 2010, a Top Ten Hot Emerging Vendors by CRN, October 2010, and an Emerging Technology Award Winner by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, 2010.

About Gartner Symposium/ITxpo

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the IT industry's largest and most strategic conference, providing business leaders with a look at the future of IT. For more than 10,000 IT professionals from the world's leading enterprises, Gartner's annual Symposium/ITxpo events are key components of their annual planning efforts. Attendees rely on Gartner Symposium/ITxpo to gain insight into how their organizations can use technology to address business challenges and improve operational efficiency. For more information, please visit http://www.gartner.com/technology/symposium/orlando/index.jsp.

Sococo Media Contact: Leigh Anne Varney, Varney Business Communication, la@varneybusiness.com, +1 415 387 7250

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