Bellevue, WA – September 1, 2009 - Realcom, a leading provider of enterprise software and services that enable organizations to capture and leverage enterprise information, knowledge and expertise, has been recognized as the "trend setting product" for 2009 for its AskMe for SharePoint knowledge networking solution.

KMWorld, a leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market, along with a judging panel consisting of editorial colleagues, analysts, system integrators, vendors themselves, line-of-business managers and users, selected AskMe for SharePoint as a product that “demonstrates clearly identifiable technology breakthroughs that serve the vendors’ full spectrum of constituencies, especially their customers.”

"We're proud to have been recognized by the industry as a knowledge management solution that truly brings innovation to a market crowded with options," said Steve Hanson, Realcom's vice president of Sales and Marketing. "To be selected from a list of over 800 players says a lot about Realcom's vision for the market and the value that is placed on bringing innovation and value to the knowledge management space."

According to Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor-in-chief, “it’s more important than ever for knowledge management solution providers to deliver innovation that truly helps customers solve real business problems. Being recognized as a ‘trend setter’ not only means that the solution provider is delivering that innovation, but that they also have a vision for how that innovation delivers value to customers.”

The AskMe for SharePoint knowledge networking solution provides a broad set of enhancements for Microsoft ® Office SharePoint ® Server to help organizations transform their SharePoint environment into a full-featured Enterprise Social Computing platform. AskMe is tightly integrated with SharePoint to provide true expertise location, powerful federated search, broad communities of practice with cross-community feeds, and comprehensive analytics to help drive adoption and facilitate successful use patterns.

About Realcom

As a leading supplier of enterprise social networking and knowledge management solutions, Realcom (www.realcom-inc.com) and its AskMe products provide the framework, tools and related professional services that allow organizations employing knowledge workers in a team-based environment to more effectively leverage internal information, knowledge and expertise; thus enabling organizations to effectively build customer loyalty,speed the pace of internal innovation and meet time-to-market pressures.

An international company with offices in Tokyo, Seattle and Pune, India, Realcom’s AskMe solutions have enabled customers such as Mitsubishi, Novartis, Sony, Bank of Tokyo and PTC to streamline their knowledge management practices and make organization-wide information and expertise both visible and actionable.

About KMWorld

KMWorld (www.kmworld.com) is the leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market and covers the latest in Content, Document and Knowledge Management, informing more than 50,000 subscribers about the components and processes—and subsequent success stories—that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc. (www.infotoday.com)

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