Gartner Names Yakabod Cool Vendor

Frederick, MD (May 17, 2010) –Yakabod, developer of the Yakabox™ knowledge sharing system, announced today it is included in the "Cool Vendors in the High-Performance Workplace, 2010" report published by Gartner, Inc. Gartner defines a cool vendor as “a company whose solutions are innovative, impactful and intriguing” for a specific market category.

"A big cheer broke out around here when we got the news," says Scott Ryser, Yakabod CEO. “We’ve been building the Yakabox™ for nearly ten years, always driven by the desire to help people do stuff that matters. In our book, that’s a high-performance workplace. This is welcome recognition.”

The Cool Vendor report highlights a handful of companies that "deliver value by improving the connections between people and the information they need, and doing so more easily and often less expensively than in the past."

The Yakabox™ is an ultra-secure knowledge sharing appliance certified for use in top-secret environments, including the U.S. intelligence community. The system, which integrates search, social networking, collaboration and content management, is so straightforward users are productive the first time they log on. The Yakabox™ is deployable in days (comparable systems require months of integration and customization), and lifetime ownership costs are up to 90 percent less than other enterprise software.