Press Release
Daptiv’s YouCon08 Conference Focuses on How Enterprises Get Work Done Smarter and Faster
Three-Day Event Hosted by SaaS Collaboration and Project Management Leader Features Keynote by “Wikinomics” Author Anthony D. Williams
SEATTLE, WA — December 3, 2007 — Daptiv (www.daptiv.com), the on-demand leader in collaborative business software, today announced plans for its annual user conference, YouCon08, January 21-24 at San Diego’s Paradise Point Resort. YouCon08 will be the largest Daptiv user event to date—and the first to be held away from its Seattle headquarters—uniting more than 300 Daptiv customers across a broad range of industry verticals with Daptiv executives, developers and representatives. Conference themes include exploring the impact of mass collaboration on knowledge and work, how companies are creating dynamic “do-it-yourself” applications on the Daptiv platform, and the integration of Daptiv’s on-demand technology with traditional on-premise software. The event will also feature workshops, panels, customer stories and a look at what is coming next from Daptiv.
Anthony D. Williams, vice president and executive editor at the business research and consulting firm New Paradigm, and co-author of "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything," will provide the keynote address for the event. An expert on how knowledge is shaped by mass collaboration, Williams will discuss the vital link between technology and business and the influence of Web 3.0 on the workplace.
In addition to discussing Daptiv's Fall Edition release and the rebirth of eProject as Daptiv, YouCon08 will provide customers with the opportunity to weigh in on the recent enhancements to the Daptiv platform, including the integration of Work Intelligence capabilities that give staff at every level visibility into business operations and key performance data. By soliciting and incorporating customer feedback, Daptiv continually improves its technology to provide users an on-demand competitive advantage.
The convention will also feature business and technical tracks that cover a wide spectrum of issues, including the benefits of on-demand software for organizations of all sizes, how to get the most out of Daptiv, and ways to implement online collaboration across the business. Other events on the agenda include:
- A product roadmap session with a look at what’s coming next
- Q&A sessions with Daptiv’s management team, engineers and product mangers
- A Dynamic Applications build-off in which attendees compete to create the most useful dynamic application
- A full day of post-conference training
"The spirit of Daptiv’s YouCon08 is to connect the individual user with the collective knowledge of the Daptiv community," said Jeff Pancottine, CEO of Daptiv. "YouCon08 is a unique opportunity for collaboration and learning between all members of the Daptiv community. Drawing on users’ input is crucial to Daptiv’s continued leadership in on-demand collaborative business software."
Register for YouCon08 online.
About Daptiv Inc.
Founded in 1997, Daptiv is the on-demand leader in collaborative business software that enables companies of all sizes to transform their mid-office business operations. From new product development to operations and service delivery, Daptiv’s on-demand solutions streamline employees’ day-to-day interaction and collaboration while dramatically reducing the complexity of managing multiple teams, projects and tasks. Daptiv also gives executives unparalleled visibility into project, program and portfolio execution, as well as the ability to measure progress against key business priorities. Daptiv’s flexible environment easily adapts to the work management needs of any department – from IT and finance to marketing and human resources – with an intuitive user interface, point-and-click system configuration and fast creation of forms, reports and alerts. Based in Seattle, Washington, Daptiv has already transformed the mid-office for more than 700 customers and 100,000 individuals at companies such as BASF, BP, Cushman and Wakefield, Chase Paymentech, Honeywell, Merrill Lynch, Sprint/Nextel, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, and RealNetworks. For more information visit www.daptiv.com
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