Seriosity Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm
Firms selected for Gartner's "Cool Vendor report" are innovative, impactful and intriguing
Palo Alto, CA, March 20, 2007 - Seriosity, Inc., a developer of innovative enterprise software inspired by multiplayer games, has been named one of Gartner, Inc.'s "Cool Vendors in the High Performance Workplace, 2007" in a report issued March 15, 2007 by Toby Bell, et al.
Seriosity, along with the other vendors highlighted in the report, provides products that "focus on helping people relate to each other better, as well as on information assets", according to Gartner. "The value of the relationship between people and information is most important in the high performance workplace and, by providing better control and context" these products "improve the levels of engagement between customers, co-workers".
"We are excited to have been named to Gartner's 'Cool Vendor' listing and to have received what we think is a prestigious honor," said Seriosity CEO, Ken Ross. "Seriosity's unique approach to email productivity enhancement gets people to think about what's important and what's not, rather than just hitting the 'Reply to All' button. It benefits both sender and receiver across the enterprise."
Seriosity's product, Attent™, uses economic, psychological and gaming principles to address the corporate email information overload problem. One global corporate customer has estimated its own annual email overload costs at over $1 billion.
Attent creates a virtual economy with a currency, called Serios, which are allocated periodically to users. Senders attach variable numbers of Serios to email they send, signaling importance. Recipients can prioritize their inboxes based upon Serios which they retain upon receipt and can use for future emails. Attent provides a variety of tools to track and analyze Serio use and the related communication patterns throughout the enterprise.
"The vanishing cost of electronic communication has resulted in an avalanche of email" says Ken Ross. "Attent enables anyone to flag and prioritize new ideas, fostering innovation and creativity in the enterprise while enabling knowledge workers to become more productive, efficient and focused in the workplace."
About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
About Seriosity,Inc.
Seriosity's mission is to change the way people work together in today's information-intensive business environments. Its software products and services improve collaboration, innovation, communication and leadership. Using economic, psychological and gaming principles that create focus and motivation, Seriosity's solutions enable organizations to better align individual user behavior with corporate goals. Until now, these design elements have been missing from traditional enterprise software applications. The company combines a unique blend of intellectual property and thought leadership with a management team that has deep enterprise software experience. The company, located in Palo Alto, CA, is privately held and is funded by Alloy Ventures. For more information, please visit www.seriosity.com or call (650) 352-5631.