Socialtext Partners with Ping Identity To Help Customers Advance Cloud Computing Strategies

Socialtext integrates its enterprise social software platform with PingFederate, a Single Sign-On technology allowing customers to manage identities securely across all of their cloud-based applications.

June 9, 2010, Palo Alto, California

To support the needs of its growing list of customers committed to a Cloud computing strategy, Socialtext has partnered with Ping Identity to integrate its enterprise social software platform with PingFederate. A Single Sign-On solution that implements easily in any environment, PingFederate lets companies manage user identities and provides Single Sign-On that works across all of their cloud-based applications including Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, ADP and now, Socialtext.

"As the leading cloud-based social collaboration vendor, we want it to be easy for our customers to manage user identities across all their critical cloud apps," says Socialtext CEO Eugene Lee. "This partnership with Ping Identity will make that possible for the growing list of companies who benefit from the fast innovation cycles and low cost of ownership of cloud-based enterprise applications."

“The Cloud movement is driving demand for identity management across applications,” says Ping Identity Director of Business Development and Strategic Cloud Alliances Mike Desai. “We are pleased to work with Socialtext to support their customers’ current and future Cloud SSO and identity management requirements with a proven solution that is easy to implement and can scale as Socialtext’s social collaboration platform grows.”

Momentum Worldwide, a global integrated marketing agency, uses the Socialtext collaboration platform to generate ideas, collaborate, and manage projects with some of its major blue-chip clients. Momentum also uses PingFederate to give users Single Sign-On across all its cloud-based applications, including Socialtext.

"We need applications that can help our employees and clients move at the speed of our global business," says Doug Pierce, global IT director at Momentum. "That's why we developed a cloud strategy, and that's why we chose Socialtext. We need our cloud applications to be easier to use and manage than traditional enterprise applications, which includes letting users sign on once across all applications."

Ping Federate and Socialtext integration is immediately available. For further information, contact sales@socialtext.com.

About Socialtext

Socialtext addresses the critical issues organizations face as their people and teams struggle for better ways to share knowledge, ideas and expertise. With Socialtext's enterprise social software platform, people and teams are synchronized, highly engaged and able to move fast. The Socialtext collaboration platform employs a broad set of social software technologies including microblogging, social networking, filtered activity streams, widget-based dashboards, blogs and wikis. Socialtext offers both the convenience of SaaS and the security of an on-site appliance, for the fastest time to value. More than 6,500 businesses world-wide have accelerated their business performance with Socialtext, including Oxford University Press, Meredith Corporation, OSIsoft, Symantec, The Washington Post, and Epitaph Records. Learn more about Socialtext at www.socialtext.com.

About Ping Identity Corporation

Ping Identity is the market leader in Internet Identity Security, delivering on-premise software and on-demand services for Internet Single Sign-On (SSO), Identity-Enabled Web Services and Internet User Account Management. More than 450 enterprises, government agencies, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors and online service providers worldwide rely on Ping Identity to streamline application access, reduce administrative costs, generate additional revenue and improve security. Visit www.pingidentity.com for additional information.

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As the Enterprise 2.0 leader, Socialtext applies Web 2.0 technologies such as enterprise microblogging, enterprise social networking and wikis to the critical challenges facing businesses. Socialtext's enterprise collaboration platform allows employees to share expertise, speed workflows and get their jobs done faster. Read our latest news highlights, press releases, coverage & awards, and recent and upcoming events.