Purpose-Built Portal and Software-as-a-Service Solution Provider Fuz1on Launches Today

Fuz1on, a full-service portal solution and management consultancy, officially opened its doors today to provide clients with the tools and project management needed to effectively build out custom enterprise portals, as well as migrate their data to the cloud.

Set up as an incubator, initially by leading global marketing agency, Momentum Worldwide, part of McCann Worldgroup and an Interpublic Group agency, Fuz1on vetted dozens of solution provider partners to help build Momentum a global portal to streamline communications between their 2000+ employees around the world. Based on the success of the Momentum portal, Fuz1on spun off as a separate company and is supported by a consolidation of proven, best-in-class applications offered through software as a service hosted in the cloud. The complete Fuz1on package includes a fully customizable portal featuring blogs and microblogs, wikis, dashboards, widgets, enterprise search, large file transfer and cloud computing. Fuz1on's hand-picked flagship partners offering these services include:

— NETVIBES for Dashboard/Widgets

— EXALEAD for Enterprise Search

— PING IDENTITY for Single Sign On

— WEBCARGO for Large File Delivery

— SOCIALTEXT for microblogging and integrated wiki development and support

Fuz1on also provides clients with project and vendor management expertise. “It's so common for miscommunication issues to arise when there are several vendors involved in a project, especially one as complex as building a portal or handling complex data management from multiple sources,” said Doug Pierce, Fuz1on president. “By choosing Fuz1on, our project managers will manage all of the vendors involved as central point of contact, and will take the burden off of the client. It's a win win and we're so excited to be going to market with this solution that was game changing for our first client, Momentum Worldwide.”

FUZ1ON PARTNERS:

NETVIBES

Netvibes pioneered the leading dashboard publishing platform for the real-time Web that helps millions of people around the world instantly dashboard everything that matters to them most. For Fuz1on clients, Netvibes for Enterprise helps companies rapidly deploy secure, scalable personal workspaces and visual intranets, brand monitoring rooms and community portals. Today, Netvibes powers dashboard applications for more than 1,500 of the world's leading agencies, corporations and government organizations–serving more than half a billion widgets every month. Netvibes has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco and counts Momentum Worldwide, Mars Corporation, The Financial Times, IAC, Orange and Sage among its many clients. www.netvibes.com

EXALEAD

Exalead provides faceted, semantic search for Fuz1on clients. Not only can users quickly and easily access information across their portal in wiki's, social media groups, forums, blogs and dashboards, but it can access the client's local share drives as well. Security is automatically handled to assure that organizations have information security that rivals and even exceeds that found behind the firewall. Exalead's faceted search capability allows users to tag documents that then become part of the search navigation categories. With Exalead, users gain immediate access to collaboration output as they're created and distributed to communities. Access to best practices, customer intelligence and other valuable insights accelerate results, lower knowledge worker costs and enhance Fuz1on customer's bottom line. Exalead's impressive global client base includes BNP Paribas, IDG, and Universal Music France. www.exalead.com

PING IDENTITY

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 500 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 to learn more.

WEBCARGO

WEBCARGO is an online delivery service that lets individuals and businesses of all sizes securely send, receive, share and store files of any type. Originally built to increase creative collaboration and accelerate the approval process within the advertising industry and marketing departments, WEBCARGO today is trusted by companies that need to move large, time-critical files around the world with business accountability and delivery confirmation in both English and French. While maintaining services and features at the forefront of technology, WEBCARGO continues to provide a personalized service to all. www.webcargo.com

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 Getty Images, Mayo Clinic, Oxford University Press, Meredith Corporation, OSIsoft, Symantec, The Washington Post, and Epitaph Records. Learn more about Socialtext at www.socialtext.com