colorado united states key people greg reinacker founder daniel kraft ceo products social sites tomoye sitrion one number of employees 85 website sitrion sitrion formerly newsgator technologies is a multinational software company headquartered in denver colorado . sitrion develops and markets mobility and collaboration software . it was founded in 2004 under the name newsgator . it was initially a consumer company focused on rss aggregation before shifting its focus to the enterprise market . the company raised 12 million in funding in 2007 and acquired tomoye in 2010 . in 2013 newsgator acquired sitrion and in 2014 chose to keep the same name . contents 1 corporate history 2 software 2.1 sitrion one 2.2 sitrion social 2.3 past software 3 references corporate history edit sitrion was founded as newsgator in 2004 by greg reinacker and was initially self funded . mobius provided an undisclosed amount of series a and series b funding in the early 2000s . 2 a third 6 million round of funding was raised in 2005 . 3 in 2005 the company acquired bradbury software which developed a desktop application called feeddemon and a css xhtml editor called topstyle . 4 another 12 million in funding was raised in december 2007 followed by 10 million in 2009 . 5 from 2004 to 2010 the company s ceo was jb holston . 6 in 2010 the company acquired canada based tomoye an enterprise community and collaboration computing vendor primarily used by government organizations . 7 daniel kraft became ceo & president in 2012 . 8 in 2013 newsgator acquired sitrion who was previously a business partner . 9 10 in january of the following year the company changed its name to sitrion . 11 while initially the purchase of sitrion was intended to expand the product portfolio of newsgator 12 it then began focusing on selling social networking software to client companies a business it had been in since 2007 specifically sitrion social workplace . 13 kraft has stated that introducing social collaboration concepts can create a more invested staff saying if you terminate nonproductive conversations then you re eliminating the ability to make the network a community people would like to belong to . 14 software edit a user interface image of the sitrion one collaboration software sitrion one edit the company produces the cloud based mobile productivity app sitrion one which has pre packaged integrations with sap microsoft sharepoint office 365 sql and salesforce . the app is compatible with ios windows phone android and tablets . enterprise apps made through sitrion one are used for companies when engaging with their staff . 15 these are used for both employer owned devices and byod bring your own device company models via integration with sap microsoft sharepoint office 365 sql salesforce.com and open protocols such as rest . 16 sitrion social is comparable to facebook but designed for use with sharepoint and used for employee collaboration . 5 it is typically used to add functionality to microsoft sharepoint and sap processes . 9 17 sitrion social edit sitrion social is an add on for sharepoint which also integrates with sap . 13 18 version 3.0 of social sites now sitrion social was released in late 2009 . among other improvements it introduced a microblogging component to the software . 19 in 2012 the company started developing software for vertical markets 20 and products for regulatory compliance in partnership with hisoftware . 21 a simplified user interface for newsgator tomoye was introduced in 2011 . 22 computers and applied sciences reviewed version 2.7 of social sites sitrion s facebook like employee collaboration tool . it praised the software s user interface and synchronization across devices . 17 past software edit in 2004 sitrion then called newsgator originally developed consumer rss software that allowed users to receive notifications when a blog news site or other page was updated . 2 23 it was one of few readers that integrated directly with microsoft outlook . 23 in 2003 a version 1.3 was introduced that added support for subscribing to newsgroups through outlook automated some of the organization features and made other improvements . 24 version 2.0 was released in march 2004 which allowed users to get notifications from any device to access exclusive content and made other improvements . 25 by 2004 it was one of the better known rss tools . 26 it also made a partnership that year with pr firm edelman to develop a reader tool called hosted conversations used by edelman clients and available to others . 27 integration with factiva was also introduced that year . 28 newsgator started pursuing the enterprise market in late 2005 with a new newsgator enterprise server nges product . 29 references edit eldon eric january 11 2012 . newsgator has quietly built an enterprise social networking business on top of sharepoint . techcrunch . aol inc. retrieved 27 february 2014 . a b wehner ross december 2 2004 . vc firm re infuses newsgator superior based mobius is the sole investor in the company that offers news updates from across the web . the denver post . pp . c 04 . mcghee tom april 20 2005 . news update firm attracts interest . the denver post . jaques r. newsgator snaps up feeddemon . information world review serial online . june 2005 ; 214 8 . available from computers & applied sciences complete ipswich ma . accessed may 31 2014 . a b perez juan january 12 2009 . enterprise 2.0 vendor newsgator gets funding boost . cio magazine . http www.xconomy.com boulder denver 2014 05 08 10 things to know about ben blackstone and colorados gazelles zinck barb january 20 2010 . newsgator acquires tomoye expands solution offering markets . cms wire . mosher zinck barb august 12 2012 . newsgator brings in ifridge founder daniel kraft as new president & ceo . cms wire . simpler media group inc. retrieved 27 february 2014 . a b stowe boyd 2013 10 23 . newsgator acquires sitrion pushes ahead in innovation sector . gigaom . gigaom . retrieved 27 february 2014 . turk melanie 2013 10 22 . in acquiring sitrion newsgator hopes to make the mundane more fun . nojitter . enterprise connect . retrieved 27 february 2014 . koplowitz rob february 3 2014 . your next portal should be an engagement workplace . forrester research . forrester research . retrieved 27 february 2014 . http www.nojitter.com post 240163017 in acquiring sitrion newsgator hopes to make the mundane more fun a b http www.informationweek.com healthcare leadership childrens hospital of philadelphia embraces social collaboration d d id 1127621 tarmy james january 22 2015 . facebook at work is late to the office . bloomberg . http www.appstechnews.com news 2015 feb 05 sitrion joins enterprise mobile productivity game sitrion one http www.enterprisemobilityexchange.com sitrion launches single secure cloud based environment to mobilise entire workforces utm campaign speakerpromo & utm medium online & utm source speakerpromo & utm content sitriononelaunch & utm term 23074.001 mobilityiq & mac emiq speaker a b reid c. newsgator social sites 2.7 . econtent serial online . september 2009 ; 32 7 20 22 . available from computers & applied sciences complete ipswich ma . accessed june 1 2014 . http www.pcworld.com article 2366780 tibco deepens tibbr integration with sharepoint.html newsgator releases social sites 3.0 . km world serial online . november 2009 ; 18 10 29 . available from computers & applied sciences complete ipswich ma . accessed june 1 2014 . newsgator launches social business solutions for key vertical markets . marketing weekly news . august 11 2012 . p. 426 . newsgator and hisoftware close the social business compliance gap . information technology newsweekly . march 13 2012 . p. 228 . newsgator simplifies management of online communities with new version of newsgator tomoye . computer weekly news . february 3 2011 . p. 119 . a b lynch j. rss news readers browse for you . pc magazine serial online . october 2003 ; 22 17 32 . available from computers & applied sciences complete ipswich ma . accessed june 1 2014 . caton m. newsgator sharpens news gathering . eweek serial online . august 25 2003 ; 20 34 51 . available from computers & applied sciences complete ipswich ma . accessed june 1 2014 . miller r. rss delivery gets around with newsgator upgrade . econtent serial online . march 2004 ; 27 3 7 8 . available from computers & applied sciences complete ipswich ma . accessed may 31 2014 . shinkle kirk april 12 2004 . too much data to track on web then aggregate with rss . investor s business daily . garcia tonya december 18 2006 . newsgator edelman ink partnership . prweek . retrieved june 1 2014 . pickering b. newsgator link up gives factiva edge in rss feeds . information world review serial online . june 2005 ; 214 3 . available from computers & applied sciences complete ipswich ma . accessed june 1 2014 . elgan mike . newsgator goes corporate with rss server . informationweek . 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