AUSTIN, Texas — October 12, 2009 — Dachis Group today announced its Social Business Technology Alliance program. Social Business Design solutions are increasingly being implemented throughout large global companies for business partner optimization, workforce collaboration, and customer participation and engagement. With this unified set of alliances, Dachis Group is able to deliver complete software solutions to their global customer base.
Through this alliance program, an initial set of technology providers have committed to a robust engagement pathway that ensures the technology partner will be able to focus on meting the needs of Dachis Group clients, providing high quality service in the form of unified support services. This allows Dachis Group clients to manage their complete Social Business software investment through a single point of contact.
“Most customers have distinct needs that go beyond just software or tools. Dachis Group offers a unique delivery capability with their industry leading strategic services. We are excited to be a part of this alliance as we strive to deliver Social Business solutions.” said Larry Oglesby, Worldwide Sales Manager, IBM Lotus Connections.
“Through these alliances and our unified delivery framework, we are able to bring some of the most experienced technology and integration providers and their resources and capabilities to bear for our customers to address all levels of business requirements,” said Jevon Macdonald, Senior Partner at Dachis Group.
Realizing that all companies have different needs, Dachis Group has focused its implementation efforts around aligning with the best technology providers and integrators in the marketplace. This allows Dachis Group to deliver the most solution innovation in feature rich, reliable, software, service, and support offerings. Partner solutions may be deployed and integrated with Open Source, Custom Developed or Web Service based solutions to address a full spectrum of customer needs.
Through the participation of industry leading systems integrators, Dachis Group is able to offer complete design, integration and customization services for industry leading Microsoft Sharepoint and IBM Lotus Connections using its Social Business Design methodology.
“Time after time we have seen the need for Dachis Group’s strategic services which can help our customers maximize their investment in Telligent Enterprise and Community Server. Dachis Group’s three practice areas offer the strategic and program management support our global customers need,” said Rob Howard, Founder and CTO, Telligent.
“Expanding and embracing our ecosystem is a core tenet of Social Business Design. I am pleased to bring this group of world class technology, service, and support to our clients through the Dachis Group Technology Alliance Program. Our clients will benefit from the comprehensive array of technology delivery options, in addition to competitive pricing.” said Jeffrey Dachis, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dachis Group.
The initial Dachis Group Technology Alliance includes:
- IBM Lotus Connections – Enterprise Social Networking tools
- Telligent Community Server – Customer and enterprise facing forums, profiles and social networking
- Atlassian Confluence – Wiki-based collaboration
- ThoughtFarmer – Social Intranet Software
- Cotweet.com – Twitter for Business
- SocialWare – Social Media risk management
- Socialcast – Enterprise Dynamic Signal platform
- Photon Infotech – Social Media Framework
- Bamboo Networks – Custom Application Development and Rehabilitation
- Starpoint Solutions – Telligent implementation and integration
About Dachis Group
Founded in 2008, by Jeffrey Dachis, with offices in the North American, European and Asia/Pacific regions, Dachis Group (Dachis Corporation, Inc.) was created to unlock the value of social technologies for large corporate enterprises through its Social Business Design global advisory practice and technology implementation program.
The company’s strategy is backed by a commitment from Austin Ventures to build and grow organically and through acquisitions.
Among the global enterprise client verticals Dachis Group serves are: software, semiconductors, information services, global restaurant services, consumer products, media and publishing, health care, and financial services with clients including: Philips Healthcare, Coca-Cola, Intuit, and Yum! Brands.
Now founder and CEO of Dachis Group, Dachis’ leadership and vision helped establish the digital services industry more than 15 years ago when he co-founded Razorfish. As the Razorfish CEO, President, and Chairman, he grew the company into one of the world’s largest digital solutions providers and led the company to win numerous performance, design, and professional service awards. Razorfish was part of Microsoft’s $6 billion purchase of aQuantive, and was most recently spun out from Microsoft and sold to Publicis for $530 million.
About Austin Ventures
Austin Ventures (“AV”) has worked with talented entrepreneurs to build valuable companies for nearly twenty-five years. With $3.9 billion under management, AV is the most active venture capital and growth equity firm in Texas and one of the most established in the nation. With an investment focus on: business services and supply chain; financial services; media and information services; software and Internet; and Texas special situations, AV invests at all stages of company development, from $100,000 in “planned experiments” in early stage ideas to $100+ million investments in expansion rounds, minority re-capitalizations, and buyouts of lower middle market growth companies. AV’s strategy is to partner with talented executives and entrepreneurs through its CEO-in-Residence and Entrepreneur-in-Residence programs.
Technology software and services companies interested in aligning to provide Social Business Design solutions contact: alliances@dachisgroup.com
Dachis Group is always looking for talented leaders, contact: opportunities@dachisgroup.com
If you are interested in finding out how Dachis Group can help your business, contact: socialbusinessdesign@dachisgroup.com
For more information contact:
Dachis Group:
Jevon MacDonald
jevon.macdonald@dachisgroup.com
+1 (415) 683-0739
info@dachisgroup.com
http://www.dachisgroup.com