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New Analyst White Paper Describes How Serendipity Technologies WorkLight(TM) Can Consumerize the Enterprise with Web 2.0 Benefits.


New Workplace Productivity Tool WorkLight Recognized as DEMO 07 Standout

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 Technologies Inc., a provider of Enterprise 2.0 software products that consumerize the enterprise application experience, today posted to its Web site, an IDC white paper sponsored by Serendipity that identifies the critical importance of simplifying data access in improving enterprise productivity. The white paper states that "Serendipity's vision and its WorkLight solution are an interesting contribution to the enterprise's ongoing search for the best tools to make information workers more productive."

The IDC white paper, entitled "Consumerizing the Enterprise: Serendipity Technologies' WorkLight Offers Web 2.0 Benefits to the Enterprise," describes WorkLight as a product with consumer-style flexibility that can also offer the security and quality businesses require. WorkLight was recently launched at DEMO 07 and recognized as a product to watch in the coming year.

The IDC white paper posits that the success of Web 2.0 technologies in the consumer world, through technologies like RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. , AJAX applications, gadgets, application mashups and social bookmarking Ranking a Web site by users who like the content rather than by the total number of links to the site. Social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us) let users tag their favorite sites with key words and post them for others to see. See folksonomy and page ranking.  have raised expectations of what is possible in the enterprise. Serendipity's vision and products are based on this new business need to empower workers.

"The WorkLight solution offered by Serendipity Technologies offers a host of benefits for information-intensive organizations," said Gilad Nass, research director at the Emerging Technologies research service at IDC. "WorkLight aims to foster collaboration within the enterprise by enabling an easier, personalized per·son·al·ize  
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, user experience and providing easier access to information stored in multiple data silos (1) A separate database or set of data files that are not part of an organization's enterprise-wide data administration. See siloed application.

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At the recent DEMO 07 emerging technologies conference in Palm Desert, Calif., Serendipity discussed the dire need for personalized access to enterprise applications. "According to according to
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 a 2006 IDC study, today's information workers spend roughly one-half of their work time searching for and analyzing information," stated David Lavenda, vice president of marketing and product strategy at Serendipity Technologies. "That's almost 20 hours a week being sucked out of your worker's valuable time; and that translates into a lot of money. Using WorkLight, information workers, including the new wave of Generation Y-ers entering the workforce, can exploit Web 2.0 technologies to find application data more easily. And, the solution is secure and scalable."

"At DEMO we showcased WorkLight with very positive feedback from key industry influencers," said Shahar Kaminitz, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  and founder of Serendipity Technologies. "The WorkLight vision is to harness the power of Web 2.0 tools from the consumer world in order to revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize  
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 the way information workers access information and data in the enterprise."

The IDC white paper is available at www.myworklight.com.

About Serendipity Technologies Inc.

Serendipity's WorkLight[TM] provides employees with customized and personalized "Web 2.0-style" access to corporate data that reside in enterprise applications. With WorkLight, employees themselves define how the information they need is aggregated and presented, regardless of the source - within the firewall or publicly available from the Web. Most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent"
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, organizational access control and security policies are enforced. The benefit to the enterprise is a substantial productivity gain, since people can easily find and use the information they need to do their jobs, quickly, efficiently and securely. Serendipity's enterprise-ready technology is scalable and conforms to existing and future security and access-control policies. For more information, visit www.myworklight.com.
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