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Kanalytics in Global Partnership with Microsoft for SSN Initiative
Kanalytics Inc., a leading provider of knowledge management and business intelligence solutions, today announced its global partnership with Microsoft (MSFT) to deliver an online knowledge management solution for the government sector. With the Solutions Sharing Network (SSN) offering, organizations will not only be able to share information, but also share code and applications, all by leveraging their existing technology tools.  The result is increased collaboration and a dramatic boost in efficiency, productivity and overall effectiveness.  The SSN initiative marks Kanalytics’ first critical milestone in bringing its knowledge management solutions to the market.

… Microsoft is currently providing the solution, which is based on Kanalytics’ patent pending technology, to 13 government or municipal organizations and expects 200 sites by next year. 

“We are excited about partnering with Kanalytics to bring our SSN vision to life.  Our goal is to enable collaboration so that organizations can share IT solutions, architectures, code, and best practices to increase efficiencies and reduce long-term costs,” said Gerri Elliott, corporate vice president for the Worldwide Public Sector organization at Microsoft.

Kanalytics Press Release, December 14, 2004

 

"Kanalytics is excited to be collaborating with Microsoft to build and implement the Solutions Sharing Network around the globe."

Steve Cranford, CEO
Microsoft PressPass, Nov. 8, 2004

Microsoft Corp. today announced it is delivering the Solutions Sharing Network (SSN), a global initiative that provides an online, community-based capability to promote increased communication, deeper information exchange, and collaboration between government organizations, academic institutions and other public sector agencies. SSN enables Microsoft's global public sector partners and customers to share their unique IT solutions, architectures, best practices, application source code that the governments own and have contributed to the project, and research to increase efficiencies and reduce long-term development costs.

Microsoft PressPass, Nov. 8, 2004

As the importance of exchanging and integrating information has increased, customers, partners and governments have been asking Microsoft for help in delivering solutions that facilitate the sharing, refining and enhancement of government applications and solutions among peers. In the public sector, there is a wide range of technologies -- including Microsoft® technologies -- utilized by governments across the globe, and duplicate development efforts exist across many agencies and countries. Microsoft is delivering SSN to help increase operational efficiencies and help lower the costs of e-government. SSN is focused on community, collaboration, and research and development. A hosted, cataloged repository of knowledge, the initiative will allow government agencies and public sector organizations to collaborate and share solutions, architectures, best practices and application source code that the governments own and have contributed to the project. A typical SSN environment will include the following:

• A Web-based portal allowing access to hosted knowledge and solutions
• An open forum for public sector partners to contribute and showcase their solutions and capabilities
• Mechanisms for searching, rating and cataloguing the best discussions and solutions

Microsoft PressPass, Nov. 8, 2004

Like the open-source model, one of Solutions Sharing Network's goals is to let companies share code and information as a way to build upon existing application-development work. But Microsoft says SSN is designed to go beyond code development to provide a repository for additional content that helps with training or to improve organizational processes.

InformationWeek, Nov. 9, 2004

Although [Hayes] said that Microsoft has not made plans to commercialize the tools, he said that Kanalytics, in Annapolis , Maryland , may chose [sic] to sell them to businesses, and Microsoft would still be involved.

Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service, Nov. 9, 2004,
regarding Pete Hayes, vice president, Microsoft public sector (EMEA)

The software maker has been working on the idea for the past 18 months and done several pilots, but is now opening the door to all interested parties, offering applications developed with partner Kanalytics Inc., said Pete Hayes, vice president of the public sector for Microsoft in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

“Hayes said that Microsoft designed the tools to help public sector organizations but he did not rule out the possibility that they could be commercialized and offered to enterprises as a way of collaborating on common technology needs. Although he said that Microsoft has not made plans to commercialize the tools, he said that Kanalytics, in Annapolis , Maryland , may chose to sell them to businesses, and Microsoft would still be involved.” –