Interact was one of just 218 companies to be awarded the prestigious accolade this year. The respected survey enables employees to provide honest feedback about their work environment and demonstrates that companies who focus on employees, reap significant benefits including improved workplace engagement, staff retention, reduced recruitment costs and greater financial performance.

Being awarded “one to watch” portrays how Interact is excelling in every area in the workplace and demonstrates its on-going commitment to its employees.

Nigel Danson, CEO and Founder of Interact comments:

“We are delighted to receive this accreditation from the Best Companies awards as it recognises all the hard work Interact invests to ensure that our employees feel engaged and play a key role in our business. Interact is extremely proud to be named as ‘One to Watch’, placing us amongst the top organisations in the country for employee relations.

“I believe a happy workforce cements our fundamental business objective of delivering the highest standard of service quality to all Interact customers. Attracting and retaining the best people is essential to our enterprise collaboration software development and supports our tenacious approach in this fast moving industry.”

Best Companies was established with a vision to identify the drivers of sustainable business performance. Its research shows that the key is ‘Workplace Engagement’. Using their experience of responses from nearly 740,000 employees in thousands of organisations, they have developed an academically rigorous methodology to measure levels of ‘Workplace Engagement’. The Best Companies Accreditation scheme then recognises those organisations that have achieved high levels in this area.

Notes to Editors

For further information please contact Emma Burgess at Interact Intranet on +44 (0) 161 927 3222 or emma.burgess@interactsoftware.com

About Interact

Founded in 1996 with headquarters in the UK, Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software companies.  With well over a decade of experience Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies.

Interact creates successful and essential intranets that intelligently push relevant content to people with simple to use tools, saving time and helping get work done. For further information, visit: interactsoftware.com

About Interact Intranet

Interact Intranet is intelligent intranet software created by Interact. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 500,000 users and has revolutionised the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. It is easy-to-use and has a unique Intelligence Store which logs information such as browsing routes, search entries, document ratings and hits and uses this information to promote content to users. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.

Interact UK, 4th Floor, Station House, Stamford New Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EP, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 161 927 3222, Fax: +44 (0) 870 112 5881

Interact US 5215 N OConnor Blvd, Suite 200, Irving TX  75039 USA. Tel: 1-(214)-774-2802

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Interact Analytics is the next step in Interact’s mission to ensure companies produce healthy and essential intranets. It promises to eliminate out-of-date content, poorly authored documentation or incomplete user profiles and encourage a knowledge sharing culture, whilst increasing colleague involvement through gamification.

VP of Product, Simon Dance comments:

“Every intranet in the world faces numerous operational challenges and for many intranet managers, it can be a mystery as to why these problems occur. So we developed Interact Analytics with powerful tools that take the guess work out of why an intranet could be failing and provide statistical, hard evidence that can be quickly acted on, to guarantee a healthy intranet.

The integrated real-time benchmarking means intranet managers can instantly see how their intranet compares to others in their sector, so they can target certain areas for immediate improvement.

There is also an exciting new feature ‘Interact Warnings’ which not only  alerts managers to what is currently wrong on their intranet and instructs them on how to fix this, but also tells them what is likely to develop into an issue – so they can rectify it before it happens.”

The powerful tools in Interact Analytics include:

• Real-time Intranet Benchmarking: Instantly informs intranet managers how their intranet is functioning in comparison to others in the same sector as their own. Determine whether investments in time and effort are being allocated to the right areas, compared to the industry average.
• Interact Warnings: Notifications of urgent problems within the intranet that guide the intranet manager on what to do to ensure the on-going success of their intranet.
• Daily Intranet Reports: Automated activity reports detailing data, advice and warnings are pushed straight to the inbox of the intranet manager and other selected individuals so they can quickly identify problems and make changes.
• Profile Analytics: Analytics that remove the burden intranet managers face in ensuring up to date and complete profile pages on their intranet. This maximises the potential of your users to knowledge share and find the right person for the right problem.
• Search Analytics: Statistics which show you what your users are looking for and what they are failing to find.
• Document Quality Score: Every document on the intranet is scored based on intranet best practice criteria. The Document Quality Score ensures the intranet only contains engaging and quality content, providing a simple yet effective basis to guide your authors.
• Data over Time: The ability to understand and identify trends on your intranet using historical data collected over time. This gives intranet managers a deeper understanding of intranet behaviour.
• Influence Score: Tells you who is really utilising the intranet and who is being listened to by others. It encourages users to contribute to your intranet and their score increases whenever submissions are liked, shared, commented on or they are @tagged.

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Notes to Editors

For further information please contact Emma Burgess at Interact Intranet on +44 (0) 161 927 3222 or emma.burgess@interactsoftware.com

About Interact Intranet

Interact Intranet is intelligent intranet software created by Interact. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 500,000 users and has revolutionised the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. It has a unique Intelligence Store which logs information such as browsing routes, search entries, document ratings and hits and uses this information to promote content to users. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.

About Interact

Founded in 1996 with headquarters in the UK, Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software and web development companies.  With well over a decade of experience Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies.

Interact UK, 4th Floor, Station House, Stamford New Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EP, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 161 927 3222, Fax: +44 (0) 870 112 5881

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“We are delighted to have won the ‘HR supplier of the Year’ award from Superdrug,” said Nigel Danson, CEO and Founder of Interact. “We were up against renowned HR suppliers, which shows what a huge difference a successful intranet can really make to an organisation.

“The Superdrug intranet – “The Hub” is an essential, collaborative intranet and Interact are really looking forward to helping Superdrug in the future to generate a social intranet that drives information sharing, expertise transfer and helps to breakdown silos.”

Interact was selected by Superdrug to supply their intranet in 2011 and since implementation their intranet has helped them to achieve significant business success through the combination of communication, collaboration and business process tools available within Interact Intranet software.

Superdrug utilise the social intranet tools available in Interact Intranet including the blogs, that are used top-down in the organisation to share knowledge and collate internal ideas for improving sales, saving costs and generating ideas about new products and how to work efficiently.

They also allow external suppliers to ‘rent’ space on their intranet to run product training for store staff on new products leading to increased sales and greater product knowledge for store staff.

Nigel Danson accepts the ‘Best HR Suppliers 2012 Award’ from Superdrug

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Notes to Editors
For further information please contact Emma Burgess at Interact Intranet on +44 (0) 161 927 3222 or emma.burgess@interactsoftware.com
About Interact Intranet
Interact Intranet is intelligent intranet software created by Interact. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 500,000 users and has revolutionised the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. It has a unique Intelligence Store which logs information such as browsing routes, search entries, document ratings and hits and uses this information to promote content to users. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.

About Interact
Founded in 1996 with headquarters in the UK, Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software and web development companies. With well over a decade of experience Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies.
Interact UK, 4th Floor, Station House, Stamford New Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EP, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 161 927 3222, Fax: +44 (0) 870 112 5881
Interact US 5215 N OConnor Blvd, Suite 200, Irving TX 75039 USA
Tel: 1-(214)-774-2802
Web: interactv2.wpengine.com
About Superdrug
Superdrug currently has over 900 stores including stores in the Republic Of Ireland and employs 16,000 colleagues. Every store has a fragrance offer and in July 2010 Superdrug announced its intention to launch The Perfume Shop, shop within shop concepts in ten stores. Over 220 stores have pharmacies with pharmacy consulting rooms. They currently have 19 stores with nurse clinics offering health checks. Superdrug is the only high street retailer with its own team of nurses and in January 2010 announced plans to be the first high street retailer to offer HIV testing on the high street.

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The awards attracted exceptional entries across Europe and America. Glasgow Housing Association, one of Europe’s largest social landlords scooped the most awards including the top accolade of ‘Best Intranet’ – for demonstrating that their intranet had the strongest blend of communication, business process and collaboration and demonstrating how they use Interact Intranet to solve actual business problems.

They were also awarded first place in ‘Best Intranet Design’ and commended for their intranet launch strategy and for their use of the social intranet tools in Interact Intranet, including the Clever Linker making the intranet easy to use for non-technical employees.

CEO and Founder of Interact, Nigel Danson presented Wendy Jordan, Internal Communication Co-ordinator with her awards. He said:

“The entries for the Intranet Excellence Awards this year were an extremely high standard. They demonstrated the huge benefits organisations gain from using the unique tools available in Interact Intranet, to create an intranet that is now an essential business tool for their organisation.

For a relatively new intranet, Glasgow Housing Association’s Holmes demonstrated a fantastic blend of communication, business process and collaboration, providing the company with an intranet that is used by almost everyone including traditionally hard to reach field workers. Not only were this group engaged by Holmes but empowered and encouraged by it to offer ideas to the board to solve every day challenges.

I would like to congratulate everyone who entered the Intranet Excellence Awards and I look forward to reading entries for the 2013 awards, which promise to be bigger and better!”

Kelly Freeman, from beauty and health retailer, Superdrug was awarded Best Intranet manager due to her dedication to the Superdrug intranet which has resulted in huge user adoption from director level downwards and fantastic usage of social tools including blogging and discussion forums to improve their business processes. Superdrug’s use of the Question Bank tool to inform store staff about new product launches was remarkable in its simplicity and business results; employees receive product samples if they score above 80% on a product test. The majority of these users accessed the intranet from home in their own time.

Facilities management company, Romec were winners of Best Return on Investment with their intranet, proving they had saved £2.1 million in one year, using the online forms offered in Interact Intranet’s ‘Workflow and Forms’  module, which allows simple online forms to be made on the intranet to streamline business processes. This included an online performance review for all 4,500 employees.

Global security business, G4S took first place for their innovative global intranet launch strategy which involved them setting up a web editor group using the online tool, Interact Teams to share ideas and good practice and successfully launching their intranet in 125 locations around the world.

The winner of the Best Social Intranet was Business Environment as voted for by the audience of Interaction. They proved that they had fully embraced the social tools in Interact Intranet including micro-blogging and discussion forums, taking the unique approach of building a business layer onto a very social intranet. This has resulted in 100% usage by employees this year. The collaboration space on the homepage of their Interact Intranet lets their staff communicate on all levels to dramatically improve business processes in their organisation.

Louise Cheshire from Futures Housing was voted ‘Best Community Influence’ by her peers for having the most presence on the Interact Community – an exclusive online customer community dedicated to help Interact customers maximise the potential from their intranet.

Full list of winners and runners up:

Best Return on Investment

• Winner – Romec
• Runner up – Waterstones
• Runner up – Manheim

Best Intranet Manager

• Winner – Kelly Freeman, Superdrug
• Runner up – Louise Cheshire, Futures Housing
• Runner up – Intranet Management team, UK Asset Resolution

Best Intranet Launch Strategy

• Winner – G4S
• Runner up – Swagelok
• Runner up – Glasgow Housing Association
• Runner up – Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

Best Intranet Design

• Winner – GHA
• Runner up – Superdrug
• Runner up – Royal College of Physicians

Best Social Intranet

• Winner – Business Environment
• Runner up – Glasgow Housing Association
• Runner up – Waterstones

Community Influence

Louise Cheshire – Futures Housing

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Notes to Editors

For further information please contact Emma Burgess at Interact Intranet on +44 (0) 161 927 3222 or emma.burgess@interactsoftware.com

About the Interact Intranet Excellence Awards

The Interact Intranet Excellence Awards is an annual awards ceremony that celebrates the successes and achievements of Interact Intranet users from around the world.

About Interact Intranet

Interact Intranet is intelligent intranet software created by Interact. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 500,000 users and has revolutionised the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. It has a unique Intelligence Store which logs information such as browsing routes, search entries, document ratings and hits and uses this information to promote content to users. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.

About Interact

Founded in 1996 with headquarters in the UK, Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software and web development companies.  With well over a decade of experience Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies.

Interact UK, 4th Floor, Station House, Stamford New Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EP, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 161 927 3222, Fax: +44 (0) 870 112 5881

Interact US 5215 N OConnor Blvd, Suite 200, Irving TX  75039 USA

Tel: 1-(214)-774-2802

Web: interactv2.wpengine.com

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Mark Morton Digital Media Manager, commented:
“We’re honoured to be the official charity for Interaction 2012. Epilepsy Action is the UK’s leading epilepsy organisation and Interact’s kind donation will make a real difference to the advice and support we provide and the campaigning and research we do for people with epilepsy.”

Interact’s CEO and Founder, Nigel Danson comments:
“Epilepsy Action is a fantastic charity that does wonderful work for people with Epilepsy and I speak on behalf of everyone at Interact by saying we are delighted to be contributing to the organisation.
We hope that the money we donate will assist with the continuous work that Epilepsy Action strives to do every day and that our support will help to raise the profile of this brilliant charity.”

Interaction is the UK’s largest intranet focused event which promises to be even bigger this year with an estimated 180 delegates scheduled to attend on October 3rd, at the American Square Conference Centre in London. It gives attendees the opportunity to listen and network with global intranet experts including Martin White, James Robertson and Janus Boye, to acquire the knowledge necessary to achieve and implement an essential intranet.

Sponsored by Interact, CMS Wire and IBF the event will consist of a number of key-note sessions with global intranet experts, followed by dual streams of break-out sessions that attendees can select to join and the chance to view award winning intranets in action. The conference is open to intranet managers, communications and HR professionals, Interact Intranet users and everyone with an interest in intranets.

For the full schedule, complete speaker list and to register, see the conference web site: www.intranetconference.com

All non-profit organisations with a registered charity number get a 20% discount off the ticket price of Interaction 2012 – enter code: charity20 at the checkout

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Notes to Editors
For further information please contact Emma Burgess at Interact Intranet on +44 (0) 161 927 3222 or emma.burgess@interactsoftware.com

About Interact Intranet
Interact Intranet is intelligent intranet software created by Interact. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 500,000 users and has revolutionised the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. It has a unique Intelligence Store which logs information such as browsing routes, search entries, document ratings and hits and uses this information to promote content to users. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.

About Interact
Founded in 1996 with headquarters in the UK, Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software and web development companies. With well over a decade of experience Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies.
Interact UK: 4th Floor, Station House, Stamford New Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EP, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 161 927 3222, Fax: +44 (0) 870 112 5881
Interact US: 5215 N OConnor Blvd, Suite 200, Irving TX 75039 USA
Tel: 1-(214)-774-2802
Web: interactv2.wpengine.com

About Epilepsy Action

Epilepsy affects 600,000 people in the UK. Epilepsy Action campaigns to improve epilepsy services and raise awareness of epilepsy. It also provides a national network of support groups, funds a specialist nurse scheme, holds regular regional conferences and has a freephone and email helpline. For more information visit www.epilepsy.org.uk

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Interact announce the exciting new software release of Interact Intranet with Activity Management, new Interact Apps and important product enhancements, continuing with its rapid pace of innovation in the social intranet space.

June 21st 2012 – Interact, a leading global supplier of intranet software, today announced the release of Interact Intranet version 5.1. This exciting new release includes the brand new Activity Management module which provides intelligent activity distribution and collaboration capabilities; four new Interact Apps and an enhanced widget admin area to further improve the integration of business management on Interact Intranet. With the launch of Version 5.1 Interact has further confirmed its leadership within the social intranet marketplace.

The Activity Management module makes it simple for enterprise organisations dispersed over various locations to assign business activities to employees via the intranet, providing managers and head office staff with full transparency on how employees are progressing with activities and the ability to quickly identify missed deadlines.

CEO and Founder, Nigel Danson comments:

Interact Intranet Version 5.1 is another step in intranet excellence that confirms our leadership within the social intranet marketplace. It promises to significantly improve the working life for intranet managers and employees by blending traditional and social elements to create an essential intranet.

The Activity Management module offers a unique way of distributing activities to individuals, groups and multiple groups via the intranet. It is different to an individual task management tool where people can simply create a list of their own ‘to-do’s’ – it actually allows managers to assign activities to their staff and link those activities to existing documents on the intranet, so that users can see why an activity is required.”

The Interact Apps offering has been extended in Interact Intranet Version 5.1, adding to the many existing apps Interact Intranet contains including the Twitter, Exchange and SharePoint Apps. The new apps are: Interact Translation App – allows users to rapidly translate the whole of Interact Intranet into the language of their choice with the click of a button; YouTube App – embed YouTube videos and playlists directly into the intranet without the need for existing coding knowledge and the Google Maps Widget – removes the need for existing API knowledge to quickly add a map onto the intranet homepage.

To assist the Intranet Manager with homepage management, the Rotating Banner Widget – provides an interactive way for the Intranet Manager to display multiple messages including images, text or html, conserving valuable intranet real estate on the homepage. To sustain the increasing number of widgets available in Interact Intranet, the widget selection interface has been reengineered and now has a search functionality which lets the Intranet Manager locate specific widgets in an instant. Best practice advice is offered on where it thinks you should position the widget and new system text provides Intranet Managers with a short summary of the selected widgets functionality including whether the widget is AA compliant.

In addition, there are a number of product enhancements that have been developed to boost the existing feature set performance in Interact Intranet including the improved statistics and search analytics. This offers upgraded statistics around profile completeness, which is linked to the Signpost Widget from Version 5 – so that Intranet Managers can gain deeper information on who is using the intranet and how they are using it.

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Notes to Editors
For further information please contact Emma Burgess at Interact Intranet on +44 (0) 161 927 3222 or emma.burgess@interactsoftware.com
About Interact Intranet
Interact Intranet is intelligent intranet software created by Interact. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 500,000 users and has revolutionised the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. It has a unique Intelligence Store which logs information such as browsing routes, search entries, document ratings and hits and uses this information to promote content to users. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.
About Interact
Founded in 1996 with headquarters in the UK, Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software and web development companies. With well over a decade of experience Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies.
Interact HQ, 4th Floor, Station House, Stamford New Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EP, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 161 927 3222, Fax: +44 (0) 870 112 5881
Interact London, Interact, Royalty House, 72-74 Dean Street, London, W1D 3SG, UK: +44(0)207 440 0585
Interact US 5215 N OConnor Blvd, Suite 200, Irving TX 75039 USA Tel: 1-(214)-774-2802
Web: interactv2.wpengine.com

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Martin has earned a global reputation in the industry as the Managing Director and Founder of Intranet Focus and through his intranet and information management strategy consultancy. He has a wealth of experience, authoring a number of books on information consultancy, content management software and managing enterprise search applications. Interaction 2012 attendees will have the exclusive chance to listen to Martin’s expert advice and opinions on how to get the best from virtual teams on your intranet.

Martin comments:

Virtual teams are commonplace these days with one or more members working in a different location, time zone or country. My presentation will focus on making virtual team collaboration as productive as possible with topics including working effectively with audio, web and video conferencing and how to address issues relating to language and cultural differences.
“I’m really looking forward to the paradox of talking about the management of virtual teams to people sitting in the same room at Interaction 2012. Colleagues who attended last year told me it was a very good event indeed.”

Martin is the latest addition to the impressive line-up of keynote speakers that includes James Robertson of Step Two Designs, Janus Boye – Managing Director of J.Boye and Lee Bryant – Co-Founder and Director of Head Shift.

Now in its second year, Interaction 2012 has become the UK’s largest intranet focused event. It unites some of the biggest names in the intranet space to provide attendees with the unique opportunity to listen and network with global leading intranet experts and acquire the knowledge necessary to achieve and implement an essential intranet.

The conference will consist of number of educational seminars with intranet specialists, followed by dual streams of break-out sessions that attendees can select to join based on the relevance to their business. There will also be an expo area that allows attendees the unique opportunity to take a live tour around the intranets of leading companies including G4S.

Interact’s CEO and Founder, Nigel Danson comments:

It’s great to have Martin on the speaker line-up for Interaction 2012. He is really respected within the intranet community and will bring a wealth of invaluable knowledge and expertise to the event.
Interaction 2011 was a huge success and this year the event is even bigger and the line-up of speakers confirmed this year are a testimonial to the events success. It’s an exclusive chance for intranet managers and communications professionals to unite and discuss how to get the maximum benefit out of a successful intranet and is the only opportunity in the UK to get a behind the scenes tour of live intranets and meet the people who make them happen.”

For the full schedule, complete speaker list and to register, see the conference web site: www.intranetconference.com

An early-bird discount is available for everyone who books before July 31st 2012, visit the registration page to take advantage of this offer.

The conference is open to everyone including intranet managers, communications and HR professionals, Interact Intranet users and everyone with an interest in intranets.

The event is sponsored by Interact, IBF and CMS Wire and a donation from each ticket sale will be given to the events official charity, Epilepsy Action.
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Notes to Editors
For further information please contact Emma Burgess at Interact Intranet on +44 (0) 161 927 3222 or emma.burgess@interactsoftware.com
About Interact Intranet
Interact Intranet is intelligent intranet software created by Interact. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 300,000 users and has revolutionised the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. It has a unique Intelligence Store which logs information such as browsing routes, search entries, document ratings and hits and uses this information to promote content to users. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.
About Interact
Founded in 1996 with headquarters in the UK, Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software and web development companies. With well over a decade of experience Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies.

Interact UK, 4th Floor, Station House, Stamford New Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EP, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 161 927 3222, Fax: +44 (0) 870 112 5881
Interact US 5215 N OConnor Blvd, Suite 200, Irving TX 75039 USA
Tel: 1-(214)-774-2802
Web: interactv2.wpengine.com

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The newly created role will see Nigel leveraging his substantial industry experience to grow the online Interact customer community to enrich customer experience and service provision for all Interact Intranet clients. He will also be working with the Interact Product Development team to manage collaborative best practice to further perpetuate Interact’s status as a leading player in the social intranet market place.

Nigel previously spent three years as Intranet Manager for facilities management company Romec, where he was instrumental in saving the company approximately £2.3 million per annum after successfully implementing an award winning intranet solution to a geographically dispersed workforce. His work contributed to a 30% reduction in internal emails and a 70% reduction in internal calls following the implementation of the Romec intranet. He is a dynamic intranet professional, regularly contributing and communicating with intranet peers via industry groups, events and focus groups.

CEO and Founder of Interact Intranet, Nigel Danson comments:

We are really excited to welcome Nigel to Interact, he is a well-respected figure in the intranet space worldwide and is really passionate about intranet best practice, so he is the perfect addition to the Interact team. His recruitment represents the vast growth Interact is currently going through – our customer numbers have more than doubled in the past three years and we opened a new US office in March, despite economically challenging times.
Interact is a leading player in the social intranet market place which is reflective how organisations globally are really embracing the benefits of social tools.”

Nigel Williams comments:

I’m really excited to be part of the innovative team at Interact. It’s great to be working somewhere that is really pushing the boundaries in the social intranet space where there is such an opportunity to implement collaborative and pioneering intranet features.
I’m looking forward to the challenge of developing the growing customer community into a thriving online portal where clients can seamlessly unite to share ideas and knowledge with each other on how to make essential intranets.”
The appointment marks the continuing growth of the software provider company who is also looking to recruit a number of additional positions.

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Notes to Editors
For further information please contact Emma Burgess on +44 (0)161 927 3222 or emma.burgess@interactsoftware.com.
About Interact Intranet
Interact Intranet is intelligent intranet software created by Interact. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 300,000 users and has revolutionised the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. It has a unique Intelligence Store which logs information such as browsing routes, search entries, document ratings and hits and uses this information to promote content to users. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.
About Interact
Founded in 1996 with headquarters in the UK, Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software and web development companies. With well over a decade of experience Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies.
Interact UK, 4th Floor, Station House, Stamford New Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EP, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 161 927 3222, Fax: +44 (0) 870 112 5881
Interact US 5215 N OConnor Blvd, Suite 200, Irving TX 75039 USA
Tel: 1-(214)-774-2802
Web: interactv2.wpengine.com

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March Of Dimes, a non-profit organization for pregnancy and baby health were selected as the US winner by a board of judges headed up by Sam Marshall Owner of independent intranet consultancy Clearbox Consultancy and Mark Morton, Digital Media Manager of Epilepsy Action.

There was a huge response from charities world-wide to the competition which was launched in November 2011. Entrants were asked to answer a qualifying question about how a collaborative intranet solution would transform processes in their charitable organization.

The judges agreed that Interact Intranet would provide a great social intranet platform for specialists located throughout the US in individual hospitals so they could collaborate with each other and share ideas to best meet the needs of the families who need their help. Having an intranet solution with interactive discussions, blogs, activity streams and an intelligent search would allow March of Dimes to focus on their ultimate mission of working together for stronger, healthier babies.

March of Dimes CIO, Alan D. Kauffman said:

The March of Dimes is immensely grateful to have won this competition.  As we provide local support and program activity in over 250 communities – communicating, sharing best practices and collaborating across this far-flung organization is a constant challenge.
We believe that improved intranet capabilities will have a very positive effect on the efficiency, morale and effectiveness of our staff in the field, and ultimately upon our ability to forward our mission of preventing premature birth and birth defects.  Our staff and volunteers extend a huge thank you to Interact for their generous support.”
March of Dimes will receive the Interact Intranet core software and a number of modules including the Workflow and Forms module so they can move all of their paper based forms online and the Blogging Tool – which will enable all staff and volunteers to communicate, as well as breaking down knowledge silos. They will also get Statistics and Search Analytics so they can analyze what is working on their intranet and what could be improved.

Mark Morton, Digital Media Manager at Epilepsy Action said:

It was the potential for March of Dimes to connect their specialists together that was the most exciting aspect of their application.  The organization works in 250 communities, so being able to pool the specialists’ knowledge for the benefits of the children and their families will help March of Dimes give the best care possible.”

In addition, Interact are providing a dedicated project manager to assist March of Dimes with the implementation, a year’s unlimited support and software updates, accompanying consultancy and training sessions as well as customer branding.

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Notes to Editors

For further information please contact Emma Burgess at Interact Intranet on 0161 927 3222 or emma.burgess@interactsoftware.com

About Interact Intranet

Interact Intranet is intelligent intranet software created by Interact. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 350,000 users and has revolutionised the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. It has a unique Intelligence Store which logs information such as browsing routes, search entries, document ratings and hits and uses this information to promote content to users. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.
About Interact Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software companies.  With over 15 years of experience, Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies.
Interact UK, 4th Floor, Station House, Stamford New Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EP, United KingdomInteract US, 5215 N OConnor Blvd, Suite 200, Irving, Texas, 75039, United StatesWeb: interactv2.wpengine.com, UK Tel: +44 (0) 161 927 3222 or US Tel: US: +1 (214) 774 2802 Email: info@interactsoftware.com

About March of Dimes
The March of Dimes is the leading non-profit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide and its premier event, March for Babies®, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. For the latest resources and information, visit marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org

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March 22, 2012 Interact announces the selection of Interact Intranet by Kantar Health – a global, evidence-based decision support partner to the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, device and diagnostic companies.

With 23 offices globally and four merged companies, Kantar Health had a real need for branding themselves as one and Interact Intranet has been an enabler for global branding. After the merger, the company had a few different intranet solutions that had no content organization or search facility, creating a barrier to internal communications. Since selecting Interact Intranet the Kantar Health intranet is now a central point of communication for its global work force. Collaboration has been boosted as news and articles are easily posted on their intranet from employees in different countries around the world. With Interact Intranet the HR department has saved an average of 1,300 hours per year since implementation as HR queries are now seamlessly answered by the intelligent intranet knowledge base on Interact Intranet.
Kantar Health’s CIO Mary Sobiechowski said:

A ‘proof of concept’ demonstration shown to myself and the Kantar intranet manager, showed us exactly how Interact Intranet would work in Kantar Health and the decision was made – based on the balance of capability, Active Directory integration and cost.
“Kantar Health is a forward thinking and intelligent organization and it is important that we utilize technology that echoes how we work as an organisation –which Interact Intranet definitely does.”

VP Business Development at Interact, Scott Hitchins said:

With offices throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, Kantar Health wanted a solution which would rise to the challenge of uniting its globally scattered experts.
Interact Intranet has been the enabler for this – allowing their staff to quickly locate colleagues using a variety of search criteria including skills and expertise and it has successfully branded and united a company going through a large merger process.”

Read the full Kantar Health case study here>>

Notes to Editors

For further information please contact Emma Burgess at Interact Intranet on 0161 927 3222 or emma.burgess@interactsoftware.com

About Interact Intranet

Interact Intranet is intelligent intranet software created by Interact. The flexible and scalable solution has more than 350,000 users and has revolutionised the way companies communicate, collaborate, share knowledge, and streamline internal processes. It has a unique Intelligence Store which logs information such as browsing routes, search entries, document ratings and hits and uses this information to promote content to users. Interact Intranet promotes a culture of collaboration and idea sharing by using corporate social networking and micro blogs. Non-technical users can quickly and easily update the intranet.

About Interact

Interact operates globally and is one of the fastest growing intranet software companies.  With over 15 years of experience, Interact has built a strong reputation of delivering successful and collaborative intranet solutions to leading companies.

Interact UK, 4th Floor, Station House, Stamford New Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EP, United Kingdom.

Interact US, 5215 N OConnor Blvd, Suite 200, Irving, Texas, 75039, United States

Web: interactv2.wpengine.com, UK Tel: +44 (0) 161 927 3222 or US Tel: US: +1 (214) 774 2802 Email: info@interactsoftware.com

About Kantar Health

Kantar Health is a global, evidence-based decision support partner to the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, device and diagnostic companies. Our 700+ staff act as catalysts, working closely with customers to drive distinctive decision-making that helps them prioritize product development and portfolios, differentiate their brands and ensure product profitability after launch. We are unique in that we bring together clinical, medical and methodological expertise, commercial/marketing know-how and proprietary data. It is this rare combination, together with our unparalleled stakeholder reach, that enables us to mobilize incisive, imaginative and timely ROI-driven solutions, empowering clients to deliver better healthcare options to their customers.
With offices in over 40 countries, we excel at solving technically or logistically challenging projects around the world and across the product lifecycle, combining on-the-ground know-how and global and national proprietary data to quickly identify value drivers. As part of WPP, we can also incorporate highly innovative thinking from outside the industry into our solutions.

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Two dedicated senior intranet consultants have been appointed to be based in the new office. Jason Onufrak and Marco Morales have over 15 years combined experience of selling software solutions, with over half of this time specifically selling intranets to organisations across the US. The full US team have delivered over 300 intranets and will provide a full offering of professional services.

Nigel Danson, Founder and CEO of Interact commented:

With the opening of this new office, Interact’s US team is dedicated to providing a new elevated level of support for our long-term and newer clients. It means we will now have dedicated US support hours and the US Team are able to offer our full suite of intranet services including consultancy, project management and design, which will expand our clients delivery and experience as well as reinforcing our reputation as a customer focused intranet software provider.”

VP of Business Development, Scott Hitchins said:

This is fantastic move for Interact and will really help expand our global presence and the awareness of our fantastic product. As part of our global expansion strategy this is a huge progression towards making the next step in increasing our global footprint.”

The new office is located in Williams Square, Texas. Full address: 5215 N OConnor Blvd, Suite 200, Irving TX  75039 USA Telephone: 1-(214)-774-2802

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16th February 2012 – Interact is pleased to announce the UK winner of its charity intranet competition, a contest open to all charities and non-profit organisations world-wide to win a free intranet solution for their organisation.

There was a huge response from charities all over the globe to the competition which was launched in November 2011. Entrants were asked to answer a qualifying question about how a collaborative intranet solution would transform processes in their charitable organisation. Shortlisted companies were then asked for more information including the current issues facing the charity and how an intranet would make a difference to their internal operations.

North Devon Hospice a local charity, supporting individuals and families who are faced with the impact of a terminal illness, were awarded the UK winner by a board of judges headed up by Sam Marshall Owner of independent intranet consultancy ClearBox Consulting and Mark Morton, Digital Media Manager of Epilepsy Action.

The judges said that Interact Intranet would provide a collaborative social intranet platform for North Devon Hospice’s remote workers to discuss and share information 24/7 which is crucial for the charity that has a community nursing team operating across a large geography who are often isolated from news, events and processes.

Sam Marshall, owner of ClearBox Consulting said:

All of the charities were very worthwhile causes, but North Devon stood out for the sheer enthusiasm for the work that they do and the breadth of the ideas that they put forward. They had a clear vision of the multiple ways in which Interact could help them progress and of all the submissions they seemed best-placed to take a new intranet and really run with it.”

Gordon Lester, CEO of North Devon Hospice commented:

We are really thrilled about winning this competition.  We’re looking forward to rolling out an intranet for the charity and also the opportunity to work with Interact.  We work remotely across the length and breadth of North Devon, caring and supporting our patients and their families.  An intranet means our nursing teams can work across the rural area with the hospice in their pocket, that we can better communicate between our 12 charity shops, that we can generally stay in touch with each other with more ease and refine our processes, making us more efficient…the list just goes on.

On behalf of all at North Devon Hospice and the patients and families we care for, we would like to thank Interact for this amazing opportunity and wonderful charitable gesture.”

North Devon Hospice will receive the Interact Intranet core software and a number of modules including the Workflow and Forms module so they can move all of their paper based forms online and the Blogging Tool – which will enable all staff and volunteers to communicate, as well as breaking down knowledge silos. They will also get Statistics and Search Analytics so they can analyse what is working on their intranet and what could be improved.
In addition, Interact are providing a dedicated project manager to assist North Devon Hospice with the implementation, a year’s unlimited support and software updates, accompanying consultancy and training sessions as well as a bespoke design.

The US winner of the competition will be announced in the coming weeks.

North Devon Hospice staff

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