FONA International wins a CIO 100 Award for Use of Enterprise Social Networking Software

FONA has won a CIO 100 Award for its innovative use of enterprise social networking software to improve employee productivity and transform business processes internally. Judged by CIO magazine, the annual award is given to 100 elite companies that "demonstrate excellence and achievement in IT."

Utilizing Socialtext's enterprise social software platform, FONA created a social intranet where employees can easily manage projects, events, and important processes with little to no help from IT. With enterprise social networking profiles, FONA employees can share expertise with colleagues and connect around key topics of interest to drive new business opportunities.

"FONApedia, our social intranet, has empowered our employees to work together in improving our processes internally, helping us serve our customers even better than before," says FONA's Steve Brewer, the IT leader who spearheaded the project. "Because of Socialtext's flexible software as a service (SaaS) offering, we've had no hardware to manage. We are able to take advantage of Socialtext's fast development cycles and seamless updates."