22 September 2008 | Traction's TeamPage 4.0 Named to KMWorld's 2008 Trendsetting Product List

Innovative Moderation and Wiki Page Name Management in TeamPage 4.0 Puts Hypertext to Work PROVIDENCE, RI -- (Marketwire - September 22, 2008) - Traction® Software, the leading developer of products for secure, scalable, hypertext collaboration, today announced Traction® TeamPage™ 4.0 has been named to KMWorld's trendsetting products list for the fifth year in a row.

Traction TeamPage 4.0 delivers a combination of wiki, blog, tagging and social networking capabilities that extend Traction's secure, simple and scalable hypertext platform to handle Enterprise 2.0 collaboration on the work processes that matter most to business: developing products, communicating with customers and sales partners, collaborating with key suppliers, tracking business issues, and competitive intelligence.

"This year's edition has been compiled through briefings with vendors, analysts, users and system integrators, and it is clear that Traction's TeamPage 4.0 squarely addresses evolving enterprise requirements with better wiki page name handling and moderated publishing," said Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor-in-chief.

KMWorld Trendsetting Product awards are given yearly to those vendors who demonstrate, through conversations with analysts, users and systems Integrators, the companies and products that deliver the most consistent, robust customer value.

"We are honored to be included on this list of great products that bring enterprise 2.0 to real-life business," said Greg Lloyd, president and CEO of Traction Software. "Traction is committed to helping large and small enterprises leverage the full power of hypertext collaboration, and thousands of TeamPage 4.0 customers have benefited from this in 2008. This is a gratifying acknowledgement of that success and hard work."

Jordan Frank to Speak at KMWorld 2008

On the 24th of September, Jordan Frank, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Traction Software, will address the audience at KMWorld. His presentation, "Wither Documents: Putting Hypertext to Work on the KM 2.0 Path," will address the need to move communication and collaboration from documents to pages to achieve content leverage and content re-use goals of "1.0" content management systems which are now being brought to fruition by "2.0" blogs and wikis. Frank joined Traction Software as VP Marketing and Business Development in 2002.

About Traction® TeamPage™

Traction TeamPage combines wiki style group editing, the simplicity of a blog, and a unique model for commenting and secure, scalable collaboration. Global 1000 and government customers deploy TeamPage for business-critical applications including product development, management issue tracking, marketing, competitive intelligence, and sales force communication. TeamPage gives businesses the ability to collaboratively create and share valuable information such as market research, competitive intelligence, corporate communications, product plans, and business development resources. Traction TeamPage plugs into a company's existing infrastructure or operates stand-alone on an intranet or extranet.

About KMWorld

KMWorld (www.kmworld.com) is the leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market and covers the latest in Content, Document and Knowledge Management, informing more than 50,000 subscribers about the components and processes -- and subsequent success stories -- that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc. (www.infotoday.com)

About Traction Software

Traction Software provides business and government organizations with enterprise software that allows groups and teams to communicate more effectively. Traction's easy to use TeamPage™ software creates a secure communications hub for business information and working communications that collects, organizes, links and shares sources of information in context over time. Traction Software has been named one of the 100 Companies that Matter by KMWorld and is a winner of the RedHerring 100 and eContent 100 awards. The company distributes its products directly and through global partners. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, Traction Software is a privately held corporation with financing from investors including In-Q-Tel and Slater Interactive. For additional information, visit Traction at http://www.tractionsoftware.com/.

Traction Software and TeamPage are trademarks of Traction Software. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.

For more information, contact:
Dana Harris
978-440-8392
Red Javelin Communications
dana@redjavelin.com