AUSTIN, Texas – October 9, 2009 – Spiceworks™, Inc., provider of the first free social IT management application for small and medium businesses, today announced that crowdsourcing activity by its user community of 775,000 IT professionals has doubled over the past six months. To help support the increased sharing of IT information and best practices, Spiceworks also announced the addition of a new Spiceworks Extension Center, where IT professionals and MSPs can easily upload and access custom scripts that help automate common network and systems management tasks. The scripts library, IT discussions, product reviews, best practices and how-to’s can be accessed through the Spiceworks IT Desktop or in the Spiceworks community by visiting https://community.spiceworks.com/extensions.
“By linking together the growing content, applications, and now scripts available in the Spiceworks Extension Center with our free IT management application, IT professionals and MSPs have a single place to access the information and tools they need to do their jobs,” said Scott Abel, co-founder and CEO of Spiceworks, Inc. “It’s a great example of the power of combining social networking and business applications to create the top resource for everything IT.”
Highlights of the recent crowdsourcing and sharing activity among IT professionals, MSPs and technology vendors in the Spiceworks community include:
- Availability of more than 78,000 IT topics with over 250,000 contributions;
- Ratings and reviews of over 18,000 IT products and services;
- Nearly 3,000 Windows Events that were analyzed and prioritized;
- Over 1,000 how-to’s and best practices that were created and collaboratively edited; and
- A newly-launched Spiceworks Extension Center with over 100 user-created and recommended IT management scripts to help automate various tasks.
The Spiceworks IT Desktop is a free, social IT management application designed for organizations with up to 500 devices. More than 775,000 IT professionals and 70,000 managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide use the application to automatically inventory, monitor, troubleshoot, report on and run a help desk for IT networks. It is the first business application to embed crowdsourcing, social networking and community collaboration features directly into an IT professional’s daily workflow. Currently Spiceworks is used in 196 countries worldwide to support 26 million employees and manage 40 million technology devices.
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