AUSTIN, Texas – April 4, 2008 – Spiceworks™, Inc., the provider of the industry’s first free ad-supported IT management software, today announced that it was one of 14 companies selected by Sand Hill Group to present at the prestigious Software 2008 Innovation Showcase, which is taking place in conjunction with the Interop conference at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, April 29-30. The Software 2008 Innovation Showcase provides a forum for top early-stage companies to present their ideas to an audience of key industry influencers, venture capitalists, journalists and analysts. This year’s showcase theme is focused on helping companies and consumers to “Communicate, Collaborate and Innovate.” Spiceworks will present on April 29th at 12:30pm and will preview a number of new features available in its next major product release, Spiceworks version 3.0.
“What Salesforce.com did for sales organizations with the SaaS model, Spiceworks is doing for the SMB IT manager with its ad-supported business software model,” said M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of The Sand Hill Group. “It’s the next evolution of the software business and embodies the spirit of what the Innovation Showcase is all about.”
Spiceworks, Inc. delivers the Spiceworks IT Desktop, the industry’s first free IT management application and collaboration platform. Designed for SMBs with up to 250 employees, Spiceworks is currently used by more than 250,000 IT professionals in 194 countries around the world to manage their companies’ technology operations. The Spiceworks IT Desktop allows them to discover, inventory, monitor, track, report on, troubleshoot and repair the hardware and software running in their networks. It also provides a built-in help desk and a community of users that can collaborate with each other to solve pressing IT problems and share IT news and advice in their daily workflow.
“We are honored to be among a handful of companies chosen to present at the prestigious Software 2008 Innovation Showcase,” said Jay Hallberg, co-founder and vice president of Marketing for Spiceworks. “The forum brings together some of the tech industry’s most ground-breaking solutions and we look forward to sharing the stage with the 14 other innovators chosen for this event.”
The free Spiceworks application platform is supported by displaying relevant, non-intrusive ads on topics that are useful to IT professionals. More than 40 top advertisers – including HP, Intel, Rackspace, Microsoft, Brother, Symantec, McAfee, Netgear, Sony and TrendMicro – have experienced success with campaigns to the Spiceworks user community, which now supports networks with over 11 million devices and more than 7 million employees.
For more information on Spiceworks, visit www.spiceworks.com.
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