AUSTIN, Texas – February 25, 2008 – Spiceworks™, Inc. today announced that the user base of the Spiceworks IT Desktop has grown to 250,000 IT professionals in nearly every corner of the world only two months after the company hit the 200,000 user milestone for its ad-supported IT management software. To help its community of users to better communicate and share information, Spiceworks recently released a number of new social networking features that allow them to connect and collaborate with other IT pros on projects, troubleshoot problems, and share information on the best products and services to buy for their businesses.
“Like most SMB IT Administrators, my department only has one person managing the entire network…me,” said Justin Dorfman, Systems Administrator for Western Costumes. “Since adopting Spiceworks, I have found it’s not only a great tool for network monitoring and inventory management but the community is knowledgeable, diverse and dedicated to helping others solve a wide range of problems. I personally have found it easier and more efficient to ask the Spiceworks community rather than spend an hour on Google searching for a solution.”
In a short period of time the Spiceworks IT Desktop, designed for small and medium organizations with computer networks of up to 250 devices, has organized one of the largest user communities of SMB IT pros in the world. The 250,000 Spiceworks users have access to a free application platform that allows them to automatically discover, inventory, monitor, track, report on, troubleshoot and repair the hardware and software running in a network. It also provides a built-in help desk, remote control capability, a wiki-based IT expert community as well as the following new features:
- User profiles – users can now create profiles that include information about their companies, interests and IT skills, and then share this information with others in the community so they can more easily connect and collaborate in a trusted network of similar IT pros.
- SMB IT Groups – users are now organized into over 200 different groups based on their location, industry, relevant network hardware & software; and their areas of interest. Users can create their own groups on any topics that are not already established.
- IT Activity Feeds – users now automatically receive updates about what’s happening in their groups allowing them to keep track of new developments in their region, techniques for trouble shooting equipment on their networks, the latest user product reviews, and more.
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, Rackspace, Microsoft, Brother, Symantec, LogMeIn, 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.
“We’re demonstrating the power of coupling a software application that small business IT pros use daily with a social networking and collaboration platform that allows them to connect and communicate to do their jobs,” said Scott Abel, co-founder and CEO of Spiceworks, Inc. “SMB IT managers used to be isolated islands in their companies. But they are now emerging as a powerful worldwide group of experts changing the role of IT in small- and medium-businesses everywhere.”
For more information on Spiceworks or to download the latest version of the free Spiceworks IT Desktop software, visit www.spiceworks.com.
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