NEW HAVEN -
with the closing of a national and second international contract
through FCEdge, a recently added channel partner in Stuart, Florida,
thunkIT announces the transition to a newly established corporate
identity and structure, Enterity Inc.
"The 'thunkIT' brand has served our needs well to this point,"
states Jonathan Biebesheimer, CEO of the company formerly known as
thunkIT. "Based on the success and growth we've experienced over the
past few quarters, however, we felt it was time to establish a
structure and a brand that better reflects the markets that our
solutions have begun serving. The latest assignments from
multi-nationals through FCEdge affords us the perfect opportunity to
announce our new identity because it is so representative of sales
trends and overall corporate evolution we are experiencing."
Enterity will maintain the development and distribution of the
Osiris Web Content Management platform and product line, as well as
carry on the same holistic approach when helping businesses and
organizations understand their technology requirements, and identifying
intelligent content publishing solutions for them.
About Enterity
Enterity is a privately held Connecticut-based corporation. Since 1999,
initially operating as thunkIT, Enterity has helped private
corporations and non-profit organizations of all sizes to significantly
reduce the time and expense involved in creating, updating and managing
web content. Enterity's products power internet, intranet and extranet
sites nationally, and have received state and national
award-recognition. Enterity products are packaged and available as
total solutions through industry leading image, advertising, and
technology-related companies in Connecticut, Florida and Massachusetts.
About FCEdge
Since 1992, FCEdge has worked with numerous clients in many different
industries. The members of the FCEdge team cut their marketing teeth on
major accounts including Kodak, BellSouth, Xerox, General Motors,
Bausch & Lomb, Baxter Healthcare and Sara Lee. They have worked
with regional companies in multiple industries including manufacturing,
health care, tourism, hospitality, banking and financial services,
aviation and real estate. Most recently, FCEdge was awarded 11 Gold, 9
Silver and a "Best In Show" Judges award at the prestigious Advertising
Federation of Palm Beach Annual Awards.
For more information, please call (877)352-3343 or visit http://ww.fcedge.com.
NEW HAVEN, CT - thunkIT, a web-based application
development company located in the 9th Square District of New Haven
announces its partnership with FCEdge, a full-service marketing
communications company with offices in Stuart, Florida. FCEdge will be
working with thunkIT to market leading-edge content management
solutions under the FCEdge "Navigator" brand.
"We needed a product that would give clients the freedom to update
their web-sites without the cost of hiring a web designer. Our
Navigator package provides exactly the web content management options
that allow companies to maintain a fresh web presence without added
expense." said New Business Development Director Susan Murphy at FCEdge.
"We are thrilled to have FCEdge join our expanding network of
integration partners," said Jonathan Biebesheimer, CEO of thunkIT.
"With more than twenty years of experience developing global marketing
campaigns, FCEdge is well positioned to deploy web-based technology to
streamline and strengthen their clients' operations."
According to Gartner, Inc., a leading technology consultant, midsize
businesses are placing more value on how a web implementation can
support its fundamental business processes than on a straight
feature-set comparison.
"FCEdge, like all of our integration partners, takes the time to
understand and explore with their clients how to maximize the value of
web content management" Biebesheimer explains. "With this depth of
consulting, the technology is implemented in a manner which makes it a
core tool that dramatically improves an organization's sales,
productivity or efficiency. If it doesn't either save a client money or
make a client money, the solution runs the risk of having been
ill-conceived." According to Biebesheimer, FCEdge has demonstrated the
capability to serve companies with this kind of insight, enabling their
clients to maximize their web content management investment.
"thunkIT has brought an important product to our palette of
services", adds FCEdge President and founder, Tina Luce. "We are always
looking for the best technical products to complement our creative
design work so our clients have state-of-the-art delivery of their
marketing message. The Osiris upgrade to our Navigator suite of
products meets our rigorous technical quality demands. Our clients are
especially pleased with the user-friendliness of this application."
The Osiris WCM Suite enables non-technical content producers to
create, manage and deliver web content, without any specialized
technical knowledge. A web solution using Osiris can be implemented far
more quickly than heavily customized solutions, ultimately saving time
and development expense.
About FCEdge
Since 1992, FCEdge has worked with numerous clients in many different
industries. The members of the FCEdge team cut their marketing teeth on
major accounts including Kodak, BellSouth, Xerox, General Motors,
Bausch & Lomb, Baxter Healthcare and Sara Lee. They have worked
with regional companies in multiple industries including manufacturing,
health care, tourism, hospitality, banking and financial services,
aviation and real estate. Most recently, FCEdge was awarded 11 Gold, 9
Silver and a "Best In Show" Judges award at the prestigious Advertising
Federation of Palm Beach Annual Awards.
For more information, please call (877)352-3343 or visit http://ww.fcedge.com.
About thunkIT
thunkIT is a privately held Connecticut-based company. Since 1999,
thunkIT has helped private corporations and non-profit organizations of
all sizes to significantly reduce the time and expense involved in
creating, updating and managing web content. thunkIT's products power
internet, intranet and extranet sites nationally, and have received
state and national recognition. thunkIT products are packaged and
available as total solutions through industry leading image,
advertising, and technology-related companies in Connecticut, Florida
and Massachusetts.
NEW HAVEN, CT
- thunkIT, a web-based application development company located in the
9th Square District of New Haven, announced that its customer
Historical Society of Greenwich recently received a Wilbur Cross Award
from the Connecticut Humanities Council, for its Voices of the Civil
War online exhibit.
The Connecticut Humanities Council, a public, nonprofit foundation
dedicated to creating opportunities for life-long learning through the
humanities, created the Wilbur Cross Awards in 1984 to recognize
outstanding achievement in humanities across the state.
According to a statement released at the 20th Annual Wilbur Cross
Awards, the Voices of the Civil War online exhibit was awarded "Best
Heritage Project" because it demonstrated a commitment to community
education and outreach. Through the use of the Osiris technology, the
exhibit made the Society's rich Civil War archives, collections and
research accessible to teachers and students, the general public, and
researchers alike.
Voices of the Civil War was developed using thunkIT's web content management technology.
"The tools available with the Osiris suite made the process of
creating a dynamic website incredibly easy" explains Kirsten Jensen,
content developer for Voices of the Civil War. "The flexibility of the
technology allowed me to develop an exhibit that was easy to use and
navigate, but not at the expense of content or visual interest."
This is the second Wilbur Cross Award received within the past two
years for projects using thunkIT's web content management products.
thunkIT customer Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation was also
awarded the Wilbur Cross Award in 2002 for Outstanding Use of
Technology, presented to the Connecticut Trust For Historic
Preservation for the TownGreens.com project, a web-based heritage
tourism portal. The TownGreens.com project also received a Certificate
of Commendation from The American Association of State and Local
History (AASLH) this same year. The AASLH Annual Awards Program is the
most prestigious recognition for achievement in the preservation and
interpretation of local, state and regional history.
"It is our hope that more and more organizations will be able to
inspire audiences by publishing and distributing educational content
through web-based technology" states Jonathan Biebesheimer, CEO of
thunkIT. "Our vision is to make the technology more accessible to an
increasing number of organizations concerned and committed to community
education and outreach."
About The Historical Society of Greenwich
The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich collects and preserves
the cultural heritage and ongoing history of Greenwich and provides a
center for its enjoyment and study at Bush-Holley Historic Site. The
Historical Society's educational programs and services include tours of
its historic house museum; permanent and changing exhibitions; lectures
and hands-on learning for adults, families and children; teacher and
student programs; research opportunities; publications and the
documentation of Greenwich's historic landmarks and sites.
About thunkIT
thunkIT is a privately held Connecticut-based company. Since 1999,
thunkIT has helped private corporations and non-profit organizations of
all sizes to significantly reduce the time and expense involved in
creating, updating and managing web content. thunkIT's products power
internet, intranet and extranet sites nationally, and have received
state and national recognition. thunkIT products are packaged and
available as total solutions through industry leading image,
advertising, and technology-related companies in Connecticut, Florida
and Massachusetts.
MILFORD, CT
- The American Comedy Network (ACN), a subsidiary of media giant Jones
Radio Networks, Inc., and thunkIT, announced a major innovation in the
American Comedy Network's operation that is expected to increase
revenue and opportunity while reducing costs.
"With Osiris, a web-based content management tool configured to our
specific requirements, we're seeing gains in control, user-friendliness
and distribution that far exceed anything we've ever had before. We
expect this new web portal to have a far-reaching impact on improving
our quality of service, and the ease with which our customers can
access it," states Kurt Luchs, General Manager of the American Comedy
Network.
Through its syndicated National Features Service and Onion Radio
News offerings, the American Comedy Network supplies hundreds of comedy
radio shows throughout the world with audio comedy bits and material.
The newly launched web-based portal has been designed to dramatically
streamline that process.
The solution for the American Comedy Network (http://www.americancomedynetwork.com),
is powered by Osiris, a web content management suite developed by
thunkIT, a mid-market provider located in the 9th Square District of
New Haven.
Jonathan Biebesheimer, CEO of thunkIT, explains that "with Osiris,
ACN's non-technical personnel have the ability to manage the publishing
and management of hundreds of audio files, users and documents. The
non-technical interface is key, because it eliminates the bottleneck
that sometimes occurs when an organization has to run everything
through its IT department. Consequently, Osiris increases ease and
efficiency on a grand scale."
Biebesheimer goes on to explain that "the Osiris platform also
includes analysis and reporting tools which provide the American Comedy
Network critical insight into how content is being used and consumed on
public and affiliate resource areas." With the insight provided, the
American Comedy Network will be able to refine the content offerings in
order to better meet the needs and requirements of the intended
audience.
The American Comedy Network's Creative Director Joel Graham says,
"With a system that lets us know exactly which affiliates are using
what parts of our service, and how often, we'll gain a much clearer
understanding of what works best with each station format and in each
part of the country. We've never had this level of market intelligence
at our fingertips before when making strategic creative decisions."
In addition to access to delivering key operational tools, Osiris
represents the foundation for fundamental changes and improvements
within the American Comedy Network.
"Not only will this solution enable us to better serve our core
business-to-business customers in radio," Luchs adds, "it also gives us
the infrastructure we need to get into the consumer market in a big way
for the first time."
About The American Comedy Network Through its
National Features Service, the American Comedy Network supplies the
world's funniest radio shows with the world's best audio comedy bits.
The American Comedy Network also syndicates the Onion Radio News, an
audio spin-off of the world's most popular humor publication, The
Onion. The American Comedy Network is owned by Jones Radio Networks,
part of Jones Media Networks Ltd., which also provides cable television
programming, including Great American Country; Jones Direct, an
Internet marketing company; and extensive satellite distribution
facilities.
About thunkIT
thunkIT is a privately held Connecticut-based company. Since 1999,
thunkIT has helped private corporations and non-profit organizations of
all sizes to significantly reduce the time and expense involved in
creating, updating and managing web content. thunkIT's products power
internet, intranet and extranet sites nationally, and have received
state and national recognition. thunkIT products are packaged and
available as total solutions through industry leading image,
advertising, and technology-related companies in Connecticut, Florida
and Massachusetts.
NEW HAVEN, CT
thunkIT, a web-based application development company located in the 9th
Square District of New Haven, recently announced the immediate
availability of Osiris, the company's second generation web content
management suite, designed to enable organizations to deploy and manage
powerful dynamic web sites efficiently and affordably.
At the 2003 Midsize Enterprise Summit, an annual event conducted by
Gartner, Inc, one of the industry's leading research and consulting
companies, more than 400 midsize business decision-makers came together
with technology vendors and Gartner analysts. At that summit, it was
irrefutably established that a predominant driver for technology
investment (ranking at about 50% of all surveyed) is improved
operational efficiency.
According to Jonathan Biebesheimer, CEO of thunkIT, operational
efficiency is one of the central themes around which Osiris has been
developed. The Osiris WCM Suite enables non-technical content producers
to create, manage and deliver web content, without any specialized
technical knowledge. A web solution using Osiris can be implemented far
more quickly than heavily customized solutions, ultimately saving time
and development expense.
thunkIT introduced more than a dozen enhancements in Osiris,
including core platform components that improve scale, decrease
development time of custom functionality and strengthen the software's
ability to handle far more intensive business environments. In
addition, Osiris now features an even more robust set of
industry-standard midsize business level features including greater
content deployment and syndication functions as well as user access and
workflow management. The redesigned Administrative user interface
provides an even greater means to manage content and web resources,
anticipating the needs of the higher end of the product's target user.
These new enhancements augment Osiris' already rich feature-set, and
provide more tools for efficient site administration.
To date, the Osiris WCM Suite has already been chosen by several
local and statewide organizations, including the Connecticut Trust for
Historic Preservation (http://www.cttrust.org) and INFONewHaven.com.
Both organizations are using the web as a primary means of information
distribution and dissemination. Additional implementations are
scheduled for launch early summer, 2004, with three national and
international corporate clients who will be using Osiris to serve their
customers and market on a global scale.
"We are particularly proud of the stable platform and robust feature
set Osiris brings to our clients. We believe it offers a tremendous
value when compared to competitive offerings from web content
management providers such as Ektron, PaperThin and other companies we
view to be other key players in this sector of the web solution
marketplace."
thunkIT is a privately held Connecticut-based company. Since 1999,
thunkIT has helped private corporations and non-profit organizations of
all sizes to significantly reduce the time and expense involved in
creating, updating and managing web content. thunkIT's products power
internet, intranet and extranet sites nationally, and have received
state and national recognition. thunkIT products are packaged and
available as total solutions through industry leading image,
advertising, and technology-related companies in Connecticut, Florida
and Massachusetts.
