REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CubeTree today announced that Gartner Inc. positioned CubeTree in the Visionaries Quadrant of the “2009 Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace.”¹ The Magic Quadrant positions vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision.

According to the report authored by Gartner analysts Nikos Drakos, Carol Rozwell, Anthony Bradley and Jeffrey Mann, “Visionaries in the market demonstrate a strong understanding of current and future market trends and directions, such as the importance of a flexible and transparent collaboration environment, as well as the value of mutual reinforcement between tools that encourage user contribution and tools that encourage bottom-up group and structure formation. Their products and product road maps display a penchant for innovation, especially in terms of architecture and lightweight integration, while their marketing and R&D efforts are boosted by their alignment with the open source ecosystem. The Visionaries in this market have not exhibited the scope of delivery of the Challengers or Leaders, but have demonstrated vision across a range of capabilities.”

Launched in May 2009, CubeTree’s hosted collaboration suite helps companies create internal social networks. CubeTree’s social networking features include profiles, microblogging, tagging and activity feeds for 30+ types of feed items. A company's CubeTree network is private to the company, free for any number of employees and comes with enterprise-ready security and administration. To help employees collaborate better, applications like wikis, microblogging, file-sharing, link-sharing, polls and group chat are integrated into CubeTree’s social networking platform, and included for free. CubeTree supports 20+ built-in integrations, from consumer software like Twitter to enterprise applications like CRM and Google Apps, and a rich API enables custom integrations.

“We view CubeTree’s positioning in the Visionaries quadrant of Gartner’s 2009 Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace as further validation of our approach to delivering an innovative social software suite,” said Carlin Wiegner, chief executive officer and co-founder of CubeTree. “We believe that our approach is differentiated in two significant ways: our aggressive speed of product innovation, enabled by weekly releases, helps us deliver cutting-edge solutions to meet customer needs in the fast-moving social software market; and our viral adoption capabilities, enabled by a highly intuitive user interface combined with freemium pricing and software-as-a-service (Saas) delivery model, helps companies get business value from social software with the lowest possible cost and risk. We believe that this approach to building and delivering social software is the way of the future, and will shape the enterprise social software industry.”

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About CubeTree

CubeTree is a freemium enterprise collaboration suite built on a social networking platform that enables employees to connect, communicate and collaborate efficiently and securely using a set of full-featured, integrated tools. Delivered as a software service, CubeTree is designed for enterprises ranging from start-ups to Global 500 companies. Founded in 2008, CubeTree is a private company funded by Trinity Ventures and Mitch Kapor, and is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. For more information, please visit www.cubetree.com.

¹ Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace,” by Nikos Drakos, Carol Rozwell, Anthony Bradley and Jeffrey Mann, October 23, 2009.