NASHUA, N.H.-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in Web content management and social software, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the Niche Players quadrant of the October 2009 Social Software in the Workplace Magic Quadrant.

“We appreciate Gartner’s inclusion of Ektron’s social software for internal collaboration solution in this Magic Quadrant,” stated Steven Sherkanowski, vice president of marketing at Ektron. “Ektron believes that this positioning, as well as our visionary position in the Web Content Management Magic Quadrant, highlights the uniqueness of our approach to Web site management. By offering social software in combination with both Web content and document management capabilities, Ektron can deliver the type of collaborative business experiences that enable productivity, create efficiencies and control costs.”

“We are pleased with Gartner’s recognition of Ektron’s internal collaboration capabilities and will continue to expand on our Enterprise 2.0 functionality and complementary Web content management solutions to further enhance our market position,” concluded Sherkanowski.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Social Software in the Workplace 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 Ektron

Founded in 1998, Ektron is committed to providing revolutionary, scalable Web content management and authoring solutions. Ektron CMS400.NET empowers developers and non-technical business users alike: developers can take advantage of built-in Server Controls to deploy a Web site out of the box or customize the deployment using CMS400.NET’s well-documented API, and business users benefit from an intuitive user interface for managing their Web site’s content and messaging. From enterprise level deployments to single sites, CMS400.NET ships with a wide array of functionality, including social networking, Web 2.0, SEO, ecommerce and synchronization tools. Headquartered in Nashua, N.H., Ektron has more than 20,000 customer implementations worldwide, including LG, Sony, and Johnson & Johnson. For more information, visit: http://www.ektron.com.