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CubeTree Unveils First Free Collaboration Suite Built on Enterprise Social Networking Platform

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 11, 2009 – CubeTree today announced the availability of its enterprise collaboration suite, the industry’s first free enterprise intranet product built on a powerful social networking platform. In addition to the people-centric features offered on today’s most popular consumer social networking sites – user profiles, follow/follower news feeds, micro-blogging, etc. – CubeTree offers enterprise collaboration tools including wikis, file sharing, polls and more.

“Companies recognize the link between collaboration technology and employee productivity. Unfortunately, overflowing inboxes and the current state of most companies’ intranets fail to connect employees effectively and help them collaborate efficiently. To reap the full benefits from any collaboration technology, everyone in an organization must have access,” said Carlin Wiegner, chief executive officer and co-founder of CubeTree. “We believe the social networking technology that originated in the consumer space can revolutionize enterprise collaboration. CubeTree is the first product in our space that offers everyone in an organization access to all features including wikis, user profiles and micro-blogging for free.”

CubeTree Highlights:

• Employees can connect easily using a powerful, easy-to-use social networking platform familiar to the hundreds of millions of people already using consumer social networks every day. By leveraging features with which they’re already accustomed – like user profiles and activity feeds – CubeTree makes it easier for employees to understand and fully utilize the system.
• A full suite of collaboration tools is built on top of CubeTree’s social networking platform, and includes micro-blogging, wikis, blogs, polls, goals management, travel-itinerary sharing, file sharing, link sharing, search, and more.
• A powerful feed architecture allows users to broadcast their activities from within CubeTree, as well as from other collaboration tools. CubeTree integrates with more than a dozen consumer and enterprise products including Twitter®, Google™ Docs and Google™ Reader, Salesforce.com®, meetings from WebEx™ and Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro, and project management updates from Basecamp®
• CubeTree is private and secure, ensuring a company’s proprietary files, images, updates and internal communications remain confidential. Only employees with the same email domain can access their company’s CubeTree network, and every page request is securely served via HTTPS. The standard version includes basic security features including SSL and community user disable; for companies requiring greater policy controls, CubeTree offers premium versions that provide additional security features including access restrictions based on IP addresses or browser, password policies and the ability to turn features on and off for all users. Further, CubeTree is hosted at Rackspace®, a leader in secure hosting services.
• The standard version is free for unlimited users, allowing anyone to create a network for their company by visiting www.cubetree.com to register and then simply inviting colleagues to join. Everyone has basic access to their company’s CubeTree network.
• Company-wide adoption is now a reality through unique technology that supports viral adoption between employees. CubeTree is free and offers numerous features to help the product spread across the organization.

“Social networking technologies are profoundly changing the way people connect with family and friends. However at work, email and IM are still the dominant online communications media. I believe that is destined to change with products like CubeTree, which help companies create enterprise social networks,” said Mitch Kapor, an investor in CubeTree and software pioneer, who founded many successful organizations including Lotus Development, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation. “I invested in CubeTree because I believe that social networking technology will be at the heart of the next generation of enterprise collaboration.”

Pricing

CubeTree offers three versions of its enterprise collaboration suite – Basic, Professional and Enterprise. The Basic version is free to unlimited users within a company network and includes all social networking and collaborative features, SSL for all traffic and 10 MB of storage per user. Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition offer additional storage and management features. Professional Edition can be purchased by a set of users within a company and costs USD $3 per user per month. Enterprise Edition provides more comprehensive administrative features, and requires a license for every user in the organization and costs USD $5 per user per month. Volume discounts for both Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition are available for more than 500 seats.

About CubeTree

CubeTree is a free enterprise collaboration suite built on a social networking platform that enables employees to connect, communicate and collaborate efficiently and securely using a suite 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, visit www.cubetree.com.