Itensil named "Cool Vendor" by leading analyst firm

Vendors selected for the Gartner Cool Vendors in the High Performance Workplace - 2009 share a common trait of incubating key innovations in HPW technologies.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.—March 13, 2009—Itensil (www.itensil.com), provider of innovative team workflow Software-as-a-Service, today announced that the company has been selected by Gartner, Inc. as one of the “Cool Vendors in High Performance Workplace” in a report authored by Toby Bell, Matthew W. Cain, Michele Cantara, and Thomas Otter.

The April, 2009 report considers vendors that are delivering value to individual endusers, although they may not be considered part of strategies and budgets in 2009 for information managers, IT governance leads, or enterprise architects.

According to the report, "supporting the self-provisioning knowledge worker in a quest for better information (and better performance) through Web content integration, process analytics, and social networking, might be setting a contemporary direction that even risk-averse enterprises should encourage."

"Itensil has fundamental architectural differentiation from all the other players out there. It is way ahead of the curve," said Keith Patterson, Itensil co-founder and CEO. "Our selection by Gartner as a Cool Vendor validates our strategy to build a solution for the underserved needs of knowledge workers. Itensil's hybrid XML-SQL data structure enables individually created and managed team processes that perform various functions during the life cycle of a product or customer to interact with a common set of data. This entity structure persists across many different processes and versions of processes, and provides consistent data throughout the life cycle of a business function."  

Itensil enables businesses to boost productivity quickly and evolve into a state of continuous innovation. First, they convert existing methods including email-based processes into Itensil team workflow applications, eliminating substantial non-productive time required for team interaction, knowledge gathering and management.  Teams then move on to collaborate, build and test new ideas in a process-enabled format.

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.