KnowNow on the launch pad

Sam Weber the VP of Technical Services is a 1.0 veteran on the Enterprise 2.0 launch pad.  No longer selling and supporting software that users hate to use.  50% of email is jumk, <20% find portals useful, 16 clicks to find information and 50% of searchers are successful.  Sharepoint is a significant problem because of the diffusion of sub-portals.  Big architecture slide time: they monitor data from multiple sources, automate relevancy, transform and deliver and manage information. We do more than RSS for integration.

Launches KnowNow Live.  Has a Netvibes like homepage where you can drag content objects, with a sidebar on the left of channels to select from.  Its an aggregator with a portal like UI you can personalize.

Stowe: I want more demo and less pitch. I see you having a hard slog battling the huge CMS guys who are going to provide this.  Then you have consumer options like Pageflakes chipping at you.  Like 9k people in your space.

David: I met these guys a year and a half ago, nice to see the launch.  Those who do the aggregation make the money.  You have a lot of good customers, but the question is it 9x better than email?

Ross: Good component in an overall aggregation play.