Spiceworks Hits 500,000 User Milestone and Doubles Advertisers
Crowdsourced IT Management Application Now Used by Half a Million Global SMB IT Pros; Supports 22 Million Devices and 15 Million Employees Worldwide
AUSTIN, Texas (October 24, 2008) –
On the opening day of the inaugural SpiceWorld 2008 user conference, Spiceworks(TM), Inc. announced that the user base for the industry’s first free crowdsourced IT management application for small and medium businesses has doubled to more than 500,000 in just nine months – making the Spiceworks IT Desktop the world’s fastest growing IT management application. In addition, Spiceworks announced it has doubled the number of advertisers running campaigns to its growing community of IT professionals. The SpiceWorld 2008 conference, which will include additional company updates and product announcements, can be watched live on the web at http://www.spiceworld2008.com/unplugged.
“Spiceworks has become one of the largest and most active business networks of IT professionals in the world,” said Scott Abel, CEO of Spiceworks. “We’ve achieved this by letting the community of IT pros drive the features they need. As a result, Spiceworks is an essential part of their daily workflow, making the network an extremely attractive place for advertisers trying to reach small and medium businesses.”
The Spiceworks community of IT professionals represents over $60 billion in annual IT budgets. The active network of IT pros has crowdsourced ratings and reviews on more than 8,500 technology products and services, and has created more than 280 professional groups on technology, industry and regional topics. More than 60 world-renowned advertisers – including Microsoft, HP, and SONY – have run successful campaigns in the application and within the Spiceworks community. These campaigns include in-workflow advertising and community sponsorships that leverage social media in a professional environment.
The Spiceworks IT Desktop is a free IT management application designed for small and medium organizations with up to 250 employees. More than 500,000 small business IT professionals worldwide use the Spiceworks IT Desktop to automatically inventory, monitor, troubleshoot, report on and run a help desk for their IT networks. It is the first business application to embed crowdsourcing and community collaboration features directly into an IT professional’s daily workflow. The Spiceworks application is supported by displaying relevant, non-intrusive ads on topics that are useful to IT professionals. The latest version of the Spiceworks IT Desktop 3.1, which includes new crowdsourcing features, is available for free www.spiceworks.com.
The SpiceWorld 2008 event features topics and areas of interest voted on by the Spiceworks community. Sessions include in-person talks with Spiceworks company founders and product developers. SpiceWorld 2008 will also honor winners of the inaugural “Spicies Awards,” a competition in which the Spiceworks community of IT small business professionals vote on their favorite technology products and services. More information on the awards can be found at http://community.spiceworks.com/group/show/299.
About Spiceworks
Founded by network and systems management software pioneers, Spiceworks develops the first free collaborative IT management application that incorporates crowdsourcing to help over 500,000 small businesses simplify everything IT. Spiceworks makes it easy for IT pros to manage their networks, collaborate to solve technology problems, and find the best practices, products and services they need day-to-day. Spiceworks is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas with funding from Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures. For more information visit www.spiceworks.com.
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Source: Spiceworks