Jul29Written by:SuperUser Account
7/29/2010 9:35 AM 
Jul 29, 2010 09:00 ET
Award Recognizes Innovative Ways to Improve Profitability and Streamline Operations
ST. LOUIS, MO--(Marketwire - July 29, 2010) - KnowledgeLake today announced it received the 2010 Microsoft US West Region Excellence in Competency Award. The award honors KnowledgeLake's innovative ways to improve profitability and streamline operations in theEnterprise Content Management (ECM) industry.
"After winning Microsoft ISV Partner of the year award in 2009, KnowledgeLake's 2010 follow-up win of Microsoft's Southern California district 'Excellence in Competency' Partner award, solidifies the quality and importance that KnowledgeLake presents to the Microsoft Partner Network," said Brian Jones, SoCal SMS&P Partner Account Manager. "The strength of the Microsoft SharePoint solution combined with KnowledgeLake's solutions has allowed our joint customers the ultimate benefit of successfully running their businesses in today's highly competitive marketplace."
This award recognizes Microsoft partners that identify new ways to improve profitability, deepen partnerships and streamline operations. These partners readily share their ideas and best practices, and demonstrate exceptional partner competency in a targeted industry, vertical solution, or segment.
KnowledgeLake has worked closely with Microsoft to win key accounts in the retail and healthcare industries. The retail account was a consolidation of several different ECM repositories, for Inventory Receiving and Accounts Payable, into one KnowledgeLake solution using SharePoint. The healthcare account was a competitive win and provided an ECM solution for managing patient records.
"KnowledgeLake is thankful to the Microsoft West Region team for their assistance in helping us deliver Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for Microsoft SharePoint to the marketplace," said Mark Oman, National Sales Director (North America), KnowledgeLake, Inc. "Our solutions enable Microsoft customers to leverage their Microsoft investment for ECM within their paper and electronic content intensive environments. The KnowledgeLake mission mirrors the values of Microsoft, 'to enable our customers to realize their full potential by serving them with new and innovative document technologies.'"
KnowledgeLake provides an affordable, platform-based solution for managing a company's unstructured content directly from SharePoint. Its SharePoint ECM solution is enterprise scalable and comprehensive, and enables the searching, viewing, securing, routing, and annotating of a company's mission critical electronic content. It is built entirely within SharePoint, and it is easy to implement, easy to administer, low risk, and low cost.
About KnowledgeLake, Inc.
KnowledgeLake, Inc. develops document imaging related products and solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. KnowledgeLake extends the ECM capabilities of SharePoint, enabling businesses to reduce mailing costs, streamline operations, and achieve regulatory compliance using familiar Microsoft products that most businesses already own and use. KnowledgeLake products and solutions are deployed globally in thousands of organizations in many different horizontal and vertical industry sectors including public sector, healthcare, financial services, transportation and more. For more information, visit www.knowledgelake.com.