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Fourth Consecutive Quarter of Growth Highlighted by Record 237% Annual Increase in Sales of SharePoint Products Vancouver, BC, October 21, 2008 – Colligo Networks Inc., a leader in desktop collaboration solutions, reported a new record for sales in the third quarter of 2008. Third quarter sales increased 144 percent over Q3 2007 with year-to-date revenues increasing …

I was really pleased to hear that our VP marketing, Genèse Castonguay, was named as a finalist in the Best Canadian Executive category in the Stevie Awards for Women in Business this year. The Stevie’s are well known international business awards.

This recognition is very well deserved. Genèse is an integral part of the senior management team that has built our SharePoint business from a dream to a profitable powerhouse growing at well over 100% per year. Here’s a summary of her accomplishments:

Version 5.0 Supports the Latest Generation of Laptops and Operating Systems Vancouver, BC, October 14, 2008 – Colligo Networks Inc., a leader in desktop collaboration solutions, today announced the release of Colligo Workgroup Edition 5.0 and Colligo Workgroup for Lotus Notes 5.0, its industry-leading ‘server free’ ad-hoc networking and database replication software products. Version 5.0 offers …

Company Deploys Contributor For Easy Email and Attachment Management in SharePoint Vancouver, BC, September 1, 2008 – Colligo Networks Inc., the leader in Microsoft SharePoint client solutions, today announced that it has published a customer case study with The Learning Trust. The Learning Trust delivers educational services to adult learners and over 27,000 pupils in …

Hello World!

I am Bill England and this is my first foray into a blogging. Barry Jinks, our CEO at Colligo, is a regular blogger (www.offlinesharepoint.com) and has been encouraging me to participate. Inertia has gotten in the way until now, but Jeffrey Gitomer was recently in town and helped me over come old Newton.

Internet Research Group just announced the release of a new report on SharePoint entitled “Microsoft SharePoint (takes over the world)”. Cool Title!

The press release mentions Colligo and a number of other third parties in the SharePoint ecosystem, such as AvePoint, Quest Software, and K2.

I received the latest issue of Windows IT Pro by good old snail mail yesterday. Here’s a link to the online edition. Nice to see Colligo named a couple of times in there – once for the Best of Tech Ed Award in Productivity and Collaboration and once for Bronze in the 2008 Editors Best Award in SharePoint.

Vancouver, BC, August 5, 2008 – Colligo Networks Inc., a leader in desktop collaboration solutions, today announced that its Colligo Contributor Pro Version 3.0 desktop software for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® was named as a bronze medal winner of the “2008 Editor’s Best Awards” in the SharePoint category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine. “The …

Yesterday Colligo Networks announced its second quarter financial results. I was pretty pleased with the progress the company is making – with sales up 100% year over year and strong funnel of business into 2009. But the big news in the quarter was how the Microsoft Partner Ecosystem is really driving our sales.

A bit of history. It was always our belief that the bulk of our revenues would be generated through Microsoft partners. However, like most ISVs, we started off in May 2006 selling our SharePoint product line direct out of necessity, while recruiting partners in parallel. On November 28, 2006, we announced the Colligo for SharePoint Partner Program. At the time, we had about 20 partners signed, though very little revenue flowing through the channel. By mid-2007 we started to see results. At the same time, we were pretty pleased to see an article in ChannelWeb with the title “25 ISVs You Must Know”, along with the quote: