Thomson, the world's leading information company, has acquired Contact Networks, the global leader in Enterprise Relationship Management, providing social networking for the corporate market. Geoffrey Hyatt, CEO and Founder, states "Contact Networks has built a dominant leadership position with ContactNet, the first and most successful product for enterprise social networking. The best companies around the world already use ContactNet to harness the power of their relationship networks. Joining forces with Thomson continues and accelerates this rapid growth with the full resources of a global leader in information and technology."

"By integrating ContactNet with InterAction, we enhance the value of our CRM investment and reinforce its use across the firm." read more "With more than 900 professionals spread across seven offices in the U.S. and abroad, we understand that our extended network of relationships is one of our firm's greatest assets." read more "We needed a searchable repository containing information about the hundreds of people we know." read more

“Kilpatrick Stockton, an Atlanta-based firm with more than 500 lawyers scattered across nine offices, put ContactNet to the test recently. One morning before work, a lawyer at the firm saw a TV news story about a food company blamed for selling a tainted product. As soon as he got to the office, the lawyer logged into ContactNet to find out whom at the firm knew people inside the food company. By the end of the day, Kilpatrick Stockton's litigation unit had signed up a new client, said David Gregson, the firm's chief information officer.” Read the full story

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