Web Startup that Merges "Social CRM" with "Real-Time Stream" Functionality Chosen as a Finalist Winner for TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conference

June 15, 2009; 10:03 AM

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bantam Live, a social CRM workspace for business teams to collaboratively manage business relationships, has been chosen as a Winning Finalist after three rounds of popular voting in TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 launch pad contest. With a total of 15,000 votes cast, Bantam finished in 1st place in the popular vote. With three other winning startups, Bantam will present onstage on June 24th at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, taking place at the Westin Waterfont in Boston. The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is the largest worldwide conference and demonstration pavilion dedicated to exploring how Web 2.0 and social technology is dramatically changing the enterprise to make businesses more agile, efficient and adaptable in today's market. The achievement for Bantam Networks is the second major industry recognition in two months. Bantam debuted its private-beta version as a startup winner at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April.

In development for one year and currently in private-beta, Bantam Live allows business teams to work collaboratively and manage business relationships in the real-time stream of its interface by, in part, capturing and responding to content initiated by contacts on other social networks. Business teams can create secure social workspaces to share information, track activity, and manage contact and company relationships inside and outside the organization. Status updating, messaging, and profiling functionality within Bantam integrates to networks like Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed and provides CRM workflows for business teams to collaborate within the real-time stream of Bantam's searchable dashboard interface.

Said John Rourke, CEO of Bantam Networks, "We're honored to be a winning finalist in another industry competition and to maximize publicity I'll obey the instruction of the press release builder tool on this wire service and now insert the keyword 'CRM' a few more times in the copy to improve search engine optimization." He added, "CRM was, CRM is, CRM will be great." Mr. Rourke then went on to copy and paste the boilerplate 'About Bantam' words below and prepared to go out to eat at Arturo's Pizza in New York's Greenwich Village. "Pepperoni and CRM," he concluded.

About Bantam Networks

Bantam Networks is located in the SoHo district of New York City. Previously, Bantam Networks was selected as a winning finalist by a panel of Silicon Valley technology judges at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April, 2009. Please see www.BantamLive.com

About The Enterprise 2.0 Conference

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference explores the integration of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise, from both strategic and tactical perspectives. This annual conference and demo pavilion focuses on the tools and techniques that best leverage the technical, productive and social aspects of IT and workgroup environments to build a cohesive collaboration strategy and empower a connected workforce. For more information visit: www.enterprise2conf.com.

Contacts:

Bantam Networks
Linda Brown, 212-254-7899