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We are very excited to highlight our ISV partners listed below, all of whom are leading providers of enterprise social software, and they have placed significant bets on SharePoint Server 2007 as the Enterprise Social Computing Platform of choice. See them at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week and expect to hear much more from them about their SharePoint integration and value added features in the coming weeks!

Atlassian, the maker of Confluence, a leading enterprise wiki, announced the beta of their SharePoint Connector for Confluence about six months ago, and it’s now available for production usage. With the SharePoint Connector, Confluence and SharePoint Server are integrated to provide single sign-on, cross-product search, and bidirectional content embedding and linking.

Awareness is announcing integration with SharePoint Server, which enables SharePoint users to seamlessly engage with Internet facing communities powered by Awareness’s SaaS-based application without having to leave the SharePoint environment.

blueKiwi Software is announcing SharePoint Connector and OfficeAssistant, which integrates blueKiwi’s enterprise social software suite with SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office. blueWiki provides dynamic expertise identification, social network visualization, and an aggregated view of all conversations happening across the entire enterprise.

Connectbeam is announcing Spotlight Connect for SharePoint, a social bookmarking and tagging add-on module for SharePoint Server that integrates with Connectbeam’s enterprise social search and discovery application.

Leverage Software is announcing integration with SharePoint Server, which enables SharePoint users to seamlessly interact with Internet facing communities of customers, partners, and corporate alumni that are powered by Leverage Software’s SaaS-based application.

NewsGator is announcing Social Sites 2.0, which provides seamlessly integrated community, expertise discovery, social network visualization, social tagging, and feed reading capabilities on top of SharePoint Server.

Telligent is announcing Community Server Evolution, which through its REST API, mail gateway, and shared authentication capabilities, provides deep integration and interoperability with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, Active Directory and Telligent Community Server, an industry leading social computing and online community platform.

Tomoye is announcing a SharePoint Server-ready offering, which enables organizations to successfully deploy communities of practice using Tomoye’s industry proven process and technology.

WorkLight is announcing WorkLight for SharePoint, which enables SharePoint users to securely view and update information in SharePoint through Web 2.0 tools such as Windows Vista gadgets and Facebook applications.