Spiceworks Helps 400,000 Small Businesses Share the Wisdom of the Crowds to Manage...

Spiceworks Helps 400,000 Small Businesses Share the Wisdom of the Crowds to Manage Everything IT

New "Crowdsourcing" Features Connect Users to IT Management Best
Practices, Reports and Advice on Products and Services
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Today at the AlwaysOn & Stanford Technology Ventures Program
(STVP) Summit at Stanford conference, Spiceworks(TM), Inc. announced
the addition of new crowdsourcing features to the Spiceworks IT
Desktop, the industry's first free collaborative IT management
application for small and medium businesses. The new features - called
SpiceLists - enable users to collaboratively develop, share, and rank
IT best practices, products and services, and reports - making it even
easier for them to manage their networks. The SpiceLists address one
of the biggest problems facing IT pros in small businesses today - how
to quickly and easily connect with people like themselves in order to
find the products, services and information they need to solve their
unique IT issues.

"Crowdsourcing has brought tremendous benefits to the consumer
world and it's now doing the same for the average small business IT
manager like me," said Martin Peverley, IT Manager, Bihler of America,
Inc. "By assembling the collective experience, knowledge and ratings
from thousands of IT professionals around the world and letting the
best rise to the top, Spiceworks is making it easier for me to get my
job done."

The crowdsourcing features of Spiceworks put IT pros one click
away from 400,000 other small businesses just like them. With
SpiceLists they can:

-- Share Advice: This includes the ability to collaborate on
daily tasks and best practices. The SpiceLists allow community
members to capture, rank and rate the best of these practices
on wide range of topics, including deploying Microsoft Vista,
the best ways to back up servers, and the 10 best anti-virus
solutions. Over 300 groups are active in different industries,
geographies and IT interest areas.

-- Find the Best Products and Services: This feature allows users
to find the products and services preferred most by other IT
pros like them. With access to ratings and reviews of their
favorites and summaries of usage in the Spiceworks network,
they can easily see which products and services would best
work in their environments. So far more than 5,000 reviews of
products and services are available via
http://community.spiceworks.com/reviews.

-- Share Reports: Spiceworks ships with dozens of reports
out-of-the-box, and now allows users to create and share their
own custom reports with 400,000 other IT pros like themselves.
Users can easily browse shared reports, search for specific
solutions, and download and install these reports - all in a
single click. In less than a month, beta users have more than
tripled the number of reports available within the Spiceworks
community.

"Sharing community brain power is part of the DNA of Web 2.0
applications," said Scott Abel, co-founder and CEO of Spiceworks, Inc.
"It's built into the Spiceworks IT Desktop through crowdsourcing
capabilities like embedded product ratings, reviews and now our new
SpiceLists. Making community collaboration an integral part of the
daily workflow helps ensure our users are not alone in their quest to
simplify everything IT."

The Spiceworks IT Desktop is designed for small and medium
organizations with up to 250 employees. The more than 400,000
Spiceworks users worldwide use this free IT management application to
automatically discover, inventory, monitor, track, report on,
troubleshoot and repair the hardware and software running in their
networks. It also provides a built-in help desk, remote control
capability, and is the first business application to embed
crowdsourcing and community collaboration features directly into the
workflow. The free Spiceworks application is supported by displaying
relevant, non-intrusive ads on topics that are useful to IT
professionals.

The latest version of the Spiceworks IT Desktop 3.0, which
includes new crowdsourcing features, is currently available for
download for free at www.spiceworks.com.

About Spiceworks

Founded by network and systems management software pioneers,
Spiceworks develops the first free collaborative IT management
application that incorporates crowdsourcing to help over 400,000 small
businesses simplify everything IT. Spiceworks makes it easy for IT
pros to manage their networks, collaborate to solve technology
problems, and find the best practices, products and services they need
day-to-day. Spiceworks is a privately held company headquartered in
Austin, Texas with funding from Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
For more information visit www.spiceworks.com

Spiceworks is a trademark of Spiceworks, Inc. All other names may
be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

For Spiceworks
Karl Scholz, 512-493-0909
karl.scholz@virtualprdirector.com

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