KnowledgeLake named to the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in America

KnowledgeLake, Inc., a leading provider of document imaging and capture technologies for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, today announced that it has been named to the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in America.

“We are honored and excited to be recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the nation’s top entrepreneurial companies,” said Ron Cameron, President and co-founder of KnowledgeLake, Inc. “The successful implementation of our strategic plan has resulted in exceptional growth year over year. We continue to differentiate ourselves as the leader in the SharePoint ECM space, delivering a low cost and truly open platform solution for Document Capture, Imaging, and Workflow.”

KnowledgeLake a Top Finalist for the 2010 Microsoft Partner Awards

The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year. Awards are given in a number of categories, with winners and finalists chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 entrants worldwide. The Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Content Management Partner of the Year Award honors exceptional partners who have excelled in offering breakthrough content management solutions. This award recognizes KnowledgeLake for increasing their customers’ employee productivity, simplifying their access to information and people, and enabling a more effective workforce.

"Congratulations to the 2010 Partner Award finalists for delivering such creative and superior Microsoft solutions and services,” said Allison Watson, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “It’s incredible to see the level of expertise our partners continue to exhibit as they create and deliver innovative solutions and services to grow their businesses, meet customer needs, and drive down costs."

Microsoft West Region Excellence in Competency Partner Award

This award recognizes Microsoft partners that identify new ways to improve profitability, deepen partnerships and streamline operations. These partners readily share their ideas and best practices, and demonstrate exceptional partner expertise or competency in a specific industry, vertical, solution or segment.

KnowledgeLake worked with Microsoft to win keys accounts in the retail and healthcare industries. The retail solution was a consolidation of several different ECM repositories for Inventory Receiving and Accounts Payable into one KnowledgeLake solution using SharePoint. The healthcare solution was a competitive win and provides an ECM solution for managing patient records.

2010 Microsoft U.S. Public Sector Partner of the Year

The award honors KnowledgeLake's innovative use of Microsoft technology in support of the Kentucky Housing Corporation. Winners and finalists were nominated and selected by Microsoft’s U.S. Public Sector team working throughout the nation.

"Our partners leverage Microsoft technologies to address the most pressing challenges facing state and local government customers," said Gail Thomas Flynn, Vice President, US State and Local Government at Microsoft. "KnowledgeLake's implementation shows what can be accomplished when great technology is combined with government expertise."

ACE Award Winner for SharePoint Strategies

ECM Connections honors the true ambassadors of ECM technology with the ACE Awards. These are the vendors and their solutions providers that have gone above and beyond the call of duty to help their clients achieve the best results possible from their ECM implementations. ACE stands for Appeal, Content and Education. The winners are announced on the homepage of www.ecmconnection.com.

Carl E. Nelson Best Practice Award Finalist

The Carl E. Nelson Best Practices Award was established to recognize excellence in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) field. This award provides an exciting and unique way for end user organizations to share their ECM project implementations with their peers and for ECM solution providers to showcase the ROI that their solutions can achieve.

"Once again the quality of the submissions for the Carl E. Nelson Best Practice Award continues to improve raising the bar on best practices," said John Mancini, President, AIIM. "Our AIIM Emerging Technology Advisory Group (EmTAG) selected the finalists in each category for the Best Practices Award. Our professional members are determining the winner in each category. Each of the finalists share many valuable lessons learned to help others with their implementations."

Microsoft ISV/Software Solutions Partner of the Year

The Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/Software Solutions Partner of the Year award recognizes the ISV/Software Solutions competency partners who excel at developing and delivering packaged software to customers. 

"Microsoft is proud to recognize KnowledgeLake as the ISV and Software Solutions Partner of the Year. KnowledgeLake has proven to be a leader in enterprise content management, enabling customers of any size to leverage Microsoft SharePoint for solving today’s complex document problems," Robert Deshaies, Vice President, U.S. Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. "KnowledgeLake’s document imaging for Microsoft SharePoint allows customers to quickly and easily scan batches of documents into SharePoint, to eliminate paper and reduce overall costs."

Microsoft Information Worker Solutions Partner of the Year

The Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Content Management and Forms Development Partner of the Year award recognizes exceptional partners who have excelled in offering breakthrough Microsoft Office system solutions. 

"KnowledgeLake’s Content Management Solutions extends the enterprise content management capabilities of Microsoft Office with its best-in-class solutions for Microsoft SharePoint," said Ross Brown, Vice President, Solution Partners and ISVs, Microsoft Corp. "We are proud to name KnowledgeLake as the Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Content Management and Forms Development Partner of the Year. Through their innovative solutions, KnowledgeLake has designed solutions that provide the enterprise-volume document imaging and capture solutions that deliver incredible value and save their customers money."

ECM Connections Ace Award Winner

ECM Connection's ACE Awards recognize vendors that are making extra efforts to promote the education and adoption of enterprise content management technologies within specific markets beyond their overall horizontal offerings. This year’s finalists were identified by ECM Connection subscribers and visitors through an online voting process that concluded on March 16th. ECM Connection recognized 18 finalists broken into 4 software categories (banking/finance, compliance, government, and healthcare), and 3 imaging hardware categories (ultra-high volume, high volume, and low volume). One winner was announced in each category during a special awards ceremony held in the Channel Connection Pavilion at the AIIM International Conference and Expo in Philadelphia on Wednesday, April 1 at 3:00 pm (ET). KnowledgeLake won the Ace Award for their ECM solutions in healthcare.

People's Choice Award

Microsoft’s Ingenuity Point Contest is a worldwide competition open to independent software vendors (ISVs) that build solutions on Microsoft technology with the potential to address some of the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of education, healthcare and environmental sustainability. The year-long competition showcases examples of how technology can drive positive change and provides ISVs with a unique opportunity to give their groundbreaking ideas international exposure.

Best of Tech Ed

KnowledgeLake Capture was named “Best of Tech Ed 2007” Winner by Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine and Office & SharePoint Pro.com The Judges reviewed over 260 IT Products and services submitted for the contestand chose 45 finalists to be interviewed at Tech Ed in Orlando, FL. Winners were announced on June 6 at an evening reception at the Peabody Hotel Orlando. 

“While we had many worthy products, the winners clearly demonstrated their products strategic importance to the market, it’s competitive advantages and the value they provide to customers.” said Karen Forester, Group Editorial and Strategic Director.

Microsoft Launch Partner

KnowledgeLake was among one of the first to associate as a 2007 Microsoft Office System Solution Launch Partner. Since identified as a partner taking advantage of Microsoft Office System KnowledgeLake has gained maximum exposure to its solutions via the Microsoft extranet by featuring their products on the Solution Showcase for the 2007 Office system. KnowledgeLake receives worldwide exposure in both customer and partner directories. This allows KnowledgeLake the ability promote their organization’s solutions and skills to potential customers and other Microsoft partners throughout the Microsoft.com site.