Company History
Telligent was founded by Rob Howard in 2004, Rob was previously a founding member of Microsoft's ASP.NET team and helped build and run the Microsoft ASP.NET community. Telligent introduced its first product, Community Server, in the fall of 2004. Community Server was an integrated community platforms that brought together blogs, wikis, forums, user profiles, etc. Community Server was based on the work done by Rob Howard on the ASP.NET Forums, Jason Alexander on nGallery, and Scott Watermasysk on .Text.
Dell and MySpace both became Telligent customers in 2006. Dell started a blog on Telligent's platform in response to Jeff Jarvis' post about his dissatisfaction with a Dell laptop.
At the end of 2007 Telligent introduced a Social Analytics tool called Harvest Reporting Server.
In 2008, Intel Capital became Telligent's first capital partner.
In 2009, Patrick Brandt took over as CEO and Rob Howard became CTO. Patrick Brandt was previously CEO of Skywire Software, which was acquired by Oracle for an undisclosed amount. Telligent also re-branded its product offering as follows: Community Server became Telligent Community, Harvest Reporting Server became Telligent Analytics, and Community Server Evolution became Telligent Enterprise. Telligent also formally introduced the Telligent Evolution platform upon which Telligent Community and Telligent Enterprise were based.
As part of the company re-positioning, Telligent discontinued development and support for Graffiti CMS and made it available as an open source project. Telligent also discontinued BlogMailr, a free email-to-blog service.
In 2010 David Mitchell joined Telligent's board. David is currently CEO of Global 360 and was previously CEO of WebMethods. Telligent additionally added Wendy Gibson as Chief Marketing Officer.
On December 19, 2011, Telligent acquired Leverage Software.
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