Type Subsidiary Website www.ITtoolbox.com | Industry IT media Parent organization Focus.com | |
Key people Daniel Morrison, CEO
George Krautzel, President Headquarters Scottsdale, Arizona, United States Founded 1998, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States | ||
ITtoolbox is an online community, enabling peers to share professional knowledge about information technology. Since 1998, ITtoolbox has helped professionals make IT decisions and stay current in the rapidly changing technology market through peer collaboration.
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History
The company was founded in 1998 as "ITtoolbox," one of the first online communities enabling professionals to share knowledge about information technology. Initially, the community was built on five knowledge bases (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Baan, and ERP) powered by discussion forums. The ITtoolbox platform now incorporates a professional network, 28 knowledge bases, more than 200 blogs, 650 discussion groups, and a wiki to facilitate targeted community interaction in which IT advertisers can participate through a proprietary contextual matching system.
In February 2000, ITtoolbox launched ITtoolbox Groups, e-mail-based discussion communities covering a range of IT products and topics.
In May 2003, ITtoolbox introduced the ITtoolbox Blogs program, bringing together a network of blog authors to publish professional content based on their firsthand knowledge.
In July 2005, ITtoolbox unveiled ITtoolbox Wiki, offering a collaborative IT reference guide created and edited by the community.
In September 2006, ITtoolbox launched ITtoolbox Professional Networking, allowing users to create home pages representing them, find and connect with similar experts, and share IT knowledge.[1]
In July 2007, ITtoolbox was acquired by Corporate Executive Board.[2]
In October 2008, the online community at ITtoolbox received a name change to Toolbox for IT. A new name for the company that operates this online community was also established at this time: Toolbox.com. [3]
Products
The ITtoolbox platform integrates the following collaboration and community publishing tools: