The Barnet Group Selects Clearvale LONDON, July 24

LONDON, July 24, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN), a leading provider of e-business and engagement management solutions, today announced that The Barnet Group has selected the Clearvale® enterprise social networking solution. Clearvale is a cloud-based solution addressing the critical needs and complexities of real business collaboration by enabling users to meet, build relationships, share ideas, create content, and engage with one another for improved business agility and productivity.

The Barnet Group is the parent company of Barnet Homes, a social landlord managing 15,000 council homes which also offers housing advice and manages the allocation of homes to people applying for housing in Barnet, and of Your Choice Barnet, an adult social care company which provides services to adults with learning and physical disabilities. 

Employing more than 450 people, The Barnet Group was looking for a solution to improve operational efficiencies in its combined operations. The Barnet Group has selected Clearvale as an internal networking solution to improve communication and collaboration between team members and to engage and share experiences across the organisation. By using Clearvale, employees are able to work socially and more effectively on everyday business tasks, frequently eliminating duplication of email dialogues and endless meetings to decide on courses of action.

"The creation of the Group and the significant increase in employees exasperated the need for greater employee communication and knowledge sharing, and Clearvale was a natural fit to help the Group stay connected," said Troy Henshall, Director of Business Services at The Barnet Group. "Clearvale gives our employees access to information they need to do their jobs and enables them to find information or answers to questions from different departments. This eliminates the need to ask the same question multiple times by different employees. With Clearvale, our employees need to only ask the question once which improves productivity and encourages engagement across the whole organisation."

By choosing Clearvale, The Barnet Group understands that working socially must come with an adoption plan for avoiding the pitfalls of failed social initiatives. Implementing techniques from the Clearvale Social Enterprise Transformation (SET) methodology, The Barnet Group is able to identify clear business objectives and a plan for careful roll-out among network members to ensure that the desired levels of participation are achieved. The SET program is a 90-day program for assessing readiness, planning, establishing, and refining a social enterprise ecosystem by combining social best practices, coaching, and a trial of the Clearvale platform.  

"From our experience working with hundreds of companies around the world, we know that making a shift to working socially is about unlocking true business value and the benefits of social collaboration are real," said Ian Heggs, EMEA Director Business Operations at BroadVision. "Our relationship with The Barnet Group is an excellent example of how Clearvale is helping to bring organisations even closer together to share information, drive innovation, and faster and more informed decision-making for increased operational efficiency."

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About The Barnet Group

The Barnet Group is a local authority trading company, owned by Barnet Council. It is the parent company of Barnet Homes, a social landlord which manages 15,000 council homes and also offers housing advice and manages the allocation of homes to people applying for housing in Barnet; and of Your Choice Barnet, a social care organisation providing services to people with learning and physical disabilities. It combines a public sector ethos with a private sector commercial focus.

About BroadVision

Driving innovation since 1993, BroadVision (Nasdaq:BVSN) is a provider of e-business and engagement management solutions for organisations seeking to transform their communication and collaboration efforts within and outside the enterprise by embedding valuable social behaviours into business relationships and processes. BroadVision® solutions – including the Clearvale enterprise social networking solution – deliver a virtual, mobile, and social platform of engagement for sharing expertise, enhancing business agility, and tracking accountability to deliver clarity in decision-making and improvement in both productivity and business results. Visit www.BroadVision.com for more details.

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BroadVision Contact: Karen Cohen Public & Analyst Relations Manager BroadVision, Inc. 650.295.0716 x7174 The Barnet Group Contact: Pete Griffiths Interim PR & Communications Manager +44 20 8359 6281