How BI is helping to predict fashion trends

September 12, 2011: “When you have very little data to make big decisions, that’s where you can benefit from collective intelligence expertise.”

Enterprise Collective Intelligence with Crowdcast

June 20, 2011: Q&A with Mat about Crowdcast for Collective BI.

Inventing New Technologies and Markets

March/April, 2011: Crowdcast is included in the second annual list of the world’s most innovative technology companies highlights businesses whose work is changing industries and lives.

IDC – Press Release

January 31, 2011: IDC’s Prediction Market forecasts top-selling 2010 holiday season game console title, Call of Duty: Black Ops, to within 1.5% of actual sales.

How Employees Who Bet Can Guide a Company’s Future

December 16, 2010: Internal prediction markets enable colleagues to wager on the fate of crucial projects and the success of products in the pipeline.

How Bets Among Employees Can Guide a Company’s Future

December 9, 2010: Organizations tend to rely on top-level executives to predict future outcomes. Crowdcast provides a novel approach to forecasting, soliciting employees at all levels and rewarding unique information, resulting in more accurate predictions.

Workers of the World, Innovate

September 12, 2010: Pitney Bowes, AT&T, and Electronic Arts are among the companies using software to tap workers’ collective intelligence to solve problems, reduce costs, and find new markets.

Workers of the World, Innovate

July 14, 2010: An emerging class of business software is built on the proposition that listening to what employees know and think can drive success

Crowdcast raises $6M to tap the wisdom of your workforce

June 10, 2010: Crowdcast, a startup that helps companies make better decisions by harnessing the knowledge and opinions of their employees, just announced $6 million in new funding from Menlo Ventures.

Crowdcast raises $6M to tap the wisdom of your workforce

June 10, 2010: Crowdcast, a provider of social business intelligence (SBI) solutions, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Alsop-Louie Partners.

April 6, 2010

Marketwire: Brightidea Partners With Crowdcast to Bring Best-in-Class Prediction Market Solutions to Enterprise Innovation Management

Brightidea, the leader in on-demand innovation management solutions, today announced its partnership with Crowdcast, the leading provider of collective intelligence and prediction market solutions. This partnership will increase the competitive advantage of Brightidea’s customers by providing better decision-making tools that leverage Brightidea’s expertise in idea management with Crowdcast best-in-class prediction market solutions, which combine to form the most comprehensive, powerful set of innovation management tools available. Read More >>

April 2, 2010

ITBusinessEdge: Analyzing the Wisdom of the Crowds

Gathering the wisdom of the crowds in one thing, analyzing it is quite another. Crowdcast, which makes a crowdsourcing application for the enterprise, has added an Executive Dashboard that helps executives make sense of the information being gathered from employees using the Crowcast application. Read More >>

March 25, 2010

Marketwire: Crowdcast Debuts the First Collective Intelligence Tool for Decision Makers

Executive Dashboard offers timely analysis of employee crowd intelligence to help managers better understand strategic and operational risk and make informed business decisions. Read More >>

March 25, 2010

GigaOM: Crowdcast Launches Enterprise 2.0 Dashboard

Crowdcast, which offers what it calls “collective intelligence tools” for businesses based on crowdsourcing ideas from employees, has launched a new executive dashboard that allows a company to track the predictions made by staff and compare them against official corporate targets. Read More >>

March 25, 2010

VentureBeat: Crowdcast’s crowdsourced dashboard lets managers know when they might fall short

A problem large companies face is how to have honest lines of communication between employees and the highest rungs of management. With several hundred or maybe thousands of employees for every key senior leader, it can extremely difficult to find out what’s happening on the ground with a product launch. Read More >>

March 16, 2010

ReadWriteWeb: Crowdsourcing in the Enterprise With Gambling In Mind

In the world of risk management, it’s all about probability. But often, it takes considerable time to get an answer to important questions. But as of late, risk management is seeing a transformation, in most part fueled by the advent of real-time communication. The most recent example comes from Crowdcast, which has entered into a partnership with SAP’s risk management group. Read More >>

March 16, 2010

Marketwire: Crowdcast’s Collective Intelligence Solution Extends SAP® BusinessObjectsTM GRC Solutions With the Wisdom of the Crowd

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – March 16, 2010) – Crowdcast, a leading provider of collective intelligence solutions for the enterprise, today announced support for SAP® BusinessObjects™ governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions. Through this support, Crowdcast will equip customers with an innovative and unique crowd-driven service that enables better risk management propelled by collective intelligence through the use of market-leading SAP BusinessObjects GRC solutions. Read More >>