Thomson Reuters Foundation Selects SpringCM to Streamline Document Management

Charitable Arm of Global News and Information Provider Taps SpringCM to Help Manage and Collaborate on Key Documents


CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Oct 21, 2013) - SpringCM®, the leader in Content Cloud Services, today announced that the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, the global news and information provider, has selected SpringCM for cloud-based content management. The Foundation will use SpringCM for document management, version control, file sharing and collaboration.

The Thomson Reuters Foundation has one goal: action for impact. The Foundation covers the world's most under-reported stories, from humanitarian aid, development and pro bono legal issues to social innovation, anti-corruption, women's rights and the human impact of climate change through its website www.trust.org. The Foundation also works with the best law firms to provide free legal assistance to NGOs and social entrepreneurs worldwide through its TrustLaw Connect service and promotes the highest standards of journalism around the world with journalism training and media training offerings.

The partnership with SpringCM will enable the Foundation employees to better manage and share key content and to seamlessly tie it in with its Salesforce CRM software.

SpringCM Content Cloud Services transform the way people find, share, collaborate and work with content. SpringCM combines the ease of use of consumer-focused offerings with robust enterprise-class capabilities, offering rich security, mobile, sync and business process capabilities. SpringCM delivers the functionality of old school Enterprise Content Management systems, which can be expensive to maintain and challenging to use, at a lower cost and without frustrating employees and partners -- making it an economical option for nonprofits like the Thomson Reuters Foundation. 

"SpringCM is helping the Thomson Reuters Foundation manage and share some critical documents," said Mark Dawson, Head of Programmes and Operations, at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "SpringCM is also helping us quickly collaborate on this content and have associated information available at our fingertips -- and it's an extremely cost-effective solution for our needs."

"The Thomson Reuters Foundation is truly making a difference in the world, and I'm proud that this organization recognizes the value of SpringCM's Content Cloud Services, especially in terms of ease of use and value," said Karry Kleeman, senior vice president of Worldwide Sales, SpringCM. "But more important is that SpringCM is helping the Foundation deliver on its noble mission."

About the Thomson Reuters Foundation
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has one goal: action for impact. The Foundation doesn't give grants; instead it uses its expertise to run programs that trigger change and empower people to make a difference. Its award-winning services deliver news, information, free legal help and media development to a number of different audiences. The Foundation strives to provide concrete solutions. The Foundation achieves real impact. For more information, visit http://one.trust.org/

About SpringCM
SpringCM is the leader in Content Cloud Services for the enterprise. Enterprises need to do more than store and share content -- they need to put content to work to accelerate business outcomes. SpringCM helps global brands and public sector agencies -- Google, Facebook and the Commonwealth of Virginia, among others -- solve content-related problems that stand in the way of optimizing revenues, cutting costs, mitigating risk and engaging customers and employees.