AvePoint’s DocAve Software Platform Wins Gold Medal for Best Microsoft SharePoint Product from Windows IT Pro Community

“2012 Community Choice Awards” recognizes AvePoint’s products for governance, infrastructure management, and compliance in five separate categories

Jersey City, New Jersey — — AvePoint, leader in governance, compliance, and management solutions for social enterprise collaboration platforms, today announced that its DocAve Software Platform was named as a gold medal winner of the “2012 Community Choice Awards” in the Best SharePoint Product category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine.

“Being recognized by the Windows IT Pro community with these honors offers even more evidence that the global SharePoint community continues to stand behind AvePoint’s decade-plus commitment to not just meeting, but exceeding the needs of its more than 10,000 customers and ever-growing partner ecosystem,” said Co-CEO and Co-Founder Dr. Tianyi (TJ) Jiang. “As needs evolve and challenges arise, AvePoint’s enterprise-ready products and global, live 24/7 support are here to ensure organizations’ business goals are achieved on SharePoint each day.”

In addition to winning the gold medal in the Best SharePoint Product category, AvePoint’s products also won awards in the following categories:

-Best Auditing/Compliance Product: DocAve Report Center

-Best Task Automation Product: DocAve Governance Automation

-Best High Availability Product: DocAve High Availability

-Best Security Product: DocAve Administrator

“For our 2012 Community Choice Awards, we continued our unique process of letting the tech community both nominate and vote for their favorite products,” said Jason Bovberg, senior editor at Windows IT Pro. “We don’t just present a predefined list of products and services, thereby limiting scope. Our Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Pro, and Dev Pro awards programs ensure a breadth of inclusion in the surveys. The winners of these awards are truly the community favorites. We want to congratulate the companies who deliver these outstanding products to consumers: They definitely stand out among their peers as winners of our Community Choice Awards.”

To learn more about AvePoint’s award-winning products, please visit www.avepoint.com.

About Windows IT Pro

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About Penton Media

As a leading, independent, business-to-business media company, Penton knows business and how to create and disseminate vital content that moves markets. Penton is where professionals turn to gain the critical insight, expert analysis and relevant connections needed to compete and succeed. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.

About AvePoint

AvePoint is a global technology company and proven software leader. Since its founding in 2001, AvePoint has become the world’s largest provider of enterprise-class governance and infrastructure management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. AvePoint helps more than 10,000 customers – including many Fortune 500 companies and government agencies – meet their specific business objectives utilizing the SharePoint platform. AvePoint, Inc. is headquartered and maintains its principal operational center in Jersey City, NJ, with wholly owned operational centers in the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, and China. AvePoint is a Depth Managed Microsoft Gold Certified Portals and Collaboration Partner and Gold Certified ISV Partner as well as a US Government GSA provider via strategic partnerships.