Lars Kolberg – Team Portal at NetConnect ASA

By Owen Allen on July 16, 2011

While at WPC 2011, I had some time to sit down with Lars Kolberg (VP Sales), and Pal Storehaug (CEO), of NetConnect ASA (Norway).

NetConnect sells a product called Team Portal, which is a hosted version of SharePoint that is dedicated per customer. One element that I really liked about Team Portal is that NetConnect has integrated an application marketplace within the SharePoint instances that they provide to customers. From this application marketplace, customers can rapidly install project management apps, workflow apps, crm apps, etc. Team Portal also has an iPhone client and a desktop client to make accessing and browsing SharePoint sites even more convenient in specific scenarios.

I am not a customer yet, but I will probably need to give this a try. It’s exciting to see that they are including solutions on top of SharePoint in this way.

And, the partner list that they already have is impressive. Brightwork, NewsGator, Nintex, 21apps, Equilibrium, Office Talk, and ELearningForce. Good stuff.

I know that they are looking for additional solutions to add to their marketplace, and so if you are a software company (ISV) that is interested, please reach out to Lars.