Benco Dental is the largest independent, family-owned dental distributor in the US. With over 420 external sales reps and 290 service technicians serving more than 30,000 customers across the country, staying connected and getting quick answers while selling over 200,000 products every day was a growing problem.

In 2010, Benco decided going social would more effectively keep employees up-to-date on products and changes, deliver real-time answers, and maintain the company’s tight-knit, family culture. With no existing social infrastructure, Benco conducted exhaustive research and was so impressed with NewsGator Social Sites’ ability to meet both current and future needs they jumped in with both feet – adopting SharePoint and starting their social journey.  

During this webinar, Keith Budurka, Benco Dental’s IT Director of Infrastructure, walks through the company’s vision of being more agile, more open, and ultimately more productive and successful.

               Check out this short video for a preview!

This webinar focuses on:

• Benco’s decision to choose NewsGator Social Sites and their adoption of SharePoint 2010
• How their management team embraced the technology and became powerful evangelists
• The multiple use cases and success stories they are seeing ranging from sales to HR to IT
• The next steps in their journey which includes video, badging, and social learning through the use of a knowledge base

Keith Budurka
IT Director of Infrastructure
Benco Dental

Keith Budurka is the IT Director of Infrastructure for Benco Dental, where he has worked for the past 17 years. In 2010, the decision was made to move the corporate intranet from a Lotus Notes environment to a SharePoint environment. His team spent much of 2011 creating a new Intranet Portal using Enterprise 2.0 and social principals to provide a fun and engaging enterprise-wide experience.