Knowledge Management Suite for Microsoft SharePoint

Organizations are slowly waking up to the enormous value that enterprise social knowledge networking can unlock. With the new Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 now Collaborative Knowledge Management (CKM) becomes an approach to enabling organizational intelligence in the enterprise. Taxonomy is the key: Managed Metadata can drive navigation, discovery, relation, and re-usability of content. Managed Metadata provides a common vocabulary and can connect people to social networks. While Microsoft has provided a state of the art API-based backend solution for knowledge management and search with SharePoint, the Knowledge Management Suite for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is focused on term life-cycle management, content classification, knowledge browsing, navigation and content discovery.

Knowledge Management Suite for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

The Knowledge Management Suite for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 encourage knowledge workers to take advantage of the new SharePoint 2010 Collaborative Knowledge Management and Social Networking features by making it as easy as possible to manage tags, to tag content and to use tags for knowledge browsing, navigation, content discovery and search.

Taxonomy Manager for SharePoint 2010: Adds additional managed metadata properties (e.g. content classification rules) to the SharePoint term store. Offers export and import, update and deployment of taxonomies on term set level. Supports common KM standards like SKOS format for data exchange with external systems. Full taxonomy lifecycle management to develop, enhance, deploy and maintain term sets.

Tag Suggester for SharePoint 2010: While tagging an item or document, display a suggestion list based on given Term Store taxonomies, classification rules, item properties, context and document content. Installed IFilters are used. Microsoft .NET Framework based high-performance content categorization procedures.

Auto Tagger for SharePoint 2010: Tag items and documents automatically in background without any user interaction, based on given Term Store taxonomies, classification rules, item properties, context and document content. High quality of subject classification using a high performance Microsoft .NET Framework based rule engine. Auto Tagger could be helpful for initial tagging, e.g. after content migration from any system to SharePoint 2010, as well as for daily background operation.

Tag Navigation Web Part for SharePoint 2010: Harvest the value of collaborative tagging by using the SharePoint 2010 managed metadata taxonomy tree directly for content discovery and navigation. Flexible link building, e.g. link to Tag Profile page or content result list. Optionally additional information, e.g. tag description and usage count. Template-based design.

Tag Directory Web Part for SharePoint 2010: Render the SharePoint 2010 managed metadata taxonomy tree as flat A-Z directory category index directly for content discovery and navigation.
Flexible link building, e.g. link to Tag Profile page or content result list. Optionally additional information, e.g. tag description and usage count. Template-based design.

Tag Cloud Web Part for SharePoint 2010: Navigate the content by its importance using a familiar taxonomy-based tag cloud. Flexible link building, e.g. link to Tag Profile page or content result list. Optionally additional information, e.g. tag description and usage count. Template-based design.

Related Content Web Part for SharePoint 2010: As a search-driven application the web part automatically displays related content in a given context or content that is tagged with any specific terms using managed metadata taxonomies. Flexible settings and output formatting.

You may also include any external data source into the SharePoint Knowledge Management and Social Networking features without any restrictions using the Business Data List Connector for SharePoint.

The Knowledge Management Suite was developed 100% based on the new SharePoint 2010 Server Enterprise Metadata Management API and is certified as "Microsoft Platform Ready for SharePoint 2010".