Related Content Web Part for SharePoint

Content is king. Context is queen. Together, they will rule your web. To make it as simple as possible for users to find the desired content on portals, typically "related content" is shown in the context of a given topic. As a result context dependent contact information, related products, further news, links and downloads can be better found by users and visitors. Managed metadata in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 enables editors to centrally define relationships between SharePoint items, documents and pages by simply tagging it using enterprise taxonomies. It provides a very flexible way, to display related content using the Related Content Web Part for SharePoint 2010. The Web Part is available as a part of the Knowledge Management Suite for SharePoint 2010 or as a separate feature.

Related Content Web Part for SharePoint 2010 - Features & Benefits

With the Related Content Web Part for SharePoint 2010 out-of-the-box dynamic web sites like products- and services catalogues, and information sites etc. can be built:

- Context-dependent dynamic display of related services, solutions and other topics
- Linking of accessories, related products, product groups, spare parts
- Assignment of documentation for services and solutions, e.g. data sheets
- Downloads for given topics, e.g. files like Word, Excel or ZIP archives
- Customer references assigned to services and products
- Current addresses and context-driven contact information
- Related tasks of a given topic
- Related dates and events of a given topic

Other features & benefits:
- Consistent linking of related content automatically during runtime:
- The SharePoint Related Content Web Part makes it very easy to ensure consistency of the complex linking network because all linking is done automatically during runtime, with respect to publishing timeframes, access rights etc.
- Completely category driven pages:
- As an option the web part allows to build completely category driven pages and sites.
- Easy to setup:
- The content can be created completely context driven or by setting fixed tags for the content to display.
- Flexible template-based output:
- The output is shown by XSLT templates that can be easily adapted. The output can be sorted by title, publishing date or type of information.
- Includes external data as well: You may also include any external data sources to tag and use with the SharePoint Knowledge Management and Social Networking features without any restrictions with the help of the Business Data List Connector for SharePoint.
- 100% SharePoint 2010 technology:
- Completely based on SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Metadata Management API.
- Seemless integration:
- The Web Part works perfectly together with other SharePoint Knowledge Management Suite components.
- Visitors can easily find the desired information - a great advantage for SharePoint based web sites in intranet, extranet and Internet.