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       “A company that employs 1,000 information workers can expect more than US$ 5 million in annual salary costs to go down the drain because of the time wasted looking for information and not finding it, IDC research found last year.”

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Knowledge Management Suite for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

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With the brand-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 taxonomy management and search, the Knowledge Management Suite for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is focused on improved content tagging, 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 KM features by making it as easy as possible to tag content and use tags for knowledge browsing, navigation, content discovery and search:

SharePoint 2010 Knowledge Management Suite - Tag Suggester

Fig.: While tagging an item or document, Tag Suggester - additionally to the out-of-the-box auto-complete list - displays a suggestion list, based on given Term Store taxonomies, tagging rules, item properties, context and document content.

Tag Suggester for SharePoint 2010: While tagging an item or document, display a suggestion list based on given Term Store taxonomies, tagging 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 in background without any user interaction, based on given Term Store taxonomies, tagging rules, item properties, context and document content. 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.

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The Knowledge Management Suite for SharePoint 2010 is licensed on a per server base (one time fee). No additional clients licenses (CALs) are required. If you have several servers (e.g. in a farm scenario) all servers have to be licensed. You need a license for every web frontend server. Infrastructure server, e.g. for indexing or search don't need a license. You can optionally buy Software Assurance (SA) for free updates / upgrades to protect your investment.

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