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 taxonomy management and search, the Knowledge Management Suite for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is focused on term life-cycle management, content tagging, knowledge browsing, navigation and content discovery.

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. 

 

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 automatically in background without any user interaction, based on given Term Store taxonomies, tagging 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.

Taxonomy Manager for SharePoint 2010: Manage the Term Store with additional managed metadata properties (e.g. tagging rules, related tags), export and import, change management, workflows. Full lifecycle taxonomy management to develop, enhance and maintain term sets.

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: Automatically display related content in a given context using managed metadata taxonomies. 

The solution was developed 100% based on the new SharePoint 2010 Server Enterprise Metadata Management API. No legacy or other external systems are used. 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.  

Fig.: Enable content and context-based tag suggestions on your SharePoint 2010 portal.

Fig.: Jump start SharePoint 2010 projects with auto-tagging the migrated content.

Fig.: Better manage taxonomies in the term store with categorization rules and related terms.

Fig.: Browse your corporate knowledge alphabetically with this A-Z index web part.

Fig.: Navigate your content tree-style by SharePoint Managed Metadata taxonomies.

Fig.: Navigate your SharePoint content by it's importance with this web part.

Fig.: Display related content automatically based on tags at any SharePoint 2010 portal.

Please register to download a shareware version of the Knowledge Management Suite for SharePoint for free usage now. Use the registration form on this page or contact sales@layer2.de .
You will receive your personal download link. The download contains the whole KMS suite.
Please unzip the distribution and run the provided installation files (*.exe) for each component as administrator. For more detailed information see the component's product page.
For SharePoint 2010 Knowledge Management and Social Networking prerequisites see here. Please use the Installation Checker provided to check prerequisites and dependencies.

With the complete FREE shareware version you can download and use a feature-limited solution. To buy a license for this product, please click the shopping card symbols on this page.

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. For background operations (e.g. Auto Tagger) application servers must be licensed. Infrastructure server, e.g. for indexing, search, SQL etc. don't need a license. Non-production server (e.g. development, Test/QA) must be licensed, but 50% discounted. Please request discount codes, if required. 

You can optionally order an annual Software Assurance (SA) for free updates / upgrades per server to protect your investment.

For more information about licensing please check our FAQs or contact sales@layer2.de directly.

To unlock the enterprise value of Knowledge Management and Social Networking in SharePoint 2010 pre-defined enterprise-wide taxonomies - ready to import into the SharePoint Term Store without any additional tools as Managed Metadata - could help to successfully make a “semantic jump start”. In cooperation with WAND, Ink., one of the leading providers of enterprise taxonomies, Layer2 now offers ready to use Taxonomy Metadata for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.