Layer2 is a specialist for creating custom components and solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Based in Germany, Layer2 worldwide offers products and solutions that add additional features to portals based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 or the free Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) / Windows SharePoint Foundation 2010. The solutions are sold directly to end-customers or distributed via a fast growing partner network of resellers and implementers.

Some web parts can be downloaded and used completely for free. Other solutions can be used for free as shareware versions with limited features. For more information, please choose a product from the left hand side navigation.

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:

• Tag Suggester for SharePoint 2010 displays a tag suggestion list based on given Term Store taxonomies, tagging rules, item properties, context and document content.
• Auto Tagger for SharePoint 2010 tags items and documents in background without any user interaction.
• Taxonomy Manager for SharePoint 2010 manages the Term Store with additional properties.
• Tag Navigation Web Part for SharePoint 2010 Harvest the value of collaborative tagging by providing additional navigations.
• Tag Directory Web Part for SharePoint 2010 renders the metadata taxonomy tree as flat A-Z directory category index.
• Tag Cloud Web Part for SharePoint 2010 offers content navigation by its importance.
• Related Content Web Part for SharePoint 2010 displays related content automatically.

The solution was developed 100% based on the new SharePoint 2010 Server Enterprise Metadata Management API. The Shareware version is completely FREE. Download now.

The fast, easy and complete integration of ANY external LOB data - e.g. from databases like SQL Server or Oracle, ERP/CRM systems or Excel and other Office files - is a common requirement in the use of Microsoft SharePoint technology. Existing solutions, such as the Business Data Catalog (BDC) in SharePoint 2007 or the Business Connectivity Services (BCS)  in SharePoint 2010, are often too complex at the facility, require tools or programming, bring with them limitations (e.g. in search) or they are available for certain SharePoint editions only.

The SharePoint Business Data List Connector offers simply a "SharePoint External List" by connecting a REAL SharePoint list (no Web Part) to external business data directly in the list settings dialogue. No additional tools or programming are required. It can be configured easily with 3 simple settings only. Every SharePoint admin can do this. The desired data can be populated to the list and presented without any restrictions, with the full read-only or optionally write-back (CRUD) functionality of common SharePoint lists made available: views, sorting and grouping, filters, calculated fields, lookups can be created as usual. List workflows and notifications per RSS or email can be used to take business actions in SharePoint, if external business data records are changed.

More Information about the SharePoint Business Data List Connector (BDLC) you find here.

Keeping your meetings organized and moving forward with up to date information is an often difficult task. Create a SharePoint Meeting Workspace for your meetings, organize and keep everyone informed with ease, providing a uniform approach with better meetings and faster decisions.

SharePoint out-of-the-box includes basic meeting life-cycle management features. Typically customer demands however go far beyond this.The SharePoint Meeting Manager adds this often required features very flexible, to configure customer specific solutions, e.g. including template-based meeting minutes, that can be created automatically.

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• Free SharePoint Web Part: Display the current date information localized with the Localized Date Web Part
• Display related content, e.g. news, contacts, links, documents, products etc. dynamically in SharePoint - context driven with the Related Content Web Part  for SharePoint 2010
• Rollup SharePoint user tasks of a site collection for any user with the Enhanced SharePoint User Tasks Web Part for SharePoint 2007 and 2010
• Use a 'real' list to display your content query results as a CQWP replacement with the SharePoint Content Query List

Knowledge Management and Social Networking are unleashed, for real this time, with the upcoming new version of Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 now fills the big gaps in 2007, with managed taxonomies and folksonomies, expertise finding, content rating, and commenting.

Pre-defined taxonomies, ready to import in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and into the FREE Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 can be licensed and integrated out-of-the-box into your existing intranet, content management application, knowledge management portal, or any other application that would benefit from the power of a robust taxonomy-based classification and search.
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Our clients all over the world make use of Microsoft SharePoint add-ons in their corporate portals. Why code when you can buy? Let us help you to unleash the power of SharePoint with Web Parts, solutions and features made by Layer2.