Organizations are slowly waking up to the enormous value that enterprise social knowledge networking can unlock. With the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and 2013 Collaborative Knowledge Management (CKM) becomes an approach to enable organizational intelligence in the enterprise. Taxonomy is the key: Managed Metadata can drive navigation, discovery and search, relation, and re-usability of content. Managed Metadata provides a common vocabulary for corporate language 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 Layer2 Knowledge Management Suite for SharePoint is focused on term set life-cycle management, content classification, knowledge browsing, navigation and search-driven content discovery.

1. Knowledge Management Suite for SharePoint
Features & Benefits
The Knowledge Management Suite for SharePoint
makes it as easy as possible to manage taxonomies, to
classify content and to use content classification for
knowledge browsing, navigation, content discovery
and search:
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100% based on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013
Server Enterprise Metadata Management API.
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Taxonomy Manager: Advanced features to manage
the SharePoint Term Store including import, export,
update and deployment. Support for several
formats including SKOS. Additional managed
metadata properties (e.g. classification rules).
"We were able to successfully use the
tag rules, tag suggestions and the autotagging features in your KMS product.
Great product and thanks for offering it
at a reasonable price point.“
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Tag Suggester: While manually tagging items or
documents with enterprise metadata a tag
suggestion list based on given Term Sets
(taxonomies), classification rules, item properties,
context and document content is displayed.
Auto Tagger: Classifies items and documents
automatically in background without any user
interaction, based on given Term Sets (taxonomies),
classification rules, item properties, context and
document content. High quality of subject
classification using a high performance Microsoft
.NET Framework based rule engine.
Installed IFilters are used automatically.
Tag Navigation Web Part: Harvest the value of
content classification by using the SharePoint
managed metadata taxonomy tree directly for
content discovery and navigation. Flexible link
building, e.g. link to the Hashtag Profile Page or
directly to the Term ID search result list. It
optionally displays additional information, e.g. term
description. Template-based design.
Andy Stout, CMC Group
Additional Features
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Tag Directory Web Part: Renders the SharePoint
managed metadata taxonomy tree as flat A-Z term
directory index for content discovery and
navigation, e.g. as glossary.
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Tag Cloud Web Part: Navigate the content by its
importance using a familiar taxonomy-based tag
cloud.
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Related Content Web Part: Automatically displays
related content in a given context using managed
metadata based tagging.
Licensing & Partner Program
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Free Shareware Edition available on web site:
Just register, download and use.
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Server license: US$ 1,899 / 1.499 € per server
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Optional: Annual Software Assurance: 20% per year.
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Additionally available: Full managed metadata
support for almost any external data source.
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Partner Program: Cost-free, 30% discount, FREE NFR
versions, priority support, lead transfer, joint
development.
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