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Knowledge Network for Office SharePoint Server 2007 is powerful, easy to use software that helps people make better decisions more quickly. It automates the discovery and sharing of undocumented knowledge and relationships, enabling you to quickly locate who knows whom and who knows what within your constantly changing organization.
Knowledge Network will make your organization more effective by providing one of the quickest ways to connect with people who can successfully impact your business.
Make better decisions quickly
Knowledge Network is a Technical Preview add-on to Office SharePoint Server 2007 enhancing enterprise search for people by automating the discovery of the business relationships and subject matter expertise of everyone in the network providing vital business insights enabling users to make better decisions more quickly.
- Discover who knows what and who knows whom within an organization. Quickly and easily locate people by subject expertise or social relationships with key contacts or companies.
- Simplify creating automated user profiles for each member of the network. Knowledge Network automates the discovery and sharing of undocumented knowledge and relationships for each member in the network. The user-customizable automated profile is secure and requires member approval before it is shared.
- Effectively search and pinpoint individuals. Knowledge Network provides the ability to connect with internal and external contacts, and calculates the shortest social distance between any two people in the network.
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Create a personalized, automated member profile quickly and easily.
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Find individuals by expertise search and view what they have in common with you.
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Streamline collaboration
Connect with influential and knowledgeable people. Knowledge Network improves collaboration by enabling people to quickly identify internal and external key contacts: people who have specific knowledge or strategic business relationships.
- Use Knowledge Network to quickly identify people who have specific expertise or who can connect you to others based on the shortest social distance path to you.
- Leverage the power of the collective relationship capital within your organization.
- Empower your workers to make better decisions quickly by Knowledge Network to discover and locate who knows whom and who knows what within your organization.
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Refine your people search by department, by job role, or by simply clicking on "Find People Who Know This Person."
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Control your personal information
Knowledge Network enables members to easily create, update, and manage an automated profile of their keywords and key internal and external contacts, which they control and share with others in the Knowledge Network.
- Choose which information (e-mail folders and personal contacts) to include and exclude in the Knowledge Network analysis.
- Select from five levels of who sees what (everyone, my colleagues, my workgroup, my manager, and only me) to apply to each item in your profile to control who can and who cannot associate your profile information with you.
- Quickly and easily review your profile before it is published, selecting who sees what information.
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Knowledge Network allows you to Control who can see information associated with you and your profile.
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