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by al 1 view

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Can anyone suggest any suitable alternatives to Lotus Notes as an Enterprise Knowledge management system.

We are currently utilising MS Exchange 5.5, but feel that the GUI for Lotus Notes is far superior. if we can find bolt on software to Exchange that will provide this functionality, then this would be ideal.

I am putting this information together as part of an evaluation of other products on the market as Lotus Notes will become part of this report. However alternatives are very important, and I would like the knowledge of those of you out there with other systems or indeed, have used other systems and would recommend Lotus Notes.

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by oliver w.

Hi,
we are evaluating knowledge management software as well.

My favourite right now is Microsofts SharePoint Portal Server (it's not officially released now, but you can download the beta.)

There you got 2 main interfaces:
1. the webbased intranet view with full text search and navigation through categories.
2. a plugin to Windows, which enables the user to navigate with the Explorer. This plugin enables users to easily save documents from any Office Product into the SharePoint Server (you have Versioning and CheckIn/Out Possibilities with a propertiies template support - which means that a user gets a popup as soon as he checks in a document. Those properties can be adjusted on directory level...)

The major advantages are:
- easily to manage and maintain
- users can publish documents easily (unlike other software, where you have to write e.g. a word document, save it, start the Knowledge Manager and check it it...) just by pressing the buttin in Word, Excel,...
- Kategories - Users can assign different kategories to each document and the document can be found in any of thoes ketegories then.

but check it out on your own:
http://www.microsoft.com/Servers/Sharepoint/

hope that helps,
oliver

by juliette

If you alrady have an existing MS Exchange infrastructure and are using MS Office, come and visit our web-site http://www.neuratech.com

MS Share-Point goes some way to structuring documents but Common Knowledge extends and structures enterprise unstructured data to provide collaboration, document management, CRM, application of business rules, protection of intellectual capital, r&d, ERP etc. using your existing enterprise infrastructure.

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