Connectbeam Spotlight Connect for Microsoft Sharepoint

As a collaboration standard, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is one of the most popular choices among enterprises - its ease of deployment and complete integration with other Microsoft Office products make it attractive to both IT and the end user. Even though advanced tools for collaboration are available, according to IDC, enterprises waste $2.5 to $3.5 million annually for every thousand employees through ineffective information searches.

Now with Spotlight ConnectTM for SharePoint, the collaborative power and value of Office SharePoint Server 2007 enters an entirely new dimension. Spotlight Connect allows SharePoint users to enhance their data collaboration and discovery results by leveraging the wealth of "social metadata" and human experience that exists in your enterprise.

That is, not only do employees have a powerful tool for finding the right information more rapidly than ever, but they can also discover the otherwise hidden connections, relevancies and personal expertise behind that content. Spotlight makes this social metadata useful to everyone throughout the company.

And, Spotlight's SharePoint integration does all of this without affecting your existing SharePoint resource and data investment - leaving SharePoint as a single

destination for enterprise-wide content and collaboration initiatives. Spotlight Connect converts SharePoint Search into a true "social search" - where people benefit by seeing what was useful to others in their particular situation. In this way, the location of relevant subject matter and individual expertise is made visible effortlessly through the collective knowledge and experiences of your colleagues. With Spotlight Connect, SharePoint Enterprise search takes on a whole new meaning.

SharePoint search results can be bookmarked into Spotlight. This expands the reach of valuable content to other enterprise applications, and to users outside the SharePoint environment.

In addition, SharePoint MySite Profiles become "Social Profiles", allowing coworkers to see each other's recent bookmarks, social networks, tag clouds and more. All of this results in a strengthening of the team enterprise-wide, with increased innovation and effectiveness. Spotlight Connect for SharePoint is deployed as a series of customizable SharePointWeb Parts, including:

  • Social Search and Related Content
  • Social Graphs
  • Bookmarks
  • Tags
  • Groups
  • Connections

This allows implementation via a trusted and intuitive "codeless deployment infrastructure", allowing SharePoint end users to simply identify and select the type of Connectbeam functionality that they require.

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